Publishing your scholarly work
Career Corner at Congress 2008
Publishing 101 with the editors of three Canadian university presses
Learn how to approach a publisher and why securing Aid to Scholarly Publications Program funding is a baseline for the publication of a scholarly work in Canada, in this comprehensive panel presentation featuring:
Randy Schmidt, Editor, University of British Columbia Press
Jonathan Crago, Editor, McGill-Queen's University Press
Lisa Quinn, Acquisitions Editor, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Kel Morin-Parsons, Manager, Aid to Scholarly Publications Program
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Introduction (1:52 mins)
An overview of difference kinds of publishers (3:55 mins)
Scholarly publishers and how they work (4:41 mins)
What to consider when choosing a publisher (7:46 mins)
Approaching a publisher - The prospectus (7:02 mins)
Approaching a publisher - What to do with your dissertation - Part I (5:22 mins)
Related link:
From Dissertation to Book
Approaching a publisher - What to do with your dissertation - Part II (11:07 mins)
Why the answer to the question "When will my Book get published?" is always: "It depends" (2:56)
The stages of publication - Acquisitions (10:19 mins)
Check out University Affairs' Guide to English university presses in Canada for links and useful information to help you choose the publisher best suited to your project.
The stages of publication - peer review, approval & production (9:43 mins)
Why scholarly publishers require additional funding (4:02 mins)
About the Aid to Scholarly Publications Program (4:18 mins)
Learn more about the Aide to Scholarly Publications Program offered by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Questions from the audience and asides:
What about the publishing contract? (5:07) mins)
Is it possible to send a work to as many publishers as you like before a contract is signed? (0:31 mins)
Is it possible to publish some chapters of a thesis and turn the rest into a book? (2:30 mins)
How much additional funding is required beyond ASPP? (6:29 mins)
Can a non-Canadian be published at a Canadian scholarly press? (1:24 mins)
