Italian Abstract: In un libro recente “La valutazione possibile - Teoria e pratica nel mondo della ricerca, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2015” Andrea Bonaccorsi, già membro del consiglio direttivo dell'”Agenzia Nazionale per la Valutazione dell'Università e del sistema della Ricerca (ANVUR)”,...

Open Access' main goal is not the subversion of publishers' role as driving actors in an oligopolistic market characterised by reduced competition and higher prices. OA's main function is to be found somewhere else, namely in the ability to subvert the power to control science's governance and...

This essay provides an overview of some research that is in its early stages. The principal purpose of the authors is to understand whether, in a Continental European legal system such as the Italian one – traditionally led by a strong historical and normative vision of copyright (or author's...

In biomedical research and translational medicine, the ancient war between exclusivity (private control over information) and access to information is proposing again on a new battlefield: research biobanks. The latter are becoming increasingly important (one of the ten ideas changing the world,...

The aim of this paper is to explore the contribution of formal law to Open Access (OA). The main thesis is that formal law may be considered as an outstanding instrument to affirm the OA principle. However, the ultimate success of OA depends on a radical change of the informal rules that apply...

Lo scopo di questo saggio è indicare alcuni possibili sviluppi dell’analisi del rapporto tra plagio e diritto d’autore. Nel primo paragrafo si introduce l’argomento e si sostiene la necessità di indagare la relazione tra plagio e diritto d’autore mediante un’analisi interdisciplinare...

In questo paper faccio uso di metafore (tempesta perfetta, pirati, zombi, corsari) per delineare alcuni argomenti che muovono contro il rafforzamento del diritto d’autore nel mercato degli e-books. In particolare, il rafforzamento dell’esclusiva, tramite la legge le licenze d’uso e le...

For many years the problem of food security has been addressed only in relation to developing countries, due to the fact that people in developed nations had a relatively abundant supply of food. This is not anymore true both because of the economic crisis and an increasing demand of food at the...