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
I dettagli della call for papers sono disponibili in calce.
Il termine per la presentazione
è l'8 dicembre 2014.
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).