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Change is glacially slow, but it happens
Challenges and opportunities
for the HSS
Paola Galimberti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Andrea Marchitelli, CILEA, Italy
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The Italian panorama – National institutions
Lack of central policies
Universitary Consortia involved by a personal
commitment of people and auto-cohordinated
No office/officier for OA in the Ministry
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The Italian panorama – Universities
Lack of University policies – New Bylaws?
CRUI guidelines not mandatory
The case of Doctoral theses
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The Italian panorama – Universities
Maintream Science and Italian research
Very difficult to change
Marginal role of UPs
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The Italian panorama – The authors
Inertia of some disciplinary (not STM)
communities
Specialized editorial behaviors
Lack of consciousness by the authors
No special fundings for OA publishing
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Research assessment
Reduction in funding of public universities
More competition and raising importance of
research evaluation
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Research assessment for HSS
HSS not so easy to evaluate due to lack of
robust indicators (lack of data at all)
Traditional measures as IF, h-index or citation
counts not available for LotE
Multidimensionality of HSS need a large set of
indicators
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Open Access represents a great chance for HSS
To reach visibility --- reputation
To start to gather research data through
standardization
To be read and cited
To reach more transparency in peer review ex
ante and ex post
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Research assessment in Italy
Evaluation criteria incoherent for HSS
No indicators
Too many entities
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Growth of OA journals in Italy
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OA journals by disciplinary sector
Italy
45%
53%
2%
60%
38% 2%
World
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49% 51%
OJS
Other
OA italian journals by software
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15%
85%
Italian only
Italian AND/OR otherlanguage
OA journals by language
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Problems in the HSS that draw to a change
Dissatisfaction with the present conditions in
scientific communication
Very bad distribution of the articles
It takes too much to be published (until 2
years) while evaluation is now
Very high costs of publication with an
intensive editorial work for the authors
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Problems in the HSS that draw to a change
Criteria for peer review are not transparent,
not clearly stated by publishers
Agreements are not flexible. Publishers
require a copyright transfer agreement.
LtP is unknown
Italian publishers don’t offer advanced tools
to their authors
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Open Access could represent a chance for HSS
It c
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olv
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rob
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A certain reserve typical for the HSS
Habit to publish in paper form only
Limited circulation of scientific works
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BUT
Fear of plagiarism
Books are still the main publication channel
National publishers as target that don’t
support Open Access
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The Project
3 journals started in 2008 on OJS (maintained
by CILEA)
Adoption of strong peer review criteria; call
for papers
Wide distribution of internal research in the
HSS
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Editorial Advantages
Great visibility improved by the use of
standard metadata
Internationalization and a great number of
submissions
Harvesting from Google, Scholar, Scientific
Commons, Base, DOAJ (full content); 2
journals are under evaluation by WOS
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Economic Advantages
No size limits for the issues and
supplementary materials
Sustainable costs
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At the present
11 Journals, in Literature, Critics, Philosophy,
Cultural Studies, Artificial languages, Law,
Veterinary, History, ItalianL2
Great number of views and downloads
All journals are published timely
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Downloads/month (Jan-Jul 2011)
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The ice is melting…
1.General conditions
2.Mentality change
are slowly changing the scenario
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