The logic of Open Access (OA) is gradually spreading within the scientific community, mainly thanks to the help of important areas of public libraries. OA basically describes a phenomenon in which many scientific communities publish their results (papers, articles, books, etc.), through Internet, on archives and journals accessible to anyone (and without payment of a price). Despite the initial delay, the OA movement is quickly growing in importance for legal scholarship. Nonetheless, the institutional arrangements and the technological features of OA to legal scholarship are variegated and pose a vast array of problems. This paper analyzes the state of the art of the different types of Open Archives used by the legal scholars and identifies the key features of a possible, future open repository dedicated to the Italian legal literature.