NEWSLETTER 51
Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics
SEPTEMBER 2018
Last September 4, 11 European institutions, including INFN, with the support of the European Commission and the European Research Council (ERC), launched cOAlition S, a project for the promotion of Open Access (OA), which envisages that, starting from 1 January 2020, scientific articles must be published on open access journals or platforms, when reporting results of research publicly funded by national and European research councils and agencies. We spoke about the initiative, which has had significant international exposure, with Laura Patrizi, INFN delegate in the OA working group of Science Europe, the association founded in 2011 by European research or research funding bodies to share experiences and practices, to develop and implement collective strategies, and which has been working since 2013 in promoting Open Access.
What does Open Access mean?
Open Access is the unrestricted, digital, free, online access to research results and data, made possible by the advent of the Internet. OA stems from a basic principle: the results of publicly funded research are a common asset, so they must be publicly available. In particular, there are two different forms of Open Access. Gold OA, where the final version of an article is made accessible to everyone
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Once again this year, the last Friday of September has arrived and researchers from all over Europe are getting ready to celebrate their Night. Promoted for the first time in 2005 by the European Commission, the "sleepless night" of research that places scientists and science at the centre has become ...
On 6 and 7 September, the event Particle physics, towards the new European strategy took place in Rome. It was structured in two days of work that involved the INFN scientific community, called to collaborate in the development of the new European roadmap of fundamental physics research. As well as NuPECC (Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee) for nuclear physics and ...
Scientists of the international Lisa Pathfinder collaboration met in Trento to celebrate the success of the Lisa Pathfinder mission and to discuss the scientific results achieved over the past ten years. The event, which took place on 11 and 12 September, was hosted by the MUSE - Museum of Sciences of Trento and it was jointly promoted by the European Space Agency (ESA), the Italian Space Agency ...
The installation of the ELIMED (ELI-Beamlines Medical and multidisciplinary applications) beam line designed and implemented at the INFN Southern National Laboratories as part of the ELIMAIA (ELI Multidisciplinary Applications of Laser-Ion Acceleration) project for the construction of a room for preclinical activities of the new Hadrontherapy centre, which will be implemented in the Czech Republic, ...
ARIA, FROM THE SEARCH FOR DARK MATTER AT THE GRAN SASSO LABORATORIES TO AN INNOVATIVE HIGH TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE IN SARDINIA
t stems from basic research, in particular from fundamental physics, to respond to an experimental need: having large amounts of argon available, currently obtained only from gas wells in Colorado, United States, for the search for dark matter. But in the future it could also be used for the distillation of other isotopes increasingly used in medicine, both in advanced diagnostics and in cancer therapy, and also in environmental and agricultural sciences. The ARIA project was inaugurated today, 21 September, in Sardinia, in the Monte Sinni mine, in Sulcis-Iglesiente, by INFN, the scientific sponsor of the project together with Princeton University, the Autonomous Region of Sardinia and Carbosulcis, an investee company of the Sardinia Region that manages the mining plant. The project consists in the construction ... ...
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