Open Science and Ethics

To ensure compliance with mandatory and recommended Open Science practices we commit to:

  1. Write and upload a living Data Management Plan;
  2. Upload the datasets to the trusted repository Nakala, ensuring their compliance with the FAIR principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse).
  3. Upload all research outputs to the HAL Open Science archive and the OSF platform, making them freely accessible to other researchers.
  4. Disseminate the outputs preferably via open access journals and apply the Creative Commons license.

Conference papers, workshops and scientifica papers

26/11/2024 Elena Pezzini, Carla Aleo, Fabrizio Ducati, Viva Sacco (2024), “Le case romane di Piazza della Vittoria a Palermo tra Tardoantico e alto Medioevo: nuovi dati dall’archivio e dai magazzini del Museo Salinas”, in L’Isola dei Tesori: Ricerca Archeologica e nuove acquisizioni. Atti del Convegno internazionale (Agrigento, Museo Archeologico Regionale “Pietro Griffo”, 14–17 December 2023, edited by Maria Concetta Parello), Agrigento, Italy, pp. 49–56. https://hal.science/hal-05058572v1
07/05/2024 Fabrizio Ducati, "FIRS project: Frontiers Inside the Roman Sicily", Meet & Greet, Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, The British Columbia University, Vancouver, BC, Canada. https://hal.science/hal-04584171v1
08/07/2024 Fabrizio Ducati, “FIRS Project: Frontiers Inside Roman Sicily”, talk for the online workshop La ricerca archeologica nel contesto delle Marie SkĹ‚odowska-Curie Actions: Progetti, esperienze, networks. 
03/01/2025 Fabrizio Ducati and Roger J.A. Wilson, “Campanaio: The Rise and Fall of a Late Antique Rural Settlement in Central Southern Sicily; First Results of the 2024 Study Season”, talk for the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Philadelphia, PA (2–5 January 2025), Session 1K: Late Antique Field Report. https://hal.science/hal-04911703v1
11/06/2025 Fabrizio Ducati and Roger J.A. Wilson, "Rural Life in Romana Sicily: the Campanaio Project", joint lecture, The Roman Discussion Forum, Trinity Term 2025, Institute of Archaeology, Oxford University, Oxford – UK.

See also

17/05/2024 Fabrizio Ducati and Rosa Maria Cucco (2024) North African pottery in Palermo: preliminary findings from the Montevergini excavations. Cartagine. Studi e Ricerche 9, https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/caster/article/view/5998
18/12/2024 Fabrizio Ducati (2024), Simon Keay Award in Mediterranean Archaeology: Pottery in rural Roman Sicily: imported and locally produced wares at Campanaio (AG). Papers of the British School at Rome 92:362-363. doi:10.1017/S0068246224000308 open access link  https://hal.science/hal-04911677v1

In accordance with The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity and the Singapore Statement on Research Integrity, we commit to respecting research ethics and integrity by practising honest and responsible research, excluding data Fabrication, Falsification, and Plagiarism (FFP) as well as all other Questionable Research Practices (QRP). The principles that will guide us during the research are:

  1. Reliability in ensuring the quality of research, reflected in the design, the methodology, the analysis, and the use of resources.
  2. Honesty in developing, undertaking, reviewing, reporting, and communicating research in a transparent, fair, full, and unbiased way.
  3. Respect for colleagues, research participants, society, ecosystems, cultural heritage, and the environment.
  4. Accountability for the research from idea to publication, for its management and organization, for training, supervision, and mentoring, and for its wider impacts.

In accordance with The European Green Deal, we will limit carbon emissions generated by unnecessary travel, especially by plane. We will also limit paper use, prioritizing PDFs and other digital formats.

If issues related to the access and exploitation of animal or plant genetic resources will arise during the project, they will be subjected to the Nagoya Protocol.

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