The Academic Publication Service AlmaDL Journals and the New Challenges of Open Access

Abstract

AlmaDL Journals is an Open Access publishing service of the University of Bologna, Italy. After 5 years from the publication of the first paper in Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage about the service, we review the transformations and the growth it has experienced during this time span, with a look at the changes that have occurred in Open Access publishing that have driven and inspired the modifications adopted by AlmaDL Journals.

Keywords

• scientific journals
• Open Access
• DOAJ
• plagiarism
• web design