“Publishing with University Presses” webinar series
Career-related Teaching, Promotion, Tenure, Publishing
Publishing/Scholarly Communication
Copyright and Intellectual Property
Writing/Style
Preparing Materials for Publication
Journals Publishing
“Publishing with University Presses” webinar series
This 4-part series was organized by the 2025-2026 AUPresses Faculty Outreach Committee and sponsored by Rutgers University-New Brunswick Graduate School of Education; Samuel Dewitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice; and Center for Minority Serving Institutions. Video recordings for each webinar will be linked below as they become available:
“Turning Your Dissertation into a Book” (October 2025)
“Publishing with a University Press” (November 2025)
“Making Your Book Public” (February 2026)
“How to Publish in Academic Journals” (April 2026)
Career-related Teaching, Promotion, Tenure, Publishing
Alexander, Patrick H. “The Less Obvious Elements of an Effective Book Proposal.” Chronicle of Higher Education 17 October 2011. http://chronicle.com/article/The-Less-Obvious-Elements-of/129361/.
———. “What Just Ain’t So.” Inside Higher Education. 6 April 2009. https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/04/06/what-just-aint-so.
American Academy of Religion. https://www.aarweb.org/AARMBR/Resources/AARMBR/Resources.aspx?hkey=6184ade7-b1ac-4f52-9173-d2eb23da6735
American Anthropological Association, Career Center. https://www.americananthro.org/AdvanceYourCareer/index.aspx?navItemNumber=504&navItemNumber=581
American Historical Association. http://www.historians.org/.
American Philosophical Association, Career Resources. http://www.apaonline.org/?page=career.
Ashworth, Samuel. “That Personalized Email About Loving and Marketing Your Book Is a Scam,” Electric Lit, December 9, 2025.
Association of University Presses, Annual Membership Directory.
Authors Guild. Publishing Scam Alerts. 2025
Blum, Hester. “Show ’em Who You Are.” Inside Higher Education. 11 September 2013. http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2013/09/11/essay-seeking-job-academe.
Cassuto, Leonard. “The Rise of the Mini-monograph: Is it senior professors, rather than administrators, who are most reluctant to embrace midlength e-books for tenure?” Chronicle of Higher Education. 12 August 2013. http://chronicle.com/article/The-Rise-of-the-Mini-Monograph/141007/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en.
Colesworthy, Rebecca. “Why I’m Wary of Publishing Advice, but Will Offer It Anyway” and other columns, Chronicle of Higher Education, from September 20, 2023 on.
Colesworthy, Rebecca, and Alec Loganbill. “Don’t Go It Alone! And Other Tips on How To Get Your First Book Published with a University Press.” HigherEdJobs.com, November 11, 2025.
Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. Planned Obsolescence: Publishing Technology and the Future of the Academy. NYU Press, 2011. https://nyupress.org/9780814727881/planned-obsolescence/.
Housewright, Ross, Roger C Schonfeld, Kate Wulfson. “Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2012.” http://www.sr.ithaka.org/research-publications/us-faculty-survey-2012.
Harley, Diane, Sophia Krzys Acord, Shannon Lawrence, and Elise Herrala. “Peer Review in Academic Promotion and Publishing: Its Meaning, Locus, and Future.” Center for the Study of Higher Education. March 2011. https://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/peer-review-academic-promotion-and-publishing-its-meaning-locus-and-future
Kelsky, Karen. “The Professor is In: Tenure Expectations.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. Vitae. 23 February 2015. http://bit.ly/1EMm4B8.
———. The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. into a Job. Three Rivers Press, 2015.
Linguistic Society of America, Jobs Center. http://www.linguisticsociety.org/jobs-center.
Luey, Beth. Handbook for Academic Authors. 5th ed. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
McCutcheon, Russell. “Theses on Professionalization.” The Religious Studies Project. 29 February 2012. http://bit.ly/1hCXTPM.
MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion. Report on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion. 2007. http://www.mla.org/tenure_promotion
Portwood-Stacer, Laura. The Book Proposal Book: A Guide for Scholarly Authors. Princeton University Press, 2021.
Satell, Greg. “Why Communication Is Today’s Most Important Skill.” Forbes 6 February 2015. http://onforb.es/18ZvSO8.
Saussy, Haun. “Reviewing Scholarly Books.” Printculture: Media, Culture, Politics, Academic Life, Weasels 25 August 2013. http://printculture.com/reviewing-scholarly-books/.
SBL Career Resources. https://www.sbl-site.org/careercenter/jobs.aspx.
Shaberg, Christopher. “Publish or Perish? Yes. Embrace It.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. 15 February 2016. http://bit.ly/1XvfloE.
Shives, Katie. “When It Comes to Dissertations, Done Is Best.” Inside Higher Ed, 6 March 2016. http://bit.ly/1RONUEj.,
Steel, Colin. “Scholarly Monograph Publishing in the 21st Century: The Future More than Ever Should Be an Open Book.” Journal of Electronic Publishing 11 (2, 2008): http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0011.201.
Think. Check. Submit. (This international initiative helps researchers identify trusted journals and publishers for their research, offering a range of tools and practical resources. AUPresses is a contributing organization.)
Toor, Rachel. “Why It’s Important to Write a Proposal for an Academic Book. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 19 May 2020. https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-its-important-to-write-a-proposal-for-an-academic-book
Toor, Rachel. “The Reality of Writing a Good Book Proposal.” The Chronicle of Higher Education 11 February 2013. http://chronicle.com/article/The-Reality-of-Writing-a-Good/137207.
———. “How to Write a Good Book Proposal, the Sequel.” The Chronicle of Higher Education 8 October 2013. http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-Write-a-Good-Book/142183/.
University Press of Mississippi. “How Do I Spot a Scam?” 2025
Wager, Elizabeth, Fiona Godlee, and Tom Jefferson, How to Survive Peer Review. Wiley, 2002.
Publishing/Scholarly Communication
Biggins, Walter. “Editorial Boards, the Unsung Ride-or-Dies of the UP World.” The H-Net Book Channel, October 16, 2024.
Brown, Laura, Rebecca Griffiths, and Matthew Rascoff. “University Publishing In A Digital Age” 2007 https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/university-publishing-in-a-digital-age/
Cocks, Catherine. “Publishing the Public Humanities,” Public Humanities vol. 1 (2024).
H-Net Book Channel. Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications (blog)
Krissoff, Derek. “The State of Book Publicity Now: Q&A with Carrie Olivia Adams.” Book Work (blog), February 16, 2026.
Thompson, John. Books in a Digital Age: The Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in Britain and the United States. Polity, 2005.
University of California Press. “The Top Myths in Academic Publishing.” 2025.
Whitmyer, Claude. “The New ‘Book Club’ Scam Targeting Authors and How to Spot It.” Medium, November 26, 2025.
Copyright and Intellectual Property
American Library Association copyright webinars
ASCAP ACE Database (song lyrics)
Association of University Presses Intellectual Property and Copyright Committee. Permissions FAQs. 2018.
___. Social Media Reproduction: Best Practices for Academic Books. 2022.
Aufderheide, Patricia, Peter Jaszi, et al. “Copyright, Permissions, and Fair Use among Visual Artists and the Academic and Museum Visual Arts Communities: An Issues Report.” The College Art Association 29 January 2014 (http://bit.ly/1p9UaXO).
Aufderheide, Patricia, and Peter Jaszi. Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright.2nd Edition. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Bielstein, Susan, M. Permissions: A Survival Guide: Blunt Talk about Art as Intellectual Property. University of Chicago Press, 2006.
University of Chicago Press. Chicago Manual of Style, 18th ed. University of Chicago Press, 2024.
Center for Media and Social Impact Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Poetry. 2011.
College Art Association Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts. 2015.
Concerning Governmental Copyright Reform (US Department of Commerce, 2013.)
Copyright Term and Public Domain in the United States (Cornell University)
“Crash Copyright Course.” (University of Texas Libraries)
Creative Commons, esp. “Share Your Work” (licenses)
Fair Use Checklist (Columbia University Libraries)
Fair Use Checklist (Health Sciences Library, Ohio State University)
Fair Use and Copyright (Stanford University Libraries)
“Hearing on the Scope of Fair Use: House Judiciary Committee. Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet.” https://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=101677.
International Standard Musical Work Code
“Public Access to Public Science Act.” Introduce in the House 20 Sept. 2013. See http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/3157.
Strong, William S. The Copyright Book: A Practical Guide. 6th ed. MIT Press, 2014.
United States Copyright Office
WATCH (Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders) File (Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin)
Writing/Style
Adler, Mortimer J., and Charles Van Doren. How to Read a Book. Revised and updated. Touchstone, 1972.
Alexander, Patrick H. [Pressed, I. M. D.] “Scholarly Writing under Siege.” CSSR Bulletin 28 (4, 1999): 126–31.
Becker, Howard S. Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article. 3rd ed. University of Chicago Press, 2020.
Belcher, Wendy Laura. Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success. 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Bennett, Drake, “Thinking Literally: The Surprising Ways that Metaphors Shape Your World.” The Boston Globe. September 27, 2009. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/27/thinking_literally/.
Berlin, Isaiah. “The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities.” Pages 80–110 in Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas. Edited and with a bibliography by H. Hardy. The Hogarth Press, 1979.
Boice, Robert. Professors as Writers: A Self-Help Guide to Productive Writing. New Forums Press, 1990.
———. How Writers Journey to Comfort and Fluency: A Psychological Approach. Praeger, 1994.
Bolker, Joan. Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide To Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis. Henry Holt, 1998.
Brooks, David. “Meeting the Editors.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. 9 May 2011.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/meeting-the-editors/
Brown, Scott. “A Guide to Writing Academic Essays in Religious Studies.” CSSR Bulletin 28 (3, 1999): 69–76.
Butterfield, Jeremy, ed. R.W Burchfield and Henry W. Fowler. Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage. 4th ed. Oxford University Press, 2015.
Cassuto, Leonard, “From Dissertation to Book.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. 30 May 2011. https://www.chronicle.com/article/from-dissertation-to-book/.
———. “It’s a Dissertation, Not a Book.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. 24 July 2011. https://www.chronicle.com/article/its-a-dissertation-not-a-book/
Cook, Claire Kehrwald. Line by Line: How to Improve Your Own Writing. Houghton Mifflin/MLA, 1985.
Corral, Will H. “Beware the Language Police.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. 11 July 2003. http://www.chronicle.com/weekly/v49/i44/44b00501.htm.
Davidson, Cathy N. and Ken Wissoker. “Academic Book Publishing.” Pages 315-33 in The Academic’s Handbook, Edited by A. Leigh Deneef and Craufurd D. Goodwin. 4th ed. Duke University Press, 2020.
Derricourt, Robin. An Author’s Guide to Scholarly Publishing. Princeton University Press, 1996.
Dillard, Annie, The Writing Life. Harper, 1990.
Fulford, Robert. “They Should Know Better: Humanities Scholars Spend Lots of Time Reading, So Why Can’t They Write?” National Post. Tuesday, 15 July 2003. http://www.robertfulford.com/2003-07-15-humanities.html.
Germano, William. From Dissertation to Book. 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press, 2013.
———. Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books. 3rd ed. University of Chicago Press, 2016.
———. On Revision: The Only Writing That Counts. University of Chicago Press, 2021
Gordon, Karen Elizabeth. The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed. Pantheon, 1993.
Greenbaum, Sidney. The Oxford English Grammar. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Groff, Kent Ira. Writing Tides: Finding Grace and Growth through Writing. Abingdon Press, 2007.
Harman, Eleanor, Ian Montagnes, Siobhan McMenemy, and Chris Bucci, editors. The Thesis and the Book: A Guide for First-Time Academic Authors. University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Hayot, Eric. The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities. Columbia University Press, 2014.
Hornstein, Gail A. “Prune That Prose: Learning to Write for Readers beyond Academe.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. 7 September 2009. http://chronicle.com/article/Prune-That-Prose/48273/.
King, Stephen. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Twentieth Anniversary Edition. Scribner, 2020.
Knox, Katelyn E. and Alison Van Deventer. The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook: Exercises for Developing and Revising Your Book Manuscript. University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. Anchor Doubleday, 1995.
Lindberg, Christine A. The Oxford American Thesaurus of Current English. Oxford University Press, 1999.
Lepore, Jill. “The New Economy of Letters: The Chronicle Review.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. 3 September 2013. http://chronicle.com/article/The-New-Economy-of-Letters/141291/?cid=cr.
Luey, Beth, editor. Revising Your Dissertation: Advice from Leading Editors, updated edition. University of California Press, 2007.
Lyons, Siobhan. “Redetermining Paradigmatic Norms: Is There Hope for Academic Writing?” The Conversation. 26 July 2016. http://theconversation.com/redetermining-paradigmatic-norms-is-there-any-hope-for-academic-writing-62968.
Mason, Alane Salierno, “10 Tips for Academics Writing for a General Audience.” Medium. 13 May 2016. http://bit.ly/25iraWQ.
Miller, James. “Is Bad Writing Necessary? George Orwell, Theodor Adorno, and the Politics of Literature.” Lingua Franca 9.9 (December/January 2000). http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9912/writing.html.
Miller, Naomi J. “Following Your Scholarly Passions.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. 25 March 2002. http://chronicle.com/article/Following-Your-Scholarly/45988/.
O’Connor, Patricia T. Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English. 4th ed. Riverhead, 2019.
Olson, Gary A. “It Is Who You Know and Who Knows You.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. 10 January 2010. http://chronicle.com/article/It-Is-Who-You-KnowWho/63560/.
Orwell, George. “Politics and the English Language.” In A Collection of Essays. Harcourt Brace, 1946. https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/
Plotnik, Arthur. The Elements of Editing: A Modern Guide for Editors and Journalists. Macmillan, 1982.
Pressed, I. M. D. “Scholarly Writing under Siege.” CSSR Bulletin 28 (4, 1999): 126–31.
Savage, William W. Jr. “‘Times Ain’t Now Nothin’ Like They Used to Be,’” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 34 (3, April 2003) 146–52.
Savage, William W. Jr. “Scribble, Scribble Toil and Trouble: Forced Productivity in the Modern University.” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 35 (1, 2003) 40–46. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_scholarly_publishing/v035/35.1savage.html.
The SBL Handbook of Style: For Biblical Studies and Related Disciplines. 2d ed. SBL Press, 2014.
Stainton, Elsie Myers. The Fine Art of Copyediting. 2d ed. Columbia University Press, 2002.
Strunk, William, Jr., and E. B. White. The Elements of Style. 4th ed. Pearson Higher Education, 1999.
Sword, Helen. “Zombie Nouns.” The New York Times July 23, 2012. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/zombie-nouns/?src=me&ref=general.
Sword, Helen. Stylish Academic Writing. Harvard University Press, 2012
Thomas, Hanna, and Anna Hirsch. Sum of Us: A Progressive’s Style Guide.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.sumofus.org/images/SUMOFUS_PROGRESSIVE-STYLEGUIDE.pdf
Toor, Rachel. “My Little Bag of Writing Tricks.” Do Your Job. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 3 September 2013. http://chronicle.com/article/My-Little-Bag-of-Writing/141309/.
———. “Scholars Talk about Writing: Sam Wineburg.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. 17 August 2015. http://bit.ly/1JcM2Cz.
———. “Bad Writing and Bad Thinking.” The Chronicle of Higher Education April 15, 2010. https://www.chronicle.com/article/bad-writing-and-bad-thinking/
———. “Goodbye to All That.” The Chronicle of Higher Education March 24, 2008. https://www.chronicle.com/article/goodbye-to-all-that/
———. “The Habit of Writing.” The Chronicle of Higher Education February 11, 2010. http://chronicle.com/article/The-Habit-of-Writing/64001/?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_.
———. Think of Yourself as a Writer. The Chronicle of Higher Education Mary 7, 2011.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/think-of-yourself-as-a-writer/
———. “A Publishing Primer.” The Chronicle of Higher Education August 11, 2008. https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-publishing-primer/
University of Chicago Press. The Chicago Manual of Style: The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers. 18th ed. University of Chicago Press, 2017. Available online: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html.
Williams, Joseph M. and Joseph Bizup. Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace. 12th ed. Pearson, 2017.
Zinsser, William. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Non-Fiction. 30th Anniversary Edition. Harper Perennial; 2006.
———. “Writing English as a Second Language.” The American Scholar December 1, 2009. https://theamericanscholar.org/writing-english-as-a-second-language/#.X2pjztYpBTY.
———. Writing to Learn. Harper Perennial, 1993.
Preparing Materials for Publication
American Society for Indexing. Best Practices for Indexing.
AUPresses Editorial, Production, and Design Committee. Guidelines for Submitting Illustrations.
University of Chicago Press. Indexes: A Chapter from the Chicago Manual of Style, 18th ed. University of Chicago Press, 2024.
DIAGRAM Center, Image Description Guidelines.
GSA Section508.gov, Authoring Meaningful Alternative Text
University of Michigan Library, Describing Visual Resources Toolkit.
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, Images Tutorial.
WebAIM, Alternative Text.
Journals Publishing
AUPresses Faculty Outreach Committee. “How to Publish Your Journal Article” slide deck, 2025.
Belcher, Wendy. Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success. 2d ed, University of Chicago Press, 2019
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (Provides guidelines and resources on ethical publishing practices, including how to avoid plagiarism and address conflicts of interest.)
Directory of Open Access Journals.
Jisc Sherpa Services (a look-up tool for open access options by journal and publisher).
Murray, Rowena.Writing for Academic Journals. 4th ed, Open University Press, 2019.
Think. Check. Submit. (This international initiative helps researchers identify trusted journals and publishers for their research, offering a range of tools and practical resources. AUPresses is a contributing organization.)
Ulrichsweb (Useful for confirming the referee status of more than 300,000 periodicals globally).
Wager, Elizabeth, Fiona Godlee, and Tom Jefferson. How to Survive Peer Review. Wiley, 2002.