Nowadays, open science has certainly made a lot of progress. There is an impressive mass of scientific content (software, publications, data) available free of charge and with reuse rights, i.e. accompanied by open licenses such as the Creative Commons Licenses.

But what is the role of the university and other scientific and academic non-profit institutions in the governance and management of open science?

Can the university still claim a leading role in open science or does it now present itself as a cog in a market mechanism dominated by commercial platforms with enormous power to control information?

Faced with the power of commercial publishing databases, generalist and scientific social networks, and search engines, what is the main university task?

Does open science represent a bulwark of university autonomy and academic freedom? 

Held in Trento on October 25, 2018 the "Not for profit: Open Science and the Role of Universities" conference provided many answers to these questions.

Please, it is a revised OA Italia news


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