Ebook published 7 January 2019; paperback published 15 March 2019.
The third volume in the Short Guides series, Scholarly Publishing focuses on the big picture of publishing for scholarly audiences: Why publish for scholarly readers at all? What are your options? How are different options regarded in the evaluation processes that affect your career? What difference do different options make for potential readers?
The opening chapter clarifies the relationship between scholarly publishing as a means of communicating with other scholars to advance knowledge and scholarly publications as a means of evaluating your scholarship and career. Then I move on to consider how the desired audience influences the choice of form and outlet. The main part of the guide contains a chapter for each of the main types of scholarly publication—books, peer reviewed journal articles, and various types of work-in-progress publishing (conference papers, working papers, etc)—going into more detail about the issues introduced earlier and suggesting particular issues to watch out for. The concluding chapter discusses various methods for improving the discoverability of your publications.
Each chapter has questions to help you apply the information to your own situation. In addition to notes on the sources used in the text, I include suggested further reading on topics not covered in depth. Scholarly Publishing is a companion volume to the earlier volumes in the Short Guides series. Like the rest of the series, the goal is to help you get unstuck and to formulate more specific questions to ask mentors in your field and institution, colleagues who invite you to contribute to a volume or special issue, and publishers. I’ve kept it short so you can focus on writing and publishing, and structured it so you can dip into specific sections when needed. Enjoy your writing!
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eBook: ISBN 978-1-912040-67-4
Paperback (A5 210 x 148 mm): ISBN 978-1-912040-68-1
Table of Contents:
About the Short Guides Series
About this guide
What is publishing and why do it?
- How communicative goals relate to the validation process
- Indicators of impact on the advancement of knowledge
- Some questions to consider
Audience, form, outlet
- A note for early-career scholars
- Scholarly publishing and wider audiences
- Commercial, scholarly, or open access?
- Other factors
- Some questions to consider
Books
- Monographs
- Edited collections
- Editing an edited collection
- Contributing a chapter to an edited collection
- Scholarly editions
- Textbooks
- Selecting a publisher for your book
- When to write a proposal and secure a contract for your book
- Some questions to consider
Peer-reviewed journals
- Special issues and special sections
- Contributions to journals that are not full-length articles
- Selecting a journal
- Overlap between articles and books, and between articles
- Articles and chapters in the validation process
- Some questions to consider
Publishing work in progress
- Conference papers and posters
- Conferences in the validation process
- Working papers and preprints
- Invited seminars
- Blogs, podcasts, videos, etc.
- Teaching
- Some questions to consider
Improving discoverability
- Titles, keywords, and abstracts
- Networking with other scholars
- Direct personal communication
- Social media
- Conferences, seminars, blogs, etc.
- Getting the most out of your publisher
- Some questions to consider
Notes and further reading
Acknowledgements
About the author
Bulk orders:
This book would be an ideal thing to include in orientation packs for new PhD students or new academic staff/faculty. You will be able to order paperbacks through your campus bookstore or contact me to arrange shipping. If you’d like to give multiple copies of the e-book, contact me and we will work out a price, a purchase agreement, and a mechanism for downloading the files.
