NOVA - Multimedia Encyclopaedic System
(Nova - Sistema Enciclopedico Multimediale)

RIGHTS AVAILABLE, 2000 - 2001

Technical features
10 Volumes
Format 20 x 29.5 cm
Pages 11,000
Illustrations 12,000 (black and white and color in the text)
Entries 55,000
References 80,000
Electronic components:
1 hypertext CD ROM
1 multimedia DVD

The publication

It is an encyclopedia complete with texts and electronic support. The write ten texts will run to 10 volumes, while the electronic part will comprise a hypertext CD Rom with in-depth documentation and a DVD providing a wealth of multimedia. On-line access to the texts contained in the GDE is planned. These will be complemented by further infor-mation and the GDE site will be constantly updated. The New Enciclopaedia pivots on the hard copy. It can be use alone, it contents providing all basic knowledge with special graphic symbols recommending either the use of the CD Rom for further documentation or the DVD and the Topic CD Rom for the media contents. This function will, in part, be achieved through a new arrangement of the texts and by a ‘kit acked with devices’ designed to enhance dialogue between the various entries and the electronic components as well as by a new graphic page layout which will ensure instant identification of the structures, functions and who the work is addressing. Moreover, the graphic and textual-conceptual devices, components and accessories will not only greatly enhance the organi-zation and structure of the work but also the individual topics. Thus the reader will be provided with ‘surfing tools’ that are immediately recognizable.

The Authors

Almost all the entries of the encyclopedia will bear the signature of preminent scholars. The authors, for the most part, are from the academic (university lecturers), cultural (writers, intellectuals, scholars) and professional (experts above all in technical fields) worlds. Many contributions are by leading scholars of an earlier generation such as Nicola Abbagnano, Giulio Carlo Argan, Ludovico Geymonat, Massimo Mila and Luigi Firpo. Many others are the writings of some of the key names in contemporary culture - Umberto Eco, Norberto Bobbio, Oscar Botto, Maria Luisa Spaziani, Pietro Citati, Luciano Gallino, Claudio Magris - or penned by brilliant writers such as Alessandro Baricco, Giampaolo Dossena, Enrico Salza, Younis Tawfik.