It appears that I might be a little late to the game judging by the Technorati reactions; however, that will not stop me now or in the near future. After some initial prompting from Richard Frank, this stellar introductory piece for graduate students posted back in January (universalized for all disciplines) details four avenues for publication: book reviews, conference presentations, articles and replies, and books. Abstract:
Graduate students often lack concrete advice on publishing. This essay is an attempt to fill this important gap. Advice is given on how to publish everything from book reviews to
articles, replies to book chapters, and how to secure both edited book contracts and authored monograph contracts, along with plenty of helpful tips and advice on the publishing world (and how it works) along the way in what is meant to be a comprehensive, concrete guide to publishing that should be of tremendous value to graduate students working in any area of the humanities and social sciences.
For those who are already familiar with the publishing game, this article may not be overly useful – but passing it on to others who could use a basic instruction manual would benefit. Not all of the advice is germane to every journal and discipline (for example, it seems less journals do actual paper submissions as suggested by the article section, but dealing with e-mail submissions are covered elsewhere) – however, lacking specific advice in every section is to be expected from anything less than a multvolume book series. It is currently one of the most downloaded articles for Political Science on SSRN and worth the read.
