Within the Academy, itself a changing and increasingly entrepreneurial entity, publishing is no longer an option; it is the universal currency that secures a position, tenure and promotion; it is key to academic life. Providing a panoramic picture of the changing publishing climate, this book will empower scholars by enabling them to navigate this changing terrain more successfully. This book provides guidance from a range of contributors who use their own wide expertise in writing and publication to document the challenges faced by scholars at different career stages and in different locations.

Part I. Mapping the publication landscape --By book and by blog : the future of academic scholarship / Andy Hargreaves and Ciaran Sugrue -- The panoply of publication : continuity and change / Ciaran Sugrue -- Calculating journal rankings : peer review, bibliometrics, and alternative metrics? / Lutz Bornmann, Werner Marx & Robin Hauschild -- Part II. Writing for publication - learning from successful voices -- Voices of experience : scholar(ly) perspectives on the emotions, imagination and creativity of writing for publication / Sefika Mertkan & Ciaran Sugrue -- Getting my work out there : writing the paper / Barbara Grant -- Understanding the peer review process : reject, revise, resubmit / Tony Bush -- Text work/identity work online : writing for social media and beyond / Pat Thomson -- Part III. Further challenges and possibilities -- In praise of knowledge bureaucracies : speaking to international audiences / Slawomir Magala -- From a thesis to journal articles / Sefika Mertkan -- Playing the game : writing for elite international journals in an uneven academic world / Simon McGrath -- Academic writing for publication : a backward glance, glimpsing possible futures / Ciaran Sugrue & Sefika Mertkan.