The document discusses the Medoanet project, which aims to enhance open access policies across six Mediterranean countries, initiated with the Alhambra Declaration in 2009. It highlights Italy's active role in promoting open access through various initiatives, including the launch of the Pleiadi harvester and involvement in EU projects like OpenAIRE. The document emphasizes the importance of stakeholder engagement and the need for coordinated strategies to effectively implement open access policies.

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A Mediterranean approach to Open AccessA Mediterranean approach to Open Access
Scholarly Communication and Research Infrastructures SC Workshop: 'New Horizons for Open Access
Policies in Europe' – LIBER Conference 2013
Ilaria Fava
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- Overview on the state of the art of Open
Access Policies in MedOANet country
partners
- Highlight on the current situation in Italy

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NATIONAL AND
REGIONAL INITIATIVES

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MedOANet partners started their joint commitment towards OA
with the Alhambra Declaration in 2009 (Action plan to develop OA
in Southern Europe)
To date, MedOANet helped a lot in promoting OA and policies at
the highest levels.
All the six countries highly benefited of the joint action towards OA
and are developing their own National policies
At a Regional level

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MedOANet: the background
MedOANet can count on a well established network, which bases are
•SELL (Southern European Libraries Link)
Collaboration since 2001 for electronic resources acquisition
•Seminar for Open Access to Science Information (Granada, 12-
14/05/2009)
Common commitment towards the development of Open Access in
Europe

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MedOANet: some objectives
To identify and map existing strategies, structures and policies of
Open Access in the six Mediterranean countries (through three
surveys)
To engage key policy-makers and stakeholders of Open Access, with
the ability to affect change, thus increasing awareness on the key
issues that require action
To produce guidelines for policy makers for the effective
implementation of the Commission’s recommendations on Open
Access to scientific information

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National initiatives on OA

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Initiatives on OA - Italy
So far, Italy has been quite active on OA promotion and
awareness.
1.In 2004, two Italian HPC consortia (now CINECA) released
PLEIADI, a National harvester of OA publications deposited in
repositories and journals. To date, >650000 records are indexed
1.In 2007, a working group on OA has been established within
CRUI. It issued many guidelines and documents re: quality of
repositories and metadata, OA to PhD theses, and many more

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Italy is participating in two main projects on OA:
-OpenAIRE, on OA infrastructures
-MedOANet, on OA policies
Both project raised the general public awareness on OA
MedOANet led to a Position statement on OA to publicly funded
research, promoted and signed by main research institutions
The NPR for the EC works together with the Italian MedOANet
taskforce to implement EC recommendations
National initiatives on OA

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Link between National agenda
and Horizon 2020
At a National level, Italy acknowledged the importance of the EC
recommendations by
-Starting a public consultation on OA in Horizon2020
-Issuing a document (HIT2020: research&innovation) in which the
strategy towards OA is defined

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Lessons learned so far
- Need to approach key stakeholders at a National level, in order
to promote effective policies on OA
- Common strategies (at a Regional and European level) are
needed to coordinate efficiently the development of OA

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GREEN AND GOLD:
WHAT’S UP

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OA Repositories

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OA Journals

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Repositories
•Most of them contain PhD theses only
•A few are connected with a CRIS – the ones not managed by the
institution’s library
Journals
•Steady growth
•Most of them are (surprisingly) SSH journals – source DOAJ
In general: there is not a strategy, things seem to happen by
chance..

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Conclusions and remarks
The MedOANet project shows very well that cooperation and
coordinated actions are VITAL in the promotion of OA and related
policies
What has been done so far:
-mapping strategies to check what works and what can be
improved
-engaging policy maker for the effective implementation of the
Commission’s recommendations on Open Access to scientific
information

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Conclusions and remarks