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Mémoires du livre – Studies in Book Culture is a bilingual, open-access journal available through Erudit. It is dedicated to the study of the book in all its forms, including rare books, periodicals, and ebooks. The journal is open to everything concerning the past, present and future of the book: agents and institutions in the chain of production, materialities and contents, practices and uses. It is interested in the power that operates within the world of the book as well as in the power that books have. Mémoires du livre – Studies in Book Culture strives to shed light on the whole book culture, from the production to the reception of books: every link in the chain is analysed, from author to reader, including editor, distributor, translator, bookseller, and librarian. Resolutely interdisciplinary (history, literary studies, economics, sociology, etc.), the journal is equally open to the study of identities – by gender, culture, social group – as they express themselves in the history of the book.

Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture is managed by Anthony Glinoer, assisted by Eli MacLaren, Marie-Pier Luneau and Josée Vincent.

Guidelines for Authors

Editorial policy and ethics

HOW TO SUBMIT A PAPER

Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture is published twice a year. Texts that are submitted for approval by the scientific committee must meet the requirements of specialized international research magazines.

Articles must focus on the book as a material object and on those people involved in its creation and distribution. Nevertheless, the approaches used to address these topics can vary according to each field (history, literary studies, library science, digital humanities, social sciences, etc.). The analysis can be historical or contemporary. Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture focuses on books of all kinds and from all cultures.

The journal does not ask authors to pay to have their work published. Articles can be submitted either in the form of proposals in response to a call for papers announced by the journal, or in the case of an issue designed around a theme, outside of the theme in the category titled “Varia”.

Before submitting an article, please consult and follow our formatting and style guidelines (link: https://www.erudit.org/public/documents_revues/memoires_protocole_eng.pdf), and then send the properly formatted article to the following address: mdl-sbc@usherbrooke.ca. It is also possible to submit a proposal for a themed issue by writing to the same address.

PEER REVIEW POLICY

Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture fully adheres to the principles of peer review. Within the purview of the journal, the responsibility for peer review rests with the editorial board, as well as with expert collaborators invited on an ad hoc basis.

These responsibilities are carried out as follows. Upon submission, each article undergoes standard plagiarism checks, following which it is reviewed by three experts: two blind reviewers who are usually members of the research committee and one member of the editorial committee (editorial committee members must disclose any potential conflict of interest and must, where such conflict exists, withdraw from the peer review process). The expert reviewers complete a detailed report and issue one of the following decisions: 1) accepted without revisions; 2) accepted with minor revisions; 3) accepted with major revisions; 4) rejected. In cases of divergent decisions, an additional external review may be sought.

In issuing its publication decision, the journal invariably provides authors with reviewers’ anonymous reports so that the text may be revised accordingly.

In cases where a manuscript is accepted with revisions, authors must make the necessary revisions within specified deadlines, failing which manuscripts may no longer be considered for publication. Upon receipt of a revised manuscript, a designated member of the editorial committee assesses whether the revisions are satisfactory. The member may reject the manuscript or return it for additional revisions.

All final decisions on publication are issued by the editorial board. In cases where the editorial board has a conflict of interest in relation to a submitted article, the decision will pass to the associate editors. The journal’s final decisions are irreversible.

POLICY ON THE USE OF WORK PUBLISHED IN THE JOURNAL

Articles are published in full-length format at no cost, in either French or English. The journal does not publish a print version. Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture adheres to the definition of open access as promulgated by the Budapest Open Access Initiative. The journal, therefore, allows users to “read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.” In return, users agree to respect authors’ “control over the integrity of their work and [...] right to be properly acknowledged and cited.”

COPYRIGHT COMPLIANCE POLICY

Authors are persons who have made a substantial contribution to published work, whether in terms of the conception and development of the work, the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, or the drafting and revising of the text.

Intellectual property rights and copyright (©) for original content published in the journal belong to article authors. In return, at time of publication, authors freely grant Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture exclusive license for first publication, giving the journal the right to reproduce and disseminate the text, without territorial or time limitations, via the following platform: http://www.erudit.org/revue/memoires.

Authors retain the right to reuse their work in future publications. However, the first publication must be cited, indicating the article title, the names of all authors, the name of Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture, and the date and place of publication.

The copyright holder guarantees to Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture that they are duly empowered and authorized to grant such a licence. The copyright holder certifies that the submitted work is their own and that neither the text nor any illustrations infringe on the copyrights of others. Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture undertakes to respect authors’ moral rights when using their work.

It should be noted that as part of the publishing process, authors must sign a licence granting Mémoires du livres / Studies in Book Culture the right to publish their work. To this end, all co-authors must complete, sign, and return a licence form to the journal before the publication of their article.

Authors grant an exclusive licence for first publication to the journal and make their work available under an open access license (CC BY-NC-ND), allowing third parties to download and share the published work, on the conditions of: crediting the original author(s), not modifying the original material, and not using it for commercial purposes.

DIGITAL PRESERVATION POLICY

Long-term archiving of Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture is provided by Portico.

In order to reach a broader readership and encourage exchanges within the research community, authors are encouraged to disseminate their contributions through personal websites and social media, as well as institutional and nonprofit open access repositories. When self-archiving their publications, authors must provide a complete bibliographic reference, including the DOI, for final published versions, so as to make it possible for users to trace the original publication and thus duly credit the journal.

ANTI-PLAGIARISM POLICY

The journal Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture rejects all forms of plagiarism. Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture considers the following acts to constitute plagiarism:

Ø  Copying, in whole or in part, the work of others and claiming it as one’s own;

Ø  Copying, in whole or in part, one’s own previously published work without citing the original publication (self-plagiarism).

Prior to publication, authors must certify, by means of their contract with the journal, that they hold the rights to the submitted work and that neither the text, nor any figures, illustrations, or tables infringe on the copyrights of others.

For its part, upon receipt of a manuscript, the journal uses diverse tools (including dedicated software, as well as searches of online databases and indexes of print journal publications) to perform a series of checks intended to ensure that submissions do not contain instances of plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

If plagiarism is detected, the journal undertakes the following measures:

- If plagiarism is detected prior to the publication of a manuscript, whether by a member of the editorial team or by an external reviewer, authors will be informed immediately. Depending on the extent of the plagiarism detected, authors will be instructed to either rewrite the text or attribute their sources and accurately reference all cited content. If the plagiarism is found to be substantial (20 percent or more of the text), the submitted article will be automatically rejected and the author(s) will no longer be permitted to publish in Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture.

- If plagiarism is detected subsequent to publication, the article will be retracted from Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture. The author(s) will no longer be permitted to publish in Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture.

RETRACTION POLICY

Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture firmly upholds the retraction guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The editorial committee reserves the right to retract a published article if:

• there is clear evidence that the findings are not reliable, due either to major error (e.g. erroneous calculation or experimental error), fabrication (e.g. of data), or falsification (e.g. image manipulation);
• it constitutes plagiarism;
• the findings have previously been published elsewhere and have not been duly cited or divulged as such to the journal, or have not been authorized for republication;
• it contains material or data that have not been authorized for use;
• it infringes on copyrights or raises other significant legal issues (e.g. defamation, invasion of privacy);
• it reports unethical research;
• it was published as a result of a compromised or manipulated peer review process;
• the author(s) have failed to disclose a conflict of interest which, in the view of the editorial committee, has unduly influenced the research results or the peer review process.

In case of retraction, the journal will publish a Notice of Retraction with a statement by the editorial committee citing the published article and the reasons for its retraction. 

Editorial board

Director: Anthony Glinoer, U. de Sherbrooke. 

Associate Editors: Eli MacLaren (U. of McGill), Marie-Pier Luneau and Josée Vincent (U. de Sherbrooke).

Executive Assistants: Élisabeth Grégoire and Ana Néron, U. de Sherbrooke.

Editorial Board: Nicholas Dion (U. de Sherbrooke), Sara Harvey (U. of Victoria), Sophie Heywood (U. of Reading), Leslie Howsam (U. of Windsor), Julien Lefort-Favreau (U. of Queen's), Scott McLaren (U. of York) and Ruth-Ellen St. Onge (U. of McMaster).

Translators: Shirley Fortier and Michelle Ariss. 

Proofreaders: Cécile Delbecchi and Joel Faber. 

Scientific Committee: Frédéric Barbier (IHMC-ENS), Marie-Cécile Bouju (U. Paris-8), Claude La Charité (U. du Québec à Rimouski), José Antonio Cordon (U. de Salamanca), Robert Darnton (U. of Harvard), Ian Gadd (U. of Bath), Carole Gerson (U. of Simon Fraser), Claude Hauser (U. de Fribourg), Henning Hansen (U. of Tromsø / Swedish National Heritage Board), Lucie Hotte (U. d'Ottawa), Michel Lacroix (U. du Québec à Montréal), Éric Leroux (U. de Montréal), Yvan Lamonde (U. of McGill), Bertrand Legendre (U. Paris-13), Martin Lyons (U. of New South Wales), Dominique Marquis (U. du Québec à Rimouski), David Martens (KU Leuven), Jacques Michon (U. de Sherbrooke), Jean-Yves Mollier (U. Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), Claire Parfait (U. Paris-13), Yannick Portebois (U. of Toronto), Michaël Roy (U. de Paris Nanterre), Hervé Serry (CNRS), Ray Siemens (U. of Victoria), Yann Sordet (Bibliothèques Mazarine et de l'Institut de France), Claire Squires (U. of Stirling), François Vallotton (U. de Lausanne) and Dominique Varry (ENSSIB).