10th Intensive Course in Journal Publishing – Asia 2017

20170305_203045_small2017 Attendees

Who should attend?

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. 

Scope of the course

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. 

Organisation of the course

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 5th, 6th, and 7th March 2017 at the conference centre even if you work and live in Singapore. 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 

Accommodation

The fee includes accommodation at Nanyang University 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 (Subject to change) 

Sunday 5 March

10 30

Registration

11 15

Welcome to Singapore and Introduction to the Course
Bas Straub, Konvertus
Lyndsey Dixon, Regional Journals Editorial Director, Taylor and Francis Asia Pacific

12 00

Lunch

13 00

Role and Future of STM Journal Publishing
Michael Mabe, Chief Executive Officer, STM

14.15

Acquisitions - How, what, why (and within that why do society publishing?)
Lyndsey Dixon, Regional Journals Editorial Director, Taylor and Francis Asia Pacific

15.30

Refreshment Break

16 00

Managing Journal Finances / Publishing Models
Bas Straub

17 00

Introduction to the Case Study
Bas Straub and Lyndsey Dixon

18 30

Dinner at Mme Phua, World Scientific

 Monday 6 March

08 30

Questions and Answers about the Case Study
Bas Straub and Lyndsey Dixon

09 00

Our Center of the World – What are the current developments in academic journals publishing in Asia
Lyndsey Dixon

10 00

Refreshment Break

10 30

Journal Development
Lyndsey Dixon

11 00

Societies/Editors/Librarians
Panel session/interview answering questions

12 30

Production
Shankar Chitturi, Senior Manager at Newgen

13 00

Lunch followed by work on the case study

16 00

Author Services
TBC

18 00

Dinner

Tuesday 7 March

09 00

Questions and Answers about the Case Study
Bas Straub and Lyndsey Dixon

9 30

The Legal Frame of Publishing
Bas Straub

10 00

Marketing & Commercial Sales
Chris Hammond
, Publisher, Elsevier

11 00

Research Ethics
Lyndsey Dixon

11 30

Research Ethics break-outs

12 15

Bibliometrics
Bas Straub, Konvertus

13 00

Lunch – followed by Work on Case Study

16 00

Author Services
Bas Straub, Konvertus

16 30

Questions and Answers about the Case Study
Bas Straub and Lyndsey Dixon

16 30

More work on case study

19 00

Dinner followed by putting together of written proposal and power point presentation

22 00

Deadline for delivery to course tutors of case study written proposals

Wednesday 8 March

TBC

Presentation of Case Study Proposals          

11 30

Refreshment Break 

12 00

Soft Skills in Publishing
Paul Evans and
Lyndsey Dixon

13 00

Lunch

13 30

Discussion and analysis of the case study
Bas Straub, Lyndsey Dixon, Harmen van Paradijs

15 15

Presentation of Certificates

15 30

Refreshments and Farewell


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