Submit an Article
Do you have a burning desire to share your insight and technical expertise with other Oracle users? If so, submit your article to Oracle Magazine. We are looking for users, DBAs, application developers, and experienced freelance writers to write articles and books that provide specific and useful information aimed at making our readers more successful in their use of Oracle products and technology.
Before submitting an article, please familiarize yourself with our publications by looking around this site. Review the last three or four issues
of Oracle Magazine to get a sense of how the articles are written and what type of information our audience wants. Check out the editorial calendar for the year.
Audience
The typical reader of Oracle Magazine is: already using Oracle products; a power user, or becoming a power user; intelligent, and often largely self-taught in his or her areas of expertise; looking for ways to become even more successful using Oracle products; and looking for straightforward, compelling, step-by-step material relevant to his or her technology needs.
Oracle Magazine Opportunities
Oracle Magazine has standing requirements for the following types of articles:
- case studies that describe fast paths and pitfalls of actual projects and implementations
- tips, tricks, and techniques for using a particular product, product feature, or process
- performance planning and tuning strategies
- articles about applications, servlets, or components that have been built using technologies such as Java, JDBC, SQLJ, JSP, XML, SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, and LDAP
- step-by-step articles about using tools, such as using Oracle JDeveloper to create applications that run against Oracle Database
We are particularly interested in technical articles that provide specific information that helps our readers become more successful in their jobs in the following Oracle product areas:
- Oracle Database
- Oracle Fusion Middleware
- Oracle Developer Tools
- Oracle Secure Enterprise Search
- Oracle Enterprise Management
- Oracle embedded products
and the following technology areas:
- Java/J2EE
- SOA/Web Services
- Linux
- XML
- Integration
- Security
- Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence
- Wireless
- SQL and PL/SQL
- .NET
- Open Source Development
Profit Opportunities
Profit: The Business of Technology magazine generally features one primary business strategy story; executive interviews; real-world customer case studies; product news; industry insights; and Under the Hood, a more technical column that explains the business benefits of using particular techniques or products.
Profit Magazine does not
accept unsolicited manuscripts. Please e-mail QUERIES only to opubedit_us@oracle.com.
Article Content Guidelines and Answering Your Readers' Questions
Please follow the guidelines for content and formatting and submit completed technical articles that you'd like to have considered for
publication in Oracle Magazine to opubedit_us@oracle.com. Please include your full name, e-mail address, postal mailing address, and daytime phone number with each article submission.
Ideally, technical articles for Oracle Magazine should be between 2,500 and 3,000 words (exclusive of code listings). If the information you want to submit is less than 900 words and is (largely) a reusable code example or tip, consider submitting it to our Code Tips area.
When writing a technical article, focus on adding value for the reader. Help readers make their use of Oracle products and technology more successful. Consider the following
questions:
- How will readers benefit from reading your article?
- Will they learn a new technique?
- Will they work more effectively if they implement the list of tips you provide?
- Will they get started with a new product more successfully based on the implementation plan you outline?
- Provide rules-of-thumb and guidelines for readers whenever possible, including pointing out obstacles they might encounter and offering workarounds for obstacles.
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If talking about a specific project, what do you know now that you wish you knew before you started?
In short, articles should give readers the inside track on how to use Oracle products more effectively.
Submit an Abstract
Oracle Magazine receives many unsolicited article submissions, and can publish very few of them. Because our opportunity for unsolicited articles is so limited, we highly recommend that you consider sending us an abstract for your proposed article before sending the article. The information in an article abstract is important to us; it is the kind of information we use when describing upcoming articles internally and to Oracle partners.
A good abstract also helps focus on why the article is important and will be of interest to readers. We recommend that an abstract address the following questions:
- What is the business problem/situation?
- What is the current or old technology solution?
- What is the new and/or better Oracle technology solution?
- How does the new Oracle technology solution exceed the current or old solution?
Submit your abstracts in e-mail to opubedit_us@oracle.com.
How to Submit an Article
Submit your article, proposal, or any questions to opubedit_us@oracle.com. Submit your articles in plain ASCII text, Rich Text Format (RTF), or Microsoft Word (using the downloadable Word template). Include your full name, e-mail address, postal mailing address, and daytime phone number.
Authorization to Publish an Article
When you submit an article, you are stating the following:
- that the article was created solely by you,
- that the article is an original work and not been published in any other form,
- that you authorize Oracle's use, modification, reproduction, and distribution of the article, and
- that you are not restricted by contract(s) with your employer or other entity from having this article published.
Please do not submit articles that you've also submitted to another publication.
Response to Your Article Submission
If you've submitted a completed technical article for Oracle Magazine, please note that it can take a significant amount of time for us to evaluate your article. If you have not heard from us in a timely fashion, please send an inquiry to opubedit_us@oracle.com about the status of your article. If you submit an article and decide for any reason that you no longer want the article to be published in Oracle Magazine, please send a request to withdraw the article from consideration.
Oracle Magazine receives many article submissions, and for every article we publish, there are several submitted articles that we simply cannot publish. If your article is not selected for publication in Oracle Magazine, it is in no way an indication of the quality of the article. Oracle Magazine responds to the needs of the Oracle community and Oracle Corporation in determining the topics for articles published, and the reason that most submitted articles are not published is simply because the topics do not meet Oracle Magazine's current editorial needs.
Because of the number of article submissions received and evaluated, Oracle Magazine cannot provide detailed information on why we choose not to publish an article.
Compensation
If you expect compensation for an article, you MUST negotiate all terms in advance and be prepared to submit extensive documentation to become an Oracle approved vendor.
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