Since 2016, the University of Bologna has provided qualified personnel and the technological infrastructure to publish, preserve and disseminate unpublished contributions online via the AMS Acta service.
The archive hosts contributions of scientific value individually (as monographs) or collected in collective works (as series and conference proceedings).
Scientific journals are instead published via AlmaDL Journals.
The service is aimed at lecturers, researchers, PhD students, research associates and technical-administrative staff of the University of Bologna who are authors or co-authors of the contribution.
AMS Acta allows authors to disseminate their scientific production online according to the principles of Open Access, implementing user licences that encourage discovery, study and sharing of contributions, including Creative Commons licences.
AlmaDL guarantees secure and reliable access to contributions, ensures their long-term preservation, tracking, retrieval and citability online through persistent identifiers.
The AMS Acta archive is identified by ISSN 2038-7954.
AlmaDL offers support in particular for:
- assignment of ISBN for the individual contribution (if referenced)
- ISSN assignment
How to join the service
To deposit and publish a single contribution in AMS Acta, the user must:
- verify that they have active institutional credentials;
- access the repository by selecting 'author login';
- select 'enter a new research contribution' in the 'Contribution Management' section;
- view and accept the Terms and Conditions of Use of the AMS Acta Service [.pdf 189 KB] online;
- continue with the upload wizard.
Joining the Service, with online acceptance of the Terms and Conditions of Use of the Service, is effective for all self-archived research contributions deposited in AMS Acta, subsequent to the first deposit.
For assistance, please write to almadl@unibo.it.
Publishing a series in AMS Acta
The Curator of a Series, before publishing the individual contributions collected in the collective work, must:
- send an e-mail describing the editorial project to the AlmaDL staff;
- complete and digitally sign the request for publication of the series [.docx 22 KB];
- read, expressly accept and digitally sign the Terms and Conditions of Use of the AMS Acta Service [.pdf 189 KB];
- send the documentation to the e-mail address almadl@unibo.it
(exceptionally, the documentation may be signed by hand and sent by e-mail with a copy of an identity document attached)
Membership of the service is effective for all contributions collected in the Series and subsequently published through AMS Acta.
The Editor/Curator of the Series will take care of acquiring directly and independently appropriate releases from the authors/rights holders of the contributions collected in the Series.
AlmaDL provides a model release: request for authorisation and release for publication of individual contributions in collective works [.docx 35 KB] (Italian version).
The preservation of the disclaimers thus acquired is the responsibility of the Curator.