What To Do When An Academic Journal Accepts Your Work
Professor Art Carden talks about marketing your work once it's been accepted by an academic journal.
Dr. Carden is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Rhodes College in Memphis, a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute, a Senior Fellow with the Beacon Center of Tennessee, and a regular contributor to Forbes.com and Mises.org.
Filmed at the Institute for Humane Studies' HSF-RC weekend seminar on November 5, 2011.
Transcript:
One of the most exciting things that is going to happen in a career as a scholar is when a paper gets accepted. An editor is going to say this paper is good enough to be published in a professional journal. So what do you do with that? They are probably going to make some editing marks and say we need to fix this, you need to fix that, you need to fix the other thing and then you’ll get page proofs eventually that you have to correct, whatever typesetting mistakes might be out there.
What are you going to want to do with accepted papers? First of all turn around any requested revisions or any requested edits as quickly as possible because you don’t want to delay the appearance of your paper either online or actually in the journal. A second thing that you are going to want to do is let people know that your paper has been accepted, let your friends know, let your family know, let your advisor know, let your colleagues know that your paper is now forthcoming in whatever journal it happens to be forthcoming in and then also let the people in your bibliography know the people you cite let them know that your papers has been accepted that your papers is forthcoming and indeed if you have a pre-print copy of it go ahead and send it to the people in your bibliography.
There might be a very long lag between when your paper is accepted and when it finally appears in print. Fortunately you’re probably going to get an electronic copy early or it might be a online early and you want to go and let people know that this contribution you have made to scholarship now appears and can be used as they try to further the conversation.