About the Journal

LEA – Lingue e Letterature d’Oriente e d’Occidente is a Diamond Open Access, double-blind peer-reviewed international scholarly journal publishing original research in all areas of literature and linguistics, with special emphasis on cross-cultural encounters and interdisciplinary exchanges.

LEA is published once a year, in December.

Journal sections

Scritture

Scritture is a thematic section, usually coordinated by guest editors and connected to the annual Call for Papers.

Studi e saggi

Studi e saggi is a miscellany section welcoming essays on topics in linguistics, literature, and philology.

Osservatorio

Osservatorio contains reviews, conference reports, and discussions of research projects.

Submission deadlines

Proposals and contributions must be submitted online before the following deadlines:

  • May 8 of every year: essays for Scritture and Studi e saggi. Submissions to these sections undergo double-blind peer review.
  • June 30 of every year: contributions for Osservatorio. These contributions are not subject to peer review.

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General Editors

Ilaria Natali, University of Florence, Italy
Ayşe Saraçgil, University of Florence, Italy

Open Access Policy

LEA provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

The journal is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). This licence allows anyone to download, reuse, reprint, distribute and/or copy the final version of the published papers, provided that the works are properly attributed to their author(s).

It is not necessary to request further permission from the author(s) or from the Journal Board. However, users are kindly requested to inform the Journal Board of any reuse of published papers, to include the DOI of the issue or essay, and to specify that the reused version refers to the first edition.

Authors publishing in LEA retain copyright. Publisher copyright policies and self-archiving information are available through RoMEO/SHERPA.

Publication Frequency

LEA is published once a year, in December.

Legal Deposit

Firenze University Press is experimenting a national legal deposit and long-term digital preservation service.

Article Processing Charges

LEA does not charge Article Processing Charges (APCs) or submission fees.

Indexing and Abstracting

LEA – Lingue e Letterature d’Oriente e d’Occidente is indexed in:

  • BASE – Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
  • DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals Seal
  • EZB – Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek / Electronic Journals Library
  • ERIH PLUS – European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences
  • Google Scholar
  • Journalseek
  • JournalTOCs
  • JURN
  • MIAR – Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals
  • MLA – International Directory of Periodicals Bibliography
  • OAIster [OCLC – Digital Collection Services] – WorldCat
  • PLEIADI – Portale per la Letteratura scientifica Elettronica Italiana su Archivi aperti e Depositi Istituzionali
  • ProQuest
  • Scopus
  • SearchTeam
  • Ulrichsweb – Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory

Online First

LEA publishes Online First articles. This feature allows final-version articles to be made available online before their inclusion in a completed journal issue.

The only difference between Online First publication and issue publication is the addition of final citation details, including volume and page numbers, once the article has been assigned to an issue.

Each Online First article has a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which should be included in all citations. Since volume, issue, and page numbers are not yet available at the Online First stage, manuscripts should be cited as follows:

Rossi, A. Prepublished Month, Year. “Article Title.” LEA – Lingue e Letterature d’Oriente e d’Occidente. DOI: 10.13128/LEA-1824-484x-012345.

After the article is assigned to a specific issue, new citations can include volume and page numbers, while still using the DOI:

Rossi, A. 2014. “Article Title.” LEA – Lingue e Letterature d’Oriente e d’Occidente 5: 37–47. DOI: 10.13128/LEA-1824-484x-012345.

Open to all authors

LEA - Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente is committed to openness and inclusivity in scholarly publishing without author-facing charges for reading or publishing. We welcome submissions from all authors, regardless of their institutional affiliation, geographical location, or academic status. Submissions only must align with the aims and scope of the journal and meet the required quality standards once the reviewing process is completed.

Community-owned

LEA - Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente is owned by Firenze University Press, a public institution/organisation dedicated to advancing research and scholarship. The journal’s ownership and governance structure reflect its mission to support open and accessible academic publishing. We confirm that any commercial service providers involved in our operations only deal with service-related aspects of journal publishing. All content-related aspects of publishing, such as submission, peer review, acceptance, publication frequency, and scope of the journal, are controlled by the editors of the journal.