Abstract
Polimetrica is a company which aims to develop open access products. In 2005/2006 we've published the following open access works: • Valore, Paolo, ed. (2006) Topics on General and Formal Ontology. • Bachschmid, Nicolò and Pennacchi, Paolo, ed. (2006) Advances in vibration control and diagnostics. • Gianini, Gabriele and Sillitti, Alberto, ed. (2006) Sharing ExperienceS on Agile Methodologies in Open Source Software development (SESAMOSS). • Pitrelli, Nico and Sturloni, Giancarlo, ed. (2005) La stella nova. Atti del III Convegno Annuale sulla Comunicazione della Scienza. • Mazzonetto, Marzia and Merzagora, Matteo and Tola, Elisabetta (2005) Science in Radio Broadcasting. The role of the radio in science communication. • Rotolo, Giuseppe and Primiero, Giuseppe (2005) Dall'Artificiale al Vivente. Una storia naturale dei concetti. • Cesareo, Vincenzo, ed. (2006) The Eleventh Italian Report on Migrations 2005. • Baggio, Fabio and Zanfrini, Laura, ed. (2006) Migration Management and Ethics. Envisioning a Different Approach. • Soro, Alessandro and Armano, Giuliano and Paddeu, Gavino, ed. (2006) Distributed Agent-Based Retrieval Tools. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop. • San Vicente, Félix, ed. (2006) Lessicografia bilingue e traduzione: metodi, strumenti e approcci attuali. • Pitrelli , Nico and Sturloni, Giancarlo, (ed.) (2006) La scienza nella società del rischio. Atti del IV convegno nazionale e sulla comunicazione della scienza. • AA.VV, (2005) Atti del 4° Congresso Nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Fisica Medica. • Merlo, Maurizio (2006) La legge e la coscienza. Il problema della libertà nella filosofia politica di John Locke. • Mazzolani, Federico M., ed. (2006) Seismic upgrading of RC buildings by advanced techniques - The ILVA-IDEM Research Project. • Mazzolani, Federico M., ed. (2006) Innovative Steel Structures for Seismic Protection of Buildings - PRIN 2001. • Seddone, Guido (2006) Condivisione ed impegno. Linguaggio, pratica e riconoscimento in Brandom, Hegel e Heidegger. We've done this thanks to the kind support of different academic partners: • Università Statale di Milano. • Politecnico di Milano. • Sissa di Trieste. • Fondazione ISMU. • CRS4. • Università Statale di Bologna. • Università Statale di Padova. • Università Statale di Napoli. In the next future we would like to improve this editorial policy, by extending it also to peer reviewed scholarly audio, video and software documentation. In order to achieve this goal, it's important to understand which can be the possible forms of open access publishing trade. For this reason, we've asked some of the most important researchers in this field of study to investigate this subject, by proposing their own experience and point of view. The result is this book, which is not an arrival but a step in a long and articulated way directed to the definition of a valid open access editorial mechanism. Concluding, I'd like to thanks all the people in Polimetrica who have worked and are still working in order to allow the development of this editorial vision and in particular Giovanni Sica, Polimetrica's Administrator and main inspirer of this policy, who each day finds the energies to have dialogues and discussions with an academic world which often sees open access as a beautiful word but not as a possible concrete reality and, most of all, as an important opportunity for the development of science.

Giandomenico Sica, Scientific Director POLIMETRICA

Information
Type: Collection
Language(s): English, Italian
Year: 2006
Number of page(s): 104
Code (electronic): ISBN 978-88-7699-053-3 - Open Access Publication

Book Sections
De Robbio, Antonella (2006) Open Access al centro dei nuovi scenari di e-governance. In: Open Access: Open Problems. Polimetrica Publisher, pp. 9-23.

Kunisawa, Takashi (2006) A concrete step for building public electronic archives of reviewed papers. In: Open Access: Open Problems. Polimetrica Publisher, pp. 25-28.

Law, Derek (2006) Open Access: national policy initiatives as an alternative to personal commitment. In: Open Access: Open Problems. Polimetrica Publisher, pp. 31-42.

Suber, Peter (2006) Unbinding knowledge: a proposal for providing open access to past research articles, starting with the most important. In: Open Access: Open Problems. Polimetrica Publisher, pp. 43-57.

Uhlir, Paul F. (2006) The emerging role of open repositories for scientific literature as a fundamental component of the public research infrastructure. In: Open Access: Open Problems. Polimetrica Publisher, pp. 59-103.