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Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature, music, or information the activity of making information available to the

e general public. Publishing includes the stages of the development, acquisition, copy editing, graphic design, production printing (and its electronic equivalents), and marketing and distribution of newspapers, magazines, books, literary works, musical works, software and other works dealing with information, including the electronic media.

Academic publishing describes the subfield of publishing which distributes academic research and scholarship .

Journal article Book Thesis form Grey Literature (not formally published but merely printed up or posted on the Internet)

The editors decision to accept or reject a paper is generally based on the following: the message of the paper: how clear, important and new is the message? the relevance of the paper to the journals scope and its audience; the journals backlog of accepted papers is also a factor in the consideration; scientific validity of the evidence supporting the papers conclusions; quality of the manuscript

some form of peer review Or editorial refereeing to qualify texts for publication.

begins when authors submit a manuscript to a publisher divided into two distinct phases:
peer review production

Mason, in his book Writing and publishing a scientific paper, offers us to do three things before we send our paper off to the journal editors:

Ask at least one colleague to read your manuscript and tell you honestly what he/she thinks about it. Check that you have followed all of the instructions to authors again.

Go through the article carefully and correct any spelling mistakes.

when you think everything is ready, send the manuscript, in the required number of copies, to the editor as instructed by the journal.

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