Edizioni Ca’ Foscari (ECF) publishes journals and monographic series in digital format in all areas of academic research. All publications are made available through the Internet with free and open access, in order to bolster and encourage the free sharing of knowledge.
All texts and research are published after an evaluation process carried out by the Scientific Committee, which will ensure quality. They are then subjected to the Editorial Staff and are treated with the purpose of indexing in the major bibliographic online databases.
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari was born in 2011 with the aim of encouraging the dissemination of research results within the University and from here to both the national and international scientific community, relying on the opportunities offered by digital technologies.

President

prof. Eugenio Burgio (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)

Editorial Board

prof. Vincenzo Arsillo (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
prof.ssa Agar Brugiavini (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
dott. Giovanni Colavizza (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH)
prof. Giulio Giorello (Università degli Studi di Milano)

General Editor

dott. Massimiliano Vianello
ecf_direttore@unive.it
T. 041 234 8080

Editorial Staff

dott.ssa Martina Modena
dott.ssa Francesca Prevedello
dott.ssa Mariateresa Sala
ecf_redazione@unive.it
T. 041 234 7072

1 Positioning and editorial line

Edizioni Ca’ Foscari carries out its activity in the field of the scientific publishing adopting the Open Access principles and following the so-called ‘golden road’, which determines the direct and immediate accessibility of the published scientific research.
Within this profile, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari adopts a method that provides:

1. the double-blind peer review;
2. complete editing and verification of compliance with editorial standards shared by the international scientific community; 
3. production and management of metadata useful for the dissemination of published research.

Each journal or volume, and the individual contributions within them, are published in a PDF format that is freely consultable and downloadable. A printed edition is also produced, where required, and can be distributed commercially, where appropriate.
The ultimate goal of Edizioni Ca’ Foscari is to use the publications produced to promote the dissemination of scientific research for the benefit of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, as well as other universities or research institutions that have published and will publish with it.

2 Processes and tools

In the process that leads to the ‘demand’ of scientific publications, until their publication and dissemination, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari participates putting its production model into practice. This consists in an editorial flow that integrates – organically into a single platform, conceived and implemented by ECF itself – the processes of:

1. peer review (validazione scientifica);
2. user management: editors, authors, reviewers;
3. organisation of editorial contents; 
4. attribution of Creative Commons licenses;
5. standardisation of contents to shared standards;
6. typographical layout;
7. management of editorial planning;
8. management of the public website’s contents;
9. production and dissemination of metadata (DOI, CrossRef and Datacite; Orcid).

These processes have various aims, among which: 

1. the optimisation of economic resources and therefore of costs, for the benefit of Ca’ Foscari’s research funds or of others who refer to ECF;
2. to convey and disseminate scientific research.

This double result is reflected in the research entity that, in addition to having produced publications that are valid from the scientific and quality points of view, also benefits from the visibility and transmissibility guaranteed by Open Access practices.

3 Editorial workflow

The editorial flow provides for pre-established steps and roles, which involves ECF in the due moments, the journals’/series’ Editors, the Authors and the Reviewers. The editorial board and the publisher work parallel to one another, until coming into play in the final production and publication.

4 Our authors and reviewers all over the world

The benefits of the Open Access model are several. One of these is the almost total absence of barriers in disseminating the publications and in the ability to involve researchers from all over the world.
The international profile of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice is reflected in the number and composition of those who in the last 3 years have published with it as authors or have collaborated with journals and series as peer reviewers.

Edizioni Ca’ Foscari srl
Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

Registered office
Dorsoduro 3246, 30123 Venice, Italy
041 234 8080 - ecf_amministrazione@unive.it

VAT number 04375110279 - Tax Code 04375110279
REA VE 407274 - ATECO 58.19.00
IBAN IT43I0335901600100000145274

edizionicafoscari@legalmail.it

Copyright

© Edizioni Ca' Foscari srl 2016-2018

Credits

Francesco Andrea Antoniazzi, Venezia
Giuseppe Bonelli, Updoc, Milano
Marco Busato, Venezia
Alessandro Fontana, Venezia
Luca Fornili, Palermo

Design

Matteo Rosso, Sebastiano Girardi Studio, Venezia