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UK Serials Group will be providing a one-day seminar:

 

A Day in the Life of a Journal Publisher

 

to be held at Elsevier, Oxford 

 

on Tuesday 12 September 2006

 

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Would you like to know more about journal publishing in the electronic
world?


 

This one-day event is being hosted by Elsevier, the world’s leading
multiple-media publisher of more than 20,000 products and services,
including journals, books, electronic products, databases and portals
serving the global scientific, technical and medical (STM) communities.
This seminar aims to improve understanding of the publishing process.

 

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PROGRAMME


09.30   Registration and coffee

 

09.40   Welcome and introductions

 

09.45  Brief overview of Elsevier and scholarly journals 

A brief introduction of Elsevier will be followed by an overview of the STM
journals market, the nature and structure of journals and their publishing
cycle.


 


10.15    Editorial – how are journals developed and managed? 

An overview of the role of a publisher in managing journals and working with
the editors, including the genesis of new journals from understanding and
assessing market needs through to the launch of new journals.

 

10.45  The production process – print and electronic

This presentation will identify how journal publishers manage the production
process, from supporting article submission, management of the peer review
process, providing author support and maintaining a dual production system
to produce both print and electronic journals.

 

11.15  Break

 

11.30  Managing relationships with customers – an overview of customer
services

This presentation identifies what publishers do to provide professional
customer service and support, for both print and electronic products.  In
addition, it also describes the sophisticated customer feedback systems that
Elsevier have developed and shows how this ‘voice of the customer’ is used
to improve customer service.

 

12.00  Questions and discussion

 

12.30  Lunch

 

13.15  Marketing journals and databases

As the journal world continues to move towards electronic media, this
presentation indicates how the marketing of journals has changed and the
methods now utilised to promote more database-orientated products.

 

13.45  New products and solutions

An overview of new products that have been developed to meet the needs of
customers.  This presentation focuses on Scopus, a product developed to
assist with navigation through the literature; FirstConsult, a product that
meet the needs of clinicians; and also the development within ScienceDirect,
Elsevier’s comprehensive journal platform.

 

14.15  Break

 

14.25  A user’s perspective

This presentation aims to provide a perspective on the roles that journal
publishers and libraries play in meeting user needs.

 

14.55  Questions and discussion

 

15.15    Close of seminar

 

Presenters to be confirmed

 

Fee

UKSG members       £90.00 + £15.75 VAT (total £105.75)

Non-members           £115.00 + £20.13 VAT (total £135.13)

The fee includes refreshments and lunch.  

 

Venue

Athena 2

Elsevier

Kidlington

Oxford

Location details will be sent with confirmation of booking.  Visitor parking
is available.

 

Cancellations

By 5 September 2006          Full refund

From 6 September 2006     No refund

 

Bookings

Please book via the UKSG website – www.uksg.org – or contact:

Karen Sadler, UKSG Administrator

Tel.: +44 (0)1865 744279   Fax: +44 (0)1865 742164   E-mail: [log in to unmask]

 

Many thanks,

 

Karen Sadler

UKSG Administrator

Tel. +44 (0)1865 744279

Fax. +44(0)1865 742164

www.uksg.org