Il regolamento di attuazione della legge 15 aprile 2004, n. 106 sul deposito legale dei documenti di interesse culturale destinati all’uso pubblico, per l’università e la ricerca

Abstract

The paper described the long process in order to approve the new law on legal deposit in Italy. Nature and role of legal deposit are also investigated from copyright point of view. Legal deposit is the act of depositing published material in designated libraries or archives. In Italy there are two national libraries designated (Rome and Florence). Moreover the legal deposit law seems to be in conflict with the copyright and with some other Italian laws on PhD. The paper is focused on university output research documents, as PhD thesis, Master thesis or preprints self-archived inside institutional resositories. All these documents will be object to deposit but about electronic versions will be necessary to wait again for a further statement concering deposit of electronic document