****Apologies for cross-posting*** We are very pleased to inform that on March 21st the Presidents of some important Research institutions in Italy, together with the Conference of Rectors of Italian Universities signed a joint position statement on Open Access to research outputs. This is an outcome of the workshop organized by the National Task Force of the EU funded project MedOANet <http://www.medoanet.eu/>.
The signatories are - National Health Institute - ISS - National Research Council - CNR - National Institute for Nuclear Physics - INFN - National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology - INGV - National Agency for News Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development - ENEA - Conference of Rectors of Italian Universities - CRUI The document now available in English at http://wiki.openarchives.it/images/f/f4/Position_paper_en.pdf shows a strong committment to act coordinately in order to achieve the success of Open Access in Italy by several actions. Best regards, Ilaria Fava -- Ilaria Fava Dipartimento Gestione delle Informazioni e della Conoscenza CINECA - Sede operativa di Roma Via dei Tizii, 6 - 00185 Roma, Italy tel. +39 06 44486610 - http://www.cineca.it
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