Aracne

Aracne was an Italian publishing company, founded in 1993 by Gioacchino Onorati and specialized in academic and scientific literature. It was declared failed on 6 April 2018. It is the only Italian publishing company that does not require exclusive rights for its publications. Aracne publishes both paper books and ebooks, most of them in Italian, although a considerable number of works is published in English. It claimed to use the peer review as an evaluation system, it has often been found to use vanity press systems, and to publish on ordination. Aracne was a member of the programme for the Evaluation of the Quality of Research of the ANVUR, institution of the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research.

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Aracne is no longer an active publisher (defunct since 2018). Its books may still be in print through successor companies or available second-hand and in libraries.