Book is published & disseminated

This section focuses on the digital and print publication of your book, providing a few essential hints to help you identify suitable publishers, predict and avoid delays, reduce cost and minimise the time it will take you to publish your manuscript.

Authors expect publishers to ensure that their works are as widely disseminated as possible. This article examines the various methods readers can use to discover and access your research.

When your book is published open access, what readers can do with your published work depends on the licence.

After your open access book has been published, how will your publisher market and promote your work?

In order for your book to be discovered, publishers need to create metadata. This includes bibliographic information, such as title, abstract, publication date etc., but also about you as the author. Metadata is then passed on to stakeholders in the scholarly communications chain, such as service providers, platforms and tools, researchers, funders, librarians, data curators and repositories in order for others to discover your work.

After your open access book has been published, how can you self-promote your work? If your motivations for publishing an open access book include reaching a wider audience and different communities for more reach and real-world impact as well as career advancement, then you may find the following suggestions useful.

There are advantages and disadvantages to self-publishing an academic book. Advantages include speed and autonomy. Disadvantages include the labour involved and the lack of peer review, quality assurance, dissemination and marketing support provided by a reputable press. This article explores these issues and the tools and platforms that can enable you to self-publish.