AUDIENCE THEORY -CULTIVATION THEORY - GERBNER.pptx
Berlin 6 Open Access Conference: Stefano Bianco
1. infn and open access
stefano bianco
Infn - istituto nazionale di fisica nucleare - laboratori nazionali di frascati - italy
2. What is the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica
Nucleare
Where do we come from
Where are we going
Why we signed the Berlin declaration
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3. The Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics
(INFN) funds, promotes and performs
publicly-funded, basic research in nuclear,
particle and astroparticle physics, in close
synergy with Universities, and in the
international context.
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4. Legnaro
INFN today Gran Sasso
4 National Labs
19 Univ. Sections
11 Assoc. Sections
VIRGO-EGO
European
Gravitational
Observatory
Laboratori del Sud
(Catania) Frascati
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5. Funding Institute managed by its own researchers
in close synergy w/ universities
High Energy Physics, but also connected fields
– Nuclear
– Astroparticle
– Multidisciplinary
Medical imaging, cancer therapy with accelerators
Accelerators
Detectors
Archeometry
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6. The Frascati Lab Institutional
Repository dates back to 1954
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7. Particle physicists have distributed paper
preprints since more than 50 years by post
service
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8. A day in the life of a HEP physicist
Look up arXiv and SPIRES for new preprints
Browse SPIRES for any new citation to my papers
Logon my experiment’s twiki collaborative
research web page and check if my student has
posted his weekly report
Send email messages to my group using
googlegroups.com
Start working
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9. we are a very well integrated
community with Open Access
imprinting
10. still…
… still hep physicists need journals
For rigorous, high quality peer review
Evaluation of publicly-funded research
based on bibliometric indeces
INFN has agreed to support SCOAP3 and
pledged its share
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11. INFN and SCOAP3
INFN decided to support SCOAP3 after careful
review, under conditions:
– Rigorous peer review, excellent quality of journals
publisher becomes quality certification provider
– Simple commercial model that even physicists can
understand
– An expenditure comparable, asymptotically, to the
current subscription expenditure
– Open Access for fields of research: HEP, nuclear and
astroparticle physics
Starting off with HEP, others to follow
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12. By endorsing and pledging money to scoap3,
INFN stated it believes a new commercial model of
common satisfaction for both authors and
publishers can be worked out
our experience can be transported to other
closely-knit research communities
It is a moral imperative, and a commonly beneficial
action, to support the transition to OA for
developing Countries
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13. By signing the Berlin declaration the
management of INFN unanimously has
stated its committment in establishing the
principle that publicly funded research has
to be OA. We are committed to extend the
OA paradigm to all fields of research we
fund and perform
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