Topics and History

I LIBRI DI XY

The series was founded in 1992 by Officina Edizioni to collect research that concerns the issues of drawing, visual language and graphic sciences, in a broad cultural field. It offers essays aimed at exploring the problems of architecture, city and the landscape representation, and at investigating the countless dimensions of the image in science, technology and art.

The series joins the XY journal broadening and consolidating its thematic horizons, especially in its interdisciplinary aspects, in the belief that the best tool for deepening knowledge is the smart comparison of different knowledge. It welcomes monographic volumes, essays or high scientific value miscellanies collections in the traditional printed format, published in the chosen language by the author with an English abstract (5-10% of the full volume).

Since 2019 the series is co-edited with the Università degli Studi di Trento publishing house. It is joined by the open access series I libri digitali di XY. Since 2022 the two series I libri di XY and I libri digitali di XY are co-edited by Università degli Studi di Trento and Il Poligrafo publishing house.

 

I LIBRI DIGITALI DI XY

The series was founded in 2022 by the Università degli Studi di Trento and Il Poligrafo publishing house. It joins the historical series I libri di XY to publish its printed volumes also in open access digital format.

It therefore offers essays oriented to explore the questions of architecture, city and landscape representation, and to investigate the many dimensions of the image in science, technology and art, joining the XY journal with the aim of broadening and consolidating its thematic horizons, especially in its interdisciplinary aspects.

High scientific value volumes (monographs, essays and miscellanies collections) are published with a possible embargo period, if required, with respect to the printed books publication, in the chosen language by the author with an English abstract (5-10% of the full volume).

 

THE SECTIONS

Extended abstract. This section of I libri digitali di XY publishes open access, in English and in the language chosen by the author or editor, the summary or the commented index (15,000-30,000 characters) of the corresponding printed volume published in the I libri di XY series.

Full text. This section of I libri digitali di XY publishes open access in the language chosen by the author or editor and with a summary in English equal to 5‒10%, the entire printed volume published in the I libri di XY series.