AMS Acta AlmaDL Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna

History and Founding

AMS Acta is the institutional open access repository of the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, one of the world's oldest universities (founded 1088). The University of Bologna has operated the AMS Acta service since 2003, providing infrastructure for the preservation and open dissemination of grey literature — preprints, technical reports, conference presentations, and working papers — produced by its academic community. Since 2016, the repository has expanded to include research data and software as well. AMS Acta is a component of AlmaDL, the University of Bologna's digital library system, which encompasses multiple institutional repositories, open-access journals, and discovery tools.

The University's Open Access Policy was approved on 19 December 2017 and came into force on 1 January 2018, aligning with the Berlin Declaration on Open Access and the Messina Declaration. AMS Acta is identified by ISSN 2038-7954.

Collections and Holdings

AMS Acta collects and disseminates unpublished research contributions including preprints, working papers, technical reports, conference proceedings, research data, and software. It also hosts series and monographs published by University departments and research teams. Subjects covered span engineering, natural sciences, life sciences, humanities, and social sciences. Research data and software deposited in AMS Acta are managed in compliance with FAIR principles, described through Dublin Core and Datacite metadata standards, and assigned persistent DOIs through the DOI-CRUI project. The repository supports open, embargoed, and closed access levels and is indexed in OpenAIRE, BASE, WorldCat, Google, and Google Scholar.

Journalism and Media Materials

As a general institutional repository, AMS Acta holds scholarly outputs from across all academic disciplines at the University of Bologna, including communication studies, media history, and journalism research. Researchers in these fields deposit preprints and working papers in the repository.

Access and Usage

AMS Acta is freely accessible online at amsacta.unibo.it. Researchers affiliated with the University of Bologna may self-archive their work directly. External researchers may browse and download open-access materials without registration. Contact: AlmaDL, Via dei Bersaglieri 4, Bologna; email: almadl@unibo.it.