Date: November 7th, 2013 Venue: Tonan-tei (Room No. 201), CSEAS, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University Title: Current and Future Directions for Academic Publishing in Asian Studies Speaker: Dr. Paul Kratoska, Publishing Director, NUS Press, National University of Singapore Abstract: Cutting edge academic discussion has been shifting from books to journals, and scholars in many Asian universities are under intense pressure to publish articles in journals that are included in citation indexes (e.g., the Thomson Reuters “ISI” indexes). This presentation addresses two current issues relating to academic publishing, the dominance of journals from the United States and Western Europe in Asian Studies, and recent changes in the United States, Britain […]