Publishing, Promoting Your Research, and Building Your Reputation
This advisory service is available without charge to all UA faculty, regardless of discipline, status, or rank.
Service offered by Melody Herr, Office of Scholarly Communications, University Libraries
Contact: herr@uark.edu
The Basic Package – Publishing Books and Journal Articles
- Identifying suitable book publishers and journals
- Preparing book proposals or articles
- Walking through the publishing process – submitting the proposal or article, undergoing peer review, revising the manuscript, writing a response to reviews, negotiating a publishing agreement
The Enhanced Package – Building a Professional Reputation
Create a flexible, personalized strategic plan for building a professional reputation. This service includes the basic package but the scope expands beyond immediate project to long-term goals.
- Identifying long-term career goals
- Identifying both core and peripheral audiences as well as venues for reaching them
- Cultivating opportunities to disseminate research and scholarship through blogs, webinars, conferences, local presentations; collaborating with University Relations
- Promoting achievements by submitting work for awards, posting to social media, winning recognition from prestigious societies
