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To found and disseminate a free online scientific journal, inspired to Open Access principles, makes research outputs freely available to the global academic community, improving and maximizing the impact of research products and increasing the University's prestige, with the aim of making it increasingly competitive with other research institutions.

An online journal is indexed by search engines and therefore has a wide recognition on the Web: even for this reason, today the creation of online academic journals at low costs is regarded as one of the most effective strategies for a wider dissemination of academic research, with the advantages of overall cost reduction and maximization of the impact.

By signing in 2004 the Dichiarazione di Messina (which endorses the Berlin Declaration, 2003) and subsequently the 2014-2018 Roadmap in Messina, in 2014, the University of Palermo has engaged in supporting new opportunities for the dissemination of scientific knowledge through the Internet and for years concrete steps forward were taken thanks to the repository for its scientific production IRIS.

The publication in 2009 by the Gruppo Open Access della Commissione Biblioteche della CRUI of the document Riviste ad accesso aperto: linee guida, inspired to similar international initiatives (such as the Open Access Journal Business Guides edited by the  Budapest Open Access Initiative) encourages the Italian universities to follow the mainstream of creating low cost, freely accessible online journals as an alternative publishing model than the electronic journals published by commercial companies.

Journals created may compete for the recognition of scientific or "fascia A" journals by ANVUR, if they comply with the Regolamento for the classification of journals in CUN areas 8a, 10, 11a, 12, 13 and 14, approved by the ANVUR Board of Directors.