The course is designed for people working in scholarly publishing and primarily with journals. To gain the most benefit from the course, the ideal participant will need to have at least one – three years publishing experience as junior or middle manager but others with more experience will find the course a useful refresher and an inspiration for their future career. The experience may be in editorial, sales, marketing or content management roles, but the course is also valuable for people working in other roles such as finance, web publishing and technology, or customer service. Experience has shown that participants moving into journal publishing from other publishing sectors can also benefit.
Experienced practitioners provide intensive training in all the publishing operations and roles in STM, social science and humanities. As in the previous years of this successful training event the course uses the case study method — involving the students in competitive business problem solving. The case study also enables the students to share their existing experience and insight, incorporating newly learned skills and insights. Scholarly publishing products come in various formats – e-journals, e-Books, databases, mobile applications and, of course, print. While the course focuses on journals, other products will be put in context of the typical publishing programme.
An outline of the topics covered and the speakers invited is provided below. The presentations have been devised to encourage interaction and the programme is more flexible that it looks in order to allow for more detailed discussions of what emerge as key areas of interest and concern. It is anticipated that all “spare” time will generally be devoted to the case study. It will therefore be necessary to stay the nights of 29th, 30th and 31st October 2017 at the hotel even if you work and live in Hong Kong. All participants should strongly consider bringing their laptops. All participants will take part in their teams oral and written presentations but it will be understood that for some of those attending English is not the first language.
For more information about organisational matters please contact Jo Dinnage
The fee includes accommodation at Auberge Discovery Bay Hotel for three nights. All meals and all tutorial costs are also included.
Course Director
Bas Straub, Konvertus
Course Tutor
Lyndsey Dixon, Regional Journals Editorial Director, Taylor and Francis Asia Pacific
Provisional Programme
Date |
Sunday October 29th |
12.30 |
Registration |
13:00 |
Lunch |
13.30 |
Welcome to Hong Kong and Introduction to the Course |
14.00 |
Role and Future of STM Journal Publishing |
15.00 |
Publishing Models |
15.45 |
Refreshment break |
16.00 |
Managing Journal Finances |
17.00 |
Introduction to the Case Study |
Date |
Monday October 30th |
8.30 |
Questions and Answers about the Case Study |
8.45 |
Acquisitions |
9.30 |
Dissemination & Bibliometrics |
10.45 |
Refreshment break |
11.00 |
Author Services |
12.00 |
Journal Development |
13.00 |
Lunch followed by work on the case study |
Date |
Tuesday October 31th |
8.45 |
Questions and Answers about the Case Study |
9.00 |
Journal Production |
10.00 |
(Pharma) Marketing |
10.45 |
Refreshment break |
11.00 |
Negotiating & Legal Frame of Publishing |
12.00 |
Dealing with different cultures; the Soft Skills in Publishing |
13.15 |
Lunch followed by work on the case study |
Date |
Wednesday November 1st |
9.30 |
Presentation of the Case Study Proposals |
12.00 |
Lunch |
12.45 |
Discussion and Analysis of the Case Study |
13.30 |
Presentation of the Certificates |
Where an event has registration fees, cancellations made in writing up to 30 days before an event are eligible for a 50% refund. No refunds can be made for cancellations received on or after 30 days prior to the event date, however, substitutions may be made free of charge at any time.
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