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Speaking From Experience Live! A Q&A for Early Career Professionals Calling all early career members! If you have any burning questions regarding day-to-day work issues, career development, and/or the scholarly publishing industry, this is your time to ask. Join us for this Q&A session, hosted by the Early Career Committee and featuring industry professionals Anna Jester (Wiley), Emily Babcock (Society for Neuroscience) and Michael Casp (Wiley/Atypon). Our panelists will offer guidance based on your inquiries and share knowledge they've learned throughout their careers. Moderated by: Sydney Guyton Speakers: Anna Jester - Wiley; Emily Babcock - Society for Neuroscience; Michael Casp - Wiley/Atypon
Office Hours with ISMTE: Advanced Excel Tools for Publications Reporting - An ECC 101 Series Regular tracking of metrics like submissions, acceptances, and turnaround time is key to assessing a journal’s performance. Manually adding new data to a tracking document can take hours, and copying and pasting across various tabs and files is likely to introduce errors. Wouldn’t it be easier if Excel would ingest the raw data from your submission system report and update your document automatically? Great news, with just a little bit of setup, it can! This Office Hours event is part of the Early Career Committee’s 101 Series, where we cover the skills and knowledge needed for the day-to-day work of scholarly publishing professionals. Hosted by: Click here for presentation slides
Office with ISMTE: Exchange Forum This interactive session is a time for you to bring your questions, and to share ideas in a collaborative space. Join us for this casual discussion of the obstacles we face in the workplace ad add in your problem-solving two cents! Hosted by:
Office Hours with ISMTE: ISMTE 2024 Annual Meeting Experience Join us to discuss the recent ISMTE 2024 meeting! Whether you attended the conference and want to reminisce, or you couldn't attend and want to hear about the highlights and plans for 2025, join us! Hosted by:
Office Hours with ISMTE: AI in Scholarly Publishing: Innovation with Integrity It is impossible to ignore the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence and the innovative solutions it offers for the automation of publication processes to enhance efficiency, fairness and research discovery. But with all the benefits come challenges, particularly in upholding ethics and integrity in manuscript handling from submission to acceptance and the dissemination of peer-reviewed new findings. Join us to learn from the experts how to embrace new opportunities and mitigate the risk of misuse of powerful AI tools, which aim to positively transform our professional approach to academic publishing for a better future. Moderated by: Speakers:
Office Hours with ISMTE: Getting Involved with ISMTE: A Glimpse into Our Committees In this session learn about the inner workings of our ISMTE committees and the benefits of getting involved. ISMTE committees and volunteers are the backbone of the society, and our dedicated volunteer committee members help plan, organize, develop, and implement the resources, content, and event offerings. Hosted by:
 Office Hours with ISMTE: Navigating Your ISMTE Membership Tuesday, February 27 New to ISMTE or interested in becoming a member? We are thrilled to have you join our global community of professionals dedicated to advancing the field of scholarly publishing and editorial management. Join the ISMTE Membership Committee and other ISMTE leaders to learn more about the Society and available benefits. This is a great opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals, get your questions answered, and discover how you can take full advantage of your ISMTE membership. Although this session is geared toward new members or those interested in becoming members, anyone is welcome to participate, and we encourage existing members to come share their favorite ISMTE experiences. Hosted by: Meghan McDevitt, Origin Editorial, ISMTE Immediate Past-President Stephanie Kinnan, American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Office Hours with ISMTE: Is it published yet? A 101 discussion on the production office.  Ethical publication practices: Expert guidance to specific challenges in the AP-region November 16, 2023 This session involved a discussion of the article Applying the good publication practice 2022 guidelines in the Asia-Pacific region: a practical guide. Speakers: Rachael Profit, PhD, Regional Publication Strategist, APAC MIMS Katsu Arai, Wiley Japan Paul Glasziou, Australasian EQUATOR Centre
Peer Review and the Future of Publishing: Strategies for Finding Reviewers Finding reviewers is often a challenge for editors and editorial offices. In celebration of Peer Review Week 2023, Mia Ricci and Sarah Dedej will lead a conversation on strategies for identifying reviewers and discuss AGU’s initiative to encourage and transparently acknowledge co-reviewers. Attendees can actively participate in the session by sharing their own experiences and/or asking questions.
Seeking some insight into the inner workings of an editorial office? Then join us for this Early Career Committee hosted Office Hour. We will discuss the common tasks, roles, and processes that help an editorial office run smoothly as well as analyze issues that can disrupt the tranquility of a seemingly well-designed workflow. Hosted by:
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At the 2022 Global Event, Beth Godbee, PhD, led an engaging session on recognizing and working through the collective experience of burnout. To continue this conversation, we invite attendees to join us for an informal discussion on
Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving by Celeste Headlee
. We will discuss the theories and concepts explored in the book, share thoughts and ideas, and learn from each other.
Office Hours: How much more can we take on? Balancing growth in responsibilities and tasks As we push for more content submitted – invited submissions, supplemental/special issues – and, don’t get me wrong, we want more content submitted. However, this means more work for Editorial offices but often no increase in staffing/working hours to off-set this growth in workload. As Editorial offices (Editorial Assistant, Managing Editor, Editorial Manager, Journal Administrator, Peer Review/Submission Administrator, etc.), we already have a base list of responsibilities and tasks pertaining to our role for our journals: to get a manuscript from submission to final decision, including pre- and post- submission tasks. But with more things needed to be checked in the initial submission checks (as well as all the usual initial checks but including COI, disclosure statements, potential paper mill articles), more tasks in the peer review process expected of administrators (checking and inviting reviewers, even selecting/suggesting) and the time-consuming act of chasing (chasing Editors for their late assignments, late reviewers for their reports, late authors for their submissions), multiple that workload by the increasing content submitted and published. I have a question to explore: what ways are Editorial offices combating a finite amount of time versus growing responsibilities and content? Time may be a fixed entity – as much as we may wish, we cannot invent more time – but workload grows.
Office Hours: More Power for Your Hour – Pros and Cons of Working Remotely More Power for Your Hour – Pros and Cons of Working Remotely: Whether new to working remotely, planning on hybrid/return to on-site working, this session will share helpful tips and tricks for productivity and performance, what's missing with remote working
and plugging that gap, remote-worker inclusion, self-care and work/life balance, meeting attendance, remaining focused in meetings and staving off virtual-meeting fatigue all to give you more power for your hour.
Join us for this session of ISMTE Office Hours: Improving the quality of peer review, with our guest host, Michael Willis, Past President of ISMTE, and Senior Manager, Researcher Advocate with Wiley. Office Hours: Team building in the times of COVID Has COVID-19 disrupted the synergy of your publications team? Do you have new staff that you want to feel supported and engaged? Do you work remotely from your team and want to feel more connected? If your answer is "yes" to any of the above, please join
us for this Office Hours session as we discuss ideas to boost team cohesion, performance and well-being. You'll hear examples of successful tactics implemented by our co-hosts that have helped make their department known for its exceptional teamwork,
followed by a group discussion of attendees' experiences and advice.
RTP Local Group Event - How to Be an Effective Mentor - June 25, 2021
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Navigating International Communication in Scholarly Publishing March 19, 2021 Scholarly publishing requires cooperation from researchers, editors, and journal staff around the globe. This session draws on the experiences of three panelists who have worked in editorial offices in various parts of the world. Attendees will learn about cultural differences in etiquette and how to build strong relationships internationally. Speakers: Transparency in the Publishing Process
PLENARY: Antiracism Toolkits for Allies in Scholarly Publishing When Jobs Cross: Effective Initiatives That Paid Off in the Workplace Always Iterating: Agile Project Management in the Editorial Office
Testimonials from Past Participants Lisa Pelzek-Braun, Managing Editor, Journal of Palliative Medicine, Ohio Health Home Care
I joined ISMTE last year, though I've I’ve followed the organization since 2012, and was excited to attend my first conference this year. I’m not new to the field – been Managing Editor of Journal of Palliative Medicine since the inception in 1997 – but lack peer connection and work largely in a vacuum within a healthcare system. I learned so much in a short time at the North American Conference in Durham, NC. My biggest take-aways were the evolutions in publishing: open peer review, open research, AI and Blockchain. The discussion on Plan S was also thought-provoking. Another wonderful component of this meeting – the speakers are the members and so accessible: had a lively discussion at breakfast with a speaker and other members on Day 2 about the previous day’s sessions on the variances and definitions of Editorial Boards. Nice to spend time with colleagues who speak my language. Jocelyn Dawson, Journals Marketing Manager, Duke University Press
I just attended my first ISMTE meeting. Although I work in journals marketing and many conference attendees come from an editorial background, I was thrilled to find an abundance of interesting content relevant to my work. I learned about new tools in the journals world and attended sessions on generally helpful professional topics (career, inclusion). The environment is collegial, and the conference was a great place to meet other people who care about the work of journal publishing. |
6/27/2025ISMTE June Newsletter
Empowering editorial offices around the world
