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 the 6 of 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.

Reinhold Baer Prize
The Reinhold Baer Prize is a mathematics award, annually granted jointly by the no-profit association AGTA - Advances in Group Theory and Applications and Aracne for outstanding PhD theses or research article in group theory and its applications. The award is named after the German algebraist Reinhold Baer.

The laureate is presented with a pecuniary prize of EUR1,000.

The first premiere took place during the international conference Advances in Group Theory and Applications 2017, held in Lecce (Italy) from September 5 to 8, 2017.

Laureates
Institutions mentioned above refer to the institutions where the laureates obtained their PhD.