Category Archives: Publishing

How Literary Agents Made Italian Publishing Transnational: An Interview with Anna Ferrando

Posted on August 15, 2025 by stuartelden

How Literary Agents Made Italian Publishing Transnational: An Interview with Anna Ferrando – Journal of the History of Ideas blog with Rose Facchini Anna Ferrando is a researcher in Contemporary History at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the … Continue reading →

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Martin Paul Eve, Some personal notes on the REF OA mandate for books

Posted on June 27, 2024 by stuartelden

Martin Paul Eve, Some personal notes on the REF OA mandate for books Some interesting thoughts about the proposed change for open access for books in UK research assessment. It’s part a response to the British Academy call for a … Continue reading →

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Matthew Gandy, ‘Books under threat: Open access publishing and the neo-liberal academy’ – Area, open access

Posted on May 8, 2023 by stuartelden

Matthew Gandy, ‘Books under threat: Open access publishing and the neo-liberal academy‘ – Area, open access. An important piece about how a good idea – that books should be available to a wider audience – can have negative consequences. Given … Continue reading →

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Journal peer review is increasingly challenged – there are no easy solutions, but here’s a few thoughts

Posted on October 18, 2021 by stuartelden

Journal editors struggle to find reviewers; authors face unreasonable delays with their papers being reviewed. Reviewers receive a lot of requests. Peer review is particularly challenged in the present moment. But it has been creaking for a long time. Without … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault Update 29 – Paris, Tübingen and a book on the 1960s

Posted on January 23, 2020 by stuartelden

Since the last update on the writing of this book a couple of months ago, I’ve been continuing work on this manuscript. Some of this was following up on things that I discovered when in Switzerland in November, especially relating to … Continue reading →

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Douglas Armato of University of Minnesota Press on ‘The Value of University Presses’ – statement and discussion

Posted on August 6, 2019 by stuartelden

Douglas Armato of University of Minnesota Press on ‘The Value of University Presses’ – updated statement here; discussion here.

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Open access monographs: perspectives from university presses

Posted on March 25, 2019 by stuartelden

Open access monographs: perspectives from university presses – at WONKHE As Research England formulates a requirement for open access monographs in future Research Excellence Frameworks (REFs), let us consider how university presses publish single-subject, often single-author, scholarly works and participate in … Continue reading →

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Jo van Every – About the Short Guides Series on writing and publishing

Posted on January 2, 2019 by stuartelden

Jo van Every, About the Short Guides Series – an introduction to her series of books about academic writing and publishing. The third volume is due out soon. As I was finalising the third volume in this series of books, my … Continue reading →

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Liz Morrish and Helen Sauntson, Academic Irregularities: Language and Neoliberalism in Higher Education – forthcoming from Routledge

Posted on October 8, 2018 by stuartelden

Liz Morrish and Helen Sauntson, Academic Irregularities: Language and Neoliberalism in Higher Education – forthcoming from Routledge. Announcement on the Academic Irregularities blog, from which I’ve taken the following description: We all know that universities in the UK and elsewhere … Continue reading →

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Open access journals, guest editors, and a new means of exploitation

Posted on September 28, 2018 by stuartelden

I’ve recently turned down an ‘invitation’ to serve as the editor of an article for a new open access journal. It’s actually with a recognised an reputable publisher, rather than these pop-up ones of dubious merit. Given its very broad … Continue reading →

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