Open Access : a new opportunity for scholarly communication

Conference Overview - Introduction - A changing environment: reasons and conditions leading to the Open Access movement the crisis of scholarly communication in the late nineties: prices, technologies and policies - The main “players” reactions: publishers, authors, libraries (universities) - Steps forward: the Budapest “Manifesto”, the Paris Conference, the Berlin Declaration. - The debate and its evolution: the Open Access as an opportunity - Copyright and the relations between authors, publishers and institutions; Creative Commons - The academic communities and the publishers policies: the ROMEO project - The new economic models - Advocacy and the Universities strategies - Research evaluation and new indicators: the Open Access Citation Index - Technical aspects - Thinking to the future, now: e-publishing and the role of librarie