The Academic Life

University Press Submissions and the Peer Review: A Discussion with Rachael Levay

Mar 25, 2021

47:12

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In this episode you’ll hear about: acquiring manuscripts, what editors do, and how the peer review process works.

Our guest is: Rachael Levay, the acquisitions editor at University Press of Colorado and Utah State University Press.

Your host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, a historian of women, gender, and sexuality.

Listeners to this episode might be interested in:

The Business of Being a Writer by Jane Friedman
From Dissertation to Book by William Germano
Association of University Presses Subject Area Grid. These documents list every publishing subject area and which university presses have historically acquired in them and are still acquiring in them. It’s a fabulous research tool when thinking about which press to submit one’s work to.
Platypus: The Blog of the Humanities Common Team. “Rethinking Scholarly Communication: Open Peer Review” details a 2019 Twitter chat about what open peer review looks like currently and could look like in the future.
ASK UP: Authors Seeking Knowledge from University Presses. This Association of University Presses site offers answers to many common questions about finding a publisher, working through the process, and more.
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