Last week, the following press release about the first issue of the Journal of Animal Ethics caught the attention of the UK press: Animal Language Sends Wrong Message A call for […]
Category: journals
Disclaimer (I regret any deviation from our usual standards)
Today’s Inside Higher Ed features a report on the brouhaha caused by a special disclaimer that three regular editors of Synthese (a journal focusing on the philosophy of science) slapped […]
The Journal of Animal Ethics
From the press release: A ground-breaking new journal covering the issue of animal ethics has been launched by a US and UK academic partnership with the goal of widening international […]
AJP in The New Yorker
In the March 14 issue of The New Yorker, Jill Lepore cites The American Journal of Psychology in the opening paragraph of her article about G. Stanley Hall and the […]
Page, Carton, Panel, Mat
Last week, Lisa Bayer passed along a link to a Chronicle of Higher Education article by Tushar Rae about the issue of citation standards for e-books: since e-text reflows […]
To Be Open-Access or Not to Be. That Is the Question (at least for today).
Today’s Inside Higher Ed features an interesting article about a new study that has raised doubts about the so-called “citation advantage” for scholars publishing in open-access journals as opposed to […]
Regime Change
Editor turnover is a constant, healthy thing in the journals world, and editors ending their terms are usually excited about having more time to dedicate to their own writing, research, […]
American Music article winner of ASCAP award
We are very excited to have received word that J. Peter Burkholder’s article, “Music of the Americas and Historical Narratives,” from the Winter 2009 issue of our journal American Music, […]
UIP Journals Division is actively seeking new acquisitions
The University of Illinois Press Journals Division is seeking to expand its family of humanities and social science journals. We specialize in providing custom packages of publishing services to our […]
Double Rainbow* Connections
Working at a press that publishes both books and journals is great because it’s a world populated with many different subjects, authors, blog posts, etc. But in the journals department, […]
William Ayers Set to Retire from UIC; In Other News, Glenn Beck’s Head Explodes
Late last week, several media news outlets, including the Chicago Tribune and NPR, reported on the impending retirement of University of Illinois at Chicago professor William Ayers. Most of the […]
Publishing secrets revealed!
What does it take to get an article published in a scholarly journal? Sound, original scholarship, you say? That’s important, but what about presentation? How do you go about interesting […]