Okay, perhaps attack is the wrong word - but I thought this might start some interesting conversation - especially if there are some music fans on this forum. See link to article below:http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/

Hello all,

I just came across this guide to pushing & marketing your scholarly book on the University Affairs (a Canadian magazine about academia) website. It's primarily aimed at folks publishing in Canada (e.g., specific grants to think about applying for; info on Canadian university presses), but I imagine some of the advice is probably true ( Read more... )

  
   A follow-up to my previous post re: the impact factor of the Nebula e-journal.

According to a list from the Australian Research Council (and since I'm angling for a place Down Under, their opinion is worth quite a bit to me), Nebula's actually very decent. Ranked A in a A*-A-B-C tiered system.ImageText, which was the unnamed journal I compared ( Read more... )

 
  Does anyone know anything about the general reliabilty/ prestiege of Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship? The CV of its contributers checks out OK, but its .biz suffix (which I have not encountered thus far) unaccountably worries me. 

The faculty of MIT voted unanimously to require publishers to allow open dissemination of their articles:

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/open-access-0320.html

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Hi all--

When a journal (the Review of English Studies, to be exact) provides the following guideline for manuscript presentation--

Number footnotes consecutively throughout the paper. Type the footnotes in double spacing at the end of the manuscript, commencing on a separate sheet. An initial unnumbered footnote may be included giving brief ( Read more... )

Figured that out of all the communities of which I am a member, this one will probably have the best chance of supplying me with any information ( Read more... )

Has anyone heard good or evil of Lexington Books?  A non-LJ friend got an offer from them, but is suspicious in part because of the 2-week turnaround from proposal to acceptance.  My library system has bunch of books from them, but that's all I have on data. Thanks in advance.