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Nature 391, 12 (1 January 1998) | doi:10.1038/34017

Spotlight needed on Italian policy

Giulio de Leo1, Gianmarco Paris1, Marino Gatto1 & Paolo Menozzi2

  1. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
    e-mail: Email: paris@dsa.unipr.it
  2. Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Universit degli Studi, Viale delle Scienze, 43100 Parma, Italy

The battle about the long-awaited reform of Italian research policy1 is taking place behind closed doors, and the scientific community is in the dark. There is no indication that there will be a transparent system of peer review2 in the near future.