General information
On this page you can propose books, articles, course outlines, endorsements and reviews to be published on this site.
Below you will find a description of the information we need to add new information to the site. We welcome contributions and ideas: if you would like to recommend a book, leave an endorsement, or contribute a course outline, please send your submission to us at info@radicaldemon.org and we will add it, if it is appropriate for this site.
This site is still under development. At present only site administrators can add material such as outlines. In due course, this site will have facilities for authors and publishers to enter submissions directly.
Zotero and bibliographic references
A major purpose of this site is to help readers, writers, and librarians find out as much as they can about the books described on it. To this end we work with the Zotero community, which allows bibliographic information to be captured from the web and to be shared between communities of users. To make full use of this site, we recommend that you join the Radical Demon group on Zotero. You will see that for each of our books and articles, a link is provided for a Zotero entry. This will normally be the corresponding Zotero entry that is stored in the group library. You can access this without joining the group, but we encourage you to sign up for the group, because this will allow you to make new entries there, and to improve the quality of the existing entries.
When you submit a book, article, or outline, we encourage you to take the extra time out to locate or create a Zotero entry for it. This is easily done once you have installed Zotero, since most publishers now provide bibliographic information suitable for Zotero. Once you locate the entry for the work you want to cite on a publisher website, or on Amazon, click on the small Zotero icon that you will usually find in the toolbar. This will place the citation information into you local library. Provided you create a web library, and follow the instructions on the Zotero help system to synchronise your local library with it, this entry can then easily be copied from there into the group library.
Book nomination
Nominate a book for our site. This will be featured as an 'author selection' on the 'Read' page of the site
A book nomination is basically a description of the text containing the basic bibliographic information that a reader needs in order to find it, purchase it or describe it to a librarian, and to find out about its authors. The information yo provide will be used to create an entry on the ‘Read’ page, so make sure you have all this to hand before you begin. In particular, find URLs for the UK, US and Canadian publisher and/or distributor, and for the Amazon and Zotero entries for this book.
Also make sure you have basic biographical information about the author or authors, including some information about their institution and previous writing.
An image of the front cover is also desirable.
Endorsements help readers make up their minds about buying a book, but also about how to use it. An endorsement is not the same as a review. It should stress the positive features of the book, in order to help promote it. As the site develops, we will add facilities for critical reviews and for discussions around books that are featured on it.