This year’s 2015 Joint Annual Meeting in Montréal, Québec includes a free lunchtime workshop sponsored by Cambridge University Press that tackles the topic of publishing scientific papers.
Discussion will be led by a three-member panel examining the publication process through the eyes of an author (J. Saguez), a journal editor (K. Floate) and a publisher (D. Edwards). Following short presentations by each panelist, the floor will be opened for general questions and discussion.
Send us your questions and we will do our best to address them in our presentations.
What makes for a good paper? Who should I include as co-authors? How important is the cover letter? Why is the review process so long? How can I best respond to reviewer comments? What journal should I publish in? What is hybrid open access? What are predatory publishers? Why don’t journals make publications freely available? Knowing the answers to these and other questions can take some of the frustration out of the publication process.
Our goal is to ensure that everyone leaves with a full stomach and new insights to simplify the publication of their next paper! You can help us by sending your questions to Kevin Floate (Kevin.Floate@agr.gc.ca) by October 23rd.
See you in Montréal!
Julien Saguez – Independent Researcher/Author
Kevin Floate – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Editor-in-Chief, The Canadian Entomologist
Daniel Edwards – Senior Commissioning Editor, Journals, Cambridge University Press
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