Course Adoptions, Book Reviews, and Foreign Rights Highlights
June 2006
This database tracks course adoptions in university-level courses, published book reviews, and foreign rights sales of RAND publications.
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Course Adoptions: Tracking actual course adoptions presents challenges. There are many ways that an instructor may learn of a new title, and even more avenues for bookstores to order titles used in college courses. Students may order through an online bookstore, or a bookstore may order through a wholesaler, and we cannot confirm that titles considered for adoption are actually assigned for course use. Thus we include examination requests (consideration) and known course adoptions (confirmed) when this information is available. In the majority of cases, books adopted for use in a particular year are used again in one or more subsequent years — this database, however, only tracks the original semester and year of course adoption.
Book Reviews: Reviews in major media, specialty publications, and academic journals can take months, even years, from submission to publication. Reviews listed below have been confirmed by RAND Publications Marketing. Excerpts of book reviews are posted on RAND's web site and are linked to and from individual documents. See: http://www.rand.org/publications/reviews.html
Foreign Rights: RAND Publications Marketing works with a foreign rights agent to negotiate all foreign translation agreements. For more information see: http://www.rand.org/publications/contactpubs.html#foreign
Promotions: Promotional activities are indicated, where appropriate, for each title. All monographs are included in at least one annual publications catalog, either Social, Economic and Technology Policy catalog or International Policy / Military Affairs catalog. Most monographs are also promoted at conferences and exhibits (annual conferences listed at http://www.rand.org/publications/conferences.html). These promotional activities are not listed below as they apply to all monographs. Presence of an (*) at end of title indicates that there was no concerted effort to market the title other than catalog and conference promotion.
Conferences and Exhibits: For listing of 2006 Conferences Exhibiting RAND Publications, visit http://www.rand.org/publications/conferences.html. These are staffed either by RAND Publications Marketing, RAND Health (for Health conferences), or by the Association of American University Presses or a third-party exhibit firm, which displays RAND titles on our behalf.
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