1. Graduate Student Publishing Brown Bag Charlotte Roh, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries October 27, 2015

2. Why do you need to know about publishing?

3. Publication is the central requirement for tenure and promotion.

4. How do I get published?

5. Just be awesome? Work hard and be fierce?

6. That always works.

7. Submission, Review, Publication

8. How do I know where to submit?  Tenure requirements  Make sure you know what publications count and don’t count for tenure! Some publications count more than others.  Influence/impact in your field (and therefore your career)  Do you read articles from these journals in your classes?  Do faculty in your department read these journals?  Do you see known authors publishing in these journals?  Don’t discount society newsletters, blogs, and conference proceedings. If they’re widely read, they can get your name out there and result in more formal publications.

9. What happens when I submit? You submit an abstract, article, or proposal. The editor (or editorial board) takes a quick look and decides it’s worth a review. Journal Your work gets sent out to a couple reviewers. They decide whether it’s good, needs revision, or is no good. Your fellow academics The journal tells you whether your work is accepted or needs revision and possibly re-review. It gets published. You and the Journal

10. What happens when I submit? You submit a proposal with a few chapters. The editor (or editorial board) takes a quick look and decides it’s worth a review. Book publisher Your work gets sent out to a couple reviewers. They decide whether it’s good, needs revision, or is no good. Your fellow academics Puts together a package with marketing and sales projecting success It is approved with stakeholders Book publisher You are offered a contract. It gets published. You and the book publisher

11. At this point, you hold the power.

12. Publishing Politics and Etiquette

13. Know your rights as an author.  What is copyright?  What is licensing?  What are your expectations of the publisher?  What are your obligations to your institution?  What do you plan to do with this work in the future?

14. I’m nervous about it.  What are they looking for? Is my idea good enough?  New and hot: Look up your topic and make sure it’s new information.  Important to the field: Check with your advisor to see if it’s important and adds to your field of study.  Mass appeal: Ask the editor or editorial board if they have time to look over your proposal before formal submission.  Is my writing good enough?  Take advantage of the Writing Center and OPD workshops!  Ask your friends to review – nobody can edit themselves.  Read the submission guidelines and their other publications.

15. How to be better: Networking for publication  Conferences: Publishers and editors  Co-authors: Partner but be clear on credit  Contacts of your mentors: If they believe in your work, have them recommend you for publication.  Customize your proposal to the publisher: It’s like a cover letter.  Ask questions if you don’t understand something.  Volunteer for publications: Reviewer, intern, copyedit

16. Questions? Slides at http://works.bepress.com/charlotteroh/http://works.bepress.com/charlotteroh/ For consultations contact charlotteroh@library.umass.educharlotteroh@library.umass.edu Thanks to the Graduate Students of Color Association and the Graduate School Office of Professional Development for their support of this event and for the pizza! Next publishing event is Monday, November 16 th 5-7pm

17. Data from Publisher’s Weekly 2014 annual salary survey.

18. Data from the National Center for Education Statistics https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d14/tables/dt14_315.20.asp

19. Why does this matter? The dearth of minority employees directly affects the types of books that are published, industry members agreed, and for this issue to be addressed, there needs to be more advocates for books involving people of color throughout the business, including in management, editorial, and marketing executives in publishing houses, as well as among booksellers and librarians. - Milliot, J. “Publishing’s Holding Pattern: 2014 Salary Survey” (2014). Publisher’s Weekly. http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher- news/article/64083-publishing-s-holding-pattern-2013-salary-survey.html

20. It always matters. The concept of neutral relevance is an oxymoron, and yet neutrality is often what is sought in the design of search algorithms. In a recent antitrust lawsuit brought against Google, rival search engines demanded that Google use “neutral” search algorithms and display search results in a “neutral” manner. One need not invoke feminist theory to see how meaningless such a demand is; Forbes, hardly a bastion of feminist thought, called the concept of a neutral search engine “incoherent” (Ammori and Pelican, 2012). - Sadler, B., Bourg, C. “Feminism and the Future of Library Discovery” (2015) Code4Lib Journal http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/10425http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/10425 Refers also to Safiya Noble’s research and article “Missed Connections: What Search Engines Say About Women” in Bitch Magazine http://safiyaunoble.com/2012/03/08/bitch-magazine-article/ http://safiyaunoble.com/2012/03/08/bitch-magazine-article/