Sources on the Web
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Normative acts, central (national and ministerial) or peripheral (regulations of single schools) can be found as seen, in libraries and documentation centres, as well as in central of peripheral archives, together with other documentation. They can be accessed in diverse modalities on the Web. After analysing the library networks on the net (Opac of SBN, Meta-Opac Azalai, ACNP), but other on line means exist with regard to archives.
Archives and Inventories
In addition to the above mentioned Guida ai fondi dell'Archivio Centrale dello Stato one can re-fer to the informatic system of the state archives Sistema Informativo Archivi di Stato (SIAS). The SIAS is a database in progress, which allows searching the documentary complexes in the State archives18. Among the inventories in the SIAS, one can search that ones of the Ministry of Education, but also the inventories of school-archives which have been given to the state ar-chives (abbrev. AS). In connection to this, see the inventory of the teachers school Scuola normale superiore maschile e promiscua Tommaso Grossi (1860-1938) in Treviglio, given to the AS of Bergamo, or again the list of the archive of the Royal school of agriculture, the Regia Scuola pratica di Agricoltura di Sassari (1894-1937), given to the AS in Sassari.
We should here mention also the informatic system of the archival superintendences Sistema Informativo Unificato per le Soprintendenze Archivistiche (SIUSA), which allows to search the non-state documentary archives, public and private ones, which is preserved in other places than the AS (for a search, see among the “Soggetti produttori”, under the entry “profili istituzionali”, some archives of several schools, but also of didactical directions, and so on).
Data bases and digitization projects
The Gazzetta ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana and the Bollettino Ufficiale del Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione can be freely accessed on line, in their latest issues; but they are also accessi-ble with fee.
In Italy an important data base with fee exists, the GURITEL published by the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, which collects the Gazzetta Ufficiale - Telematica (containing, in text-format, all the text issued from 01.01.1948 to 31.12.1987). But also commercial database are available, such as the famous data bases by the publisher De Agostini-Giuridica (Leggi d’Italia: testo vigente, with laws from 1751 up to now, and Prassi delle leggi d'Italia: circolari e istruzioni, containing the ministerial documentation from 1996 on. Usually the documentation centres and library systems of universities offer a free access for students, researchers and professors.
We must here recall that the Italian juridical production is under digitization by the above men-tioned CNIPA. The project has been launched some years ago and a concrete result is repre-sented now by the website, and content aggregator, www.normeinrete.it, where many products are already available on line, concerning rules produced by the Italian State and Regions, but also by the European Community, and so on. In fact NIR-Normeinrete is defined a «Portal of access to rules which have been published by the participating Public Administrations», since it has been realized by collecting and standardizing texts from the already existing legislative sources.
An important project of digitization, presented in 2006 by the same CNIPA, is the Projetc Au.G.U.Sto (Automazione Gazzetta Ufficiale Storica = Automation of the historical gazette), in the course of which they are “dematerialising” the issues of the Gazzetta Ufficiale del Regno d'Italia, published between 1871 and 1946, which will flow together in a full-text electronic edition directly accessible via web.
18 The SIAS is coordinated by the Istituto Centrale per gli Archivi. About the project see: P. Feliciati, D. Grana, Dal labirinto alla piazza. Il progetto Sistema Informativo degli Archivi di Stato, «Scrinia», vol. II, n. 2-3 (July/Nov. 2005), pp. 9-18.
