Academic's Guide to Publishing

Rob Kitchin and Duncan Fuller

You’ve completed a research project: so how do you publish it?

For academics and postgraduates alike, this is the definitive guide to successfully publishing research. Its working premise is that completing a project is only the first phase of research. Publication is the second phase, and it requires specific skills and knowledge. 

The Academic’s Guide to Publishing provides the essential information on these skills in clear and succinct form:

• explains the different ways in which research can be published: 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

• situates research in the larger and changing context of Higher Education

The Academic’s  Guide to Publishing will show you how to secure a job, how to gain tenure, how to survive research assessment exercises, and how to obtain promotion. If you are an postgraduate or an academics in the social sciences, this guide is a vital resource.

1.           Publishing research

2.           A strategic approach to publication

3.           Working with others

4.           General writing advice

5.           Malpractices and intellectual property

6.           Writing for journals and edited books

7.           Writing reports

8.           Publishing on the Internet

9.           Dissemination through popular media

10.         Types of book and selecting a publisher

11.         Writing and submitting a book proposal

12.         Negotiating a book contract

13.         Writing a book

14.         Editing a book or special issue

15.         Self-publishing a book

16.         Proposing a new journal or book series

17.         Editing a journal or newsletter

18.         The production process

19.         Attending conferences and presenting papers and posters

20.         Making and keeping contacts

21.         Organizing events

22.         Final words

Appendix 1:  Useful references and resources

Appendix 2:  Questions journal editors are often asked

Appendix 3:  Refereeing for journals and publishers

Index