The Academic's Guide to Publishing

"...includes important points such as reading the proofs, preparing indexes...every researcher can find some useful information in this textbook." —PHOTOSYNTHETICA

This definitive guide to successfully publishing social science research demonstrates that completing a project is only the first phase of research. Dissemination is the second phase, and it requires specific skills and knowledge.

The Academics' Guide to Publishing: explains the different ways in which research can be disseminated: in journals, books, reports, the Internet, popular media, and conferences; demonstrates how the structures, practices and procedures involved work - making them easily understood and transparent; and situates research in the larger and changing context of Higher Education.

For postgraduates or academics in the social sciences The Academics' Guide to Publishing provides essential guidance on how to secure a job, how to gain tenure, how to survive research assessment exercises, and how to obtain promotion.

While seeking to provide advice about publishing, the authors also intend to generate discussion and debate and describe how the nature of research has changed from an activity justified within itself to one defined by outside measures of worth, productivity and value. Within that context they advocate taking a strategic approach to publication, writing and working with others, dealing appropriately with issues of malpractice and intellectual property, publishing through journals and editing books or through alternate media such as the popular press and the Internet, selecting a publisher and negotiating a book contract, self-publishing, proposing a new journal or book series, and editing a journal or newsletter. They also cover some elements most new authors do not consider, such as conferences, the production processes, and keeping contacts. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR