The reading room, available services, electronic resources, and the institutional open access repository of ASI scientific literature "S.E.ARCH."

The Scientific Documentation and Library Service:

  • provides the reading room and related services;
  • ensures access to the collections of printed and electronic monographs, scientific journals curating the distribution of articles, technical publications, and "gray literature" both through its subscriptions and through the cooperative library system NILDE;
  • provides selective dissemination of specialized information to professionals in the various fields in which the Italian Space Agency operates;
  • takes care of the organization and management of the ASI institutional repository of all scientific literature produced by the Italian Space Agency and promotes its dissemination and development within the regulations for open access.

‣ Latest News

TUESDAY 06 OCTOBER 2026

BEPICOLOMBO, FIRST LIGHT FOR SIMBIO-SYS ‣

La sonda Bepi Colombo

On 15 September, SIMBIO-SYS, the instrument designed to image and study f Mercury’s surface and developed with a major Italian contribution through the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), successfully completed its first acquisitions in its final configuration MORE...

THURSDAY 16 JULY 2026

The Italian Space Agency announces the passing of President Teodoro Valente ‣

Italian Space Agency expresses profound sorrow at the untimely passing of the Agency’s President, Professor Teodoro Valente.
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THURSDAY 21 MAY 2026

The Italian Space Agency hosts an Indian delegation at Space Meetings Veneto ‣

Promotion and dialogue activities in the space sector fall within the scope of the Italy-India Joint Strategic Action Plan 2025-2029 MORE...

TUESDAY 19 MAY 2026

The Italian scientific community mourns Martin Weisskopf ‣

ASI - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana

Martin C. Weisskopf, born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1942 died on Saturday May 2, 2026, in Huntsville, Alabama. MORE...