(Also posted at other forum) I mentioned in another thread (at DD) that I wanted to compile my journal articles and have them published as a monograph. Well, at least one publisher rejected the work, stating, "The materials have been published before and hence are available." Do monographs typically consist of unpublished or first-time published material? If that's the case, then my plan to have a monograph published by the time of graduation is no longer possible. I'll have to regroup and maybe offer my work as a small trade publication. Hopefully I'll find an editor that will bite. I'm finding I have a lot to learn about academic publishing. Roscoe
While not an expert, I'll say that academic monographs are usually about one subject from one point of view, and a collection of important peer-reviewed journal articles that are out of print is sometimes grouped and published as an anthology. For example, some of Lewin's work has been republished as anthology to make it accessible: Lewin, K. (1999). Group decision and social change. In Martin Gold (Ed.), The complete social scientist: A Kurt Lewin reader (pp. 265-284). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. A monograph is somewhat down the food chain from peer-reviewed journal articles. Here is an out of print, classic monograph that needs to be reprinted: Festinger, L. (1957). A theory of cognitive dissonance. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Basically, you get to say whatever your publisher will let you get away with in a monograph, so most prominent researchers eventually earn the right to publish at least one. Dave
Thanks, Dave. That's interesting. I thought they were up the food chain, between journal articles and books. Thanks for sharing this. Roscoe
Monograph - Think lengthy dissertation without all that messy scholarly oversight or fuss over methodology to get in the way of the authors perspectives. The "mono" aspect is generally subject related.
