And the decree of August brings open access to public research
abernard102@gmail.com 2013-08-28
Summary:
From words to deeds, the working group recently gave us a nice surprise, on August 10 last last fact came into force on the Decree, 8 August 2013, n. 91 'Urgent measures for the protection, enhancement and recovery of property and cultural activities and tourism' (published in the Official Gazette Series General 186 of 09.08.2013). Usually the summer lay down rules 'unpopular' or difficult to 'digest', but this year we are all ' Open Access by default ! The aforementioned Decree 91, Article 4, 'Urgent measures to encourage the development of libraries and archives and for the promotion of acting and reading', and in particular paragraph 2 reads: 'The publications that document the results of Research funded by an amount equal to or greater than fifty percent of public funds, regardless of the size of the first publication, and the manner of its distribution or making available to the public,must be filed no later than six months after publication, in electronic archives institutional or industry , prepared in such a way as to guarantee open access, free and , at a place and time individually chosen, interoperability within and outside the European Union and the long-term storage in electronic format . The persons responsible for the provision or management of the funding shall take the measures necessary for the implementation of open access to the results of publicly funded research. ' Open access, free and open to institutional electronic archives which will include the results of research . Hopefully we can see rapidly increase the growth of publications in Open Access not only in Canada but also in Italy."