Stefano Ballerio, Paolo Borsa. Open Access e politiche istituzionali | Doppiozero

[From Google's English] "On November 4, 2004, representatives of 71 Italian universities expressed with the Declaration of Messina its support to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to the products of scientific research. On 4 November this year, the tenth anniversary of the Declaration, the representatives of our universities have launched a Road Map 2014-2018 which should translate the commitment made ​​in an "Italian way" open access. The defining elements of this roadmap would be the "institutional dialogue" and a "common approach to Open Access" (OA), support for the so-called Green Road (the practice of archiving digital copies of the products of the research in institutional repositories open) and the creation of a national policy on the issues of storage, access and re-use of the products of research, especially the publicly funded.   So we have a roadmap to get to shared policy in favor of open access and, now, also a proposal for the establishment of a National Association for the promotion of open science, that one of its priorities would of course also the promotion of OA . But as is, to date, the Italian academic context? Detect it, heterogeneity would be too obvious and not even want to inflict readers the usual exercise of censorship of the situations of greater delay. So we will focus on two cases perhaps more dynamic: the University of Trento, who provided the policy model to other universities, and the University of Milan, that even under the pressure of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) has long adopted a policy to support the issues of open access (both work for UniMi: readers are cautioned) ..."