About
What is dA?
Our goal is to assist and power the work of scientific research,
allowing a faster and more effective accomplishment of tasks like the creation of institutional archives, self-archiving, bibliographical research, remote collaboration, communication and publishing.
The digitAlexandria project has created a set of tools of unprecedented power and simplicity, allowing any person to build personal or institutional OAI digital archives.
By mean of these tools, researchers of any discipline will be able to create their own worldwide on-line community, constantly in touch and closely collaborating among them; institutions will be able to build their repository with just an effort of good will.
Inside this community, the cycle knowledge-more-knowledge will be significantly more efficient than in the past.
Unlike most of the similar existing tools, ours are focused on simplicity: they don't require assistance from specialized personnel in order to deploy nor use.
Freescience: Allows any researcher to share his scientific papers (as well as notes, data, design drawings, etc...) into a P2P OAI-PMH compliant network, by mean of which any work will be instantly available to hundreds of thousands researchers worldwide. It is possible to browse the huge OAI archive (about 1 million documents from the best research institutes) and download the full text for free.
Archivemaker: You can shape an on-line OAI-PMH compliant digital archive on the needs of your institution, in a snap and without help from learned personnel, sharing it within the OAI network instantly. Economically affordable by even the smallest laboratory, and scalable up to the needs of a big University.
Where did the idea come from?
An age-old unanswered need.
The world of scientific publishing depends on the results of scientific research. It is becoming clear however that the classical system of publishing, essentially unchanged for thousands of years, has become inadequate to cope with the distribution of the enormous amount of scientific material produced globally (roughly 5-10 million new scientific reports per year). The new information technologies give a glimpse of fantastic possibilities, such as automatic archiving and no-cost sharing. These possibilities have promoted a substantial international movement known as the Open Archives, which has made a large number of archives open to researchers for free. The largest American and Anglo-Saxon universities have active projects for the free online sharing of scientific information produced in the institutions. In Europe, the Max Plank institute and CNRS, together with the major German and other European research institutes, have signed an agreement to work towards making science and culture freely available to all internet users.
By optimizing the efforts, and particularly by overcoming the limitations of the diffusion of knowledge and of overlapping research, the application of new technologies will be a great step forward in ALL fields of research. According to a 
study conducted by the dA team, researchers are well aware of this fact, and have shown great interest and enthusiasm for such innovations.
The dA team
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Dr. Massimiliano Simoncini |
Dr.ssa Silvana Mangiaracina |
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| Dr. Alessandro Yoshi Polliotti |
Dr. Alessandro Tugnoli |
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