Publishing with CRC Press - Taylor & Francis
Thank you for considering CRC Press for your publisher! Information about our
engineering & environmental disciplines as well as our company, procedures,
and the publishing process can be found below. Please don’t hesitate to contact
us with questions – we are here to be helpful.
Engineering and Environmental Sciences at CRC Press
What’s in Print?
Known as the handbook publisher for many years, we have over 3800
engineering and environmental books in print including 3350 references and 450
primary textbooks.
Disciplines:
The program includes books in all areas of Engineering and Environmental
Sciences including:
Electrical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Computer Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Manufacturing Engineering
Clean Technology
Water Science
Biotechnology
Aerospace Engineering
Material Science
Industrial Engineering
Occupational Health
GIS & Remote Sensing
Environmental Engineering
Optical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Human Factors/Ergonomics
Lasers & Photonics
Nuclear Engineering
Energy Engineering
Civil Engineering
Nanotechnology
Conferences:
Each year we attend dozens of Engineering and Environmental conferences
including:
Material Research Society
(MRS)
NSTI Nanotech
AiCHe
CLEO
SPIE
Photonics West
ASME
BMES
SETAC
Textbook Sales:
The textbook department at CRC Press provides examination copies of
textbooks to professors wishing to review for their course. The attached form
should be completed and returned as specified.
http://www.crcpress.com/textbook/default.asp let us know if you see something
you are interested in for your course.
International and Domestic Sales:
With offices around the globe, our international representatives are eager to sell
our engineering books to libraries, bookstores, academic institutions, societies,
and wholesalers such as Blackwell and Baker & Taylor as well as online resellers
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Borders, just to name a few. Each representative
relies on the top affiliations of our authors from both industry and academia to
keep the book sellers and readers interested and enthusiastic about our
program.
The Market:
We publish in all areas of engineering which makes for a full and robust program
that includes contributed references, primary textbooks, references, and
encyclopedias.
The mailing lists we purchase are for our readers at the senior
undergraduate/graduate level, as well as the researchers and professionals.
Society and association mailing lists provide our core names to market to and if
you have key contacts for your book – let us know.
Advertising:
CRC press sends over 6,000,000 pieces of direct mail each year! Books are
advertised in catalogs, multiple-flier campaigns, website partnering, conventions,
and journal reviews. We encourage our authors to provide us with mailing lists
they may acquire through list servers, webinars, short courses etc.
Electronic Products and Portals:
We are very pleased to introduce our Nanoscienceworks Portal at
www.nanoscienceworks.org
Membership to this portal is free, and members benefit from 20% off of our books
in Nano and all areas of engineering, as well as free shipping. Also included is
access to over 1000 bios of top academics, professionals, and researchers in the
field and hundreds of the leading Nano institutions. This content rich site
includes daily news in Nano, booklets, slidecasts, and our Encyclopedia of
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
Seeking information other than at the nanoscale? As an author, you will have
free access to www.engnetbase.com our online database that includes 90% of
our reference books (textbooks are not provided) in engineering in one
searchable and downloadable database.
Including your book on this database will provide you with a royalty in addition to
your book royalty!
Journals and Encyclopedias:
We have over 1000 journals available in print and online with both institutional
and individual availability. Considering writing or subscribing? Please go to the
following link to browse our selections. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/sublist.asp
or sign up to receive information by subject.
Taylor & Francis, Informa and CRC Press
Since 1798 Taylor & Francis has been fully committed to the publication of
scholarly information of the highest quality. Taylor & Francis has grown rapidly
over the last two decades to become a leading international academic publisher.
We have offices in London, New York, Philadelphia, and Boca Raton, FL, as well
as Singapore and Melbourne. More than 1,000 journals and over 1,800 new
books are published each year, with a backlist in excess of 20,000 specialist
titles in all areas of science, technology, and medicine.
In 2003 Taylor & Francis Group purchased CRC Press, publishers since 1913 of
the famed Rubber Handbook which later evolved into the world renowned
Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, now in its 88th Edition. CRC Press has
since grown into one of the preeminent scholarly publishers in the areas of
engineering, chemistry, physics, and environmental sciences in the world.
In May 2004 Taylor & Francis and Informa plc went independently into a merger.
Informa plc is the leading provider of specialist information to the global,
academic & scientific, professional and commercial communities via publishing,
events and performance improvement.
Submitting Your Publishing Proposal:
When submitting your publishing proposal, include the table of contents, brief
professional bio, and if a sample chapter is available, include that as well.
We will contact reviewers and request the return of their constructive comments
within 2-3 weeks. Once reviews are received (normally 2-5 are solicited) the
comments sans the reviewer’s name and affiliation will be provided.
The comments should be seriously considered, and you will be asked to
comment on their suggestions and remarks.
As acquiring editors, we then prepare for our own proposal preparation and
presentation of your book to our marketing, sales, and editorial staff for contract
approval.
We want your book to be successful. We spend a great amount of time
reviewing your documents to insure we have a marketable product.
We encourage you to include the fundamentals through the applications of your
topic, and include figures, tables, and photographs.
International affiliations from our authors, editors, and contributors from both
academia and industry are encouraged.
The manuscript should include as much original work as possible to avoid
permissions, and should be written specifically for book publishing – not a
collection of previously published articles.
Familiarize yourself with our website at www.crcpress.com and seek out books
that you feel will complement your proposed book. Let us know what you like or
don’t like about our publications.
Contract Approval:
If we reach a positive contract approval, you will be contacted immediately and
the terms of your contract will be supplied via post or a PDF document of our
contract. You are encouraged to read the contract carefully and contact us with
any questions you may have. The contract is a standard publishing agreement,
but we want you to be comfortable with this process and are here to explain.
If you have a co-author(s), all those receiving a royalty payment and credit as
author or editor on the cover of the book will be asked to sign our author/editor
agreement.
If you are an editor and contributors will be participating, each contributor will be
expected to sign a separate (one page) contributor agreement allowing us to
include their chapter.
Once you have read the contract and completed the signing page, you will return
the contract(s) to my attention for processing. Each contract is executed by Nora
Konopka, Publisher of Engineering and Environmental Sciences.
With your fully-executed contract, you will receive guidelines for publishing your
manuscript. We appreciate receiving your signed contract within 4-6 weeks (or
sooner!) as this allows us to assign an ISBN number to your book. Depending
on when your book is to be submitted, having this ISBN number allows us to
catalog your book so we can begin accepting backorders and planning for the
production process of your book.
Project Coordinator Assignment to your Book:
Within weeks of receiving your signed contract and assigning and ISBN number,
you will be assigned to a project coordinator. The project coordinator will provide
you information on:
*Guidelines for preparing your text and figures
*Reviewing sample chapters and artwork
*Confirm that figures are in the highest quality resolution
*Instruct on obtaining permissions
*Confirm you are on track for manuscript submission delivery (this is key)!
*Answer any questions concerning your manuscript before it goes to production
The Production Process:
After you have confirmed that your manuscript is 100% final and the writing has
stopped, and you are confident in the product you are submitting, your book will
be prepared for production.
Once submitted, we consider your book final. Should you want a technical
review of your book, this would need to be accomplished prior to submitting your
final manuscript to CRC Press. Please keep in mind that the manuscript due
date we are expecting from you will not allow for a technical review of your work.
A project editor will now be assigned to your book and the process begins! We
at CRC Press provide full production (copyediting, proofreading, page layout,
indexing, and cover design). Your manuscript will be copyedited for grammar,
punctuation, spelling, and sentence structure.
When your book enters production, depending on the size, it will take on the
following publishing schedule:
500 manuscript pages or less publishes in 6 months.
500 – 900 manuscript pages publishes in 7 ½ months
900 – 1500 manuscript pages publishes in 7 ¾ months
1500 manuscript pages and over publishes in 8 ½ months
Each book and situation is different of course, but the above are guidelines that
are realistic. If you need your book to be available for a conference, course
adoption, training seminar, let us know and we can try and be accommodating.
We strive for high quality publications and we want you and our readers to be
very satisfied with our work and our products. Following the guidelines for
preparation of your manuscript in the beginning will help facilitate this production
process greatly.
Building a Relationship:
As an acquiring editor, nothing is more important to me than my authors. I want
to help you put on the market the best possible book, but I need your help.
*Be firm with your commitment to complete your manuscript as scheduled
*Let’s work together on the marketing and sales strategy for your book.
*Keep me up-to-date with your conference speaking engagements
*If you enjoy working with me, please recommend me to your colleagues. I am
always seeking good books, and nothing is more flattering for me than your
recommendation!
*Consider the fate of the current book you are proposing in a few years. We
want you to be enthusiastic about considering revisions, online products, and
additional book ideas.
Thanks very much for your time – I do appreciate it. Let me know if you have
questions and I’ll be helpful – that’s what I’m here for.
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