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Why Publish?

Learn about the editorial process, submitting papers, and key considerations for publishing in journals. Understand the steps from acceptance to publication, including data conversion, editing, and proofing. Discover where and why to publish, gaining visibility, credibility, and making a lasting impact with your work.

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Why Publish?

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  1. Why Publish? and the Editorial Process Paula Szkody Editor, PASP

  2. Publish or Perish !

  3. Publish or Perish

  4. Get rich and Famous ?

  5. Only if you are George Abell or Carl Sagan!

  6. Real Reasons to publish: • Get info out to largest audience

  7. Real Reasons to publish: • Get info out to largest audience • Permanent record for future users

  8. Real Reasons to publish: • Get info out to largest audience • Permanent record for future users • Make contacts with community

  9. Where to publish: • JAAVSO (easy, no page charges) • Conference series (have to attend meeting) • Popular article (Sky & Tel, Sci American) • Information Bulletin on Variable Stars • Journal (ApJ, AJ, PASP, MNRAS) (page charges or UK member)

  10. The Editorial Process: • Accepting the Paper • Publishing the Paper

  11. Getting your paper accepted: • take good data • obtain a new result • write a correct paper (latex or Word) • submit to a journal (WPR)

  12. Submitting your paper: http://mss.uchicago.edu (WPR) http://mss.uchicago.edu/PASP/

  13. WPR converts to ps, pdf, posts on web • Editor chooses reviewer, sends request • Access sent to reviewer • Review arrives in 2-3 + weeks • Comments sent back to author • Author revises (1-2 months+), reposts to WPR • Access for revised sent to reviewer • Editor accepts, author puts on astro-ph

  14. Questions asked of reviewers: • Does the article contain significant new results/analysis? • Is the paper written with maximum conciseness? • Could the order of presentation or English be improved? • Do you have any comments or criticisms that would help the authors to improve the paper?

  15. UCP is notified paper is accepted for a journal Data conversion -data format for electronic archive Figure preparation -checked, sized, rotated

  16. Editing text -copyeditor checks style, spelling, grammar, inserts links Typesetting -files sent to vendor, made into pages, proofs posted on web Proofing -author notes changes needed

  17. Electronic and Print Publication • pdf of proofs is sent to printer • -pdf and ps assembled for electronic edition Paper appears on web and later in journal

  18. My recommendations: • be familiar with the literature • work in a collaborative effort • have several people read your paper prior to submission • don’t give or take reviews personally

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