Open access to scientific literature gives new possibilities to authors and their published work can now be available to everyone free of charge. There is always another option i.e. old model with all its known obstacles. In 2004 Springer offered a model called "Open ch...

The landscape of scholarly communications is transforming into an Open Access environment. Policies are being set by national funding agencies and universities, among others. This session will present an overview of major policy issues, the academic (teaching faculty) p...

The CERN Workshop on Scholarly Innovations (OAI4) included about 30 participants from a variety of open access related backgrounds. Some were involved in institutional repositories at various stages, from mature repositories with mandated self-archiving policies to new ...

This is short report in Italian of the conference Berlin 3 Open Access: Progress in Implementing the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities held in Southampton, February 28- March 1 2005

Supervisor: Dr. Giovanni Michetti. Co-examiner: Dr. Gabriele Mazzitelli. This work aims to redefine the URBS (Roman Union of Specialized Libraries) website architecture, following three steps: analysis of the documentation about the creation of websites and library port...

This presentation explores the status of open access policy developments internationally, and particularly in Canada, as of April 2007. While open access resources are substantial, and growing rapidly, the primary issue for open access archives (institutional repositori...

The "serial pricing crisis" that has hit the Scholarly Communication system generated a great deal of initiatives and projects designed to transform radically the ways in which knowledge circulates. The first reaction to this crisis was new forms of cooperation between ...

The attitudes and behaviours of academics from different disciplines towards depositing their work in institutional repositories are compared. This is achieved through the use of a survey strategy, and by examination of the contents of a twenty-five UK institutional rep...

This paper describes the methodology and analysis for the management of research data in the area of ​​Health Sciences.

Open Access means aims to remove restrictions that exist on the access to articles and knowledge to the world-wide scholarly community, in particular to those in developing countries. Scientists in these countries still have difficulty in publishing their work due to th...