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Subject: What researchers interested in publishing in those journals should do?

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Tania da Consola��o Martins Pereira

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Date Posted: 19:59:24 08/14/10 Sat

Hi guys.
After reading the texts suggested by professor Ricardo I tried to answer the question 4.
Please read and tell me if you agree.

What researchers interested in publishing in those journals do?
Attempting to publish your work early and often is not always to your advantage. Not all historical arguments lend themselves successfully to article form; not all graduate work is appropriate for publication; not all conference papers contain sufficient research to support an article; and not all work from your research should be published. So, There are some points that researchers interested in publishing in journals should do.
1-Think seriously and take advice about why you should or should not publish your research in article form before you attempt to do so.
2- Keep your short-term goals by obtaining a post-doc or initial teaching
Position in perspective alongside longer-term goals.
3-Bear in mind that in the long term the quality of your publications often counts at least as much as their quantity.
4 - Ask yourself whether the research is sufficiently significant to stand without your accompanying material, and if not whether additional research is needed to make it suitable for publication.
5-Different journals publish different kinds of articles so choose a journal in which your manuscript will not be an anomaly.
6- If you have an important looming deadline by which you must publish your work, it�s a good idea to email editors of prospective journals in advance of submitting your manuscript to ask what their normal turn-around time is.

As a general rule, ask yourself precisely what new insights your research contributes to the existing secondary literature before you seek to publish it as an article. Good indications that your work may be suitable for publication as an article include:
� A responsible person suggests publication.
� Your work involves significant, substantial original research with primary materials.
� Your research complements work recently published in a scholarly journal or journals.
� You have already presented your research on this topic at conferences and/or seminars.
� You have revised your manuscript at least twice in light of comments from responsible persons. Not each of these conditions will be met for every publishable manuscript, but if most of them don�t apply to your manuscript, think seriously before attempting to publish at this early stage in your career. Remember that once you�ve published material, it is irretrievably in the public sphere. In this context, timing is of the essence.

However, much work generated in these contexts is, due to the constraints of time and limited access to primary sources, not sufficiently original or well-synthesized to merit publication in a major journal. Before you attempt to publish your work as a journal article, compare your manuscript against the criteria, and read around in the extant periodical literature.
To determine which journal is most appropriate for your own manuscript, you must invest time exploring the available possibilities. This process inevitably entails time spent reading journal articles to compare and contrast work in your sub-field in the various journals in which you are interested in publishing your own manuscript.

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Re: What researchers interested in publishing in those journals should do?	Ludmila	06:57:41 08/15/10 Sun