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Papers by Paola De Castro

Si sottolinea l’importanza dell’accesso aperto alle pubblicazioni scientifiche e ai dati della ri... more Si sottolinea l’importanza dell’accesso aperto alle pubblicazioni scientifiche e ai dati della ricerca, per promuovere una più equa distribuzione dei risultati delle attività di ricerca a livello globale, per evitare duplicazioni e sprechi, per rendere possibili nuovi parametri di valutazione. Vengono evidenziati i principali fattori che rendono difficile il cambiamento dei modelli tradizionali di diffusione dell’informazione scientifica e l’impegno del movimento per l’accesso aperto a livello globale. Si riporta il testo integrale del position statement, firmato il 21 marzo 2013 dai rappresentati di alcuni enti di ricerca italiani, tra cui l’Istituto Superiore di Sanità, e dalla Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università Italiane (CRUI), quale impegno verso l’attuazione dei principi dell’accesso aperto in Italia e la promozione di una strategia nazionale basata sull’adozione di policy e normative a diversi livelli. SUMMARY (Open Access to research results: a moral imperative. The Pres...

Journal of the European …, 2008

... 4 (4) 12 Paola De Castro, Corrado Di Benedetto, Elisabetta Poltronieri, Paolo Roazzi viabilit... more ... 4 (4) 12 Paola De Castro, Corrado Di Benedetto, Elisabetta Poltronieri, Paolo Roazzi viability, many authors still hesitate to participate in the ... Poltronieri E, Curti M, Ricci R, Roazzi P, Rumeo A, Truccolo I. Setting-up an institutional repository of biomedical literature authored by ...

Italian Journal of Gender-Specific Medicine, May 1, 2019

Annali dell'Istituto superiore di sanità

Sex and gender are important determinants of health and influence research findings in a variety ... more Sex and gender are important determinants of health and influence research findings in a variety of ways, yet they are often overlooked and underreported. This oversight limits the generalizability of research findings and their applicability to clinical practice. The objective of this paper is to point out how journal editors can influence better reporting of sex and gender in research by establishing a methodological framework directly addressing authors of scientific publications, as well as referees, and indirectly affecting all the stakeholders in the research cycle, from funders to policy-makers and citizens. Such a framework is represented by the Sex And Gender Equity in Research (SAGER) guidelines, developed by the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) to encourage a more systematic approach to the reporting of sex and gender in research across disciplines. The paper includes the rationale and basic principles of the SAGER guidelines.

Research Integrity and Peer Review, 2016

− AGMB goes to EAHIL Iris Reimann, Martina Semmler-Schmetz − ALIA/HLA Health Librarianship Compet... more − AGMB goes to EAHIL Iris Reimann, Martina Semmler-Schmetz − ALIA/HLA Health Librarianship Competencies Review Ann Ritchie − An instrument for evaluating searches for systematic reviews: The SRS-checklist Pernille Skou Gaardsted, Henrik Laursen, et al. − Benchmarking the participation of academic librarians in Evidence-based medicine (EBM) instruction, in Undergraduate medical education (UME) programs in Canada Zahra Premji, Kaitlin Fuller, Rebecca Raworth

The paper aims at illustrating the actions taken by Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) in favour ... more The paper aims at illustrating the actions taken by Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) in favour of Open Access to scientific literature produced by the ISS research community. In 2005 the ISS launched a Project aimed at aggregating the biomedical resources (mainly scientific publications) produced by Italian research institutions. The first step was to raise OA awareness among ISS research staff. To this end and in order to track authors’ attitudes to OA issues, an internal survey was carried out to identify researchers’ opinions towards the publication and distribution of academic material, following both the traditional and OA models. The essential results of the survey will be commented on, mostly in regards to the kind of material to be deposited in the ISS digital archive. In order to comply fully with the principles of the open access movement, the President of ISS signed the "Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities". This is a ...

(Let's make the point on Open Access: publishers, researchers and information scientists meet... more (Let's make the point on Open Access: publishers, researchers and information scientists meet at the "First European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine and Medicine" Lund, (Sweden) 21-22 April 2006) Different aspects of the open access publishing model were discussed at conference in Lund by prestigious speakers, such as Eugene Garfield, Jean Paul Guedon, Stevan Harnad. In synthesis, the open access paradigm is deeply reshaping the scholarly communication system. Researchers are becoming gradually aware of OA impact so that the number of articles published on open access journals is increasing worldwide. Further efforts have to be done to promote authors' self-archiving of scientific works in the digital repositories set up on a large scale by research and academic institutions. The traditional publishing sector keeps to claim its role as producer of "official communication" by issuing prestigious journals, but in many cases offer the auth...

Information Services & Use, 2017

International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 2016

goes here. The BRIF is an ongoing initiative that encompasses reflections and actions from variou... more goes here. The BRIF is an ongoing initiative that encompasses reflections and actions from various stakeholders (researchers, funders, industrials, editors) towards i/ standardised identification schemes and reporting for better visibility and tracing of bioresources on the web; ii/ incentive policies from hosting institutions; iii/ creation of tools allowing follow up of their use. Tracing the use of bioresource is the first step in this process and for this purpose we have published the CoBRA (Citation of BioResources in journal Articles) guideline, launched the Open Journal of Bioresources and started developing new metrics. The CoBRA guideline aims to standardise the citation of bioresources in scientific articles in order to trace their use on the web. The Open Journal of Bioresources (OJB) was created in close collaboration with the open access publisher Ubiquity Press allowing both the resources and the OJB papers to be cited, and also providing authors with tools to get metrics on reuse and impact. New better adapted metrics are being worked out in a dedicated BRIF working subgroup. A first list of relevant parameters to take into account in the impact measure of bioresources has been provided. The tools proposed here foster easier access to samples and associated data as well as their optimised use, sharing and recognition for data producers. Input from the scientific editorial community would be highly appreciated at this stage.

Notiziario dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 2013

Archives of Public Health

Health inequalities within and between Member States of the European Union are widely recognized ... more Health inequalities within and between Member States of the European Union are widely recognized as a public health problem as they determine a significant share of potentially avoidable mortality and morbidity. After years of growing awareness and increasing action taken, a large gap still exists across Europe in terms of policy responses and governance. With the aim to contribute to achieve greater equity in health outcomes, in 2018 a new Joint Action, JAHEE, (Joint Action Health Equity Europe) was funded by the third EU Health Programme, with the main goal of strengthening cooperation between participating countries and of implementing concrete actions to reduce health inequalities. The partnership led by Italy counted 24 countries, conducting actions in five policy domains: monitoring, governance, healthy living environments, health systems and migration, following a three-step implementation approach. Firstly, specific Policy Frameworks for Action (PFA) collecting the available...

ISEE Conference Abstracts

We realize that the conference served as a convenient platform for global dialogue between intern... more We realize that the conference served as a convenient platform for global dialogue between international and Russian experts, it has behave as a vector of further exchange and experiences, and has developed common approaches for the sustainable global development assistance to patients with rare diseases. It's a great honour for us to represent initiatives and priorities of ICORD in Russia. It has been important for us to insert Russia as a member of the developing global work that ICORD has been making for many years. We expect that the Russian Federation and the international community will consider and implement in practice the proposals that emerged during the work of the conference. The conference was functional to the scientific community, researchers, and the representatives of governments, business and civil society organizations, which found a suitable place to organize a constructive dialogue between them and to establish a joint solution of actual problems. I congratulate all the participants for such productive deliberations and specially recognize the political and personal support given by Mr. Aleksandr P. Torshin representative of the Federation Council and First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council, Mr. Sergey V.

Shooting and editing by Walter Tranquilli © ISS-Settore Attività Editoriali-2010 N. 5 Seveso took... more Shooting and editing by Walter Tranquilli © ISS-Settore Attività Editoriali-2010 N. 5 Seveso took us by surprise The intervention by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità within an environmental disaster in the 1976

Riprese e montaggio di Walter Tranquilli © ISS-Settore Attività Editoriali-2010 N. 5 Seveso ci ha... more Riprese e montaggio di Walter Tranquilli © ISS-Settore Attività Editoriali-2010 N. 5 Seveso ci ha colti di sorpresa L'intervento dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità in un disastro ambientale del 1976 Il 10 luglio 1976 accadde l'incidente industriale all'ICMESA (Industrie Chimiche Meda Società Azionaria) di Seveso. Il disastro ambientale provocato dalla fuoriuscita e dall'espandersi della nube tossica di TCDD (tetraclorodibenzo-p-diossina) ha interessato la popolazione e il territorio dei comuni di Seveso, Meda, Desio e Cesano Maderno della provincia di Milano. L'Istituto Superiore di Sanità fu coinvolto in diverse attività (dal prelevamento di campioni di terreno agli studi sulla contaminazione ambientale, agli studi epidemiologici) che rientravano, allora come oggi, nella multidisciplinarietà delle sue competenze. In questo fi lmato alcuni dei ricercatori che fecero parte del gruppo di esperti dell'Istituto raccontano il loro coinvolgimento professionale e...

11 RIASSUNTO Il Progetto europeo NECOBELAC (NEtwork of COllaboration Between Europe and Latin Ame... more 11 RIASSUNTO Il Progetto europeo NECOBELAC (NEtwork of COllaboration Between Europe and Latin American Caribbean countries), coordinato dall'Istituto Superiore di Sanita (ISS), ha recentemente prodotto la Dichiarazione di Bogota, in cui sia i partner di progetto che i rappresentanti latino-americani di istituzioni che operano nell'ambito della salute pubblica, si impegnano a stimolare un miglioramento della qualita della scrittura scientifica e a promuovere politiche pubbliche in favore dell'accesso aperto alle pubblicazioni. Parole chiave: salute pubblica; pubblicazioni; cooperazione internazionale; Europa; America Latina