ALPSP Seminar: Automated Journal Editorial and Production Workflow: management and processes, London, Monday 6 December 2004

["Laura Cox" <laura.cox@frontlinegms.com>]

Automated Journal Editorial and Production Workflow: management and
processes

London, Monday 6 December 2004

Chair: William Alden, Managing Director, Alden Group

Venue: British Institute for Radiology, 36 Portland Place, London W1B 1AT

Overview

Workflow is key to the management of journals; from the moment each
individual article is received in the Editorial Office to its eventual
publication, seamless and efficient flow through all the different
processes is essential to the rapid publication which authors, editors and
readers desire. Skilled human intervention is, of course, essential;
however, many of the mechanical processes, and the flow of the article
from one process to the next, can now be automated and there is a range of
tools available to do so. Publishers, however small, can speed up
publication, increase efficiency and reduce costs by intelligent selection
of the appropriate automation tools; this seminar will help them to
achieve this, with both presentations from experts and case studies
describing the experience of a number of smaller publishers. This seminar
will be of interest to all who are responsible for all or part of the
journals workflow, whether editorial, production or both.

Programme

10.00   REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

10.20   Introduction from the Chair
William Alden, Managing Director, Alden Group

10.30   Keynote speaker - Overview of Issues
Evan Owens, Chief Technology Officer, Ithaka Electronic-Archiving
Initiative (JSTOR) at Princeton University

11.00   Process: Submission, peer review and manuscript tracking
Ian Potter, Consulting Manager, ScholarOne

11.30 TEA/COFFEE

12.00   Process: Automated mark-up and copyediting
Martin Clutterbuck, Managing Director, Shabash

12.30   Case study 1: Pre-publication workflows
Sharon Duckworth, The Publishing Practice

13.00 LUNCH

14.00   Process: Automated page make-up and other outputs
Dr Kaveh Bazargan, River Valley Technologies=20

14.30 Case study: a Small Publisher Perspective
Robert Preston, Mineralogical Society=20

15.00 TEA/COFFEE

15.30 Process: Delivery to web and for print
Martin Kelly and Sharon Toop, Institute of Physics Publishing

16.00 Case study: Delivery to web and for print
Neil Ferguson, Business Development Manager, Alden Group

16.30 Panel Discussion, questions and answers=20

17.00 Summing up from chair

17.15 Close

For further information please contact Lesley Ogg at: events@alpsp.org,
Tel: +44 (0) 1245 260571

To register online please go to: www.alpsp.org/events/s061204.htm

Many thanks

Laura Cox
Managing Director
Frontline Global Marketing Services Ltd
4 Richmond Road
Towcester
NN12 6EX

Tel: +44 (0) 1327 359298
Fax: +44 (0) 20 8043 0310
Web:  <http://www.frontlinegms.com> 
Email:  <mailto:laura.cox@frontlinegms.com>