The Open Access Policy of the University of Bologna was approved on December 19th 2017 and it came in force on January 1st 2018. The policy applies the provisions included in the University Ethical Code of Behaviour and promotes the open access principles stated in the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities and the Messina Declaration both undersigned by the University of Bologna. Moreover, it follows the EU Recommendations on access to and preservation of scientific information and the Italian law (112/2013) on open access to publicly funded research output.
AMS Acta is the institutional open access repository which enables the researchers of the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna to share, preserve and showcase their scientific works making them easily accessible, citable and reusable. The repository collects and disseminates unpublished research such as preprints, technical reports, working papers, conference proceedings, research data and software. Moreover, it collects series and books published by the University Departments and Research teams.