Academic Publishing: Maximising Library Expertise, Resources and Services

Abstract

Academic libraries offer expertise and a wide range of resources and services to support scholarly publishing. This article aims to highlight the key resources, tools and services offered by libraries to assist lecturers, researchers and postgraduate students in their scholarly publishing endeavours, with a particular focus on writing for academic journals.   The article is structured in three sections and includes  S an overview of a range of current book titles offering support on writing for publication, tools and resources available to help authors decide where to publish and an exploration of ways of increasing access to, and visibility of  research output.