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15 minutes until our "Demystifying the Monograph" event with @HarryMcCarthy, @Dr_Tom_Young, @yalepress, and @Arts_Routledge - paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/forth… - we'll be live tweeting the event here! Join us.
The process of putting a book together - from idea to publication - may seem daunting. Today's event "Demystifying the Monograph" brings together people who have been "there and back again" (and lived to tell the tale to you today) #academicpublishing
First, we hear from Natalie Foster at @Arts_Routledge on her tips for submitting a book proposal (lucky you, we'll be sharing them here too!)
during my #PhD, i conducted a side project investigating what the barriers are towards making changes to the #academicpublishing system to reduce publication #bias
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this showed me a rather dark side to #academia... 1/8
#AcademicTwitter #phdlife
journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
this showed me a rather dark side to #academia... 1/8
#AcademicTwitter #phdlife
i got about 50:50 praise and hate for this. weirdly enough, the praise and hate were often about the same thing: the (early) stage of my career.
praise: "it's great you're so keen and have grasped key issues and taken action so early..." 2/8
praise: "it's great you're so keen and have grasped key issues and taken action so early..." 2/8
hate: "you're too early in your career and naïve to understand these issues. you shouldn't be researching this"
more worryingly, whilst i did get a lot of this feedback in person/by email, some of it was BEHIND MY BACK to my colleagues 3/8
more worryingly, whilst i did get a lot of this feedback in person/by email, some of it was BEHIND MY BACK to my colleagues 3/8
i promised in this thread i'd offer an idea of an alternative #academic #publishing model, so here it is. be prepared, changing to this would require some seriously radical change... 1/17
#AcademicChatter #academicpublishing #academicjournals #peerreview #ecrchat #openaccess
#AcademicChatter #academicpublishing #academicjournals #peerreview #ecrchat #openaccess
i outlined in the thread linked above MANY flaws with academic publishing, so let's completely get rid of the current system.
in its place we have one global central database, funded by governments/unis collectively 2/17
in its place we have one global central database, funded by governments/unis collectively 2/17
everything gets uploaded to this database. this is our new single journal.
articles can be rolling, so they can be registered reports, the final piece, or you can add new data if you analyse more stuff. its flexible. 3/17
articles can be rolling, so they can be registered reports, the final piece, or you can add new data if you analyse more stuff. its flexible. 3/17
why i am no longer publishing (my own) #research in #academic journals - a (long) thread 1/38
#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #academicpublishing #academicjournals #peerreview #ecrchat #OpenScience #publicationbias
(some references at the end of the thread)
#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #academicpublishing #academicjournals #peerreview #ecrchat #OpenScience #publicationbias
(some references at the end of the thread)
(i still have a few collaborative papers to write and these will be published properly for the benefit of my co-authors)
i will soon publish a paper on a pre-print server, with no intention of submitting to an academic journal. my reasons for this are manifold 2/38
i will soon publish a paper on a pre-print server, with no intention of submitting to an academic journal. my reasons for this are manifold 2/38
1. #academia is inherently corrupt & the publication model facilitates this:
- unpaid labour (editors, peer-reviewers,& authors [ok, they do get paid by the uni which oft = public funds yet journals privately profit & we see none of this unlike other forms of publishing]) 3/38
- unpaid labour (editors, peer-reviewers,& authors [ok, they do get paid by the uni which oft = public funds yet journals privately profit & we see none of this unlike other forms of publishing]) 3/38
#Publication alert from our #EPCHL and colleagues: Submaximal Exercise Testing in Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Settings (BEST Study).
I'm considering a tweet-tutorial for this publication if there's lots of interest (i.e. >200 likes ???)
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
I'm considering a tweet-tutorial for this publication if there's lots of interest (i.e. >200 likes ???)
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
I am going up for tenure next year & preparing my materials. There is a book chapter I was invited to write in Fall 2014 just months after I got my PhD. I submitted the chapter in Spring 2015. The edited collection this chapter was written for has still not been published.
I am sure there are decent reasons for the immense slowdown in production. But can you imagine if I was relying on this publication as a junior scholar? I write this piece less than a year after graduating & will likely have tenure before its published. That’s bananas.
As someone working in disability studies I know there was many reasons for delays in schedules, but as a multiply marginalized junior scholar I also know that one publication coming in YEARS late could really fuck with someone’s tenure case.
Mega-thread on turning your dissertation into a book, drawing on advice from top university press editors who just participated in a panel discussion here @YaleCTL. Share widely! #academicpublishing #academics (1/?)
One of the main differences between dissertations and book manuscripts is the intended AUDIENCE. Dissertations are written for 2-3 people, whereas books should reach a much wider audience. Dissertations are often DEFENSIVE in tone and have to pay their dues via lit reviews, etc.
Book manuscripts should adopt a more poised approach, and editors are often more interested in the STORY or QUESTION behind a book rather than its apparatus. Confidence, and authorial voice, are much more important here.
