Enrico Martellini writes

> Could you inform me about any similar service out of Italy?

  you may wish to look at the RePEc project at
  http://repec.org

  It has a large collaborative index of publications, but
  also holds personal data for researchers and institutional
  data. It provides a very comprehensive array of services.

  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                      mailto:krichel@openlib.org
                                 http://openlib.org/home/krichel
                             RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel