Open Access and Open Science — University of Bologna

"...Approved on 19 December 2017, the Open Access policy implements the University’s Ethical Code of Behaviour and promotes the open access principle as defined in the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities and in the Messina Declaration, both signed by the University of Bologna. Moreover, the policy applies the European Commission Recommendations on access to and the preservation of scientific information, and Italian law n. 112/2013 art. 4, which states that publicly funded research shall be openly available to the public. The University intends to support Open Access through the Institutional Research Repository (the green road) and the publishing services of the digital library, the adoption of incentives, and negotiations with publishers for immediate open access publication (the golden road)...."