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Sungdae Lim; Hyunseok Hwang; Bruce D. McDonald III; William Hatcher – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2024
Public administration has dedicated much discussion to the ranking of academic journals, but little to no research focused on the quality and contributions of publishing academic books. To address this gap in the literature, we surveyed public administration scholars who have published books. We used the data from this survey to establish a…
Descriptors: Public Administration, Authors, Decision Making, Reputation
Lisa Romero – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
Diversity is an important issue in higher education communication and media programs. This study shows how librarians can use audit data to assess and strive for diversity in their library's print monographic collections. This article explores aspects of diversity within two fields of study, communication and media, and discusses the results of a…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Diversity, Library Materials, Library Services
Davis, Jill M.; Pearce, Nicole; Mullins, Mychaelon – Journal of Children's Literature, 2021
Integrating children's literature that represents diverse populations into the classroom is a key part of a culturally relevant pedagogy. Several benefits emerge when children read culturally relevant books. This research focused on the representation of Black males as characters and creators of Caldecott books through a critical multicultural…
Descriptors: African Americans, Males, Childrens Literature, Books
Kohn, Karen – College & Research Libraries, 2018
This paper asks if there is an optimal wait period for e-books that balances libraries' desire to acquire books soon after their publication with the frequent desire to purchase books electronically whenever feasible. Analyzing 13,043 titles that Temple University Libraries received on its e-preferred approval plan in 2014-15, the author looks at…
Descriptors: Books, Electronic Publishing, Academic Libraries, Library Materials
Marchese, Ted; Miller, Margaret A. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2018
This two-part article traces the history of "Change" magazine from 1969 to present in four phases. Phase One: 1969-1980, describes how "Change" first began with the American Council on Education and the Ford Foundation convening 60 higher education leaders and journalists in rural Virginia in April 1965. Eighteen months later,…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Educational History, Higher Education, Publishing Industry
Tsvetkova, Milena – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2019
Object of the study: The broad object of this study is the academic field of the book and the book as an area of interdisciplinary teaching. Purpose: to prove that the 21st-century cross-media and hybrid media ecosystem emancipates Book Science from the rest of the sciences in whose objects it can partake only as a constituent using one of its…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Media Research, Books
Wallace, Kathleen – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2018
This essay aims to map uses and attributions of the word "appropriate" as they occur in various disciplines related to children's literature. Three competing interest areas--publishing, education, and societal ideologies--provide insight as to how "appropriate" developed into an abstract cover-word for a variety of outside…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Child Development, Language Usage, Definitions
Mikolic Južnic, Tamara; Moe, Marija Zlatnar; Žigon, Tanja – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2021
The study focuses on literary translation between languages of low diffusion (LLD) from the perspective of a culture using such a language. The position of a language group in the world translation system determines the general flow of literary translation, but the specifics for the translation of an individual LLD may depend on a number of…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Languages, Slavic Languages, Literature
Diani, Giuliana; Sezzi, Annalisa – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2020
Nowadays, knowledge dissemination among children is no longer limited to the classroom and course or information books. It also includes websites explicitly addressed to youngsters who have a different stage of cognitive development and background knowledge compared to adults. However, they are also the first to live in today's multimodal…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Scientific Literacy, Science Instruction, Hypermedia
Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying – Reading Teacher, 2019
The author introduces the Editorial Task Force for Children's Books and discusses its mission, created when the task force was launched in the mid-1960s in Taiwan, to publish children's books for young readers. The messages embedded in such a mission for access to books are not only individually pertinent but also nationally and globally…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Advisory Committees, Editing, Specialists
Lesesne, Teri; Perry, Karin; Miller, Donalyn – English in Texas, 2016
Everyone loves new books. However, it is easy to forget that we need to examine books historically as well. This article discusses the contributions made by various authors before they were the recipients of awards and honors. Additionally, the authors point out some important "firsts" in the industry as well as resources for locating…
Descriptors: Authors, Publishing Industry, Books, Childrens Literature
Lonergan, David – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2014
The earlier entries in this series have, among other things, discussed the motives that may lead librarians into writing and publishing, how one may choose appropriate journals as targets for article submission, and how to evaluate whether one would be rewarded in any sense for research, writing and publication at one's college. The idea of…
Descriptors: Books, Writing for Publication, Librarians, Publishing Industry
Wilson, T. D.; Maceviciute, Elena – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2016
Introduction: This paper reports on a study of publishers' attitudes towards e-books in the context of the global situation of e-book publishing. Comparative data are drawn from a replication of a survey carried out in Sweden, in Lithuania and in Croatia. Method: A self-completed questionnaire survey was undertaken, offering respondents the choice…
Descriptors: Publishing Industry, Electronic Publishing, Books, Global Approach
Desrochers, Nadine; Pecoskie, Jen – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2014
Introduction: This research investigates paratextual acknowledgements in published codices in order to study how relationships inform the information-seeking habits of authors, an understudied group in library and information science. Method: A purposive sample consisting of the books from the 2010 nominations list of the Canadian Governor…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Authors, Books, Content Analysis
Pickett, Carmelita; Tabacaru, Simona; Harrell, Jeanne – College & Research Libraries, 2014
Research libraries have long invested in approval plan services, which offer an economical way to acquire scholarly and scientific publications. Traditional approval plans have evolved and now enable libraries to expand their e-book offerings to better serve researchers. Publishers offer a myriad of e-book purchasing options. These range from…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Access to Information, Electronic Publishing, Books