[GOAL] November 4th Tenth Anniversary of the Messina Declaration on Open Access in memory of Fred Friend

[Paola Gargiulo]

November 4 marks the ten^th anniversary of the Messina Declaration on 
Open Access.
The University of Messina has decided to celebrate this event with a 
two-day Conference to debate the most pressing issues concerning Open 
Access. Today a preconference took place where implementation of 
institutional OA mandates, interoperability, research data issues and 
role of publishers were discussed from a technical perspective.

Tomorrow the  conference, in memory of Fred Friend who greatly 
contributed to  the event back in 2004,  will tackle issues related to 
development of Open Access strategies. Guests from Italy and abroad will 
debate the challenges facing Open Access today with specific emphasis on 
the implementation of institutional policy concerning the submission of 
scholarly literature to Open Access repositories and their impact. 
Discussions will also deal with business models for the Gold Road 
adopted by well-established initiatives in Science, Humanities and 
Social Sciences.

On the occasion, representatives of Italian Universities and Research 
Centres will sign the Messina Open Access Road Map 2014-2018.

The programme is available here in English
http://decennale.unime.it/?page_id=1228

Most of the presentations will be in Italian, but a few will be in 
English, the live stream is available
http://www.livestream.com/unimesba

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  Regards,
Paola Gargiulo

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Paola Gargiulo
Soluzioni per la Ricerca Istituzionale
IT  aSolutions for Institutional Research
Via R. Sanzio 4, I-20090 Segrate MI, Italy
email:p.gargiulo at cineca.it
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