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Bembo Officina Editoriale
[edit]Description of the Publication
[edit]Bembo OE is the Publishing Workshop of the Doctoral School of the Iuav University of Venice. It publishes in Open Access titles of research and critical reflection on the themes of the scientific and cultural fields of the School, with the aim of encouraging the circulation and discussion of the research of doctoral students and doctoral students.
Implementation of Open Access
[edit]Starting point
[edit]We approached the editorial team and offered our support to push further their open access policy. According to the OA policy published on the publisher's website: "Bembo OE chooses the Open Access mode of publication, in accordance with the Berlin Declaration (2003) and the European and international goals for sharing knowledge and research as a public good". However, the chosen licence is a CC BY NC SA, hence not fully compliant with open access. The publications are also missing the DOI and recommended citation, in particular for individual contributions in edited texts.
Challenges and recommendations
[edit]- CC licences: we clarified the requirements of OA with a focus on CC licences thus explained a need to choose another licence different from the current CC BY NC SA, the editorial team was very knowledgeable and willing to commit but explained that they were encountering some internal diffidence from the faculty members which were not comfortable with a non NC licence, thus we were asked for help in explaining the benefits and requirements of OA as well as some best practices for the negotiation with authors.
Implementation
[edit]- Guidelines: to meet the request for help in convincing authors of the benefits of open access, we provided guidelines and various materials in the form of slides and webinars
Lessons Learned
[edit]The publishing house proved to be sensitive to and very knowledgeable about OA issues and we therefore found fertile ground for an open and fruitful dialogue. The most interesting aspect of the case study, already found in others, was the confirmation of a difficulty in convincing the authors of the benefits of OA. The initial premise that it was necessary to negotiate with publishers was therefore disproved. Furthermore, the case study again demonstrated a common problem related to misinformation on open access requirements, with particular reference to licence compatibility.