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title: "On Publishing Books and Monographs"
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# On Publishing Books and Monographs: Highlights

**Resource person:** Office of Scholarly Communication, University of Cambridge - Scholarly communication and academic publishing specialists

**Curated from:** Office of Scholarly Communication, Cambridge

1. Use the proposal to establish argument, contribution, readership, fit, and structure.
2. Discuss the project with an acquisitions editor whose list matches the field.
3. Expect external review, revision, an editorial decision, and a contract.
4. Read rights, formats, royalties, open-access terms, and delivery obligations closely.
5. Organise permissions, images, citations, and source files early.
6. Plan for copy-editing, proofs, metadata, production, marketing, and preservation.