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Valerie Matarese, Ph.D., created the Guide to Italian Databases in 1998 and, in 2002, designed and programmed the database which hosts the Guide. Born in New York, she earned a BS at Cornell University and a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, and has worked in basic research for over 10 years. In 2000, she received the M.T. Grenier Award from the Association of Independent Information Professionals (www.aiip.org). She was interviewed for a chapter in the book Super Searchers Cover the World, the eighth volume in the Super Searchers series published by Information Today (www.infotoday.com). Since 2005, she is board member of Associazione Italiana Documentazione Avanzata (www.aidaweb.it). Author of numerous articles of original research, she has also written on the information industry for specialized journals in the UK, USA and Italy. Currently she offers consulting, services and training in scientific communication in particular and in the field of information in general.

Catrin Zulian carried out the latest updating of the Guide to Italian Databases (2006). In 2004, she earned a specialistic degree in archiving and library sciences at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, with a thesis focusing on open archives and on the online dissemination of scientific documentation. Since 2003, she works as a librarian in various libraries of Northeastern Italy and, in particular, at the Centro Servizi Biblioteche where she coordinates interprovincial library loans and training programs for librarians. She is contributor to the Library and Information Science section of the online directory maintained by the Associazione Italiana Biblioteche (www.aib.it).

Guide to Italian DatabasesTM since 1998

Guide to Italian Databases^TM since 1998