Journal Publishing – Practical Guidelines

This course provides an extensive training opportunity for the staff from all areas of journals publishing. The course will provide the opportunity to learn the complex models of the scholarly publishing and the unique challenges of running a scholarly journal. Delegates will participate in discussion to develop open access and trade journals and explore some significant difficulties they usually face in journal publishing. These include a shortage of appropriately trained staff, uncertainties about pricing mechanisms, lack of adequate budgetary provision by universities for library purchases, and unrealistic expectations on the part of scholars that electronic information should be inexpensive.