When Indonesian academics dialogue with their global counterparts, English is invariably the medium of communication. This creates a language “barrier” albeit one that we prefer to interpret as a language opportunity.
The fact is, research from Indonesia is severely underrepresented in the global sciences and humanities. This is a reality that is recognized by Indonesian and foreign universities, science and corporate researchers, as well as the global publishing industry.
For the last decade, the global trend toward “internationalization of the university” has put acute pressure on academics in Indonesia to compete with foreign counterparts in terms of peer-reviewed publishing. While the publishing market is in no way perfect, there is increasing demand among journals and other publishing channels for English-language scholarship from developing countries, especially in Asia. Open publication models, those with community-oriented features, and those occupying the space intermediate between conventional academic publishing and mainstream readership markets are just a few of opportunities we can help you explore.
We can help with grant proposals, research papers, case reports, technical papers book reviews, book chapters, and other genres. We also advise on journal selection, submission standards and editing, are involved in the conversations on national education policy, publishing process, editorial standards, translation and language policies, on-campus writing support and writing instruction in the university curriculum.
We adopt a custom, personalized approach to each academic publishing consulting engagement because each academic author comes from a different disciplinary and institutional background. In some cases, our services involve translation management, where a publishable manuscript already exists in Indonesian. In other cases, the writing project is at a much earlier stage of completion and we are able to provide writing coaching, editing and related services. Meanwhile, our legally trained consultants are able to help you review publishing contacts and represent you in dealing with publishers and other third parties.
For more information on how we can help you communicate your research and writing with a much larger audience, please request the [SP Academic Publishing Support] brochure.