Library of Alexandria releases FreeScience software The Biblioteca d'Alessandria (BdA) has released FreeScience v. 1.1.0, free software for building OAI-compliant repositories and accessing OAI-compliant content elsewhere online. FreeScience also creates a P2P network of participating scientists and supports direct communication among them through instant messaging and text conferencing. Although FreeScience is free software, it is not apparently open source. Library of Alexandria releases FreeScience software [A]   The http://www.bdaweb.net/ Biblioteca d'Alessandria (BdA) has released http://www.bdaweb.net/freescience_learnmore_it.php FreeScience v. 1.1.0, free software for building OAI-compliant repositories and accessing OAI-compliant content elsewhere online. FreeScience also creates a P2P network of participating scientists and supports direct communication among them through instant messaging and text conferencing. Although FreeScience is free software, it is not apparently open source.