Archivitaly Access Watch #10

Archivitaly Access Watch #10

8–14 June 2026 The Archivitaly Access Watch is a weekly monitoring note on temporary archive access disruptions in Italy. It records closures, reduced hours, reading-room limitations, consultation exclusions, and other changes that may affect research planning during...
Archival Research Costs in Italy: What Shapes a Quote

Archival Research Costs in Italy: What Shapes a Quote

Archival research costs in Italy are rarely determined by a single variable. A quote is not simply a price attached to a day in an archive, nor a mechanical estimate based on the number of documents a client hopes to find. It is the result of a more complex...
Archivitaly Access Watch #9

Archivitaly Access Watch #9

1–7 June 2026 The Archivitaly Access Watch provides a weekly overview of verified access disruptions affecting archival research in Italy. This issue covers the week from Monday 1 June to Sunday 7 June 2026 and includes only institutions for which an access...
Pre-Research Brief Template for Archive Projects

Pre-Research Brief Template for Archive Projects

A pre-research brief template is not a bureaucratic prelude to archival work, but one of the instruments that determines whether a project begins with clarity or with avoidable uncertainty. In archival research, the first difficulty is rarely the absence of a...
Archivitaly Access Watch #8

Archivitaly Access Watch #8

25–31 May 2026 The Archivitaly Access Watch provides a weekly overview of verified access disruptions affecting archival research in Italy. This issue covers the week from Monday 25 May to Sunday 31 May 2026 and includes only institutions for which an access...
Reproductions in Italy: Scans, Photos, Permissions

Reproductions in Italy: Scans, Photos, Permissions

Reproductions in Italy are often treated as a practical afterthought, something to request once the “real” archival work has been done. In fact, they are part of the research process itself. A scan, a study photograph, or a publication image is never just a copy of a...