Identifying your personal interests and commitments to publishing -- Making sense of institutional evaluation criteria -- Responding to different institutional pressures to publish -- Entering academic "conversations : finding out about scholarly conferences -- Identifying the "conversations" of academic journals -- Joining academic "conversations" in a competitive marketplace -- Locating your work and forging "conversations" : whose work to cite and why? -- Publishing articles or book chapters? -- Understanding trajectories and time in the publishing process -- Accessing resources for writing for publication -- Doing the work of writing in multiple languages -- Participating in academic research networks -- Collaborating on texts for publication -- Getting help from literacy brokers -- Communicating with publishing gatekeepers -- Producing a journal : taking on reviewing and editing -- Concluding thoughts : critical choices and practical strategies for global scholarly publishing