1. Journal and Book Publishing
2014
Journal and Book Publishing
Harmen van Paradijs
Editorial Director Springer

2. Your research is not complete until it has been published!
Why publish?
Your research is not complete until it has been published!
To share your research findings and opinions with the international research community
To better your understanding of your own findings, by explaining them to outside researchers
To participate in a positive scientific culture of sharing and communication – your identity as an academic
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However, you need to be able to explain your results, your findings and what they mean to a global research audience. And it needs to be done so that your work is easily understandable to a reader. Scientists, researchers in general are curious people, that’s why they do what they do. You need to exchange your ideas at a global level so that other people are aware of what you’ve done and there is a permanent record and so that it’s not unnecessarily repeated.
HOWEVER, to effectively share your findings with the world, clear language is NECESSARY and CRITICAL!
And if you haven’t been told this previously, you need to know that your research ISN’T ACTUALLY COMPLETE until it’s been published! You may do good science, but if you don’t get it published then really it’s only a hobby.

3. Why publish in English? The international language of science
Other academics WANT to hear from you!
Allows you to become an effective science communicator
Number of publications is linked to funding success
Your obligation/duty as an academic!
IT CAN BE DIFFICULT and take a long time to publish in English BUT…
English IS currently the international language of science. That may change at some point in the future, but for now you must publish your findings in English
Other scientists WANT to hear from you – they are interested in science from other labs, other countries. Share your findings and opinions with the international research community.
You can become an effective AND better communicator of science. You become a part of the process SO YOU CAN CHANGE IT! Be involved.
Publishing in English increases what is know as the ‘global knowledge base’.
The number of publications you have is directly related to a successful career as an academic and a researcher. The more publications you are an author on, the greater your reputation and esteem; it also increases your chances of grant funding.
It is your obligation AND duty as a scientist to publish!
Thomson Reuters ISI datrabase

4. Journal Publishing
OK, so you need to start writing, how do you structure the actual manuscript itself?
One of the best pieces of advice I’ve heard from an experienced researcher with lots of publications to their name, is that in your manuscript, or your thesis or any sort of scientific report, you are telling a story. And it’s a story about your research. Like all stories, it needs to have a beginning, a middle and an end.
[Question: Using a show of hands, how many people have heard of the IMRaD or expanded IMRaD model?]
IMRaD refers to the major sections that normally comprise a scientific manuscript and the order in which they are presented. The Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion. But over time this has expanded somewhat to include other sections. Of course, depending on your field of study and target journal, your manuscript may not include all these sections and in other cases may have extra sections.

5. Journals Growth Data from Ulrich’s International
Periodicals Directory on CD-ROM Fall 2004 Edition
CAGR 3.0%
: CAGR 3.8%
CAGR 4.5%
: CAGR 3.9%
(Source: Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory on CD-ROM Fall 2004 Edition, active refereed academic/scholarly periodicals)

6. Taiwan as creator of scientific information
CAGR: 10%
(Source: SCImago Journal & Country Rank, Retrieved March 2014, from

7. Taiwan’s research output by disciplines
Top 3 fastest growing subdisciplines: Energy, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Environmental Science
(Source: SCImago Journal & Country Rank, Retrieved March, from

8. Journals
Launched in 2012
Launched in 2006
Launched in 2002

9. Books
Well that was a big section, and I presented a lot of information there. Does anybody have any questions before I move on to the final section?

10. I have an idea! I have an idea for a book
What type of book shall I write?
How do I get started?

11. Book Publishing Options
1. Monograph
A scholarly book, or a treatise, on a single subject or a group of related subjects. A non-serial work (not in a series), often singled authored but also co-authored. Often called a ‘research monograph’
2. Edited Volume
Also known as a contributed volume. Invited works. Often one or more volume editors. Organized thematically. Wide focus, interdisciplinary.
3. Proceedings
Collection of academic papers published in the context of an academic conference, congress, symposium, summer school, workshop, etc. Sometimes sponsored by a Society or Association, usually including abstracts or reports of papers presented by the participants.

12. 4. Major Reference Works – Encyclopedia’s
A single or multi-volume reference work that provides general background on either a wide range of topics or a more specialized discipline, for example an encyclopedia.
5. Handbooks
Similar to MRW’s, a concise compilation of approved key information on methods of research, general principles, and functional relationships
6. Springer Briefs
concise summaries of cutting-edge research, compact refereed monographs,
publish 8 to 12 weeks after acceptance, 50 to 125 pages with a clear focus
Timely reports of state-of-the art analytical techniques, bridges between
new research results, snapshots of hot and/or emerging topics, literature
reviews, and in-depth case studies.

13. 10 Steps to getting your book published
1. Develop idea for a book
2. Write proposal and send to Springer
3. external review
4. Decision to publish (or not)
5. contract
6. Writing
7. external review of manuscript
8. final manuscript
9. production
10. Publication – print and eBook

14. The Proposal 4 page Word template Title information
Author/Editor information
Book Information
Competitive Literature
Additional Information

15. Things to consider Regional focus vs international focus
Single author vs edited volume
Narrow/specifc focus vs broader focus
Uniqueness
Building on a body of existing literature (journal articles)
Reworking a thesis into a book is a lot of work
Choose one target audience, not multiple audiences

16. The Contract (or Publishing Agreement)

17. Instructions for Authors

18. Being Published!
Being published that your book will be available in different formats: traditional print, as an eBook, and in some markets as a lower priced paperback MyCopy edition.
All books are produced in XML, which that we can provide eBooks in a variety of formats, including PDF, HTML and ePub.
XML ensures that that the electronic files for each eBook version can be quickly disseminated to our distribution partners in the format that they have specified

19. Books vs. Journals
Academic books have a different purpose from academic journals
An academic book is a complete scholarly work on a specific topic
An academic journal, known as a ‘serial’, is intended to be an ongoing publication
These mostly publish primary papers although there are journals that solely publish reviews (secondary papers)
Both books and journals useful information to scientists on a topic. But they each have a different purpose.
Academic books tend to be a complete work on a very specific topic. Whilst a journal is an ongoing publication that publishes primary research papers.

20. Books vs. Journals
Book chapters fulfil a similar role to review articles, with books representing a collection of manuscripts on related topics
These are published together under a book title that unites the collection
By contrast, review articles published in journals are usually unrelated to all of the other articles in the same issue
They are published because they are timely and the journal editors believe a review is warranted
Book chapters are said to fulfill a similar role to review articles. It can be said that books can represent a collection of manuscripts on related topics. These are then published together under a title for the book that unifies the collection.
In contrast to this, when you see a review article in a journal, it is highly likely that it will be unrelated to the other articles that have been published in the same issue. Review article in journals are published because they are timely and the editors of the journal believe that a review is needed. Maybe because there is a lot of published material that needs to be united. Or it’s a new and emerging field where a lot of publications have been produced in a very short space of time.

21. The Golden Rules of Publishing in Today’s Environment
1. Your content has to be online
2. Your content has to be “findable”
SEO
A&I services
Library portals
Book search programs
eRetail
Social Media
Push marketing

22. Dissemination and discoverability
Your work is distributed to a broad an audience as possible. Our current distribution channels include:
SpringerLink – millions of downloads per year
Amazon
eBook reading devices, such as iPad, Nook, Sony Reader
Google Books
Booksellers
MyCopy

23. Thank you Questions? Harmen van Paradijs Editorial Director
Springer Science+Business Media Singapore Pte Ltd