Find the Publisher

Techniques to locate the publisher

Here are examples of pages where the publisher is not clearly named:

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Elect Susie Flynn

• The Shrine to Cary Grant

Use these techniques to locate publishers:

1. If looking on the page doesn't reveal a publisher's name, look on the Web site. Try truncating the url to see if there are clues about who is responsible or links to a publisher on other pages--remove the end of the address back to a meaningful break ( / ) or the root of the site (e.g., 21cif.imsa.edu/). The root of the site often reveals the publisher.

3. If the site provides links to 'about us' or 'contact us,' check there for publisher information.

5. If the url is an edu site and includes a tilde ( ~ ), the name immediately following usually leads to the Web page owner (same as publisher).

7. Use allwhois.net/ or a similar type of domain look-up site (e.g., nswhois.domainregistry) to search for the owner of the Web site. This is often the author as well as the publisher. The author should also be considered the publisher in most Web 2.0 applications (Blogs, Twitter, Digg, etc.)

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Interactive MicroModule Tutorial: Publisher

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