Project and TargetsRM Open Archive is an Open Access scholarly repository, which covers the whole range of medieval studies: social, economic, political and institutional history, as well as cultural, religious and gender representations and practices.
RM Open Archive was realised in the frame of the PRIN 2010-2011 project Concepts, Practices and Institutions of a Discipline: Italian Medieval Studies in 19th and 20th Centuries, coordinated by Prof. Roberto Delle Donne at "Federico II" University of Naples. SoftwareRM Open Archive is running on Linux and other free, open source software. It is based on the EPrints 3 archive-creating software developed by the University of Southampton. ContactsAny correspondence concerning this specific repository should be sent to delledon@unina.it. |
Open Access
RM Open Archive has been established to promote open access to research results. Open access means that publications and research data are freely accessible to all who have access to the internet.
CopyrightBasically, authors have the copyright to their documents, but often they transfer it to the publisher. Nevertheless, authors may wish to archive the post-prints or PDF versions of their works in online open-access repositories. They should ask publishers for it, because many of them allow it.
If really necessary, authors should give publishers the exclusive rights for printed products and the competing rights (non-exclusive) for electronic publications. In this way they could publish their papers in RM Open Archive.
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