For full details and to book please click here to visit the STM Association events page.
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 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.
For more information about organisational matters please contact Jo Dinnage
Accommodation
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, Magknowlia
Course Tutor
Lyndsey Dixon, Regional Journals Editorial Director, Taylor and Francis Asia Pacific
Provisional Programme (Subject to change)
Sunday 6 November
| 10 30 | Registration |
| 11 15 | Welcome to Hong Kong and Introduction to the Course Bas Straub, Magknowlia Lyndsey Dixon, Regional Journals Editorial Director, Taylor and Francis Asia Pacific |
| 12 00 | Lunch |
| 12 45 | Role and Future of STM Journal Publishing Michael Mabe, Chief Executive Officer, STM |
| 13 30 | Publishing Models Bas Straub, Magknowlia |
| 14 30 | Acquisitions – How, what, why (and within that why do society publishing?) Lyndsey Dixon, Regional Journals Editorial Director, Taylor and Francis Asia Pacific |
| 15 45 | Refreshment Break |
| 16 00 | Managing Journal Finances Bas Straub |
| 17 00 | Introduction to the Case Study Bas Straub and Lyndsey Dixon |
| 18 00 | Work on case study |
| 19 00 | Dinner followed by work on case study |
Monday 7 November
| 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 David Green, Global Journals Publishing Director, Taylor and Francis |
| 10 15 | Refreshment Break |
| 10 30 | Journal Development |
| 11 45 | Dissemination Peter Arbuthnott, Senior Consultant, Ingenta |
| 12 30 | Author Services Trevor Lane, Education Director & Senior Publishing Consultant, Edanz Group |
| 13 30 | Lunch followed by work on the case study |
| 16 00 | Refreshment Break |
| 17 30 | Break |
| 18 00 | Dinner |
Tuesday 8 November
| 08 15 | Questions and Answers about the Case Study Bas Straub and Lyndsey Dixon |
| 08 45 | Journal Production |
| 09 45 | Refreshment Break |
| 10 00 | Pharma Marketing Vicky Lam, Publisher, Elsevier |
| 11 15 | The Legal Frame of Publishing Bas Straub |
| 12 00 | Bibliometrics Charlie Rapple, Co-founder, Kudos |
| 13 00 | Lunch – followed by Work on Case Study |
| 16 00 | Refreshment break |
| 16 15 | 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 9 November
| 08 15 | Presentation of Case Study Proposals |
| 11 30 | Refreshment Break |
| 12 00 | Soft Skills in Publishing |
| 13 00 | Lunch |
| 13 30 | Discussion and analysis of the case study Bas Straub, Lyndsey Dixon |
| 15 15 | Presentation of Certificates |
| 15 30 | Refreshments and Farewell |
Events Terms and Conditions
Cancellation
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.
Insurance
Registration fees do not include insurance. Participants are advised to take out adequate personal insurance to cover travel, accommodation, cancellation and personal effects.
