More recent perspectives of the OA movement were discussed during the seminar held in Granada in May 2010, Open Selleckchem Batimastat access to science information: policies for the development of OA in Southern Europe [6], attended Ganetespib mouse by the delegates (researchers and information specialists) of six Mediterranean countries of South Europe (France, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Portugal). This

seminar stressed the importance of the following actions: link the open digital archives to the National Research Anagrafe; guarantee high quality standards of the OA journals; reduce the cost of publications by moving from the paper to the digital publishing; define common standard to facilitate the gathering and aggregation of metadata. Moreover, a new service announced at the Berlin 8 Conference on Open Access held in Beijing

in October 2010 and intended to implement OA strategies is about to be launched by OASIS (Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook) in 2011: The open access map [7] a world map and chronology which shows all OA projects, services, initiatives and their development over the last ten years. Open access in Italy As far as Italy is concerned, an important breakthrough for the academic world was marked by the Messina Declaration, in 2004, the first institutional action on the part of the chancellors of the Italian universities in favour of OA. This event represented the starting point of an action towards the statement of policies requiring check details researchers to deposit their papers in institutional repositories and to publish research articles in OA journals. Among the most recent Italian initiatives aimed at promoting the OA philosophy, it is worth mentioning the launch in 2008 of the Italian wiki on open access [8], conceived as Lepirudin a reference point on Italian projects and best practices. Another reference point

is also the DRIVER wiki containing a section devoted to Open access in Italy [9] while the state of the art of the OA initiatives is described in Open Access in Italy: report 2009 offering a wide overview on the ongoing projects and experiences [10]. Open access in science and medicine A decisive impulse to the unrestricted availability of research results (scientific publications and data sets) is represented by the OpenAIRE Project (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) [11]. This Pilot Project, financed by the European Commission and covering the 27 member states of the European Union, has been conceived to deliver both a technical and a networking infrastructure to the benefit of the research community. The former infrastructure is aimed at collecting and providing access to the research articles reporting on outcomes of FP7 and European Research Council (ERC) projects, while the second one, based on the creation of a European Helpdesk System, has been designed to best support the practice of archiving in each EU member state.