Growth of open access publications in Italy, 1990-2018

Open access to scholarly communication in Italy has grown since the early 2000s. During an academic conference in Messina in November 2004, Italian universities joined the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, in Italy thereafter known as the "Declaration of Messina".

Timeline

  • 2004 "Messina open access declaration issued." "PLEIADI (Portal for Italian Electronic Scholarly Literature in Institutional Archives) was developed and implemented by the interuniversity supercomputing consortia CASPUR and CILEA[it]... to provide a national platform to access digital contents deposited in the Italian open archives."
  • 2006 "Conference of Italian Universities Rectors[it] (CRUI) established a working group on open access" (OAWG).
  • 2013 7 October: Law effected requiring "results of research, funded at least 50% with public funds and published in scholarly journals (whose frequency is at least biannual) should be open access."
  • 2015 March: Associazione Italiana per la promozione della Scienza Aperta founded to promote open science.
  • 2019 The Ministry of Education, University and Research drafts a policy combining evaluation of grants to research institutions with a requirement to publish research outputs in open access mode.

See also

Number of open access publications in various Italian repositories, 2018

Further reading

  • Paola Gargiulo (2006). . International Journal of Legal Information. 34.
  • Roberto Delle Donne (2007), CRUI and Open Access in Italy, hdl:
  • , Researchitaly.it, 2013
  • Ball, David (2015), Institutional Policy Implementation at the University of Turin, Italy, PASTEUR4OA Case Study, doi:, S2CID

External links

  • , Openarchives.it ("National platform to access scholarly literature archived in Italian open repositories and published in Open Access Journals.") Launched in November 2004.
  • . Registry of Open Access Repositories. UK.
  • . Open Access Tracking Project. Harvard University. OCLC .
  • . ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies. UK: University of Southampton.
  • . Crui.it (in Italian). Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università Italiane.
  • . Open Access CRUI 2016: L'accesso aperto alla letteratura scientifica in Italia. Bilanci e prospettive (in Italian). Archived from on 2019-10-25.
  • . Directory of Open Access Repositories. UK: University of Nottingham. Archived from on 2009-02-06.
  • Wikisource: Dichiarazione di Messina (Messina Declaration), 2004