Planning your Academic Publishing Journey

This book provides a ready reference for academics that covers the breadth of academic publishing. It draws on academic books and journal articles that have touched on various aspects of academic publishing, and on the author's own extensive experiences, knowledge and lessons. This book explores the processes and decisions related to publishing academic literature such as journal articles, books, and other related formats. This book explores the foundations of an academic publishing career, discusses how to lay those foundations, and how to plan an academic publishing journey. It explores choosing a publisher and publication outlet, authorship, co-authoring, sharing data, dealing with short and lengthy publications, the hidden workload of publishing, and establishing and maintaining an author platform.

Draws on research and experiences from various career stages and disciplines Explores the foundations of an academic publishing journey Highlights publishing problems, issues, conundrums and how they can be overcome

Auteur
Professor Jacqui Ewart is a Professor at the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science in Griffith University, Australia. She has worked as a journalist and media manager, and is the lead author of Managing Your Academic Research Project (2020, Springer). She has worked full-time as an academic since mid 1996. Professor Ewart has published extensively in international journals, authored and co-authored several books and has served and continues to serve as an editorial board member of several international journals. She has led large research projects, including the award-winning Reporting Islam Project, and her research includes communication across various phases of disasters, and the involvement of politicians in disasters. Professor Ewart also researches news media representations of various minority groups, including Muslims and Indigenous Australians. She has also undertaken extensive research into radio audiences, including talkback and community radio audiences. Professor Ewart has been a visiting scholar at Macau University, Macau, and at Sun Yat-sen University, School of Communication and Design, China. One of her books was also long-listed for a political writing prize in Australia.

Contenu
Chapter 1: Foundations matter (what are the t-shirt slogans of your life).- Chapter 2: Planning your academic publishing career.- Chapter 3: Choosing a publisher and publication outlet.- Chapter 4: Authoring, co-authoring and sharing data.- Chapter 5: Shorter publications.- Chapter 6: Books matter.- Chapter 7: The hidden workload of publishing.- Chapter 8: Establishing and maintaining your author platform.- Chapter 9: Putting it all together.