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L'importanza di una politica 'open' per il trasferimento della conoscenza e il ruolo delle biblioteche
Molino A
Nel corso degli ultimi anni l'Open Science come paradigma della scienza e approccio alla conoscenza si è fatto sempre più conoscere non solo in ambito accademico, ma anche tra la cittadinanza attiva attraverso numerose iniziative riconoscibili sotto il cappello della Citizen Science. Le politiche europee si pongono a favore dell'affermazione di questa tendenza. Esempi sono il finanziamento di iniziative per lo sviluppo di nuovi parametri per la valutazione della scienza; la creazione di infrastrutture che promuovano la trasmissione della conoscenza in forme innovative e che vadano oltre la pubblicazione editoriale come finora nota. Nonostante le politiche per l'accesso aperto alla conoscenza in generale, alla produzione scientifica in particolare e, in anni più recenti, per l'accesso libero ai dati della ricerca si stiano consolidando nella pratica quotidiana per chi opera in questo settore, il cammino verso il libero accesso alla conoscenza resta accidentato. Il coinvolgimento della cittadinanza è fondamentale e rappresenta un'ulteriore sfida. La cooperazione tra scienza e popolazione attiva potrebbe essere la chiave di volta perché la scienza e soprattutto la conoscenza aperta diventino il nuovo modo di creare e diffondere il sapere? In che misura le biblioteche possono giocare un ruolo fondamentale in questo contesto? Facendo riferimento alla situazione attuale, alle iniziative in corso e alle tecnologie attualmente a disposizione, è un interrogativo che è necessario porsi per delineare gli scenari possibili del prossimo futuro.DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6587470
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Molino A
Nel corso degli ultimi anni l'Open Science come paradigma della scienza e approccio alla conoscenza si è fatto sempre più conoscere non solo in ambito accademico, ma anche tra la cittadinanza attiva attraverso numerose iniziative riconoscibili sotto il cappello della Citizen Science. Le politiche europee si pongono a favore dell'affermazione di questa tendenza. Esempi sono il finanziamento di iniziative per lo sviluppo di nuovi parametri per la valutazione della scienza; la creazione di infrastrutture che promuovano la trasmissione della conoscenza in forme innovative e che vadano oltre la pubblicazione editoriale come finora nota. Nonostante le politiche per l'accesso aperto alla conoscenza in generale, alla produzione scientifica in particolare e, in anni più recenti, per l'accesso libero ai dati della ricerca si stiano consolidando nella pratica quotidiana per chi opera in questo settore, il cammino verso il libero accesso alla conoscenza resta accidentato. Il coinvolgimento della cittadinanza è fondamentale e rappresenta un'ulteriore sfida. La cooperazione tra scienza e popolazione attiva potrebbe essere la chiave di volta perché la scienza e soprattutto la conoscenza aperta diventino il nuovo modo di creare e diffondere il sapere? In che misura le biblioteche possono giocare un ruolo fondamentale in questo contesto? Facendo riferimento alla situazione attuale, alle iniziative in corso e alle tecnologie attualmente a disposizione, è un interrogativo che è necessario porsi per delineare gli scenari possibili del prossimo futuro.DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6587470
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2022
Other
Open Access
Cittadini scienziati e scienziati cittadini: la Citizen Science
Molino A
La Citizen Science è la scienza realizzata col contributo dei cittadini. In questa presentazione proveremo a capire di cosa si tratta e mostreremo come tutti possiamo diventare dei cittadini scienziati.
Molino A
La Citizen Science è la scienza realizzata col contributo dei cittadini. In questa presentazione proveremo a capire di cosa si tratta e mostreremo come tutti possiamo diventare dei cittadini scienziati.
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2018
Journal article
Open Access
Data from "Grey Literature citations in the age of Digital Repositories and Open Access"
Giannini S, Molino A
The data collected is based on a sample corpus built on: a) the bibliographical references of articles in four journals over the years 2012-2014; b) the proceedings of two international conferences held in 2012 and 2014. The full text paper, presented at the International Conference Series on Grey Literature, measures grey citations in the years 2012, 2013 and 2014 and describes the features of GL documents mentioned in the areas Computational Linguistics and Computer Science and Engineering. The data from the study was collected and arranged in 2016. The original information was extracted directly from the primary sources, i.e. the bibliographical references of the articles published in the selected journals and proceedings. The dataset consists of all the analyzed bibliographical references of the chosen journals and proceedings accompanied by some informative classes processed to perform calculations and provide statistical information. It contains the number of bibliographic references and the number and percentages of usage of "grey" references and "grey" document types in the considered timespan. The data derived from this sample are suitable for different types of reuse and functional for anyone interested in citation analysis.Source: THE GREY JOURNAL, vol. 14 (issue 1)
Giannini S, Molino A
The data collected is based on a sample corpus built on: a) the bibliographical references of articles in four journals over the years 2012-2014; b) the proceedings of two international conferences held in 2012 and 2014. The full text paper, presented at the International Conference Series on Grey Literature, measures grey citations in the years 2012, 2013 and 2014 and describes the features of GL documents mentioned in the areas Computational Linguistics and Computer Science and Engineering. The data from the study was collected and arranged in 2016. The original information was extracted directly from the primary sources, i.e. the bibliographical references of the articles published in the selected journals and proceedings. The dataset consists of all the analyzed bibliographical references of the chosen journals and proceedings accompanied by some informative classes processed to perform calculations and provide statistical information. It contains the number of bibliographic references and the number and percentages of usage of "grey" references and "grey" document types in the considered timespan. The data derived from this sample are suitable for different types of reuse and functional for anyone interested in citation analysis.Source: THE GREY JOURNAL, vol. 14 (issue 1)
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2019
Conference article
Open Access
The data librarian: Myth, reality or Utopia?
Giannini S, Molino A
The emergence of e-science and e-research has opened new paths and trends in scholarly communication and management. In the academic environment, the need for opening research products to a wider audience has become increasingly urgent. In this perspective, the Open Science (OS) movement is growing considerably in academia and among scientists worldwide. Two fundamental aspects of OS are the Open Access (OA) to scientific publication and the possibility of discovery, sharing and exploit the data used for or produced during the research process. The need for creating Open Data (OD) is profoundly changing the perspectives adopted by researchers during the scientific production, as research data is increasingly recognized as a primary research output. Not surprisingly, in order to have access to grants, funding bodies such as the European Commission, the Wellcome Trust and the RCUK in UK, the Australian Research Council in Australia, or the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. ask for a Data Management Plan (DMP) accompanying the project proposal. In this perspective, many academic libraries are now extending their century-long track record in the professional management of knowledge resources towards the area of research data, seeking to maximize research data skills among staff in their organisations. Academic libraries are indeed increasingly involved in the management of research data across the lifecycle, actively participating in tasks such as providing access to data, supporting researchers in managing their data and drafting DMPs, as well as managing data collections. Given this framework, it becomes clear that the "librarian" represents a constantly evolving profile. Our work will propose an overview of the competencies required to the librarian operating in academic libraries nowadays, delivering examples and making comparisons between different experiences worldwide. Special attention will be granted to the educational aspects necessary to accomplish with the actual skills required to research librarians, being training a fundamental aspect in the development and definition of this profession, highlighting the similarities and differences in educational proposals among different academic institutions. We will focus on the following questions: what is currently missing in the background of librarians? Should it be implemented or we must consider the data librarian as a brand-new profile? Our aim will be trying to give possible answers and outline specific qualifications required to those currently operating in academic libraries.Source: THE GL-CONFERENCE SERIES. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, pp. 51-66. New Orleans, USA, 3-4 December 2018
Giannini S, Molino A
The emergence of e-science and e-research has opened new paths and trends in scholarly communication and management. In the academic environment, the need for opening research products to a wider audience has become increasingly urgent. In this perspective, the Open Science (OS) movement is growing considerably in academia and among scientists worldwide. Two fundamental aspects of OS are the Open Access (OA) to scientific publication and the possibility of discovery, sharing and exploit the data used for or produced during the research process. The need for creating Open Data (OD) is profoundly changing the perspectives adopted by researchers during the scientific production, as research data is increasingly recognized as a primary research output. Not surprisingly, in order to have access to grants, funding bodies such as the European Commission, the Wellcome Trust and the RCUK in UK, the Australian Research Council in Australia, or the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. ask for a Data Management Plan (DMP) accompanying the project proposal. In this perspective, many academic libraries are now extending their century-long track record in the professional management of knowledge resources towards the area of research data, seeking to maximize research data skills among staff in their organisations. Academic libraries are indeed increasingly involved in the management of research data across the lifecycle, actively participating in tasks such as providing access to data, supporting researchers in managing their data and drafting DMPs, as well as managing data collections. Given this framework, it becomes clear that the "librarian" represents a constantly evolving profile. Our work will propose an overview of the competencies required to the librarian operating in academic libraries nowadays, delivering examples and making comparisons between different experiences worldwide. Special attention will be granted to the educational aspects necessary to accomplish with the actual skills required to research librarians, being training a fundamental aspect in the development and definition of this profession, highlighting the similarities and differences in educational proposals among different academic institutions. We will focus on the following questions: what is currently missing in the background of librarians? Should it be implemented or we must consider the data librarian as a brand-new profile? Our aim will be trying to give possible answers and outline specific qualifications required to those currently operating in academic libraries.Source: THE GL-CONFERENCE SERIES. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, pp. 51-66. New Orleans, USA, 3-4 December 2018
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2020
Conference article
Open Access
Open Access: a never-ending transition?
Giannini S., Molino A.
In more than fifteen years, the landscape surrounding scholarly communication has been undergoing an overextended transition phase towards Open Science. Indeed, the Budapest Open Access Initiative, the first statement of principles on open access to research literature, dates back to 2002, immediately followed by the Bethesda Statement and the Berlin Declaration (2003).However, this seems not to be enough, as far as we are still referring to Open Access as a transitional process. The concept has undoubtedly evolved through time: at the beginning, the primary purpose was to remove economic, legal and technical barriers imposed to scientific production; nowadays, the attention has been shifted to the communication processes among scientific communities and the openness towards the external audience, establishing a bridge between science and society.In this light, various funders invested resources in favor of the promotion of OA. For instance, the European Commission published a series of recommendations (2012/417/UE and 2018/790) "on access to and preservation of scientific information" and, together with other funders, now require Open Access to scientific production as mandatory for projects funded in their granting schemes. In the meantime, more and more institutions have been adopting policies to regulate and promote Open Access to scientific production.Nevertheless, on the publishers' side, the APC (Article Processing Charge) model is currently the wider spread among the dominant publishing houses as the option for making the work immediately and openly available to the scientific community. For this reason, a growing number of academic institutions and research bodies are negotiating different kinds of contracts with publishers, if not terminating them at all (e.g., the University of California or Max Planck Society canceled their contracts with Elsevier). As a response, proposals like PlanS1 and AmeliCA2 aroused to turn OA into concrete action.Our work aims to demonstrate how the research landscape has been changing over the years due to the establishment of the OA principles. We will go through the most significant steps of the OA movement, giving an overview of the tools developed from the late Nineties till the present time to favor the production, sharing and storing of OA material; the principal types and trends of policies adopted; the main legislative issues regarding scientific publication (e.g., the creation of CC licenses). We will concentrate on how research practices have been unarguably modifying in the last two decades, to outline what and where are the obstacles and challenges that leave society in a never-ending transition towards Open Science.Source: THE GL-CONFERENCE SERIES. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, pp. 67-88. Hannover, Germany, 22-23 October 2019
Giannini S., Molino A.
In more than fifteen years, the landscape surrounding scholarly communication has been undergoing an overextended transition phase towards Open Science. Indeed, the Budapest Open Access Initiative, the first statement of principles on open access to research literature, dates back to 2002, immediately followed by the Bethesda Statement and the Berlin Declaration (2003).However, this seems not to be enough, as far as we are still referring to Open Access as a transitional process. The concept has undoubtedly evolved through time: at the beginning, the primary purpose was to remove economic, legal and technical barriers imposed to scientific production; nowadays, the attention has been shifted to the communication processes among scientific communities and the openness towards the external audience, establishing a bridge between science and society.In this light, various funders invested resources in favor of the promotion of OA. For instance, the European Commission published a series of recommendations (2012/417/UE and 2018/790) "on access to and preservation of scientific information" and, together with other funders, now require Open Access to scientific production as mandatory for projects funded in their granting schemes. In the meantime, more and more institutions have been adopting policies to regulate and promote Open Access to scientific production.Nevertheless, on the publishers' side, the APC (Article Processing Charge) model is currently the wider spread among the dominant publishing houses as the option for making the work immediately and openly available to the scientific community. For this reason, a growing number of academic institutions and research bodies are negotiating different kinds of contracts with publishers, if not terminating them at all (e.g., the University of California or Max Planck Society canceled their contracts with Elsevier). As a response, proposals like PlanS1 and AmeliCA2 aroused to turn OA into concrete action.Our work aims to demonstrate how the research landscape has been changing over the years due to the establishment of the OA principles. We will go through the most significant steps of the OA movement, giving an overview of the tools developed from the late Nineties till the present time to favor the production, sharing and storing of OA material; the principal types and trends of policies adopted; the main legislative issues regarding scientific publication (e.g., the creation of CC licenses). We will concentrate on how research practices have been unarguably modifying in the last two decades, to outline what and where are the obstacles and challenges that leave society in a never-ending transition towards Open Science.Source: THE GL-CONFERENCE SERIES. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, pp. 67-88. Hannover, Germany, 22-23 October 2019
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2018
Other
Open Access
The data librarian: myth, reality or utopia?
Giannini S, Molino A
The emergence of e-science and e-research has opened new paths and trends in scholarly communication and management. In the academic environment, the need for opening research products to a wider audience has become increasingly urgent. In this perspective, the Open Science (OS) movement is growing considerably in academia and among scientists worldwide. Two fundamental aspects of OS are the Open Access (OA) to scientific publication and the possibility of discovery, sharing and exploit the data used for or produced during the research process. The need for creating Open Data (OD) is profoundly changing the perspectives adopted by researchers during the scientific production, as research data is increasingly recognized as a primary research output. Not surprisingly, in order to have access to grants, funding bodies such as the European Commission, the Wellcome Trust and the RCUK in UK, the Australian Research Council in Australia, or the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. ask for a Data Management Plan (DMP) accompanying the project proposal. In this perspective, many academic libraries are now extending their century-long track record in the professional management of knowledge resources towards the area of research data, seeking to maximize research data skills among staff in their organisations. Academic libraries are indeed increasingly involved in the management of research data across the lifecycle, actively participating in tasks such as providing access to data, supporting researchers in managing their data and drafting DMPs, as well as managing data collections. Given this framework, it becomes clear that the "librarian" represents a constantly evolving profile. Our work will propose an overview of the competencies required to the librarian operating in academic libraries nowadays, delivering examples and making comparisons between different experiences worldwide. Special attention will be granted to the educational aspects necessary to accomplish with the actual skills required to research librarians, being training a fundamental aspect in the development and definition of this profession, highlighting the similarities and differences in educational proposals among different academic institutions. We will focus on the following questions: what is currently missing in the background of librarians? Should it be implemented or we must consider the data librarian as a brand-new profile? Our aim will be trying to give possible answers and outline specific qualifications required to those currently operating in academic libraries.DOI: 10.5446/39638
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Giannini S, Molino A
The emergence of e-science and e-research has opened new paths and trends in scholarly communication and management. In the academic environment, the need for opening research products to a wider audience has become increasingly urgent. In this perspective, the Open Science (OS) movement is growing considerably in academia and among scientists worldwide. Two fundamental aspects of OS are the Open Access (OA) to scientific publication and the possibility of discovery, sharing and exploit the data used for or produced during the research process. The need for creating Open Data (OD) is profoundly changing the perspectives adopted by researchers during the scientific production, as research data is increasingly recognized as a primary research output. Not surprisingly, in order to have access to grants, funding bodies such as the European Commission, the Wellcome Trust and the RCUK in UK, the Australian Research Council in Australia, or the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. ask for a Data Management Plan (DMP) accompanying the project proposal. In this perspective, many academic libraries are now extending their century-long track record in the professional management of knowledge resources towards the area of research data, seeking to maximize research data skills among staff in their organisations. Academic libraries are indeed increasingly involved in the management of research data across the lifecycle, actively participating in tasks such as providing access to data, supporting researchers in managing their data and drafting DMPs, as well as managing data collections. Given this framework, it becomes clear that the "librarian" represents a constantly evolving profile. Our work will propose an overview of the competencies required to the librarian operating in academic libraries nowadays, delivering examples and making comparisons between different experiences worldwide. Special attention will be granted to the educational aspects necessary to accomplish with the actual skills required to research librarians, being training a fundamental aspect in the development and definition of this profession, highlighting the similarities and differences in educational proposals among different academic institutions. We will focus on the following questions: what is currently missing in the background of librarians? Should it be implemented or we must consider the data librarian as a brand-new profile? Our aim will be trying to give possible answers and outline specific qualifications required to those currently operating in academic libraries.DOI: 10.5446/39638
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2021
Contribution to book
Open Access
Foreword
Giannini S, Molino A
Preface of the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Grey Literature "Applications of Grey Literature for Science and Society"Source: THE GL-CONFERENCE SERIES. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, p. 3
Giannini S, Molino A
Preface of the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Grey Literature "Applications of Grey Literature for Science and Society"Source: THE GL-CONFERENCE SERIES. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, p. 3
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2021
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Panel Session
Giannini S, Molino A
To foresee the future of grey literature, it is necessary to understand how it is genuinely perceived as a significant part of the documentary heritage of institutions.
Giannini S, Molino A
To foresee the future of grey literature, it is necessary to understand how it is genuinely perceived as a significant part of the documentary heritage of institutions.
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2019
Journal article
Open Access
The data librarian: Myth, reality or utopia?
Giannini S, Molino A
The emergence of e-science and e-research has opened new paths and trends in scholarly communication and management. In the academic environment, the need for opening research products to a wider audience has become increasingly urgent. In this perspective, the Open Science (OS) movement is growing considerably in academia and among scientists worldwide. Two fundamental aspects of OS are the Open Access (OA) to scientific publication and the possibility of discovery, sharing and exploit the data used for or produced during the research process. The need for creating Open Data (OD) is profoundly changing the perspectives adopted by researchers during the scientific production, as research data is increasingly recognized as a primary research output. Not surprisingly, in order to have access to grants, funding bodies such as the European Commission, the Wellcome Trust and the RCUK in UK, the Australian Research Council in Australia, or the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. ask for a Data Management Plan (DMP) accompanying the project proposal. In this perspective, many academic libraries are now extending their century-long track record in the professional management of knowledge resources towards the area of research data, seeking to maximize research data skills among staff in their organisations. Academic libraries are indeed increasingly involved in the management of research data across the lifecycle, actively participating in tasks such as providing access to data, supporting researchers in managing their data and drafting DMPs, as well as managing data collections. Given this framework, it becomes clear that the "librarian" represents a constantly evolving profile. Our work will propose an overview of the competencies required to the librarian operating in academic libraries nowadays, delivering examples and making comparisons between different experiences worldwide. Special attention will be granted to the educational aspects necessary to accomplish with the actual skills required to research librarians, being training a fundamental aspect in the development and definition of this profession, highlighting the similarities and differences in educational proposals among different academic institutions. We will focus on the following questions: what is currently missing in the background of librarians? Should it be implemented or we must consider the data librarian as a brand-new profile? Our aim will be trying to give possible answers and outline specific qualifications required to those currently operating in academic libraries.Source: THE GREY JOURNAL, vol. 15 (issue 1), pp. 7-22
Giannini S, Molino A
The emergence of e-science and e-research has opened new paths and trends in scholarly communication and management. In the academic environment, the need for opening research products to a wider audience has become increasingly urgent. In this perspective, the Open Science (OS) movement is growing considerably in academia and among scientists worldwide. Two fundamental aspects of OS are the Open Access (OA) to scientific publication and the possibility of discovery, sharing and exploit the data used for or produced during the research process. The need for creating Open Data (OD) is profoundly changing the perspectives adopted by researchers during the scientific production, as research data is increasingly recognized as a primary research output. Not surprisingly, in order to have access to grants, funding bodies such as the European Commission, the Wellcome Trust and the RCUK in UK, the Australian Research Council in Australia, or the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. ask for a Data Management Plan (DMP) accompanying the project proposal. In this perspective, many academic libraries are now extending their century-long track record in the professional management of knowledge resources towards the area of research data, seeking to maximize research data skills among staff in their organisations. Academic libraries are indeed increasingly involved in the management of research data across the lifecycle, actively participating in tasks such as providing access to data, supporting researchers in managing their data and drafting DMPs, as well as managing data collections. Given this framework, it becomes clear that the "librarian" represents a constantly evolving profile. Our work will propose an overview of the competencies required to the librarian operating in academic libraries nowadays, delivering examples and making comparisons between different experiences worldwide. Special attention will be granted to the educational aspects necessary to accomplish with the actual skills required to research librarians, being training a fundamental aspect in the development and definition of this profession, highlighting the similarities and differences in educational proposals among different academic institutions. We will focus on the following questions: what is currently missing in the background of librarians? Should it be implemented or we must consider the data librarian as a brand-new profile? Our aim will be trying to give possible answers and outline specific qualifications required to those currently operating in academic libraries.Source: THE GREY JOURNAL, vol. 15 (issue 1), pp. 7-22
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2019
Other
Open Access
Open Access: A never-ending transition?
Giannini S, Molino A
In more than fifteen years, the landscape surrounding scholarly communication has been undergoing an overextended transition phase towards Open Science. Indeed, the Budapest Open Access Initiative, the first statement of principles on open access to research literature, dates back to 2002, immediately followed by the Bethesda Statement and the Berlin Declaration (2003). However, this seems not to be enough, as far as we are still referring to Open Access as a transitional process. The concept has undoubtedly evolved through time: at the beginning, the primary purpose was to remove economic, legal and technical barriers imposed to scientific production; nowadays, the attention has been shifted to the communication processes among scientific communities and the openness towards the external audience, establishing a bridge between science and society. In this light, various funders invested resources in favor of the promotion of OA. For instance, the European Commission published a series of recommendations (2012/417/UE and 2018/790) "on access to and preservation of scientific information" and, together with other funders, now require Open Access to scientific production as mandatory for projects funded in their granting schemes. In the meantime, more and more institutions have been adopting policies to regulate and promote Open Access to scientific production. Nevertheless, on the publishers' side, the APC (Article Processing Charge) model is currently the wider spread among the dominant publishing houses as the option for making the work immediately and openly available to the scientific community. For this reason, a growing number of academic institutions and research bodies are negotiating different kinds of contracts with publishers, if not terminating them at all (e.g., the University of California or Max Planck Society canceled their contracts with Elsevier). As a response, proposals like PlanS1 and AmeliCA2 aroused to turn OA into concrete action. Our work aims to demonstrate how the research landscape has been changing over the years due to the establishment of the OA principles. We will go through the most significant steps of the OA movement, giving an overview of the tools developed from the late Nineties till the present time to favor the production, sharing and storing of OA material; the principal types and trends of policies adopted; the main legislative issues regarding scientific publication (e.g., the creation of CC licenses). We will concentrate on how research practices have been unarguably modifying in the last two decades, to outline what and where are the obstacles and challenges that leave society in a never-ending transition towards Open Science.DOI: 10.5446/36542
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Giannini S, Molino A
In more than fifteen years, the landscape surrounding scholarly communication has been undergoing an overextended transition phase towards Open Science. Indeed, the Budapest Open Access Initiative, the first statement of principles on open access to research literature, dates back to 2002, immediately followed by the Bethesda Statement and the Berlin Declaration (2003). However, this seems not to be enough, as far as we are still referring to Open Access as a transitional process. The concept has undoubtedly evolved through time: at the beginning, the primary purpose was to remove economic, legal and technical barriers imposed to scientific production; nowadays, the attention has been shifted to the communication processes among scientific communities and the openness towards the external audience, establishing a bridge between science and society. In this light, various funders invested resources in favor of the promotion of OA. For instance, the European Commission published a series of recommendations (2012/417/UE and 2018/790) "on access to and preservation of scientific information" and, together with other funders, now require Open Access to scientific production as mandatory for projects funded in their granting schemes. In the meantime, more and more institutions have been adopting policies to regulate and promote Open Access to scientific production. Nevertheless, on the publishers' side, the APC (Article Processing Charge) model is currently the wider spread among the dominant publishing houses as the option for making the work immediately and openly available to the scientific community. For this reason, a growing number of academic institutions and research bodies are negotiating different kinds of contracts with publishers, if not terminating them at all (e.g., the University of California or Max Planck Society canceled their contracts with Elsevier). As a response, proposals like PlanS1 and AmeliCA2 aroused to turn OA into concrete action. Our work aims to demonstrate how the research landscape has been changing over the years due to the establishment of the OA principles. We will go through the most significant steps of the OA movement, giving an overview of the tools developed from the late Nineties till the present time to favor the production, sharing and storing of OA material; the principal types and trends of policies adopted; the main legislative issues regarding scientific publication (e.g., the creation of CC licenses). We will concentrate on how research practices have been unarguably modifying in the last two decades, to outline what and where are the obstacles and challenges that leave society in a never-ending transition towards Open Science.DOI: 10.5446/36542
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2018
Other
Open Access
Materiale per la formazione dei volontari del servizio civile nell'ambito del progetto: "Una Biblioteca Digitale CNR per la Scienza e la Tecnica: dal prototipo al servizio 2018"
Giannini S, Molino A
Materiale didattico per la formazione generale e specifica dei volontari del servizio civile.
Giannini S, Molino A
Materiale didattico per la formazione generale e specifica dei volontari del servizio civile.
2022
Conference article
Open Access
Data from "Exploring Next Generation Grey"
Schoepfel J, Farace D, Baxter D, Giannini S, Molino A, Lipinski T, Potocnik V, Savic D
The GL2021 Conference offered the many and diverse communities of practice in the field of grey literature a unique opportunity to collaborate in addressing and defining the next phase in the digital transformation of grey literature. In preparation for this conference, a panel session on the future of grey literature was planned on the program; and, in advance, an online survey was carried out among GreyNet's own community of practice in the field of grey literature.Source: THE GL-CONFERENCE SERIES. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, pp. 117-124. Online conference, 06/12/2021
Schoepfel J, Farace D, Baxter D, Giannini S, Molino A, Lipinski T, Potocnik V, Savic D
The GL2021 Conference offered the many and diverse communities of practice in the field of grey literature a unique opportunity to collaborate in addressing and defining the next phase in the digital transformation of grey literature. In preparation for this conference, a panel session on the future of grey literature was planned on the program; and, in advance, an online survey was carried out among GreyNet's own community of practice in the field of grey literature.Source: THE GL-CONFERENCE SERIES. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, pp. 117-124. Online conference, 06/12/2021
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2016
Other
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ARIADNE - D7.1 Quantity of access offered
Meghini C, Molino A
This deliverable describes the activities carried out during the three editions of the Summer School "Design of Archaeological Datasets", hosted by the partner CNR - ISTI (NeMIS Lab) and reports the results achieved, relying on the feedback given by the students at the end of each edition of the courses. The feedback questionnaires completed by the attendees are reported in appendix. In the EC Surveys all the participants expressed an overall appreciation of the course between "Good" and "Very good". Students globally expressed satisfaction for the scientific contents of the school, appreciating the outlines of the Semantic Web architecture, metadata structure and database design. Most of them declared the course provided a broader and clearer picture of the Information Technology aspects and tools available to design the data collected in archaeological research.Project(s): ARIADNE
Meghini C, Molino A
This deliverable describes the activities carried out during the three editions of the Summer School "Design of Archaeological Datasets", hosted by the partner CNR - ISTI (NeMIS Lab) and reports the results achieved, relying on the feedback given by the students at the end of each edition of the courses. The feedback questionnaires completed by the attendees are reported in appendix. In the EC Surveys all the participants expressed an overall appreciation of the course between "Good" and "Very good". Students globally expressed satisfaction for the scientific contents of the school, appreciating the outlines of the Semantic Web architecture, metadata structure and database design. Most of them declared the course provided a broader and clearer picture of the Information Technology aspects and tools available to design the data collected in archaeological research.Project(s): ARIADNE
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2024
Other
Open Access
Linee guida per l'inserimento dei prodotti in IRIS
Giannini S., Molino A.
Nel documento vengono fornite le informazioni necessarie agli autori CNR per depositare i propri prodotti nel nuovo repository IRIS-CNR.
Giannini S., Molino A.
Nel documento vengono fornite le informazioni necessarie agli autori CNR per depositare i propri prodotti nel nuovo repository IRIS-CNR.
2020
Journal article
Open Access
Open access: a never-ending transition?
Giannini S., Molino A.
In more than fifteen years, the landscape surrounding scholarly communication has been undergoing an overextended transition phase towards Open Science. Indeed, the Budapest Open Access Initiative, the first statement of principles on open access to research literature, dates back to 2002, immediately followed by the Bethesda Statement and the Berlin Declaration (2003).However, this seems not to be enough, as far as we are still referring to Open Access as a transitional process. The concept has undoubtedly evolved through time: at the beginning, the primary purpose was to remove economic, legal and technical barriers imposed to scientific production; nowadays, the attention has been shifted to the communication processes among scientific communities and the openness towards the external audience, establishing a bridge between science and society.In this light, various funders invested resources in favor of the promotion of OA. For instance, the European Commission published a series of recommendations (2012/417/UE and 2018/790) "on access to and preservation of scientific information" and, together with other funders, now require Open Access to scientific production as mandatory for projects funded in their granting schemes. In the meantime, more and more institutions have been adopting policies to regulate and promote Open Access to scientific production.Nevertheless, on the publishers' side, the APC (Article Processing Charge) model is currently the wider spread among the dominant publishing houses as the option for making the work immediately and openly available to the scientific community. For this reason, a growing number of academic institutions and research bodies are negotiating different kinds of contracts with publishers, if not terminating them at all (e.g., the University of California or Max Planck Society canceled their contracts with Elsevier). As a response, proposals like PlanS1 and AmeliCA2 aroused to turn OA into concrete action.Our work aims to demonstrate how the research landscape has been changing over the years due to the establishment of the OA principles. We will go through the most significant steps of the OA movement, giving an overview of the tools developed from the late Nineties till the present time to favor the production, sharing and storing of OA material; the principal types and trends of policies adopted; the main legislative issues regarding scientific publication (e.g., the creation of CC licenses). We will concentrate on how research practices have been unarguably modifying in the last two decades, to outline what and where are the obstacles and challenges that leave society in a never-ending transition towards Open Science.Source: THE GREY JOURNAL, vol. 16 (issue 1), pp. 6-27
Giannini S., Molino A.
In more than fifteen years, the landscape surrounding scholarly communication has been undergoing an overextended transition phase towards Open Science. Indeed, the Budapest Open Access Initiative, the first statement of principles on open access to research literature, dates back to 2002, immediately followed by the Bethesda Statement and the Berlin Declaration (2003).However, this seems not to be enough, as far as we are still referring to Open Access as a transitional process. The concept has undoubtedly evolved through time: at the beginning, the primary purpose was to remove economic, legal and technical barriers imposed to scientific production; nowadays, the attention has been shifted to the communication processes among scientific communities and the openness towards the external audience, establishing a bridge between science and society.In this light, various funders invested resources in favor of the promotion of OA. For instance, the European Commission published a series of recommendations (2012/417/UE and 2018/790) "on access to and preservation of scientific information" and, together with other funders, now require Open Access to scientific production as mandatory for projects funded in their granting schemes. In the meantime, more and more institutions have been adopting policies to regulate and promote Open Access to scientific production.Nevertheless, on the publishers' side, the APC (Article Processing Charge) model is currently the wider spread among the dominant publishing houses as the option for making the work immediately and openly available to the scientific community. For this reason, a growing number of academic institutions and research bodies are negotiating different kinds of contracts with publishers, if not terminating them at all (e.g., the University of California or Max Planck Society canceled their contracts with Elsevier). As a response, proposals like PlanS1 and AmeliCA2 aroused to turn OA into concrete action.Our work aims to demonstrate how the research landscape has been changing over the years due to the establishment of the OA principles. We will go through the most significant steps of the OA movement, giving an overview of the tools developed from the late Nineties till the present time to favor the production, sharing and storing of OA material; the principal types and trends of policies adopted; the main legislative issues regarding scientific publication (e.g., the creation of CC licenses). We will concentrate on how research practices have been unarguably modifying in the last two decades, to outline what and where are the obstacles and challenges that leave society in a never-ending transition towards Open Science.Source: THE GREY JOURNAL, vol. 16 (issue 1), pp. 6-27
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2024
Other
Open Access
Guida pratica su come fare Open Access e diffondere i propri risultati di ricerca attraverso il repository istituzionale IRIS CNR
Silvana Mangiaracina, Anna Molino, Silvia Giannini
Questo seminario scaturisce dal corso di formazione “La pubblicazione scientifica tra diritti dell’autore e valutazione”, svoltosi presso le Aree di ricerca CNR di Pisa e Bologna e realizzato nell’ambito del progetto europeo Right2Pub. La prima parte del seminario offrirà agli autori una guida pratica su aspetti cruciali del fare Open Access: come mantenere i diritti sulla propria opera, la scelta delle licenze da applicare, le domande fondamentali da porsi quando si desidera diffondere ad accesso aperto i risultati della propria ricerca. Nella seconda parte illustreremo brevemente la policy sull’Open Access del CNR e mostreremo come depositare in accesso aperto i propri prodotti nel repository istituzionale IRIS CNR.Project(s): La voce della comunità scientifica su “rights retention” e “secondary publishing right”
Silvana Mangiaracina, Anna Molino, Silvia Giannini
Questo seminario scaturisce dal corso di formazione “La pubblicazione scientifica tra diritti dell’autore e valutazione”, svoltosi presso le Aree di ricerca CNR di Pisa e Bologna e realizzato nell’ambito del progetto europeo Right2Pub. La prima parte del seminario offrirà agli autori una guida pratica su aspetti cruciali del fare Open Access: come mantenere i diritti sulla propria opera, la scelta delle licenze da applicare, le domande fondamentali da porsi quando si desidera diffondere ad accesso aperto i risultati della propria ricerca. Nella seconda parte illustreremo brevemente la policy sull’Open Access del CNR e mostreremo come depositare in accesso aperto i propri prodotti nel repository istituzionale IRIS CNR.Project(s): La voce della comunità scientifica su “rights retention” e “secondary publishing right”
2017
Conference article
Open Access
Grey Literature and Research Assessment exercises: from the current criteria to the Open Science models
Giannini S, Deluca R, Molino A, Biagioni S
In the recent years the application of strategies, procedures and tools to evaluate the research have become subject of interest and their application is currently matter of discussion. The assessment exercises are regulated at national level and are carried out in different European countries such as France, United Kingdom and The Netherlands. In Italy the first research assessment exercise has been legislated in 2003 and entrusted to a specific Committee named Comitato di Indirizzo per la Valutazione della Ricerca (CIVR)1. Three years later the CIVR and other committees have been replaced by a specific Agency named Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del Sistema Universitario e della Ricerca (ANVUR). This Agency, set up at the end of 2006, aims to «...rationalize the system of assessment of the quality of Universities, state and private Research Institutions beneficiary of public funds...» « The results of these activities managed by ANVUR represent a criteria to assign the state funds to Universities and Research Institutions». It is not hard to imagine that the effects of this type of exercise has a strong political implication and determines a significant economic impact on the future of Universities and Research Institutions. The debate concerning the adopted methods and critical aspects about the assessment exercises is studied thoroughly at international level. At the present time, ANVUR has completed two evaluation exercises of the quality of the research named Valutazione della Qualità della Ricerca (VQR): the first one spans the years 2004 - 2010; the second from 2011 to 2014. The work analyzes the environment of VQR in order to understand the organizational set-up, the operational models, the scientific areas involved in the process, the selection and evaluation criteria and indicators of the research products. The work looks at the environment of VQR in order to understand the organizational set-up, the operational models, the scientific Areas involved in the process and the selection and evaluation criteria of the research products. More in detail, our work analyzes and compares the evaluation exercises conducted in Italy with the aim of verifying if and how Grey Literature is involved in the research evaluation processes. The article checked the types of products admissible for the research assessment and those actually presented by the researchers of Universities and Research Institutions. We measured the products from a quantitative point of view and observed their ramification in the different disciplinary fields rather than their transformation during the period of time taken into consideration. At the same time, we focused on the Open Science movement in order to understand what could be its role within the research assessment exercises and how it could affect the future of scholarly scientific communication.
Giannini S, Deluca R, Molino A, Biagioni S
In the recent years the application of strategies, procedures and tools to evaluate the research have become subject of interest and their application is currently matter of discussion. The assessment exercises are regulated at national level and are carried out in different European countries such as France, United Kingdom and The Netherlands. In Italy the first research assessment exercise has been legislated in 2003 and entrusted to a specific Committee named Comitato di Indirizzo per la Valutazione della Ricerca (CIVR)1. Three years later the CIVR and other committees have been replaced by a specific Agency named Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del Sistema Universitario e della Ricerca (ANVUR). This Agency, set up at the end of 2006, aims to «...rationalize the system of assessment of the quality of Universities, state and private Research Institutions beneficiary of public funds...» « The results of these activities managed by ANVUR represent a criteria to assign the state funds to Universities and Research Institutions». It is not hard to imagine that the effects of this type of exercise has a strong political implication and determines a significant economic impact on the future of Universities and Research Institutions. The debate concerning the adopted methods and critical aspects about the assessment exercises is studied thoroughly at international level. At the present time, ANVUR has completed two evaluation exercises of the quality of the research named Valutazione della Qualità della Ricerca (VQR): the first one spans the years 2004 - 2010; the second from 2011 to 2014. The work analyzes the environment of VQR in order to understand the organizational set-up, the operational models, the scientific areas involved in the process, the selection and evaluation criteria and indicators of the research products. The work looks at the environment of VQR in order to understand the organizational set-up, the operational models, the scientific Areas involved in the process and the selection and evaluation criteria of the research products. More in detail, our work analyzes and compares the evaluation exercises conducted in Italy with the aim of verifying if and how Grey Literature is involved in the research evaluation processes. The article checked the types of products admissible for the research assessment and those actually presented by the researchers of Universities and Research Institutions. We measured the products from a quantitative point of view and observed their ramification in the different disciplinary fields rather than their transformation during the period of time taken into consideration. At the same time, we focused on the Open Science movement in order to understand what could be its role within the research assessment exercises and how it could affect the future of scholarly scientific communication.
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2018
Journal article
Open Access
Grey Literature and Research Assessment Exercises: From the Current Criteria to the Open Science models
Giannini S, Deluca R, Molino A, Biagioni S
In the recent years the application of strategies, procedures and tools to evaluate the research have become subject of interest and their application is currently matter of discussion. The assessment exercises are regulated at national level and are carried out in different European countries such as France, United Kingdom and The Netherlands. In Italy the first research assessment exercise has been legislated in 2003 and entrusted to a specific Committee named Comitato di Indirizzo per la Valutazione della Ricerca (CIVR)1. Three years later the CIVR and other committees have been replaced by a specific Agency named Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del Sistema Universitario e della Ricerca (ANVUR). This Agency, set up at the end of 2006, aims to «...rationalize the system of assessment of the quality of Universities, state and private Research Institutions beneficiary of public funds...» « The results of these activities managed by ANVUR represent a criteria to assign the state funds to Universities and Research Institutions». It is not hard to imagine that the effects of this type of exercise has a strong political implication and determines a significant economic impact on the future of Universities and Research Institutions. The debate concerning the adopted methods and critical aspects about the assessment exercises is studied thoroughly at international level. At the present time, ANVUR has completed two evaluation exercises of the quality of the research named Valutazione della Qualità della Ricerca (VQR): the first one spans the years 2004 - 2010; the second from 2011 to 2014. The work analyzes the environment of VQR in order to understand the organizational set-up, the operational models, the scientific areas involved in the process, the selection and evaluation criteria and indicators of the research products. The work looks at the environment of VQR in order to understand the organizational set-up, the operational models, the scientific Areas involved in the process and the selection and evaluation criteria of the research products. More in detail, our work analyzes and compares the evaluation exercises conducted in Italy with the aim of verifying if and how Grey Literature is involved in the research evaluation processes. The article checked the types of products admissible for the research assessment and those actually presented by the researchers of Universities and Research Institutions. We measured the products from a quantitative point of view and observed their ramification in the different disciplinary fields rather than their transformation during the period of time taken into consideration. At the same time, we focused on the Open Science movement in order to understand what could be its role within the research assessment exercises and how it could affect the future of scholarly scientific communication.Source: THE GREY JOURNAL, vol. 14 (issue 2), pp. 55-68
Giannini S, Deluca R, Molino A, Biagioni S
In the recent years the application of strategies, procedures and tools to evaluate the research have become subject of interest and their application is currently matter of discussion. The assessment exercises are regulated at national level and are carried out in different European countries such as France, United Kingdom and The Netherlands. In Italy the first research assessment exercise has been legislated in 2003 and entrusted to a specific Committee named Comitato di Indirizzo per la Valutazione della Ricerca (CIVR)1. Three years later the CIVR and other committees have been replaced by a specific Agency named Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del Sistema Universitario e della Ricerca (ANVUR). This Agency, set up at the end of 2006, aims to «...rationalize the system of assessment of the quality of Universities, state and private Research Institutions beneficiary of public funds...» « The results of these activities managed by ANVUR represent a criteria to assign the state funds to Universities and Research Institutions». It is not hard to imagine that the effects of this type of exercise has a strong political implication and determines a significant economic impact on the future of Universities and Research Institutions. The debate concerning the adopted methods and critical aspects about the assessment exercises is studied thoroughly at international level. At the present time, ANVUR has completed two evaluation exercises of the quality of the research named Valutazione della Qualità della Ricerca (VQR): the first one spans the years 2004 - 2010; the second from 2011 to 2014. The work analyzes the environment of VQR in order to understand the organizational set-up, the operational models, the scientific areas involved in the process, the selection and evaluation criteria and indicators of the research products. The work looks at the environment of VQR in order to understand the organizational set-up, the operational models, the scientific Areas involved in the process and the selection and evaluation criteria of the research products. More in detail, our work analyzes and compares the evaluation exercises conducted in Italy with the aim of verifying if and how Grey Literature is involved in the research evaluation processes. The article checked the types of products admissible for the research assessment and those actually presented by the researchers of Universities and Research Institutions. We measured the products from a quantitative point of view and observed their ramification in the different disciplinary fields rather than their transformation during the period of time taken into consideration. At the same time, we focused on the Open Science movement in order to understand what could be its role within the research assessment exercises and how it could affect the future of scholarly scientific communication.Source: THE GREY JOURNAL, vol. 14 (issue 2), pp. 55-68
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2018
Conference article
Open Access
Grey Literature and Research Assessment Exercises: from the current criteria to the open science models
Giannini S, Deluca R, Molino A, Biagioni S
In the recent years the application of strategies, procedures and tools to evaluate the research have become subject of interest and their application is currently matter of discussion. The assessment exercises are regulated at national level and are carried out in different European countries such as France, United Kingdom and The Netherlands. In Italy the first research assessment exercise has been legislated in 2003 and entrusted to a specific Committee named Comitato di Indirizzo per la Valutazione della Ricerca (CIVR)1. Three years later the CIVR and other committees have been replaced by a specific Agency named Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del Sistema Universitario e della Ricerca (ANVUR). This Agency, set up at the end of 2006, aims to «...rationalize the system of assessment of the quality of Universities, state and private Research Institutions beneficiary of public funds...» « The results of these activities managed by ANVUR represent a criteria to assign the state funds to Universities and Research Institutions». It is not hard to imagine that the effects of this type of exercise has a strong political implication and determines a significant economic impact on the future of Universities and Research Institutions. The debate concerning the adopted methods and critical aspects about the assessment exercises is studied thoroughly at international level. At the present time, ANVUR has completed two evaluation exercises of the quality of the research named Valutazione della Qualità della Ricerca (VQR): the first one spans the years 2004 - 2010; the second from 2011 to 2014. The work analyzes the environment of VQR in order to understand the organizational set-up, the operational models, the scientific areas involved in the process, the selection and evaluation criteria and indicators of the research products. The work looks at the environment of VQR in order to understand the organizational set-up, the operational models, the scientific Areas involved in the process and the selection and evaluation criteria of the research products. More in detail, our work analyzes and compares the evaluation exercises conducted in Italy with the aim of verifying if and how Grey Literature is involved in the research evaluation processes. The article checked the types of products admissible for the research assessment and those actually presented by the researchers of Universities and Research Institutions. We measured the products from a quantitative point of view and observed their ramification in the different disciplinary fields rather than their transformation during the period of time taken into consideration. At the same time, we focused on the Open Science movement in order to understand what could be its role within the research assessment exercises and how it could affect the future of scholarly scientific communication.Source: THE GL-CONFERENCE SERIES. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, pp. 11-25. Roma, Italy, 23-24 October 2017
Giannini S, Deluca R, Molino A, Biagioni S
In the recent years the application of strategies, procedures and tools to evaluate the research have become subject of interest and their application is currently matter of discussion. The assessment exercises are regulated at national level and are carried out in different European countries such as France, United Kingdom and The Netherlands. In Italy the first research assessment exercise has been legislated in 2003 and entrusted to a specific Committee named Comitato di Indirizzo per la Valutazione della Ricerca (CIVR)1. Three years later the CIVR and other committees have been replaced by a specific Agency named Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del Sistema Universitario e della Ricerca (ANVUR). This Agency, set up at the end of 2006, aims to «...rationalize the system of assessment of the quality of Universities, state and private Research Institutions beneficiary of public funds...» « The results of these activities managed by ANVUR represent a criteria to assign the state funds to Universities and Research Institutions». It is not hard to imagine that the effects of this type of exercise has a strong political implication and determines a significant economic impact on the future of Universities and Research Institutions. The debate concerning the adopted methods and critical aspects about the assessment exercises is studied thoroughly at international level. At the present time, ANVUR has completed two evaluation exercises of the quality of the research named Valutazione della Qualità della Ricerca (VQR): the first one spans the years 2004 - 2010; the second from 2011 to 2014. The work analyzes the environment of VQR in order to understand the organizational set-up, the operational models, the scientific areas involved in the process, the selection and evaluation criteria and indicators of the research products. The work looks at the environment of VQR in order to understand the organizational set-up, the operational models, the scientific Areas involved in the process and the selection and evaluation criteria of the research products. More in detail, our work analyzes and compares the evaluation exercises conducted in Italy with the aim of verifying if and how Grey Literature is involved in the research evaluation processes. The article checked the types of products admissible for the research assessment and those actually presented by the researchers of Universities and Research Institutions. We measured the products from a quantitative point of view and observed their ramification in the different disciplinary fields rather than their transformation during the period of time taken into consideration. At the same time, we focused on the Open Science movement in order to understand what could be its role within the research assessment exercises and how it could affect the future of scholarly scientific communication.Source: THE GL-CONFERENCE SERIES. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, pp. 11-25. Roma, Italy, 23-24 October 2017
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2020
Other
Open Access
Le biblioteche italiane durante la pandemia COVID-19: un'indagine sui servizi
Giannini S, Lombardi S, Molino A
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, from mid-February, libraries in Italy started to close to the public. In a short time, librarians had to implement different solutions to guarantee remote services and support to the users. In our study, we aim to outline how Italian libraries are responding to the challenges posed by this extraordinary situation. Moreover, we attempt to determine how librarians foresee their role after the emergency and to what extent exceptional means of service provision would become standards in the future. We proposed to the community of Italian librarians a questionnaire structured in thirteen sections, each corresponding to a specific aspect of our investigation. We disseminated it extensively to reach the widest audience possible. In eleven days, we collected 1134 anonymous responses from different types of libraries. Results demonstrated that librarians adapted quite fast to the new conditions with a medium degree of difficulty in maintaining the services active. We generally register an evident prevalence of the digital mean of provision. Even though the communication with the users is only virtual, their awareness of library presence seems to remain steady, if not increased. Most librarians believe that such a situation would affect the world of libraries significantly, being digital or not, after the pandemic. In our work, we adopted a traditional instrument for data collection to propose a full-scale investigation aimed at examining the whole range of activities of all library typologies in Italy in an outstanding time of contemporary history.DOI: 10.32079/isti-tr-2020/012
Metrics:
Giannini S, Lombardi S, Molino A
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, from mid-February, libraries in Italy started to close to the public. In a short time, librarians had to implement different solutions to guarantee remote services and support to the users. In our study, we aim to outline how Italian libraries are responding to the challenges posed by this extraordinary situation. Moreover, we attempt to determine how librarians foresee their role after the emergency and to what extent exceptional means of service provision would become standards in the future. We proposed to the community of Italian librarians a questionnaire structured in thirteen sections, each corresponding to a specific aspect of our investigation. We disseminated it extensively to reach the widest audience possible. In eleven days, we collected 1134 anonymous responses from different types of libraries. Results demonstrated that librarians adapted quite fast to the new conditions with a medium degree of difficulty in maintaining the services active. We generally register an evident prevalence of the digital mean of provision. Even though the communication with the users is only virtual, their awareness of library presence seems to remain steady, if not increased. Most librarians believe that such a situation would affect the world of libraries significantly, being digital or not, after the pandemic. In our work, we adopted a traditional instrument for data collection to propose a full-scale investigation aimed at examining the whole range of activities of all library typologies in Italy in an outstanding time of contemporary history.DOI: 10.32079/isti-tr-2020/012
Metrics:
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