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November 4 marks the ten<sup>th </sup> anniversary of the Messina
Declaration on Open Access.<br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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On the occasion, representatives of Italian Universities and
Research Centres will sign the Messina Open Access Road Map
2014-2018.<br>
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The programme is available here in English<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://decennale.unime.it/?page_id=1228">http://decennale.unime.it/?page_id=1228</a><br>
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Most of the presentations will be in Italian, but a few will be in
English, the live stream is available<br>
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href="http://www.livestream.com/unimesba">http://www.livestream.com/unimesba</a><br>
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<div style="text-align:start">and Twitter follow<br>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">@Decennale #DecennaleOAItalia</span><br>
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Regards,<br>
Paola Gargiulo<br>
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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
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:email:p.gargiulo@cineca.it">email:p.gargiulo@cineca.it</a>
phone +39 02 26995-218
mobile + 39 328 9507 128
skype paolafoca</pre>
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