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Rapporti ISTISAN 07/12 Istituto Superiore Di Sanità Conference ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ Conference Institutional archives for research: experiences and projects in Open Access Istituto Superiore di Sanità Rome, 30 November - 1 December 2006 Proceedings edited by Paola De Castro and Elisabetta Poltronieri Servizio Informatico, Documentazione, Biblioteca ed Attività editoriali ISSN 1123-3117 Rapporti ISTISAN 07/12 Istituto Superiore di Sanità Conference. Institutional archives for research: experiences and projects in Open Access. Istituto Superiore di Sanità. Rome, 30 November-1 December 2006. Proceedings edited by Paola De Castro and Elisabetta Poltronieri 2007, vi, 112 p. Rapporti ISTISAN 07/12 The Congress was organised into four sessions: 1) Open Access (OA) and authors: support from the international community; 2) OA in Italy: knowledge and tools to write and search; 3) institutional policies for OA; 4) opportunities and services to develop OA. It was aimed at achieving the following objectives: a) make authors of biomedical publications aware of the benefits of depositing research material in digital open archives and publishing in OA peer- reviewed journals; b) outline the impact of the OA publishing model on the assessment of research output; c) enhance the adoption of policies encouraging the OA paradigm; d) promote cooperation between research institutions in Italy and abroad to share resources and experiences on institutional repositories. A useful introductory bibliography on the OA publishing model in the biomedical field is included in the Appendix. Key words: Open Access publishing model, Scientific publications, Institutional repositories, Editorial policies, Bibliography Istituto Superiore di Sanità Congresso. Archivi istituzionali per la ricerca: esperienze e progetti di Open Access. Istituto Superiore di Sanità. Roma, 30 novembre-1 dicembre 2006. Atti a cura di Paola De Castro e Elisabetta Poltronieri 2007, vi, 112 p. Rapporti ISTISAN 07/12 (in Italian and English) Il Convegno si è articolato in quattro sessioni: 1) Accesso aperto e autori di pubblicazioni scientifiche: il supporto della comunità internazionale; 2) Accesso aperto in Italia: conoscenze e strumenti per scrivere e per ricercare informazioni; 3) Politiche istituzionali a favore dell’accesso aperto; 4) Opportunità e servizi per sviluppare l’accesso aperto. Il Convegno si è proposto di realizzare i seguenti obiettivi: a) sensibilizzare gli autori di pubblicazioni biomediche sui vantaggi offerti dagli archivi aperti digitali e dalle riviste Open Access peer-reviewed; b) mostrare le ricadute del nuovo modello di pubblicazione sulla valutazione e l’impatto della ricerca; c) promuovere lo sviluppo di politiche istituzionali a favore dell’Open Access; d) favorire la collaborazione tra enti e istituzioni di ricerca in Italia e all’estero per la condivisione di risorse ed esperienze. In Appendice si riporta un’utile bibliografia introduttiva sulle tematiche dell’accesso aperto nel settore biomedico. Parole chiave: Modello di pubblicazione ad accesso aperto, Pubblicazioni scientifiche, Archivi istituzionali, Politiche editoriali, Bibliografia Scientific Committee Valentina Comba Centro E-Learning d’Ateneo (CELAB), Università degli Studi di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Paola De Castro, Claudio Di Benedetto, Elisabetta Poltronieri Servizio Informatico, Documentazione, Biblioteca ed Attività editoriali, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma Paola Gargiulo Consorzio interuniversitario per le Applicazioni di Supercalcolo Per Università e Ricerca, CASPUR, Roma Martino Grandolfo Dipartimento di Tecnologie e Salute, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma Per informazioni su questo documento rivolgersi a: [email protected], [email protected]. Il rapporto è accessibile online dal sito di questo Istituto: www.iss.it. Citare questo documento come segue: De Castro P, Poltronieri E. (Ed.). Proceedings of the Conference on Institutional archives for research: experiences and projects in Open Access. Istituto Superiore di Sanità. Rome, 30 November-1 December 2006. Roma: Istituto Superiore di Sanità; 2007. (Rapporti ISTISAN 07/12). Presidente dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità e Direttore responsabile: Enrico Garaci Registro della Stampa - Tribunale di Roma n. 131/88 del 1° marzo 1988 Redazione: Paola De Castro, Sara Modigliani e Sandra Salinetti La responsabilità dei dati scientifici e tecnici è dei singoli autori. © Istituto Superiore di Sanità 2007 Rapporti ISTISAN 07/12 INDICE Premise.................................................................................................................................................. iii Paola De Castro, Elisabetta Poltronieri Preface.................................................................................................................................................. v Alma Swan Welcome address............................................................................................................................. 1 Claudio Di Benedetto Session I OPEN ACCESS AND AUTHORS: SUPPORT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY.................................................... 3 Open Access: better science for scientists and society.......................................... 5 Jean-Claude Guédon Making science count: Open Access and its impact on the visibility of science...................................................................................................... 6 Derek Law Support of open archives at national level. The HAL experience ......................... 15 Francis Andre, Daniel Charnay Capturing research outputs at the University of Cambridge: experiences with DSpace........................................................................................................ 22 Peter Morgan Session II OPEN ACCESS IN ITALY: KNOWLEDGE AND TOOLS TO WRITE AND SEARCH ..................................................... 23 Citation tracking of scientific publications through two different searching tools: Google Scholar and Web of Science .............................................. 25 Maurella Della Seta, Rosaria Rosanna Cammarano A toolkit for research communities. Helping authors choose the right mode of publication to maximise impact ...................................................... 32 Valentina Comba Making available scientific information in the third millennium: perspectives for the neuroscientific community.......................................................... 37 Igor Branchi, Renata Solimini, Enrico Alleva L’Open Access come possibile antidoto al carattere autoreferenziale della ricerca scientifica................................................. 41 Alessandro Giuliani Statistics of Open Access periodicals ................................................................................ 46 Franco Toni i Rapporti ISTISAN 07/12 Session III INSTITUTIONAL POLICIES FOR OPEN ACCESS................................................................ 51 Open Access to information in the Italian universities.............................................. 53 Roberto Delle Donne Looking at the forthcoming “Berlin 5 Open Access” Conference.................................................................................. 54 Laura Tallandini Defining a policy for the institutional repository of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità ....................................................................................... 55 Paola De Castro, Elisabetta Poltronieri Pleiadi initiative a digital platform for the Italian Open Access Community........................................................................... 61 Paola Gargiulo Session IV OPPORTUNITIES AND SERVICES TO DEVELOP OPEN ACCESS.............................. 63 Accesso aperto e copyright: il copyright scientifico nelle produzioni intellettuali di ricerca .............................. 65 Antonella De Robbio The digital library at the University of Rome La Sapienza and the effort for Open Access ........................................................................................... 74 Antonio Fantoni, Ezio Tarantino, Giovanna Terranova DSpace: considerazioni su una possibile integrazione con programmi proprietari ..................................................................................................... 75 Paolo Roazzi, Corrado Di Benedetto Surplus, un prodotto per la valutazione e la rendicontazione della ricerca ....................................................................................... 78 Susanna Mornati L’accesso alle conoscenze nella relazione scienza-società.................................... 85 Adriana Valente FedOA: archivio aperto istituzionale dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II................................................................................................................... 93 Maria Rosaria Bacchini, Stefano Bonatti, Roberto Pettorino e la Commissione permanente di Ateneo per le risorse digitali APPENDICE - Open Access e ricerca biomedica: bibliografia introduttiva...... 97 Elena Giglia ii Rapporti ISTISAN 07/12 PREMISE The international Conference “Institutional archives for research: experiences and projects in Open Access” held in Rome at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) on 30 November and 1 December 2006 represented a strategic event for ISS in its way towards the adoption of the OA publishing model. The Conference shed light on the ongoing projects devoted to spread access-free, electronic resources carried out in Europe and contributed to share ideas and planning initiatives in the whole OA domain. It also anticipated the main themes
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