Conference of Italian University Rectors

[Given] the recommendations of the Scientific Committee of the European Research Council of December 2007 updated and reinforced in June 20124 which establish that… all peer-reviewed publications, funded under ERC granted research projects, will be deposited at the time of publication in an appropriate subject repository, if available, such as Europe PubMed Central or ArXiv, or in an institutional repository, to be subsequently made open access within 6 months from publication... The Conference of Rectors of the Italian Universities and the Italian Public Research Institutions… commit themselves to act coordinately in order to achieve the success of Open Access in Italy by: encouraging researchers to make their research results (data and publications) available in OA journals or Institutional or subject repositories. Research results deposited in Open Access repositories should be made available in their post-print or publisher's version upon publication, and no longer than 12 months after their publication; contributing to an effective fulfillment of Open Access principles through the adoption of Institutional policies and rules asking researchers to deposit their publications in Institutional OA repositories. If such a repository does not exist, researchers should use other institutions’ or subject repositories to deposit their publications and data. lobbying National government so that Italy, like other European countries are doing, can adopt and support a National strategy on Open Access, based on specific policies and rules.