Stato dell'arte dell'OA nel panorama nazionale ed internazionale

The presentation, given in the Open Access session at the CIBER Seminar in Palermo on 3-5 June 2009, is an overview of recent developments regarding Open Access in Italy, namely CRUI Open Access Groups and the release of CRUI Guidelines. Some of the most important worldwide initiatives are also described in brief. The presentation stresses two key aspects that could be the turning-point for the success of Open Access: the first focusing on the evaluation of scientific research and its impact, and therefore the development of alternative bibliometric measures, such as Usage Factor, together with, the involvement of institutional repositories in the procedures to deposit output that is to be evaluated; the second area to focus on concerns the economic sustainability of Open Access models, which includes support for initiatives, such as SCOAP3, that propose effective solutions to handle the transition from "per view models" to "per publish models"