Editorial Foreword Revisited

Editorial Foreword Revisited This third issue of LiBRI (Linguistic and Literary Broad Research and Innovation) is the materialization of the on-going efforts of two academics, Ioan-Lucian Popa and Bogdan Patrut (“Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacau, Romania), of the scientific advisors, and of the former and the current standing editorial team. It is an online, scholarly, peer-reviewed, international journal for specialists in linguistics, literature, cultural studies, and related fields. The papers we expect from our contributors should be original unpublished papers, written in English or French. Initially, LiBRI was projected to be published twice a year in 2010 and three times a year as of 2011, with provision for one special edition; practice has shown that a more realistic objective will be two issues per year, one in June and one in December. Our goal is to explore or survey the existing worlds of ideas and to chart new territories. We aim at linking with centres of excellence all over the world with the objective of offering authoritative coverage and references in focused and specialist humanistic disciplines and domains. Our ambition is to encourage and support innovative thinking and also to become an important part of the landscape of academic publishing. We also aspire to make LiBRI a venue that allows emerging as well as well established scholars to publish and compare their work and to establish collaboration relationships in the process. These are the words in the initial editorial foreword and to be consistent with them we have decided that in 2012 and 2013 the two regular bi-annual issues should each focus on a special topic.