Open access in Italy

Open access to scholarly communication in Italy has grown since the early 2000s. During an academic conference in Messina in November 2004, Italian universities joined the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, in Italy thereafter known as the "Declaration of Messina".

• 2004
  • "Messina open access declaration issued."
  • "PLEIADI (Portal for Italian Electronic Scholarly Literature in Institutional Archives) was developed and implemented by the interuniversity supercomputing consortia CASPUR and CILEA [it]... to provide a national platform to access digital contents deposited in the Italian open archives."
• 2006
  • "Conference of Italian Universities Rectors [it] (CRUI) established a working group on open access" (OAWG).
• 2013
  • 7 October: Law effected requiring "results of research, funded at least 50% with public funds and published in scholarly journals (whose frequency is at least biannual) should be open access."
• 2015
  • March: Associazione Italiana per la promozione della Scienza Aperta founded to promote open science.
• 2019
  • The Ministry of Education, University and Research drafts a policy combining evaluation of grants to research institutions with a requirement to publish research outputs in open access mode.

• Internet in Italy
• Education in Italy
• Media of Italy
• Copyright law of Italy
• List of libraries in Italy
• Science and technology in Italy
• Open access in other countries

• Paola Gargiulo (2006). "Open Access in Italy: Achievements and Future Prospects". International Journal of Legal Information. 34.
• Roberto Delle Donne (2007), CRUI and Open Access in Italy, hdl:10760/10886
• "Towards an Open Access Italian network", Researchitaly.it, 2013
• Ball, David (2015), Institutional Policy Implementation at the University of Turin, Italy, PASTEUR4OA Case Study, doi:10.5281/zenodo.44309, S2CID 155171476

• "PLEIADI: Portale per la Letteratura scientifica Elettronica Italiana su Archivi aperti e Depositi Istituzionali", Openarchives.it ("National platform to access scholarly literature archived in Italian open repositories and published in Open Access Journals.") Launched in November 2004.
• "Browse by Country: Italy". Registry of Open Access Repositories. UK.
• "Tag oa.italy". Open Access Tracking Project. Harvard University. OCLC 1040261573.
• "Browse by Country: Italy". ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies. UK: University of Southampton.
• "Open Access". Crui.it (in Italian). Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università Italiane.
• "Documentazione Open Access". Open Access CRUI 2016: L'accesso aperto alla letteratura scientifica in Italia. Bilanci e prospettive (in Italian).
• "Italy". Directory of Open Access Repositories. UK: University of Nottingham. Archived from the original on 2009-02-06. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
• Wikisource: Dichiarazione di Messina (Messina Declaration), 2004