OPEN ≠ FREE. Se l’accesso alla ricerca è “libero” | Dietro le Quarte

[Google translate] OPEN ≠ FREE. If access to the search is "free"

The English language - which we know is used as it is in many professional contexts - does not distinguish "free" from "free" in the meaning of the term "free". That's why, if we indicate that a text is distributed in "Open Access" we must not fall into the easy mistake of reading (only) the gratuity, with everything that can involve in our idea, more or less adherent to reality.

In short, it's definitely "free", open, and not just free...

The "open" mode refers, of course, to something much more important than gratuitousness: to a philosophy of knowledge distribution available to most people, also and above all outside the academy. Free or open access.

A publishing house like FrancoAngeli, that has always made its tag-line of passion for knowledge - here understood as scientific research - (at the time it was called "slogan" ...) cannot but participate, and with conviction, in the editorial and cultural activity of Open Access, regulated in relatively recent times