What is Publishing: Definition and 78 Discussions

Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the distribution of printed works, such as books, newspapers, and magazines. With the advent of digital information systems, the scope has expanded to include electronic publishing such as ebooks, academic journals, micropublishing, websites, blogs, video game publishing, and the like.
Publishing may produce private, club, commons or public goods and may be conducted as a commercial, public, social or community activity. The commercial publishing industry ranges from large multinational conglomerates such as Bertelsmann, RELX, Pearson and Thomson Reuters to thousands of small independents. It has various divisions such as: trade/retail publishing of fiction and non-fiction, educational publishing (k-12) and academic and scientific publishing. Publishing is also undertaken by governments, civil society and private companies for administrative or compliance requirements, business, research, advocacy or public interest objectives. This can include annual reports, research reports, market research, policy briefings and technical reports. Self-publishing has become very common.
"Publisher" can refer to a publishing company or organization, or to an individual who leads a publishing company, imprint, periodical or newspaper.

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    Publishing on Physics Review Letters

    Hi I would like publish my paper on Physical Review Letters. Publishing is free of cost on PRL as long as I don't want it open access & give them an electronic copy (such as pdfTex, Word), right? Is this the same for most journals? Thanks
  2. S

    Should Papers Without References Still be Considered Valid in Publishing?

    I wanted to gain a sense about some of the opinions floating around out there about publishing works without the use of references. Of course, the vast majority of papers certainly include references these days. However, in principle it is still possible to write a paper that does not directly...
  3. J

    What's the Process for Publishing Scientific Papers?

    Does anyone know what's the story with publishing scientific papers? Whats the process involved in publishing a science paper? I read scientific papers all the time. I read a lot of papers on this arXiv.org website. But it seems you need someone to authorize you before you can upload papers...
  4. S

    Will Publishing in a Journal Help My Graduate School Application?

    Hi all, If you worked on an individual research project (in Math), but don't feel like it is good enough to be submitted for publication to a journal, but instead you submited parts of your project (i.e. in the form of challenging problems) to the Problem Solving Column of some journals, and...
  5. R

    MATLAB Publishing quality figures in MATLAB

    Is there an easy way of making publishing quality figures in MATLAB? I use MATLAB for calculations and working plots, but to get a nice figure (I mean proper fonts, scales, some text, symbols, lines for different datasets) takes me so long time that I better use something like ORIGIN program for...
  6. T

    Publish Papers: Steps for US-Based Grad School Candidates

    What are the steps I need to take to get my papers and ideas out there for others to read? I don't expect anything to happen with my papers, but I want to try to get something out there so I look more appealing to Grad schools. It doesn't matter to me how long the process takes. I got a couple...
  7. C

    Losing the copyright when publishing a research article?

    Losing the copyright when publishing a research article??! I have recently finished a research article about a theory that geometrically integrates General Relativity with other gauge fields, Electromagnetism included. The next step was of course to publish it so I went on looking for what...
  8. J

    Interested in publishing my work: where?

    Hi! As a final masters degree thesis in chaos I have made a program which calculates 10 useful tools for the study of chaotic dynamics. It uses as dynamical system the iteration of the logistic map, and the tools implemented are: trajectories, temporal delay, bifurcation diagram, lyapunov...
  9. turbo

    Is anybody else getting spammed by Scientific Research Publishing ?

    Is anybody else getting spammed by "Scientific Research Publishing"? I've been busy unsubscribing from I-don't-know how many "journals" from this group and I don't know how they got my name, but I get at least one email every day or two. Many of the "journals" listed on their website seem to...
  10. T

    Publishing a comment tutorial.

    Here's an amusing (if depressing) tale of a physicist's attempt to publish a comment on another's work. http://www.scribd.com/doc/18773744/How-to-Publish-a-Scientific-Comment-in-1-2-3-Easy-Steps I have to say, his ending comment that when journals publish a paper with a mistake, both the...
  11. S

    What can I do if my published papers were rejected without being reviewed?

    About a month ago, I got my masters in physics (condensed matter). I worked really hard for about a year and half on the subject of sumulating the semiconductor nanostructure properties with different simulating codes which applied density functional theory approach. I prepared two papers on...
  12. G

    How can I safely share my new theory with the physics community?

    If one wished to put a new theory in front of the physics community, but was not currently in any academic position, and did not work in the field currently, how should they proceed. All while keeping their theory safe from robbers. Please help, any insight would be helpful. G
  13. C

    Navigating the Embargo Policies of Science and Nature Journals

    I have a question regarding the process of publishing. Is the preferred method to first submit to a pre-press (such as arxiv) or to directly send into a journal for review. If submitting to arxiv, how does one find a suitable endorser? Apparently one can find endorsers by reviewing topical...
  14. E

    What criteria are required for publishing a math paper?

    I'm working on a mathematics paper, and I'm wondering if anyone can tell me what criteria are required to get published? I've gone some googling and found some good information and a journal I want to publish to, but I'm more specifically wondering what type of mathematics tends to get...
  15. T

    Math graphics publishing software

    What graphics publishing tools are commonly used for textbooks, journals, etc? (I am thinking of the 3D plots one might find in a calculus book, things like that) It seems like Mathematica, Maple, and Matlab are great for plotting, but are they also suitable for publishing? They don't seem to...
  16. gel

    Publishing maths papers with no affiliation

    I've recently had a paper accepted to be published in a maths journal. This is my first paper to be published, but the problem is that I currently work outside academia and have no academic affiliation to give them. I do have a PhD in maths, but that ended about 10 years ago. Does anyone have...
  17. T

    Publishing mathematics from home?

    I'm thinking about the field of mathematics. Many mathematic academics complain about teaching responsibilities and the admin matters that comes with working in an organisation. For those people, it seems research is on the top of their priority. So how about the option of researching and...
  18. H

    Someone beat me to publishing

    what do you do if you have unpublished results for certain properties of a certain material, and then (1) Someone else publishes results for exactly the same thing, (2) they are slightly different from yours, (3) the results form part of your PhD thesis?
  19. S

    Proving a Theorem and Publishing It

    Advice Needed! Hi all, I think i have managed to prove a theorem in a completely different way compared to the other proofs i have seen so far. I checked up in some books and there is no similar proof of this theorem in non of them. There is only one book that suggests that this theorem can...
  20. S

    Publishing my research paper- Safe methods?

    Hello everyone, I am an undergraduate student. I am doing some research on my own, and almost two thirds through it. I was planning to contact a Professor for some advise, and some feedback ..etc Couple of days ago, a friend of mine, a PhD student in Nuclear Engineering, was shocked that...
  21. I

    How Can Scientists Effectively Gather Data for Publishing?

    I'm interning right now for research electrical engineer something something and he's got me gathering data for him. One thing he wanted is for me to get a bunch of breakdown voltages for HTS dielectrics. Fine good I've gotten some. Now he plops down this new list of polymers with nano...
  22. D

    What is the Motivation for Publishing Scientific Research?

    I was in a library recently and was struck by the shear number of journals. Journals often focus on some very specific topic, contain many thousands of articles going back more than 100 years. What is the motivation for people to submit papers to journals? I would expect that doing so would...
  23. DaveC426913

    Publishing dynamic pages to flat HTML

    I want to be able to generate pages from a database but the data only changes occasionally. It'd be more efficient to have the pages served up from flat HTML most of the time and only have to "publish" to HTML when I make a change to the database. Is there a really convenient way of doing...
  24. D

    Surprising Costs of Publishing a Paper with Nature

    How much do you have to pay if you want to publish a paper or send a letter to readers on Nature ? Please don't laugh at me, I truly never thought authors had to pay when they want to publish their papers till that day...:blushing: Thanks
  25. A

    About writing and publishing a paper

    Let's say I write a paper. It's my first paper after my (unpublished) dissertation and is written in my spare time at home. I don't have any physics peers to show the paper too, apart from those at PF, however I am naturally worried about copyright stuff. It would be great to get it read by...
  26. M

    The 'publishing' aspect of science

    Do you think that the 'fashion' , the 'common' methods employed in a science and the trends on it are the ones that sometimes determine what, how, where and why the things are published/cited ? Does this influence how the papers are written? Just the plain true. Because i know the...
  27. phoenixthoth

    What is the process for publishing a math paper?

    I thought I'd post this under GD, but maybe there are some things specific to math papers that don't apply to other scholarly articles as well as things of other scholarly journals that don't apply to math ones. I'm wondering how to go about publishing or even submitting a paper. I'm...
  28. O

    Find Easy Journals to Publish In: Tips & Advice

    I am wondering if anyone has any ideas on what journals are the easiest to publish in. How do you choose a journal to get started in? What do you look for to tell if the process will be quick and easy, and the results not being Earth'shaking. I'm afraid my advisor is not the most helpful...
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