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LetterFree access to the scientific information in the Sars case
Cristiana Pulcinelli

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ArticleImages of madness. The end of mental hospitals illustrated through photographs
Federica Manzoli

The use of photography in the field of psychiatry is an eloquent example of the complex evolution of the relationship between science, communication and ...

ArticleThe public's rapport with hands-on activities. An evaluation of "Explore-At-Bristol"
Francesca Conti

In the summer of 2003, a survey was carried out at the At-Bristol Science Centre (UK) to determine the effectiveness of the hands-on activities of ...

ArticleLanguage change in scientific discourse
Monica Randaccio

Halliday has demonstrated that changes in discourse function covary with changes in the grammatical resources a language makes available to construe ...

FocusWhen the data isn't there. Disclosure: the scientific community (and society) at a crossroads
Yurij Castelfranchi

The problem of accessing data is as old as science itself. Complete popularisation of scientific data (of a theoretical model), and even more so of the ...

EditorialLibertà vo cercando
Pietro Greco

Free information works. In the sense that Open Access Journals, scientific journals which can be accessed at no cost, thereby guaranteeing free access to ...

LetterThe Audioteca RAI's archives between memory and information technology
Annalina Ferrante

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CommentThe metaphors, Golden Gates that move the categories of our world
Stefania Coluccia

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CommentMetaphor and approximation of the world
Daniele Gouthier

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CommentElements for a geography of the metaphor in science
Elena Joli

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CommentAgainst the metaphor
Marco Fabbrichesi

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CommentMetaphors and science communication
Alessandro Pascolini

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ArticleA short psychoanalisis of science
Roland Benedikter

At the beginning of the new millennium, science is not only a neutral system or an objective methodology of knowledge, but also the implicit basis of the ...

ArticlePopularised science communication modes in Italian popular science magazines (1788-2002)
Enrica Battifoglia

Analysis of popular science magazines can offer a significant contribution to the study of the history of science popularisation and the relation between ...

FocusThe public way to peer-review
Nico Pitrelli

There is a substantial divergence between the standards of integrity associated with "good science" and the problems imposed by the conflict of ...

FocusAnything to declare? Border stories on the conflict of interest
Giancarlo Sturloni

On September 15, 2001, a joint editorial simultaneously published in thirteen medical journals, pointed an accusing finger at the increasing pressures ...

FocusConflicting interests: research, profits, information, health
Giancarlo Sturloni, Nico Pitrelli

On 15 September 2001, thirteen major international journals, coordinated by the International Committee of Medical Journals Editors (ICMJE), published a ...

EditorialScience and the international public opinion
Pietro Greco

On 16 January 2004, the United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan launched a Global Media Aids Initiative, with the aim of ...

CommentMathematical correspondences
Angelo Guerraggio

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CommentMathland - the space between mathematics and architecture
Michele Emmer

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CommentTelling mathematics in a comic strip
Marco Abate

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CommentÉvariste Galois, a tragic romantic hero
Luca Viganò

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ArticleScience in court - experts and advisers as post-academic science communicators
Licia Gambarelli

Scientific communication in court is particularly important for the understanding of the process of post-academic science communication. The purpose of this ...

ArticleMaximizing university research impact through self-archiving
Stevan Harnad

To appreciate what a huge difference there is between the author of a peerreviewed journal article and just about any other kind of author we need only ...

FocusHinari and Agora: free access to scientific information for poor countries
Elisabetta Tola

In the midst of a debate on access to information, the World Health Organization and the FAO have decided to develop a strategy to guarantee the right of ...

FocusThe Evolution of Scientific Publishing and the JHEP Model
Loriano Bonora

Some recent events have brought to the attention of the general public the issue of free access to scientific information. On many occasions basic ...

FocusIn the free web of science
Mauro Scanu

A ghost is wandering around the web: it is called open access, a proposal to modify the circulation system of scientific information which has landed on the ...

FocusFor free access to scientific information
Mauro Scanu

Science was born when knowledge was no longer kept secret and became public. Its development is inextricably tied to the possibility that researchers ...

EditorialThe Scanzano lesson
Pietro Greco

The incident of Scanzano Jonico, in Italy's Basilicata region, has been something more than a lesson for those who handle the relationships between science ...

CommentFor a paleontology of the scientific imaginary
Yurij Castelfranchi

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