Gentilissimi, abbiamo il piacere di informarvi che l'edizione 2015 dell'International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM), che si terrà a Krems (Austria) dal 20 al 22 maggio, includerà per la prima volta una track sul tema dell'Open Access (chair: Federico Morando, Director of Research and Policy - Centro Nexa su Internet & Società). I dettagli della call for papers sono disponibili in calce. Il termine per la presentazione è l'8 dicembre 2014. Ulteriori informazioni sono disponibili all'indirizzo: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/department/gpa/telematik/edemocracy-conference... . *Open Access is a concept that applies to both scientific publications and other entities, including related scientific data, that are freely accessible and reusable. The Berlin Declaration, one of the milestones of the Open Access movement, states that Open Access contributions must satisfy two conditions: that “(...) a free, irrevocable, worldwide, right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works (...)” is granted by the author(s) and rights holder(s) of such contributions and that “A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in an appropriate standard electronic format is deposited (and thus published) in at least one online repository using suitable technical standards (...)” supported by institutions that seek to enable “open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term archiving”.* *The track welcomes any innovative contribution concerning Open Access. The focus of the track, however, is on emerging models grounded on* *cooperation, defragmentation of resources, knowledge sharing and non-rivalrous reuse of significant amounts of content, with the aim of paving the path toward the idea of a “networked science”. In particular, the track welcomes papers on:* *• Robust methodologies that are able to provide empirical evidence about the benefits of Open Access;* *• Proposals concerning the use of open access repositories for innovative purposes, such as new forms of research assessment and evaluation;* *• Open scientific data, i.e., scientific data whose usage is unrestricted, or placed under use terms that guarantee the free access and reuse of data, possibly with some constraints on legal and ethical grounds (combining the Open Access and Open Data paradigms).* Cordiali saluti, -- ------------------------------------------------- Giuseppe Futia Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: http://nexa.polito.it mail: giuseppe.futia@polito.it tel. +39 011 090 7219