Capitolo 3. Fare Open Access e farlo correttamente

Open Science in Italy: Lessons Learned En Route to Opening Scholarship

“…Similarly, in 2017, a European Commission publication of the Working Group on Education and Skills under Open Science reported a widespread lack of training opportunities for open science in Europe (European Commission 2017). In the same year, Giglia identified the need to develop the culture of open science and promote the use of its new tools, such as the preprint platforms and online repositories to self-archive and to make research articles and other scientific documents, including books, openly accessible (Giglia 2017).…”

“…The public discourse on open science in Italy has seen and continues to see important and creative contributions, such as those of Caso (2020), Aliprandi (2017), Giglia (2017), Morriello (2021), Töttössy (2018), Gargiulo (2020), Galimberti (2017a), Pievatolo (2020b) Second, the case of Italy, where for many years no financial resources or personal incentives were actually provided to practitioners of open science, shows that the uptake of open science can take place also in economically developing countries, where financial resources invested in research and education are a small fraction of those available in economically developed countries such as Italy.…”