Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

Authors have read, understood, and signed the license of publication on AIB studi.
Paper is written in accordance with the Authors guidelines.
Paper is uploaded in one of the following format: DOC, DOCX, RTF.
The manuscript is anonymous: name, affiliation and email address of each author are put in the metadata and not in the text or the file properties.
An Italian and English abstract (1,500-2,000 characters including spaces), the English translation of title and three Italian and English keywords are provided.
Authors allow minor editorial changes to the text and metadata of their paper.

Author Guidelines

AIB studi accepts submissions for each section of the journal. Authors are kindly required to choose the most suitable section for their submission and follow the rules indicated for each section and the submission guidelines.

Submissions for Book reviews must follow guidelines available on the dedicated page.

AIB studi welcomes papers in every language, though Italian and English are preferable.

Themes and analyses

The section hosts short essays, research papers, viewpoints and critical analyses of case studies. The focus is obviously on LIS issues, nevertheless papers covering related disciplinary and professional fields, or with an interdisciplinary approach, are not overlooked.

Notes and discussions

This space is dedicated to debates on various issues (such as the book chain and reading & information services, OA, library and profession policies and legislation, library science models, technological and managerial innovation, associative issues and so on): these short articles and threads might be developed on more subsequent issues.

Scientific and professional monitor

Original articles by researchers or librarians from other countries can be found here. The section presents a critical overview of trends and experiences in international librarianship (state of the art and progress in a given theme or field; achievements, projects and service models, and so on.)

Intersections

The section contains essays, articles and interviews by and with members of scientific and professional fields contiguous to librarianship and libraries, according to the cross-cutting approach to relationships among cultural institutions: MAB (Museums, Archives, Libraries), GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums), Wiki and so on.

The book

This section introduces every time a particularly relevant monograph: the angle is wider and different (being rather “reflections on the margin”) from the usual book review.

Profiles

The section hosts short essays, research papers, and bio-bibliographical sketches on persons and moments in the history of libraries and librarianship.

Materials

The section hosts documents and materials – mostly of normative and technical nature - which have never been published before or have limited circulation.

Copyright Notice

AIB studi is an open-access journal, not requiring any subscriptions or reading costs.

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Authors retain unrestricted copyright and all publishing rights, including the permission to deposit all versions of their paper in an institutional or subject repository.

Until issue 60 (2020), n. 3, the articles were published under the Creative Commons license "Attribution-Noncommercial-No derivative works" and authors transferred coypright to publisher.

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