Settore Documentazione
Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome
Email: maurella.dellaseta@iss.it

Maurella Della Seta graduated in Spanish and English literature at University "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy and has a postgraduate diploma in librarianship and information science of the same university.

She has been  working as information specialist in the Documentation Service and in the Library of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, the Italian National Institute of Health, since 1985. She has been responsible for the Acquisition Department of the Library, one of the largest biomedical libraries in Italy.

At present  she is responsible for the Documentation Service, the Italian MEDLARS Center, being in charge of the online activities, Internet research and database project and maintenance.

She is responsible for the SIBIL website, devoted to bioethics and for the SIBIL Database, collecting Italian literature and legislative sources in the field of bioethics since 1995. She participates in the European Project Ethicsweb, being the leader of the Work Package 4, Semantics.

She coordinates the Italian MeSH translation.

Her research interests regard end-user education, electronic information sources in all public-health-related fields, official publications and indexing.
She is an active member of AIB (Italian Library Association) and she has been elected as a Council member of EAHIL (European Association of Health and Information Libraries) for the years 2001-2008.

She is the author or coauthor of about ninety scientific publications.