Open Access Tools and Technology

The new digital technologies and the world wide web, offered solutions and strategies for the development of electronic publishing and correlated services, also creating an alternate model of scientific literatures circulation. If new technologies found solutions, formats and standards, the Internet has became the main actor to spread the e-prints. That allowes to start new parallel models, that would be able to overcome the barriers set to the dissemination of contributes of scientific research results. As it is well known, the BOAI clearly describes the goals of the Open Access movement, i.e. to make freely available, and without any charge, the refereed scientific literature. BOAI also defines the two OA main strategies: the Open access self-archiving and the Open access Publishing. The first one promotes the self archiving, i.e. the submission of referred research output, the second one to support the creation of new open access journals and the conversion of existing academic and commercial ones.