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September marks the arrival of new researchers at the EUI. It’s the perfect moment to (re)discover Cadmus, the EUI Research Repository and the gateway to EUI’s publications, data, and videos.
Since May 2025, the EUI community has been working with the new Cadmus. The upgrade to DSpace 7 represents a major milestone in Cadmus’ 20+ year history, modernising its design and strengthening its role as the central hub for collecting, preserving, and sharing EUI research.
Today, Cadmus hosts nearly 32,000 records, receives more than 1 million page views each year, and ensures global dissemination of EUI research, nearly half of which is available in Open Access. With the new platform, Cadmus is better equipped than ever to support Open Science and boost the visibility and impact of EUI scholarship.
Highlights of the new Cadmus
Since launch, researchers and readers have been making use of a range of new features:
- Modern, mobile-friendly interface: responsive design, smoother navigation, and improved search and browsing functions.
- Personalised lists: readers can create and export customised publication lists.
- Enhanced ORCID integration: publications sync seamlessly with researchers’ ORCID profiles, ensuring global visibility.
- New statistics dashboards: authors and readers can explore usage data such as the most consulted publications, top authors, and worldwide readership.
- Entity-based navigation: explore content dynamically through authors, projects, and publications, with profile pages for all EUI members, even those without current publications.
- Want to get started? Check out our Cadmus search LibGuide: How to search the new Cadmus.
Benefits for researchers: why the update matters?
The project was launched by the Library Open Science Office in 2023, with an open tender awarded in 2024 to Atmire for development, migration, hosting, and support through 2031.
With growing reliance on open, structured research outputs, interoperable repositories are more important than ever. Trustworthy, accessible research is essential.
For EUI researchers, Cadmus is more than an archive: it is a tool of visibility, compliance, and impact. It helps increase citation rates, supports funder Open Access mandates, and aligns with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).
For the wider community, Cadmus provides free access to high-quality social sciences and humanities research, much of it publicly funded. With nearly 70% of 2024 research outputs in Open Access, the new Cadmus also plays a central role in shaping the forthcoming EUI Open Science roadmap.
Looking ahead
This upgrade opens a new chapter. With richer metadata, expanded features, and better citations, the repository will grow alongside the changing needs of researchers and society.
Four months on, one thing is clear: the new Cadmus has already strengthened the EUI’s capacity to share knowledge openly, dynamically, and globally.