Bayan University Press

Bayan University Press is the university's publishing arm. It puts the university's name on books and other long-form work, which is why it reviews what it is asked to publish rather than simply printing it.

What the press considers

• Scholarly monographs by academic staff, in the subjects the university teaches
• Edited collections, and proceedings of academic meetings held here
• Textbooks and course readers written for programmes taught at Bayan, particularly where no suitable text exists in Kurdish or Arabic
• Translations of significant scholarly work into Kurdish or Arabic, and out of them
• Reference and documentary work: bibliographies, source collections, annotated legislation and the like

Publishing in the languages of the Region is deliberate. A subject taught here in a language that has no textbook in it is taught from photocopies, and repairing that is one of the things a university press is for.

What it does not publish

Unrevised theses and student coursework, promotional or institutional material, work already committed to another publisher, and manuscripts whose borrowed material the author cannot show permission for.

Proposing a title

Send a proposal, not a finished book. A proposal contains:

1. A working title, and a paragraph saying what the book argues or covers
2. Who it is for — course, level, profession or field — and what that reader already has available
3. A table of contents with a line on each chapter
4. Two sample chapters, or the introduction and one chapter
5. The expected length, the language, and how much is already written
6. Your academic CV
7. A note on any figure, table, image or extract owned by someone else

How a proposal is decided

The press reads it first for fit: whether this is a book, whether it is this press's book, and whether the reader it describes exists. A proposal that passes goes to independent readers in the subject, who report on accuracy, originality and usefulness. Those reports go back to the author with the decision, whether the decision is yes or no.

An accepted proposal becomes a written agreement before any production work starts. The agreement sets out delivery of the manuscript, which rights each side holds, and what the author is responsible for.

Production

Editing, design, typesetting and registration are handled by the press together with the author. Expect to read proofs and to answer queries quickly at that stage — a book moves at the speed of whoever is slowest.

Talking to the press

Proposals and questions go through Contact. The university's wider research activity is described under Research, and published documents are collected under Documents.