AIR - Archivio Istituzionale della RicercaA commitment to the value and quality of research carries with it a responsibility to extend the circulation of such work as far as possible and ideally to all who are interested in it and all who might profit by it.
John Willinsky, The Access Principle AIR (Archivio Istituzionale della ricerca) is the institutional repository of the University of Milan and gathers the whole scientific production of the institution since 2004: journal articles, monographs, book chapters, proceedings, Phd Theses and patents. Upload of metadata is mandatory since 2009, and full-text is recommended where it is possible. Deposit of Doctoral theses (metadata and full-text) is mandatory in AIR since november 2010. AIR is harvested by BASE since June 2010, by Scientific Commons, by Google Scholar and by DART Europe. Access to metadata and full-text is worldwide free, but only internal staff (professors, researchers, research grant holders, doctoral and post-graduate students) can archive their own publications in AIR. | 
