Palgrave Pivot
Palgrave Macmillan announces Palgrave Pivot
Palgrave Macmillan is delighted to announce a new imprint: Palgrave Pivot. Launching globally in Autumn 2012 and publishing across the Humanities and Social Sciences, Palgrave Pivot liberates scholarship from the straitjacket of traditional formats and business models. It offers authors the flexibility of publishing at lengths between the journal article and the conventional monograph. The new imprint will be available as digital collections for libraries, including via Palgrave Connect, individual ebooks for personal use, and as digitally-produced print editions.
Palgrave Pivot will emphasize speed of delivery as well as innovation. The imprint undertakes to publish within 3 months of acceptance after full peer review.
Samantha Burridge, Executive Director at Palgrave Macmillan, says, “As scholarly publishing evolves in the digital world, Palgrave Pivot allows us to deliver quality new research rapidly. Palgrave Pivot is a market-changing initiative for the Humanities and Social Sciences and presents our communities with an alternative publishing model. We are proud to be at the forefront of development in the digital space.”
Titles for Palgrave Pivot are:
- focused on new important research, or are a review of an area with broad appeal
- shorter than a typical scholarly monograph, at an average of 100 pages (or 35 thousand words), meaning that they are faster to write, concise and more digestible for readers
- published exceptionally fast to make new or timely research available more quickly
- rigorously peer-reviewed
- published in print and ebook formats
Endorsements for Palgrave Pivot
"This is a bold innovation. Whereas publishing these days is too often belatedly reactive rather than proactive, Palgrave Macmillan has created an exciting new form to occupy the middle ground between a journal article and a monograph that will have significant impact on future work in the Humanities and Social Sciences", Eric Rasmussen, Chair of the Department of English, University of Nevada, USA
“It is great to hear that Palgrave Pivot will be publishing a short form of monograph books. The typical scholarly article can be too short to get a comprehensive understanding of the research, and books tend not to be the right format for all specific and idiosyncratic pieces of research. This new format is innovative”, Professor Cary L. Cooper, CBE, Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health, Lancaster University Management School, UK, and Chair of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK
"Insight in context: That's the promise of this new format", Garett Jones, Department of Economics, George Mason University, USA
"Palgrave Pivot is a most welcome and original development. From Carlyle and Macaulay through to some of the great intellectuals and scholars of the modern era such as Robert Darnton and Joan Scott, the long essay has been one of the most accessible and stimulating ways to present new work, to speculate, to argue and to intervene. Perhaps more paradigms have shifted and conventions been shaken by this format than any other. An imprint which promises to be short, sharp and speedy is very good news for author and reader alike", Professor Miles Taylor, Director of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK
“Palgrave Pivot meets a need for timely research in the digital world. The humanities and social sciences have been left behind in the immediacy of published research and Palgrave Pivot should be a great innovation to meet the needs of 21st century students and researchers in these fields. As we know, ‘speed’ and ‘innovation’ are key in the current world of scholarly research”, Jane Fitzpatrick, Acquisitions Librarian, CUNY Graduate Center, USA
Call for Proposals
We are now accepting proposals.
Authors in the USA and Canada: View the contact details of our editors.
Authors in the rest of the world: View the contact details of our editors.