Professional & Academic Writing & Publishing for STEM Graduate Students & Faculty

Books are very popular in some areas and textbooks are heavily used across all STEM disciplines. This page covers the overall authoring or editing of a book. For those writing a book chapter in an edited book, please consider examining content in Journal Articles as many edited books have chapters similar to journal articles.

• Illustrating technical books : from getting ideas to completing a figure
  • Using items on O'Reilly Platform
• TEDTalks : Chip Kidd - Designing Books Is No Laughing Matter (OK, It Is)

Below are links to major publishers to propose a book. However, many more options may exist. 

Consider your own university:

• If you would like to author or edit a textbook, there may be options to make it freely available via Ohio State Pressbooks or contact me for other open options.
• The Ohio State University Press

Major Multi-Subject Publishers

• Cambridge University Press
• De Gruyter
• Elsevier
• Oxford University Press
• Sage
• Springer
• Taylor & Francis
• Wiley

Society Publishers:

Select Discipline-Specific Publishers

• Astronomy:
  • AAS
• Biology
  • ASM
• Chemistry:
  • ACS
  • RSC
• Computer Science
  • ACM
  • IEEE
• Earth Sciences
  • AGU (published by Wiley)
  • GSA
• Engineering:
  • AIAA
  • ASCE
  • ASM International
  • ASME
  • SAE
• Geography
  • GSA
• Mathematics/Statistics:
  • AMS
  • EMS
  • SIAM
• Physics:
  • AIP
  • IOP