International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers' (STM) is conducting an intensive course in journal publishing, designed for people working in scholarly publishing, primarily with journals. The course is scheduled to be held from November 6-9, 2016, at Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
To gain at most benefit from the course, the ideal participant is required to have at least one - three years publishing experience as junior or middle manager. 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. The course is also valuable for people working in other roles such as finance, web publishing and technology, or customer service. Participants moving into journal publishing from other publishing sectors can also benefit.
Experienced practitioners will provide intensive training in all the publishing operations and roles in STM, social science and humanities. As in the previous years, the course will use 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.
Presentations have been devised to encourage interaction, and the programme is more flexible in a way 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 November 2016 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.
More details on the topics covered and the speakers invited are available at http://www.stm-assoc.org/events/1st-intensive-course-journal-publishing-hong-kong-2016/.
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