An Abundance of Quality Papers Causes a Publishing Backlog

Alexander Kafka reports on the abundance of quality papers awaiting publication.

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Selling Your Book

Lori Flores offers advice for those seeking to be published .

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Academic Publication

David Perlmutter suggests how academics can draw upon their dissertation for publishable material.

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Organized Piracy In Academic Publishing

Simon Oxenham writes about organized piracy in academic publishing. The comments which follow the article range from condemning to supportive of Alexandra Elbakyan's work.

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Academic Book Publishing

Rachel Toor lists the things you should know before publishing a book .

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British Library to Study Open Access and Academic Publishing

Ann Jarvis reports that the British Library is collaborating with the Arts and Humanities Research Council to foresee the future of academic book publishing given the rise in open access publication.

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Peer Review

Adeline Koh is writing a series for the Chronicle on "Digital Challenges to Academic Publishing. In her April 17, 2013 post about her interview with Ken Wissoker, Editorial Director for Duke University Press, she quotes Wissoker's explanation of the peer review process at Duke:

At Duke, a manuscript generally need two or three rounds of peer review before the readers agree that it is ready to be published. That process guides the author. In the end there is a big difference between the version the author initially turns in, "okay here's my manuscript," and the manuscript that results from the review process. The amount of change varies, but, as above, even small changes can make big differences in readability and the clarity and convincingness of the argument.

NOTE: This fits with my own observation that a peer review document usually appears six months to a year after the author's initial submission, something students do not consider when researching current events.

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