Category: Blog
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An Introduction to Style Guides
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Authored by Madelyn Huff, UNG Press Intern Style guides are guides that dictate how a writing piece should be written. Style guides create guidelines for page formatting, citation style, spelling choice, and more. This practice establishes a familiarity that can be traced throughout all documents that utilize the particular guide.…
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The Basics of Book Metadata
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Authored by Cheyenne Clenney, UNG Press Intern How do you sort through the millions of options available in physical and digital bookstores? What makes one book stand out in an endless sea of similar titles? That is where metadata comes in—the behind-the-scenes information that helps categorize books. What is Book…
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Open Educational Resources: A Brief Overview
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Authored by Madelyn Huff, UNG Press Intern Have you ever utilized a free textbook at school? Have you ever completed coursework through a digital learning module or watched a video tutorial? If you have, you have experienced an Open Educational Resource! Open Educational Resources, or OER, are wonderful resources that…
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Tips and Tricks for New Copyeditors
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What is Copyediting? Copyediting is one of the last stages of the editing process in book publishing. Its purpose is to ensure a manuscript is consistent, grammatically correct, and aligned with the appropriate style guide. It takes place just before proofreading, which is the last step of the editorial process.…
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How eBooks Changed the Way We Read
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Authored by Cheyenne Clenney, UNG Press Intern A Brief History of eBooks The concept of eBooks goes back as far as the earliest rendition of the internet when Michael S. Hart digitized the world’s first eBook, the United States Declaration of Independence, in 1971 (Government Book Talk, Losowsky). Using ARPAnet,…
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The Relationship Between University Presses & Libraries
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Authored by UNG Press Intern Madelyn Huff | Banner Image “San Diego College Learning Resource – bookshelf” by Joe Crawford is licensed under CC-BY-2.0. Both university presses and libraries are committed to the promotion of scholarly research, the expansion of accessibility to new information, and the creation of this new…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Editing
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Authored by Madelyn Huff, UNG Press Intern | Banner Image “Stack of Books” by Heffloaf is licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0 To an outside perspective, editing can seem like a one-and-done process where an author, or editor, looks over a manuscript and fixes any spelling errors or formatting mistakes before completion. In…
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A Guide to Reader’s Reports
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Authored by Cheyenne Clenney, UNG Press Intern Whether you work in the publishing field or are an aspiring author yourself, the ins and outs of publishing a book can be overwhelming—and full of steps that you might not have ever considered. For instance, how does a manuscript actually get to…