The Academic′s Guide to Publishing: (Sage Study Skills Series)

This is the definitive guide to successfully publishing social science research. Its working premise is 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 provides the essential information on these skills in clear and succinct form: 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 situates research in the larger and changing context of Higher Education The Academics' Guide to Publishing will show how to secure a job, how to gain tenure, how to survive research assessment exercises, and how to obtain promotion.

Table of Contents:
Publishing Research A Strategic Approach to Publication Working with Others General Writing Advice Malpractices and Intellectual Property Writing for Journals and Edited Books Writing Reports Publishing on the Internet Dissemination through Popular Media Types of Book and Selecting a Publisher Writing and Submitting a Book Proposal Negotiating a Book Contract Writing a Book Editing a Book or Special Issue Self-publishing a Book Proposing a New Journal or Book Series Editing a Journal or Newsletter The Production Process Attending Conferences and Presenting Papers and Posters Making and Keeping Contacts Organizing Events Final Words

About the Author :
Rob Kitchin is a Professor in Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute and Department of Geography. He was a European Research Council Advanced Investigator on the Programmable City project (2013-2018) and a principal investigator on the Building City Dashboards project (2016-2020) and for the Digital Repository of Ireland (2009-2017). He is the (co)author or (co)editor of 31 other academic books, and (co)author of over 200 articles and book chapters. He has been an editor of Dialogues in Human Geography, Progress in Human Geography and Social and Cultural Geography, and was the co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. He was the 2013 recipient of the Royal Irish Academy’s Gold Medal for the Social Sciences.

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