Open access in Italy


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 was developed and implemented by the interuniversity supercomputing consortia CASPUR and... to provide a national platform to access digital contents deposited in the Italian open archives."
  • 2006
  • * " established a working group on open access".
  • 2013
  • * 7 October: Law effected requiring "results of research, funded at least 50% with public funds and published in scholarly journals 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 (Italy)|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.