The Handbook of Journal Publishing

The Handbook of Journal Publishing is a comprehensive reference work written by experienced professionals, covering all aspects of journal publishing, both online and in print. Journals are crucial to scholarly communication, but changes in recent years in the way journals are produced, financed, and used make this an especially turbulent and challenging time for journal publishers - and for authors, readers, and librarians. The Handbook offers a thorough guide to the journal publishing process, from editing and production through marketing, sales, and fulfilment, with chapters on management, finances, metrics, copyright, and ethical issues. It provides a wealth of practical tools, including checklists, sample documents, worked examples, alternative scenarios, and extensive lists of resources, which readers can use in their day-to-day work. Between them, the authors have been involved in every aspect of journal publishing over several decades and bring to the text their experience working for a wide range of publishers in both the not-for-profit and commercial sectors.

Author: Sally Morris, Ed Barnas, Douglas Lafrenier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 02/21/2013
Pages: 477
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781107653603

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2013

About the Author
Morris, Sally: - Sally Morris has worked in journal and book publishing for over forty years, for presses including Oxford University Press, Churchill Livingstone, and John Wiley & Sons and as CEO of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers. She has herself edited a peer-reviewed journal: Learned Publishing. She has played a leading role in many industry and publisher/library groups and has written and lectured widely on copyright and journal publishing.Barnas, Ed: - Ed Barnas has worked in journal publishing for over thirty-five years. His expertise covers submission through publication, print and online, the sciences and the humanities. Ed's experience covers both not-for-profit and for-profit sectors at Cambridge University Press, Raven Press, John Wiley & Sons and the American Institute of Physics. Ed has been active in various publishing groups and served a term as President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP).Lafrenier, Douglas: - Douglas LaFrenier has held a variety of advertising, marketing, and sales positions at Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, W. H. Freeman and Company, the consulting firm Robert Ubell Associates, and the American Institute of Physics. He is a former Board member of SSP, and a frequent speaker about online publishing issues at meetings of SSP, the Special Libraries Association, the Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives, and the Charleston Conference.
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