ECF publishes monographs, edited books, conference proceedings and critical editions of original works. Explore the series in your sector, to choose the solution that best suits your proposal. Find an audience series that you want to reach, and whose goals are compatible with your method.
Find out more about choosing the right seriesOnce you have chosen the series to which to send your publication proposal, you can start writing. What do you need to focus on before you start writing and how can you increase your chances of publication?
Read the tips for writing the articleFor your text to be accepted, some editorial rules must be respected. Each document must in fact include an abstract in English, no less than five keywords in English and a specific bibliography.
Find out more and download the PDF with the editorial rulesHere you will find the guidelines and the checklist for the submission of your volume. Follow them to find out the process for publication.
Read the instructions for authorsBefore your publication is available online, it goes through our production process. Edizioni Ca’ Foscari commits to publishing your project quickly and according to the strictest criteria, as well as guiding you through the various stages of the process.
Find out more about the editorial workflowEach Edizioni Ca’ Foscari publication is evaluated according to the most rigorous criteria of scientific quality. The published articles (excluding the exceptions indicated) have in fact obtained the favorable opinion of at least two subject-expert reviewers, through an anonymous review process (double-blind peer review) conducted under the responsibility of the scientific direction of the Journal/Series.
Read the complete textFor the purpose of disseminating your publication, we produce and disseminate quality metadata through Crossref.
Find out more about CrossrefIn promoting your work, unity is strength. ECF is committed to supporting the visibility of your research by providing you with useful advice to maximise its impact.
Find out how to make your publication more visibleExplore the journals of your sector to choose the solution that best suits your research. Find a journal aimed at the audience you want to reach, and whose goals are compatible with your method.
Find out more about choosing the right journalOnce you have chosen the journal to send your article to, you can start writing. What do you need to focus on before you start writing and how can you increase your chances of publication?
Read the tips for writing the articleFor your text to be accepted, some editorial rules must be respected. Each document must in fact include an abstract in English, no less than five keywords in English and a specific bibliography.
Find out more and download the PDF with the editorial rulesHere you will find the guidelines and the checklist for the submission of the articles. Follow them to find out the process for publication.
Read the instructions for authorsBefore it is published online, your article goes through our production process. Edizioni Ca’ Foscari commits to publishing your project quickly and according to the strictest criteria, as well as guiding you through the various stages of the process.
Find out more about the editorial workflowBefore it is published online, your article goes through our production process. ECF undertakes to publish it quickly and according to the most rigorous criteria, as well as to guide you through the various stages of the process.
Read the complete textFor the purpose of disseminating your publication, we produce and disseminate quality metadata through Crossref.
Find out more about CrossrefIn promoting your work, unity is strength. ECF is committed to supporting the visibility of your research by providing you with useful advice to maximise its impact.
Find out how to make your publication more visibleECF is an Open Access publisher, which means that all content is freely and immediately available without charge to the users and their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, link, print, search, or distribute the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission to the Publisher or the Author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
Our publishing house is affiliated with Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, which makes a deposit in these three open access archives:
Publication costs
ECF is an Open Access Diamond publisher, which means
Our cost policy can be summarised with this scheme
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READERS | None | None |
AUTHORS of journal articles or volume chapters | None | None |
AUTHORS of monographs | / | Costs to be borne by the INSTITUTIONS to which they are affiliated |
EDITORS of edited books | / | Costs to be borne by the INSTITUTIONS to which they are affiliated |
EDITORS-IN-CHIEF of journals | Whole journal to be borne by the INSTITUTIONS to which they are affiliated | / |
In special cases, depending on the needs of individual scholars, we resort to the Open Access Gold formula, in which the contents remain freely and immediately accessible to all upon publication, but the costs can be borne directly by the author.
1. Ensuring quality publications requires dedicated and competent staff. To cover these costs, the Publisher (ECF) applies a fee for each article or work intended for publication. The calculation is based on the overall extension of the text measured in folders equal to 2,000 characters including spaces. The cost can be quantified in a completely approximate way starting from a minimum of 4 euros plus VAT.
2. If the Journal or Series is affiliated to Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, the publication costs are borne by the individual Departments on the basis of specific agreements between them and ECF.
3. In any case, the costs are charged exclusively to the affiliation body, while no cost will be borne by the individual authors.
4. Particular characteristics or complex contents of the articles proposed for publication (non-Western languages, non-standard graphics etc.) may result in the application of a surcharge to the Affiliate Body, which is determined on a case-by-case basis.
For more information, please contact the editorial staff of ECF at the address ecf@unive.it.
The names and e-mail addresses found in the Journal’s/Series’ site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of the Journal/Series and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
To find out more, please contact Edizioni Ca’ Foscari’s editorial staff at ecf@unive.it
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Fondazione is therefore the data controller of the personal data collected on the website www.edizionicafoscari.it (hereinafter the “Website”) and wishes to provide you with information relating to the processing of your personal data.
The following categories of personal data concerning you may be collected by Fondazione (the term “personal data” means all the categories listed below, jointly considered):
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Fondazione collects and processes your personal data in the following circumstances:
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Fondazione will process your contact details, other personal data as well as – in the event that the request is made through the personal area – the personal area data, to allow you to receive our feedback regarding your requests for information or proposals for publication.
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Prerequisite for the processing: execution of a contract or pre-contractual measures. The provision of data is mandatory to respond to your requests; otherwise, that we will not be able to manage your requests.
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If you belong to the scientific community and your Contact Data, Personal Area Data and Other Personal Data have been communicated to us by an author, these will be processed to send you communications also relating to other publications, in addition to those relating to the author who reported your data to us, in order to promote the knowledge of literary works within the relevant scientific community.
Fondazione processes your Contact Data, Personal Area Data and Other Personal Data also in order to give visibility with free access (Open Access) to the work of which you or third parties are authors within the scientific community. To this end, your personal data will be shared with Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, as well as with other authors, editors, reviewers who collaborate with Fondazione.
Prerequisite for the processing: legitimate interest.
This processing responds to Fondazione’s legitimate interest to promote the knowledge of literary works within the relevant scientific community, free of charge, in digital format and with free access (Open Access).
The provision of your contact data is optional and failure to provide it does not have consequences on contractual relationships.
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Fondazione may process your Contact data, Personal area data, Delivery data and Purchase data to receive and manage purchase orders, supply products (e.g. publications) or services on the Website, manage activities relating to the cart as well as those resulting from and connected to the purchase order.
For processing activities related to payment, invoicing and product delivery, Fondazione makes use of the supplier Evologi S.r.l. who operates as an independent data controller. For more information, please read the supplier’s privacy policy.
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The provision of data is mandatory since, otherwise, you will not be able to manage your purchase orders and related activities.
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Fondazione may process your personal data to defend its rights or act or even make claims against you or third parties.
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In this case, a new and specific data provision is not required, since Fondazione will pursue this purpose, where necessary, by processing the data collected for the purposes mentioned above, deemed compatible with this (also due to the context in which the data have been collected, the nature of the data and the adequate guarantees for their processing, as well as the link between the aforementioned purposes and this additional purpose).
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Fondazione may process your personal data to fulfil its obligations.
Prerequisite for the processing: fulfilment of a legal obligation.
The provision of personal data for this purpose is mandatory since, otherwise, Fondazione will be unable to fulfil specific legal obligations.
Fondazione employs adequate security measures in order to improve the protection, security, integrity and accessibility of your personal data.
All your personal data are stored in our protected servers (or paper copies suitably archived) or in those of our suppliers or commercial partners and are accessible and usable according to our standards and our security policies (or equivalent standards for our suppliers or commercial partners).
We store your personal data only for the time necessary to achieve the purposes for which they were collected or for any other legitimate related purpose. Therefore, if the personal data are processed for two different purposes, we will keep such data until the purpose with the longer term ceases; however, we will no longer process the personal data for that purpose whose storage period has expired.
We limit access to your personal data only to those who need to use them for relevant purposes.
Your personal data that are no longer necessary, or for which there is no longer a legal prerequisite for its storage, are irreversibly anonymised (and in this way can be stored) or destroyed in a secure manner.
Below are the storage times in relation to the various types of purposes:
In any case, for technical reasons, the termination of the processing and the consequent definitive cancellation or irreversible anonymisation of the related personal data will be final within thirty days from the terms indicated above. With particular reference to the legal protection of our rights or in the event of requests from the authorities, the data processed will be kept for the time necessary to process the request or to pursue the protection of one’s right.
Your personal data may be accessed by duly authorised employees, as well as external suppliers – appointed, if necessary, as data processors – who provide support for the IT platform and/or for the provision of products and services, including Ca’ Foscari University.
For payment, invoicing, logistics and delivery services, Fondazione makes use of the supplier Evologi S.r.l. who acts as an independent data controller. For more information, please read the supplier’s privacy policy.
You can contact us at the email address ecf_support@unive.it if you wish to view the list of data processors and other subjects to whom we communicate the data.
Fondazione informs you that your personal data will be processed, for the purposes indicated in this statement, exclusively within countries that belong to the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA).
The contact details of Fondazione, controller of the processing of your data, which you can also use for the exercise of your rights as described in the following paragraph, and of the person responsible for the protection of personal data (DPO) are privacy.fcf@unive.it and dpo.fcf@unive.it.
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The exercise of these rights is free and is not subject to formal constraints. In the event that you exercise any of the aforementioned rights, it will be our responsibility to verify that you are entitled to exercise it and we will reply, as a rule, within one month.
If you believe that the processing of your personal data is in violation of the provisions of the GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Italian Data Protection Authority, using the references available on the website www.garanteprivacy.it, or to refer to the appropriate judicial offices.
Last update: 8 June 2022Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal/Series right of first publication of the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC). This licence allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this Journal/Series, furnishing a link to the license and explicitly underlining any change. Licence’s standard level for the Journal/Series is CC-BY 4.0. Authors are entitled to choose a more restrictive Creative Commons licence’s level for their work.
Authors are free to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the Journal’s/Series’ published version of the work, with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this Journal/Series.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as to a wider dissemination of the to-be published work.
We are member of Sherpa Romeo (https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publisher/62419), an online resource that aggregates and presents publisher and journal Open Access policies (https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/) and provides summaries of publisher copyright and open access archiving policies on a journal-by-journal basis.
It is possible to order a printed edition of a volume in a minimum number of 50 copies, of which 5 will be retained by the publisher for legal deposit and archive.
Paper editions produced on demand are non-commercial.
A commercial edition can be produced through an editorial agreement with ECF’s partner.
To find out more, please contact Edizioni Ca’ Foscari’s editorial staff at ecf@unive.it
To submit a proposal for the publication of a book (monograph or miscellany) and obtain an estimate of the costs of digital and print edition, fill in the form provided.
mode_edit FORMIt is better to have an idea of the Journal in which you want to publish your research before writing the article. Choosing the Journal before you start writing means that you can adapt your work on the basis of the research already published by that Journal. This can help the editors see your article as contributing to the ‘conversation’ already going on in their Journal, to refute, confirm, or re-examine it. Moreover, you will find that many Journals only accept specific article formats and may have word limits and other restrictions. You can browse our Journals by subject area here: Catalogue
Try to understand what the editors of the target Journal might be interested in. Knowing the Journal’s expectations, you can write your article aiming to meet those criteria. Study the Journal by reading a selection of articles already published to see how they are structured and try to stick to similar parameters. It is important to:
NB. In order to comply with the ‘Reference Linking’ service required by Crossref (a non-profit organisation that runs a registry of metadata and DOIs of which we are a part), Authors shall look for every bibliographic voice listed in their bibliography at https://search.crossref.org and copy the corresponding DOI (https://doi.org/10.xxxx/xxxxx) in their bibliography.
These conditions do not apply to single-authored monographs, which shall have single English language abstract and a single bibliography for the whole volume. Should ECF consider an abstract to be unacceptable due to its poor English, Authors must commit themselves to submitting their abstract to a qualified native speaker for a revision at their own expenses. https://edizionicafoscari.it/media/pdf/pubblicare-con-noi/ecf_norme_en.pdf
For more information, please contact the editorial staff of ECF at the address ecf@unive.it
Editorial guidelines
Non-textual contents
In case of graphic elements such as:
The publication of images can only take place subject to the release signed by the Author. The form can be downloaded under the heading ‘Copyright and licences’ and must be sent to ECF signed before the beginning of the editing of the text.
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The Editors of each Journal/Series (Editor-in-chief and Editorial Board) take care of the creation of the profiles of their Authors and Reviewers within the editorial platform, undertaking to enter - and keep updated - all their personal information.
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The editorial staff of ECF verifies that the documents comply with the aforementioned editorial rules and has the right to reject and request an adaptation of articles not suitable for the standards of the Journal/Series.
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It is essential to subject every scientific text to double-blind peer review. Certain types of texts are excluded from this procedure, such as: introductions, prefaces, editorials, reviews and the like. Based on the choices made by the individual advisory boards, texts or entire volumes deriving from conferences or other contexts that have already passed an evaluation process can be excluded from the double-blind peer review. In the event of failure to perform a double blind peer review, due notice will be given within the publication.
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To ensure the proper conduct of the mutually anonymous scientific evaluation processes of the articles (double-blind peer review), every care must be taken so that the identity of the Authors and Reviewers remains mutually unknown. Therefore it is essential that, before uploading any document, Authors and Reviewers (if the latter attach their own documents to the evalutation form) - and any other operating subject - remove:
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The assignment of the articles to the Reviewers is carried out exclusively through the ECF editorial platform by the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal/Series, who is responsible for meeting the review deadlines.
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If the outcome of the reviews contains one or more requests for changes to the text, the Author must upload a second draft of the document within 10 days.
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At the end of the reviews of all articles, the editorial staff starts the pagination and editing processes. If in the course of these activities, gaps, inaccuracies or the lack of elements or information necessary for the completion of the article emerge, the editorial staff may stop the work and return the document to the Author for its completion, with consequent postponement of the first proofs.
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ECF submits to the Authors only one proof in PDF format. The Authors will return the corrected proof within 8 days of its receipt. Corrections can only be reported within the PDF file using the appropriate Adobe Acrobat or equivalent marking tools. You can use the tutorial downloadable from here.
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A minimum of 8 weeks passes between the completion of all reviews and publication.
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Compliance with regular publication according to the periodicity of the Journal is the responsibility of the Editor-in-chief.
The evaluation is carried out in accordance with and adherence to the scientific criteria indicated below, and to the editorial criteria of bibliographic completeness and formal consistency of Edizioni Ca’ Foscari.
Revision policies for the different sections:
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ECF is the University Press of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. It has an Editorial Board that is made up of a representative from each of the three main subject areas: humanities, linguistics, economics.
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The Editorial Board receives, evaluates and approves each proposal for a new Journal/Series on the basis of the following criteria::
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The editorial management of ECF works to ensure compliance with these basic criteria. In particular, the Editorial Board, presieded by a coordinator, has powers of control and veto over the work of the advisory boards of each Journal/Series, where evident omissions on their part are found.4
ECF provides all users with access to a peer review platform. The recommended scientific evaluation standard is that of anonymous double evaluation by independent professors or researchers external to the advisory boards of the Journal/Series (double-blind peer review).
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ECF offers constant and timely support in the use of the platform.
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The Scientific Direction of the Journal/Series is autonomous and independent in the conduct of the call-for-papers, in the choice of peer reviewers, in the conduct of the evaluations, in compliance with ECF policy and general warnings.
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The Advisory Board identifies the reviewers. They must present an adequate curriculum and an appreciable number of publications, preferably subjected to quality control procedures. It is recommended that they do not belong to the university to which the Journal/Series is affiliated.
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Within the peer review platform, the Journal/Series has a specific profile, whose accountable and main manager is the Editor-in-chief.
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Each article is uploaded anonymously to the platform by the Author and is assigned by the Editor-in-chief to a pair of Reviewers. The Author and the Reviewers cannot come into contact with each other, not even indirectly, during the entire evaluation process.
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The Reviewer has to determine if the document is:
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If the document is ‘accepted’, the Reviewer has to specify if it is:
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The Reviewer justifies his/her decision by filling in an evaluation form in which he/she expresses a qualitative judgment of the article regarding the following items: ‘Significance’, ‘Relevance’, ‘Originality, new insights’, ‘Research methods’, ‘Adequacy of citations and accuracy of references’, ‘Consistency and quality of argumentation and presentation’, ‘Writing style, grammar’. The Reviwer has to select one of the following 5 levels:
However, For each of these judgments it is possible to add a discursive comment.
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The article is considered as ‘rejected’ by the evaluation system if even only one of the two Reviewers rejects it. In this case, the Editor-in-chief may submit the document to a third judgment.
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If the Reviewers have requested changes to the article, the Author must provide a second version, whose acceptance will be subject to the favorable opinion of the Editor-in-chief.
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At the end of the peer review process, ECF further verifies that the document complies with the prescribed editorial standards and, if necessary, requests the Editor-in-chief or the Editorial Board to adapt or to have the document conformed to the established standards. The process is then concluded and the editorial staff starts the process of publishing the evaluated and accepted documents.
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The entire review process is tracked, stored and archived in the platform database, which resides on a server managed by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Authors and Reviewers maintain access to the archive linked to their respective profiles, where a track of all the activities carried out is kept.
Crossref makes research outputs easy to find, cite, link, and assess.
Crossref exists to make scholarly communications better.
We are member of a non-profit organisation that runs a registry of metadata and DOIs, and involves staff, board, working groups, and committees as well as a broad range of collaborators, users, and supporters in the wider scholarly communications community. Together, we are all working toward the same goal – to enhance scholarly communications. Everything is designed to put scholarly content in context so that the content members publish can be found, cited, used, and re-used.
Crossref helps increase discoverability and create persistent links between research outputs such as articles, books, references, data, components, versions, and more. Crossref members send their metadata – which include fields such as dates, titles, authors, affiliations, etc. – to Crossref, together with a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), which allows to always retrieve an object even if the website changes.
Through Crossref, members are distributing their metadata downstream, making it available to numerous systems and organisations that together help credit and cite the work, track outcomes and activity, and more.
You can find more information here: https://www.crossref.org/about/
On a personal level | With third parties | |
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Share | Share the link of the publication with friends and colleagues via email, post it on your social media or personal website. | You can also share and deposit your link on institutional archives, such as IRIS. It is extremely important to share the link to the publication on academic collaboration networks such as Academia.edu (or ResearchGate). |
Add a link to your email signature and ask your co-authors to do the same. | Identify relevant newsletters from your institution or company that may be willing to include a presentation of or quote from your article. | |
Social |
Publish your article and its link on your social media accounts. You can post it once a day on Facebook and Linkedin, and even several times a day on Twitter. Avoid overly technical jargon and summarise your research in a sentence or two that even people who are not subject matter experts can understand. Make sure you follow all the conversations within your research field on social media (Twitter is particularly suitable for this purpose), and you contribute whenever it is useful and appropriate. Include hashtags your target audience is using by doing a little Twitter research beforehand to find the best ones to use. This will make your tweet part of a larger conversation, which means you could reach an even larger audience for your research. If you are attending a conference, use the conference hashtag (for example #OpenAccess) to discuss ideas raised during the conference, as well as to make connections during and after. |
Ask your institution or department to publish your article or share your post. Interact with other accounts relevant to your subject area and, if appropriate, talk about your research. |
Blog | If you have a blog, publish your article within it. |
Find blogs of your field and interact with them. Consider asking for a post to be published as a guest. |
Online |
Update your online profiles (website and social accounts) to include a link to your article. If you have your data hosted in a thematic or institutional repository, be sure to update it with a link to the article you have just published. |
Find a Wikipedia page relevant to your search and add a reference to your article. |
Conferences | Attending a conference and presenting your work can help make it known to other researchers. |
It is better to have an idea of the Series in which you want to publish your research before writing the article. Choosing the Journal before you start writing means that you can adapt your work on the basis of the research already published by that Journal. This can help the editors see your article as contributing to the ‘conversation’ already going on in their Journal, to refute, confirm, or re-examine it. Moreover, you will find that many Journals only accept specific article formats and may have word limits and other restrictions. You can browse our Journals by subject area here: Catalogue
Proposals should be approximately 10 pages long (excluding CVs and sample material).
Save your publication proposal as a Word document and include the following information. This will help us review your proposal and reply promptly.
Title
Signature
Summary
Idea
Main features and benefits
For example:
Keywords
Some examples of keyword lists are:
Brief synopsis of the book’s objectives, scope, topic and approach:
Chapter by chapter description of the content and form:
Category of the book and level of readers
What kind of book are you proposing?
What level of readers is your book suitable for?
Readers
Special requirements for textbooks
For textbooks, include information about courses that might adopt the book as their primary textbook:
Similar books
Similar titles by Edizioni Ca’ Foscari
Word count
Expected delivery date of the complete texts
Example material
CV
Include:
Peer review
Edited books - special requirements
Books with illustrations (including tables and graphs) - special requirements
For books with illustrations, include the following information:
Books with additional online resources - special requirements
We are happy to consider including additional resources that may be hosted on our website. We recommend that you only suggest extra resources if they add benefits that a book alone cannot provide. For example, the resources could be teaching guides; exercises for students; data set; links to websites; Images; video or audio files.
Reproduction of copyrighted material
If you plan to include copyrighted material that requires permission to be used (such as a long excerpt from a fictional text), please let us know if you have paid the necessary permissions or have access to the funds to do so.
Submit your publication proposal
Send your publication proposal as a Word document, together with the sample material, to the scientific direction of the Series of your choice. Alternatively, you can fill out the ‘Submit a proposal’ form.
If you have any questions, please contact us and we will be happy to help you.
We look forward to receiving your publication proposal. Good luck!
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