Open science in Italy: lessons learned en route to opening scholarship   

Abstract

We identify four lessons, selected on a subjective basis following the analysis of the slow uptake of open science in Italy, that may be useful to scholars and research policy makers engaged in promoting the uptake of open science culture and practices in their own countries .

Open Science in Italy: Lessons Learned En Route to Opening Scholarship

“…Remarkably, the latter study, including five important recommendations on how to practically increase humility in scientific articles (Hoekstra and Vazire 2021), is self-archived and openly accessible at the repository of the University of Groningen (Hoekstra and Vazire 2022), whereas single access to the article published in the paywalled journal in which it is currently published (mid 2023) costs $39.95, but it cost $32 when the current study was published in preprint form (Ciriminna and Pagliaro 2022b).…”