Review of The Business of Being a Writer (Jane Friedman), which presents a twenty-first century guide to the publishing industry, aimed at those who are beginning a career in writing.
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Volume 21, No. 1
2018Book Review: Chris Mackenzie Jones, Behind the Book: Eleven Authors on Their Path to Publication
Rafael Chaiken
2018Review of Behind the Book: Eleven Authors on Their Path to Publication (Chris Mackenzie Jones), featuring interviews of eleven first-time trade authors, using their stories to provide advice for aspiring writers.
“Let’s start a journal!”: The Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Journal as Educational Opportunity
Daniel Paul O’Donnell, et al.
2018Details the lessons learned by the University of Lethbridge’s Graduate Students Association while establishing a multidisciplinary, institution-focused graduate journal.
An argument against NPM told as a fictitious story.
Book Review: Peter Ginna, ed. What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing.
Johanna Meetz
2018Review of What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing (Peter Ginna, ed.), a collection of essays offering stories of editing from various perspectives.
Review of The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition, which includes an online counterpart with additional electronic resources.
How does one publish and preserve a piece of complex multimedia work in a way that balances competing archival, scholarly, and creative needs?
JEP's Editor bids the journal a fond farewell and looks toward the future.
A study of research articles about the open access (OA) movement, and how many of them are published non-OA, in paywalled journals.
Reimagining the Digital Monograph: Design Thinking to Build New Tools for Researchers
Alex Humphreys
2018A JSTOR Labs Report, June 2017.
Greater transparency can lead to getting to reasonable BPCs with less acrimony than has been the case with journal APCs.
Volume 20, No. 1
2017By supporting self-publishing initiatives in their communities, public libraries can promote standards of quality in self-publishing.
Enhancing Metacognition: Nursing Faculty’s Perceived Usage of Interactive E-Book Technologies
Boas J. Yu and Mary E. Wombwell
May 2017An assessment of the likelihood of classroom e-book adoption by faculty and learners.
A study to illuminate the differentials in book pricing by format, which can appear arbitrary and unpredictable.
Peer reviewing: a private affair between the individual researcher and the publishing houses, or a responsibility of the university?
Leif Longva, Eirik Reierth, Lars Moksness, and Bård Smedsrød
May 2017An argument for improving the quality of published research by making peer review a priority for universities.
Counting research ⇒ directing research. The hazard of using simple metrics to evaluate scientific contributions. An EU experience.
Kai A. Olsen and Alessio Malizia
May 2017Careful considerations on how we measure and prove the value of research.
Reassembling Scholarly Communications: An Evaluation of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Monograph Initiative
John W. Maxwell, Alessandra Bordini, Katie Shamash
April 2017A review of thirteen projects in the monograph ecosystem funded by the Mellon Foundation.
A note from our editor as JEP transitions to a rolling issue format.