Month: November 2023

AISA nominates Emanuele Conte for COARA Steering Board

Professor Emanuele Conte, a member of our Board of Directors, has agreed to be our candidate for the the Steering Board of COARA. We nominated him not only because of his long and significant experience in Open Access scholarly publishing, but more importantly because, as a legal scholar and historian, he could help to steer […]

Taking all the running one can do, to keep in the same place: ANVUR’s complicated relationship with the COARA agreement

1. An unpromising starting point In a 2018 article, Alberto Baccini and Giuseppe De Nicolao described the Italian academic system as “an unprecedented in vivo experiment in governing and controlling research and teaching via automatic bibliometric tools”. Italian universities and research institutions are subject to widespread bibliometric measurements. Their use in research evaluation exercises (Valutazione […]