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.
How to submit an outline
Help us advance high-quality critical thinking into the classroom by submitting course outlines for lecturers, or for self-study.
Radical Demon intends to get high-quality critical thinking into the classroom and into the hands of lay activists who need to know more. You can help us by submitting course or study outlines that encourage, or draw to attention for study, books and articles which offer a critical, high-quality perspective on topics neglected or distorted in mainstream thinking. Anyone enrolled on the site as an author can submit an outline.
A key feature of an outline is a list of required and recommended books and articles. These should, ideally, be registered on this site. Students, lecturers, or librarians can use these lists to order in material to be reproduced or stocked.
Here’s what you should have ready when you submit an outline:
- The name of the outline, a short description of it, and of course the outline itself.
- The subject categories in which it could be used. You will find our list of categories on the ‘Teach’ page. As the series develops we will add to this.
- A list of the works (books or articles) required to follow this course. Ideally, you should first submit these to this site
- A list of the works (books or articles) that you recommend, or which make useful additional reading. Ideally, you should first submit these to this site