9th Intensive Course in Journal Publishing – Asia 2016
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 6th, 7th, and 8th March 2016 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, Magknowlia
Course Tutor
Lyndsey Dixon, Regional Journals Editorial Director, Taylor and Francis Asia Pacific
Programme
Sunday 6 March
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10 30 |
Registration |
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11 15 |
Welcome to Singapore and Introduction to the Course |
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12 00 |
Group photograph & Lunch |
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12 45 |
Role and Future of STM Journal Publishing |
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13 30 |
Publishing Models |
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14 30 |
Acquisitions - How, what, why (and within that why do society publishing?) |
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15 45 |
Refreshment Break |
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16 00 |
The World Out There – What are the current developments in academic journals publishing |
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17 00 |
Introduction to the Case Study |
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18 00 |
Work on case study |
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19 00 |
Dinner followed by work on case study |
Monday 7 March
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08 30 |
Questions and Answers about the Case Study |
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09 00 |
Managing Journal Finances |
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10 15 |
Refreshment Break |
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10 30 |
Journal Development |
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11 45 |
Selling the Journal This talk covers recent sales and licensing models of STM journals including subscription to Open Access, and illustrates how various stakeholders play in today's challenging market. |
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12 30 |
Author Services |
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13 30 |
Lunch followed by work on the case study |
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16 00 |
Refreshment Break |
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17 30 |
Break |
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18 00 |
Depart for Dinner (meet at entrance of NTU Executive Centre) |
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18 30 |
Dinner Reception |
Tuesday 8 March
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08 15 |
Questions and Answers about the Case Study |
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08 45 |
Journal Production |
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09 45 |
Refreshment Break |
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10 00 |
Marketing & the Market |
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11 15 |
The Legal Frame of Publishing |
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12 00
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Bibliometrics |
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13 00 |
Lunch – followed by Work on Case Study |
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16 00 |
Refreshment break |
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16 15 |
Questions and Answers about the Case Study |
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16 30 |
More work on case study |
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19 00 |
Dinner followed by putting together of written proposal and power point presentation |
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22 00 |
Deadline for delivery to course tutors of case study written proposals |
Wednesday 9 March
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08 15 |
Presentation of Case Study Proposals |
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11 30 |
Refreshment Break |
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12 00 |
Soft Skills in Publishing |
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13 00 |
Lunch |
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13 30 |
Discussion and analysis of the case study Vice President Human Sciences Publishing Group & Managing Director Springer Science+Business Media Singapore Pte Ltd |
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15 15 |
Presentation of Certificates |
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15 30 |
Refreshments and Farewell |
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