So this picture pretty much summed up my day. I had one long task which I just got on with, but more on that later.

The day began with me sitting about waiting for people to get back from a meeting so they could tell me what to do. But I didn't just sit there on Twitter (for the whole time at least), I worked through the new submissions to the Journal of Small Animal Practice to earn my keep. This was the correct answer.

When people did get back I was told to carry on with a task I began last week which was to collate the answers given in an online survey on Open Access in nursing journals the department had run. I basically had to work my way through 800 odd answers, making a list of what everyone had said.

It wasn't the most exiting thing I've ever done. Once I had finished the question asking people to name the individual journals they have used I moved onto what I thought would be the much more straight forward question of where do you live. I was wrong. Considering the people answering this questionnaire are all

Even though my supervisor is still away sunning herself, she has left me a lot to be getting on with.

Today I was scouting out submissions for the perspectives (opinion articles) section of one of Wiley's medical journals. This involved familiarising myself with the format and then searching through letters to the editor to see if there was anything that might make a good full-length article. I was completely lost content-wise but I feel I got the hang of the task and could see why this kind of research is important for finding new content, but perhaps more importantly new contributors.

From here I moved on the collating the results of an online survey about open access nursing journals. I chose to sort out the answers to one of the most open ended questions on the survey - which open access journals have you accessed? Answers ranged from the somewhat over-helpful lists of many

So it's finally happened, they finally got me. I ended up fancy photocopying and shelving things - the work experience double.

My supervisor is away sunning herself in Morocco but she left me a task to be getting on with. I had to work my way through a list of journals, searching them on the Wiley Online Library, printing off the editorial board, scanning it and saving the PDF in a special file for the infamous Sheila, whoever Sheila is.

It wasn't the most inspiring of tasks but I did get to play on the super-duper, space age printer that knew who I was and could email me things. Silver-lining hey. And then when I finished my reward was shelving past editions of journals - woo!

But the day wasn't entirely spent printing and filing. Wiley have kindly organised

Day 3 and half term lack of traffic means we were there super early and therefore in time for a cooked breakfast again. Revelation of the day was when my friend commented that her toast "tastes like Chinese food, but in a good way" before being told she was eating fried bread, which she had buttered.

Cholesterol overload done and we got to work. As usual I started my day working through the recent submissions to the Journal of Small Animal Practice checking that the articles are in the right format and that authors have been correctly credited. I like starting my day like this as it suggests that they have a level of confidence in me that they trust me to just get on with it.

After I had finished this I embarked on an epic new task. I was asked to research existing open access veterinary journals and create a spreadsheet containing the information. So it had happened. I had finally been given the dreaded spreadsheet task that every intern dreads.

But whereas previously I have felt I've been given the spreadsheet task, normally updating contact information, just to keep me busy, this time I felt I was actually helping as my supervisor explained in detail what it was for. I felt like I was being trusted with a useful task again and was able to happily work away on the spreadsheet for the rest of the day, although I barely made a dent in the number of journals that need researching.

So I'm looking forward to my next day with Wiley, especially because they have kindly organised a range of talks for the work experience people over the next few weeks that explain a variety of interesting topics relevant for what Wiley does. Hopefully I will learn a lot from them and from my supervisor.

So today was my second day interning at Wiley-Blackwell. The day got off to a good start when my coursemate and fellow Wiley-er asked if she would be ok bringing her stuff in a Blackwell bag seeing as they are one of Wiley's competitors...

But once we got there things looked a little brighter, even if the weather stayed rough. It being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Wiley-Blackwell had arranged a fundraising day with everyone coming in wearing pink (which I forgot) and the canteen putting on a special charity breakfast with all funds going to Breast Cancer Awareness. So we all felt justified tucking into our second breakfast of the day, although I couldn't bring myself to have a third when my colleagues invited me down with them.

So once the excitement of breakfast was over we got to work. Again I started my day working through new submissions to the Journal of Small Animal Practice. Today's article to remember was on testicular torsion in cats,

Today I started my work placement at Wiley Blackwell with the Health Sciences journals team.

We began the day with a health and safety talk and then we were collected by our respective supervisors. I was led upstairs and introduced and the people were so friendly I calmed down immediately and got straight into it.

Once I had a desk, a computer and an email account I was ready to go. I began the day by working on recent submissions to the Journal of Small Animal Practice. So from damaged dog cervices to cross-sections of goat stomachs - I have checked them all for suitability for inclusion. Sounds dull but I