About Avi Staiman

Avi Staiman is the founder and managing director of Academic Language Experts, a company dedicated to assisting academic scholars to translate, edit, and prepare their research for publication. Avi has helped thousands of scholars share their invaluable research in prestigious academic fora around the world.

NBN Episodes hosted by Avi:

Publish My Book: Crafting a Winning Book Proposal - The Prospectus (Episode 5)

June 21, 2024

Crafting a Winning Book Proposal - The Prospectus

Avi Staiman
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In the fifth episode of Publish My Book, Avi completes his deep dive into the book proposal by zooming in on the prospectus. Avi breaks down the key c…

Publish My Book: Crafting a Winning Book Proposal (Episode 4)

June 20, 2024

Crafting a Winning Book Proposal

Avi Staiman
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In the fourth episode of Publish My Book, Avi breaks down the core components of a winning book proposal and identifies key questions you should be ab…

Publish My Book: Conducting a Market Analysis of Your Research to Lay the Groundwork for Your Book Proposal (Episode 3)

June 19, 2024

Conducting a Market Analysis of Your Research to Lay the Groundwork for Your Book Proposal

Avi Staiman
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In the third episode of Publish My Book, Avi dives into one of the most important stages of the publishing journey: writing the book proposal. Avi pos…

Publish My Book: Commercial Versus University Presses (Episode 2)

June 18, 2024

Commercial Versus University Presses

Avi Staiman
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In the second episode of Publish My Book, Avi Staiman explores how to determine if your research is best suited for a commercial or university press a…

Publish My Book: Key Tips to Identifying Your Target Publisher (Episode 1)

June 17, 2024

Key Tips to Identifying Your Target Publisher

Hosted by Avi Staiman

In the first episode of Publish My Book, Avi Staiman offers strategic tips for identifying your target publisher, including: understanding where other…

How Did Academic Monograph Publishing Evolve into the Field of Intellectual Trade Books?

November 29, 2023

How Did Academic Monograph Publishing Evolve into the Field of Intellectual Trade Books?

Chris Hart and Kim Walker
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Chris Hart, Director of Sales and Marketing, and Kim Walker, Director of Trade Publishing at Manchester University Press join Avi to discuss how MUP a…

Academic Publishers Grapple with Advances in AI

August 19, 2023

Academic Publishers Grapple with Advances in AI

Niko Pfund
Hosted by Avi Staiman

Niko Pfund joins the podcast to discuss the value of scientific content for building out Large Language Models and some of the challenges around track…

Efficient Academic Writing: A Discussion with Mushtaq Bilal

May 31, 2023

Efficient Academic Writing

Mushtaq Bilal
Hosted by Avi Staiman
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Mushtaq Bilal is an academic, content creator, thought leader, and public intellectual. Mushtaq discusses how he built an audience of more than 185,00…

Has Peer Review Hit a Point of No Return?

April 4, 2023

Has Peer Review Hit a Point of No Return?

Vivian Berghahn
Hosted by Avi Staiman

Vivian Berghahn joins to discuss what is broken with the peer review system in general, how it impacts book publishing, and some creative solutions fo…

The Many Kinds of Editing it Takes to Bring a Book to Print

March 28, 2023

The Many Kinds of Editing it Takes to Bring a Book to Print

Alessandra Anzani
Hosted by Avi Staiman

Alessandra Anzani, Editorial Director, Academic Studies Press, talks about the steps that authors need to take to bring their manuscripts to publicati…

The Challenge of AI to Publishing: A Discussion with Sally Wilson

March 18, 2023

The Challenge of AI to Publishing

Sally Wilson
Hosted by Avi Staiman

Sally Wilson, VP of Publishing at Emerald opens up about the challenges publishers are facing in contending with the onset of the mass adoption of AI …

Publishing Science: A Discussion with Tiffany Gasbarrini, Senior Science Editor, Johns Hopkins University Press

March 11, 2023

Publishing Science

Tiffany Gasbarrini
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"It is not only for science to give to publishing, but the time has come for publishing to start giving back to science." Tiffany Gasbarrini explain…

Open Access in Humanities Publishing: A Discussion with Irene Van Rossum

March 6, 2023

Open Access in Humanities Publishing

Irene Van Rossom
Hosted by Avi Staiman

Irene Van Rossum and Avi do a deep dive into how Open Access works (or doesn't work) in the context for book manuscripts in the Humanities. Listeners …

Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, "Decolonizing American Spanish: Eurocentrism and the Limits of Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)

March 4, 2023

Decolonizing American Spanish

Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera
Hosted by Avi Staiman

Jeffrey joins the podcast to discuss the prevalence of English in the academic ecosystem and in research publishing. Jeffrey critiques the lackadaisic…

Profitability and University Press Publishing: A Discussion with Stanford UP's Alan Harvey

March 2, 2023

Profitability and University Press Publishing

Alan Harvey
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Alan Harvey, Director of Stanford University Press, sits with Avi to discuss why it is so challenging for scholars to write and publish books and to d…

Making Open Access Work for Both Readers and Authors

February 21, 2023

Making Open Access Work for Both Readers and Authors

Hosted by Avi Staiman

Ben Denne (Director of Publishing, Academic Books, Cambridge UP) joins Avi to discuss how Open Access quickly became a predominant form of academic pu…

From Manufacturing Floor to University Press Editorial Director

February 19, 2023

From Manufacturing Floor to University Press Editorial Director

Eric Schwartz
Hosted by Avi Staiman

Eric Schwartz joins Avi for a fascinating discussion about the relationship between Columbia University and the Press and how they bounced back after …

The Art of Translating Academic Research

February 8, 2023

The Art of Translating Academic Research

Jennifer Crewe
Hosted by Avi Staiman

Jennifer Crewe talks about how translation became a key component of the Columbia University Press publishing program and how the press decides which …

Think Bigger: How Researchers Can Use their Books to Make Real Breakthroughs

January 29, 2023

Think Bigger--How Researchers Can Use their Books to Make Real Breakthroughs

Gita Manaktala
Hosted by Avi Staiman

Avi and Gita Manaktala discuss how researchers should approach the book publishing process, including determining whether research should be published…

Covering Higher Ed: A Chat with Sara Custer of Times Higher Education

August 5, 2022

Covering Higher Ed

Sara Custer
Hosted by Avi Staiman

A special opportunity to hear from Sara Custer, editor of The Campus (Times Higher Education), about the role of journalism and reporting in higher ed…

Combating Fraud and Plagiarism in the Publication of Academic Research

June 24, 2022

Combating Fraud and Plagiarism in the Publication of Academic Research

Jason Prevost of Brill
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Jason Prevost, coordinating Chair of the Publication Ethics Committee, and Senior Acquisitions Editor at Brill joins Avi Staiman, CEO of Academic Lan…

English-Language Publishing in Asian Universities and Colleges

June 6, 2022

English-Language Publishing in Asian Universities and Colleges

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Hear from Professor Chris Gerteis, director of the International Publishing Initiative at Tokyo University. Avi and Chris have a fascinating discussio…

Should Scholars Trust Machine Translation of their Articles?

May 30, 2022

Should Scholars Trust Machine Translation of their Articles?

Ana Guerberof Arenas
Hosted by Avi Staiman

Should academic scholars trust machine translation for the publication of their academic articles? In this episode, Avi Staiman and Prof. Ana Guerbero…

Catherine Cocks of "Feeding the Elephant" on Scholarly Communication

February 10, 2022

Catherine Cocks of "Feeding the Elephant" on Scholarly Communications

Catherine Cocks
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Hear from Catherine Cocks, assistant director and editor-in-chief at Michigan State University Press talk about her attempt to replicate the success o…