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`A comprehensive, well-written and beautifully organized book on publishing articles in the humanities and social sciences that will help its readers write forward with a first-rate guide as good company.' - Joan Bolker, author of Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day `Humorous, direct, authentic ... a seamless weave of experience, anecdote, and research.' - Kathleen McHugh, professor and director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women Wendy Laura Belcher's Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success is a revolutionary approach to enabling academic authors to overcome their anxieties and produce the publications that are essential to succeeding in their fields. Each week, readers learn a particular feature of strong articles and work on revising theirs accordingly. At the end of twelve weeks, they send their article to a journal. This invaluable resource is the only guide that focuses specifically on publishing humanities and social science journal articles.
Many publishers now make their publications freely available to read on their websites. For journal publishers, this can be via open access journals or hybrid journals where certain articles are free to read. Commercial publishers will charge authors an article processing charge after peer-review on acceptance for publication.
Whenever you are ready to submit your article to a publisher for peer review and publication, you should evaluate the journal for the best fit for your research. This guide can be useful with making such an evaluation.
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
