A 2-day workshop for new authors looking to gain insight into publishing and reviewing articles in Elsevier engineering journals.
Presented by Dr Angela Welch, Publisher and David Tempest, Deputy Director of Universal Access, Elsevier
You’ve completed your experiments and want to publish your work in a peer-reviewed journal. Are you wondering where to start? Do you want to learn how to structure your paper, or what to include in a cover letter? Is the submission and peer-review process a mystery to you? Perhaps you’ve submitted your work before and are in need of some guidance interpreting and responding to reviewer comments. Or maybe you’ve been selected to review a manuscript and find yourself asking: Am I qualified? What are the editors looking for in a good quality review? How can I benefit from being a reviewer? If this sounds familiar to you, register now for the Elsevier Author Workshop and learn some tips from the Publisher.
Programme
June 21: 14:00 – 17:00
A Publisher’s tips for writing a manuscript: Presented by Dr. Angela Welch
- Journal selection
- How to write a paper
- How to write a cover letter
- What happens after I submit
- How to respond to reviewer comments
- Audience: Graduate students and Post-Docs
Author Rights & Responsibilities: Presented by Mr. David Tempest
- Copyright policies and ethical considerations (e.g. plagiarism)
- Open access solutions
- Audience: Graduate students, Post-Docs, Faculty
Author-centric innovations: Presented by Dr. Angela Welch
- Article of the Future demonstration
- ScienceDirect Applications
- Audience: Graduate students, Post-Docs, Faculty
Friday June 22: 10-12
Reviewer Workshop: Presented by Dr. Angela Welch
- What is peer review and why it’s done
- Reviewing the fundamentals (what every reviewer should know)
- Reviewing the mechanics (how to do it)
- Audience: Graduate students, Post-Docs and young faculty
Presenters
Angela Welch, PhD., Publisher
Angela received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY where she investigated tissue engineering applications in peripheral nerve repair. As a result, her research interests include: (neural) tissue engineering, BioMEMs, micro/nano-patterning, scaffold design, and biological image analysis. She has authored three manuscripts and presented her work via poster and podium presentations at numerous national and international conferences and invited talks. Since then Angela has translated her biomedical engineering background into publishing. In her current role as Publisher at Elsevier, she oversees the editorial and financial health of a suite of journals dedicated to the area of Chemical Engineering, including Chemical Engineering Science, Chemical Engineering Journal, Biochemical Engineering Journal, Computers & Chemical Engineering, and Powder Technology. She also helped to organize Elsevier’s 1st International Bionic Engineering Conference held this past September, in association with the Journal of Bionic Engineering and the International Society of Bionic Engineering.
David Tempest, Deputy Director of Universal Access
David Tempest is Deputy Director of Universal Access at Elsevier in the UK. His role involves working on the development of a wide range of strategies and implementation of access initiatives. In addition, David acts as a key contact between Elsevier and funding organisations, universities and research institutions around the world. He has worked at Elsevier for over 15 years, having previously in both editorial and marketing positions and spent the majority of his career managing the scientometric research and market analysis department within the company.
David is a frequent presenter at various events around the world. His main subject is speaking about the development of new universal access initiatives and technologies, as well as publishing matters in general – the publishing industry, the development of journals and future technologies.
David has a BSc in pharmacology from the University of Sunderland and an MBA with distinction from Oxford Brookes University.
Registration:
This Author Workshop is free of charge and is open to all students at Imperial College. We do kindly request that you register for the workshop by submitting the form provided by June 8, 2012. Have specific topics you’d like us to cover? Email the Publisher: Dr. Angela Welch (a.welch@elsevier.com)