:: What is Leonardo Electronic Almanac?
:: What is Leonardo?
:: What is the difference between Leonardo On-Line and Leonardo Electronic Almanac?
:: What sort of essays does LEA publish?
:: How should I submit an essay to LEA?
:: Who do I submit my essay to?
:: What if I have a proposal for an essay?
:: How should I organize my essay?
:: Can you provide some general guidelines that will make
   my essay easy for lay readers to follow?
:: How long should my essay be?
:: What if I would like to submit an essay that exceeds the stipulated length?
:: What about photographs or illustrations that I would like to include in my essay?
   Should I place those in the text file?
:: Will you accept animation and audio files with my essay as well?
:: Is LEA also interested in accepting artwork for its gallery?
:: How do your determine if my submission is suitable for the LEA community?
:: What are the chances of my essay being accepted for publication?
:: How soon after submission is an essay published?
:: Now that my essay has been accepted, how do I submit my images/animation files/audio files?
:: Who owns the copyright to essays published in LEA?
:: Whom can I contact if I have any further questions?

What is Leonardo Electronic Almanac?
Leonardo Electronic Almanac (ISSN No: 1071-4391), or LEA for short, was established in 1993 as the electronic arm of the pioneer art journal, Leonardo - Journal of Art, Science & Technology. It is jointly produced by Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST), and published by MIT Press, and is an international peer-reviewed e-journal dedicated to providing a forum for those who are interested in the realm where art, science and technology converge.

For over a decade, LEA has thrived as an international peer-reviewed electronic journal and web archive covering the interaction of the arts, sciences, and technology. LEA emphasizes rapid publication of recent work and critical discussion on topics of current excitement with a slant on shorter, less academic texts. Many contributors are younger scholars, artists, scientists, educators and developers of new technological resources in the media arts.

Contents include profiles of media arts facilities and projects, insights of artists using new media and feature essays comprising theoretical and technical perspectives. Curated galleries of current new media artwork are also a regular feature, and occasionally, LEA publishes special issues on topics such as locative media, new media poetics, and wild nature and the digital life.

What is Leonardo?
Leonardo is many things - first, it is the name of the Journal of ISAST, which focuses on artists working with science- and technology-based media and which has been in publication for nearly 40 years.

Leonardo is also a trademark of the not-for-profit organization the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, and so is used in conjunction with all of our projects, including Leonardo Music Journal, the web site Leonardo On-Line, the Leonardo Book Series, the French Leonardo web site OLATS and the Leonardo Network, an international group of collaborating individuals and organizations with common goals and interests.

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What is the difference between Leonardo On-Line and Leonardo Electronic Almanac?
Leonardo On-Line (LOL) is the world wide web site of Leonardo and the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology. LOL includes information about our organization, print journals, book series and all relevant projects concerning ISAST. There is also an online gallery of work featured in the print journal and information about our Editorial Board members.

Leonardo Electronic Almanac, or LEA for short, was established in 1993 as the electronic arm of the pioneer art journal, Leonardo - Journal of Art, Science & Technology. It is jointly produced by Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST), and published by MIT Press, and is an international peer-reviewed e-journal dedicated to providing a forum for those who are interested in the realm where art, science and technology converge.

For over a decade, LEA has thrived as an international peer-reviewed electronic journal and web archive covering the interaction of the arts, sciences, and technology. LEA emphasizes rapid publication of recent work and critical discussion on topics of current excitement with a slant on shorter, less academic texts. Many contributors are younger scholars, artists, scientists, educators and developers of new technological resources in the media arts.

Contents include profiles of media arts facilities and projects, insights of artists using new media and feature essays comprising theoretical and technical perspectives. Curated galleries of current new media artwork are also a regular feature, and occasionally, LEA publishes special issues on topics such as locative media, new media poetics, and wild nature and the digital life.

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What sort of essays does LEA publish?
The Leonardo Electronic Almanac is constantly on the lookout to publish *original* essays, essays and artist statements. We strongly encourage works from as diverse (geographic, intellectual, and analysis) a range of authorship as possible. Texts should be condensed as much as possible and written in a style that is suitable for a lay reader.

How should I submit an essay to LEA?
If you have a ready-to-publish essay, send it to us as an e-mail attachment consisting of ONLY text.

All texts must be submitted in English. If you are not fluent in English, you should write the essay in your native language and have the text professionally translated before submitting it.

The attachment should be saved either as a Microsoft Word document or Rich Text Format (RTF) file. Text that is pasted into e-mails WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

Who do I submit my essay to?
All essays can be directed to LEA Editor-in-Chief Nisar Keshvani at lea@mitpress.mit.edu

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What if I have a proposal for an essay?
You are welcome to submit a 300 – 500 word abstract. Please indicate this clearly in your email.

All submissions and proposals should be directed to LEA Editor-in-Chief Nisar Keshvani at lea@mitpress.mit.edu

How should I organize my essay?
For your convenience, we’ve listed and explained all the components you should include in your essay in the document "Order of Essay Elements". This PDF file, and others you might find useful, can be downloaded from the LEA website (http://leoalmanac.org/cfp/submit/index.asp).

The LEA website also allows you to review previous texts for general style and format. Skimming through published essays will give you a better feel of the type of essays we are looking for.

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Can you provide some general guidelines that will make my essay easy for lay readers to follow?
- Avoid special formatting such as different text styles, bold text and underlining

- Avoid esoteric words, non-English words, slang, idioms and colloquialisms

- Abbreviations and special terms, especially highly technical terms, should be defined in the text or in a glossary at the end of the text

- Acronyms should be spelled out on the first appearance

How long should my essay be?
Your essay should be between 1,500 and 3,000 words.

What if I would like to submit an essay that exceeds the stipulated length?
If you would like us to consider a longer essay for publication, you may submit a short abstract of the essay. This abstract should not be more than 500 words.

What about photographs or illustrations that I would like to include in my essay? Should I place those in the text file?
No, these should be sent separately. Once your submission has been accepted, we will let you know how the accompanying photographs should be sent.

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Will you accept animation and audio files with my essay as well?
Yes, but just like accompanying photographs or illustrations, these will be requested for only AFTER your submission has been accepted.

Is LEA also interested in accepting artwork for its gallery?
Definitely! If you are interested in showcasing your artwork or curating a gallery, do submit a 500-word description with reference URLs of the work and/or previous works to LEA Editor-in-Chief Nisar Keshvani at lea@mitpress.mit.edu

Submission procedures and guidelines are similar to conventional essays. The artist however will work closely with the LEA Editor-in-Chief for production processes and procedures.

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How do your determine if my submission is suitable for the LEA community?
Once LEA’s editorial team deems your essay to be within our scope, it will be sent out to two or three technical peer reviewers to determine if it is acceptable.

As our peer reviewers are all volunteers, this process may take several (usually 4-8) weeks, depending on the availability and punctuality of the reviewers.

They will decide whether your essay should be:

1. Accepted as is (with minor in-house copyediting)
2. Accepted with revisions by you, as suggested by the reviewers
3. Rejected

Do note that initial determination of the essay being within LEA’s scope does NOT guarantee that the essay will be published.

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What are the chances of my essay being accepted for publication?
On average 5 - 10 per cent of manuscripts received are eventually published.

How soon after submission is an essay published?
Typical time between submission of a manuscript and appearance on-line is between 6-12 months.

Now that my essay has been accepted, how do I submit my images/animation files/audio files?
We usually ask for between one to three web-ready images to accompany each essay (either 200 pixels in width for landscape images or 200 pixels in width for portrait images all in proportionate dimension).

If you would like us to consider including other files incorporating graphics, audio, animation, etc, these should be sent as separate files, clearly designating the essay they are associated with.

All the individual files/components should be included in a folder and sent as a zip file.

It is advisable in the early stages (once authors’ texts are accepted and approved), to inform the Editor of any specific "technical" requirements and, if so, to discuss your requirements (e.g. we shouldn't have a problem with a custom string' (flash texts) if in .swf format, on our server, unless specific "technical" support is required).

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Who owns the copyright to essays published in LEA?
Essays published in LEA are copyrighted by The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST), the owner of LEA. Copyrights to illustrations published in the journal remain with their current copyright holders.

Once an essay has been selected, it will only be edited and published when the Publication Agreement Form and Image Release Form (where necessary) has/have been signed and returned to:

Subsidiary Rights Manager
Leonardo Electronic Almanac
c/o MIT Press Journals
238 Main Street
Suite 500
Cambridge, MA 02142-1046
U.S.A.
Fax: + 1 617 577 1545

Copyrights Manager
Leonardo Electronic Almanac
c/o ISAST
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
U.S.A.
Fax: + 1 415 391 2385

and

Editor-in-Chief
Leonardo Electronic Almanac
Robinson Road
P O Box 850
Singapore 901650
Fax: + 65 6892 4712

In cases where an image is copyrighted by a third party, authors are responsible for obtaining copyright permissions, including on-line reproduction rights. Any fees required to obtain illustrations or to secure copyright permissions are the responsibility of authors.

Permission to re-use material copyrighted by LEA is routinely given to the authors of essays for use in their own publications once the original publication in LEA is one full year old. Use by third parties generally is not provided without concurrence of the author.

Whom can I contact if I have any further questions?
Editor-in-chief Nisar Keshvani (lea@mitpress.mit.edu) and managing editor Natra Haniff (natra@leoalmanac.org) will be happy to assist you with your queries.

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