La “discoverability” delle risorse open access

Open access resources are growing rapidly, assigning academic libraries a crucial role in ensuring their visibility, discoverability, and proper organization within bibliographic systems. To connect users with the “ideal open access copy,” libraries use tools like discovery systems and repositories, along with policy frameworks, such as collection development statements and open access policies. Libraries also engage with authors, publishers, and platform providers to enhance metadata quality and repository interoperability. The challenge of discoverability has become a key focus for academic libraries. As advocates and early adopters of the Open Access movement, libraries now find themselves responsible for devising and implementing effective strategies to maximize both the visibility and the accessibility of open access resources. Inspired by the OCLC report titled Improving Open Access Discovery for Academic Library Users, which examines the disconnect between the availability of open access literature and its discoverability (or ease of access for users), the authors of this paper developed two innovative questionnaires. One was targeted at librarians, while the other, also based on a similar experience conducted at Sapienza Università di Roma in its scientific community in 2019, was designed for academic staff and researchers. This study takes the form of a detailed case study, focusing on a six-question survey administered through Mentimeter to librarians who attended a session at the Stelline 2025 conference in Milan, on March 12th 2025. The results of this live survey were collected in real-time during the conference session and are analyzed and reported here.