Paola Gargiulo

She works at CINECA, she has been responsible for more than 15 years of consortium acquisitions, licensing negotiations with international publishers to access online academic and scientific journals . Since 2004 she has started working on open access to scientific communication, carrying out promotional activities and open access advocacy. She is currently involved in European projects related to the dissemination of knowledge through the implementation of alternative models of production and distribution of scholarly literature and research data. She has been responsible for the National Open Access Desk of OpenAire projects (2009-2011) and OpenAirePlus (2012-2014) for Italy and currently for the OpenAIRE project (2015-2018). She also coordinated the Italian participation in the European project MedOAnet (2011-2013). Speaker at conferences on issues relating to open access in the academic and scientific communication in Italy and abroad, member of the WG on OA of CRUI Library Committee (2006 - 2013), of WG on OA of EUA- European University Association (2007-2008), member of the WG of SCOAP3 (2007-2009) and member of the Governing Board of SCOAP3 (2014 - 2016). Served on the SPARC Europe(Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition) from 2009 to 2012 and currently serves on the Board of AISA- Italian Association for the promotion of Science Open (2015- )