Italian Universities for Open Access: Towards Open Access for Scholarly Literature: Report of the Messina Workshop

摘要

This workshop is the result of a long-term and successful effort by a group of Italian librarians and institutions who are pursuing the goal of innovation in the Italian e-publishing environment. Since the 3rd OAI Workshop in Geneva, February 2004, we have been aware that the many Italian initiatives in universities and consortia towards Open Access would be very weak without a National framework; our model is the Sherpa project in UK (www.sherpa. ac.uk) and the DARE project in The Netherlands (www.surf.nl/en/themas/ index2.php?oid=7).