Bit of a belated post but don't fear, day 7 is here now.
So the day began as usual with sorting out submissions to the Journal of Small Animal Practice. Then I moved on to a brand new task for this week only. I uploaded the articles to the new issue of Nurse Author & Editor Newsletter. This involved making sure the articles were in the right format and uploading them to the site. I then had a look on Scholarly Kitchen for possible articles that Wiley could follow up and possibly use in some of their internal newsletters.
Again these weren't the most exciting of tasks but I could see how important they are and I actually found Scholarly Kitchen very interesting and have pegged it as a possible source of much dissertation research. There are a lot of great articles on open access including different angles on it such as what authors want from it. To finish the day I did some envelope stuffing and carried on organising the results of the nursing survey and making some pretty graphs.
But I didn't just spend the whole day at the computer. My lovely supervisor had organised a meeting for me with one of the commissioning editors in the books section of the health sciences department. We had a nice informal chat in an empty office about the role and duties of a commissioning editor, how journals and books work together, how she got into the industry and a bit about the course at Brookes. It was a really great chat and I learnt a lot.
But it doesn't stop there because in response to my meeting, one of the interns working in the books section was having a meeting with one of the people from the journals team, my team if you will, and I was invited along. Again it was a nice informal chat about what her role as journals project manager (or a similar title, the terminology is a bit interchangeable), how she got into the field, the big issues in journals publishing and how she felt about and is preparing for open access. Again, great talk.
So another day at Wiley and a lot more learnt. Only two more days left to go now.
So the day began as usual with sorting out submissions to the Journal of Small Animal Practice. Then I moved on to a brand new task for this week only. I uploaded the articles to the new issue of Nurse Author & Editor Newsletter. This involved making sure the articles were in the right format and uploading them to the site. I then had a look on Scholarly Kitchen for possible articles that Wiley could follow up and possibly use in some of their internal newsletters.
Again these weren't the most exciting of tasks but I could see how important they are and I actually found Scholarly Kitchen very interesting and have pegged it as a possible source of much dissertation research. There are a lot of great articles on open access including different angles on it such as what authors want from it. To finish the day I did some envelope stuffing and carried on organising the results of the nursing survey and making some pretty graphs.
But I didn't just spend the whole day at the computer. My lovely supervisor had organised a meeting for me with one of the commissioning editors in the books section of the health sciences department. We had a nice informal chat in an empty office about the role and duties of a commissioning editor, how journals and books work together, how she got into the industry and a bit about the course at Brookes. It was a really great chat and I learnt a lot.
But it doesn't stop there because in response to my meeting, one of the interns working in the books section was having a meeting with one of the people from the journals team, my team if you will, and I was invited along. Again it was a nice informal chat about what her role as journals project manager (or a similar title, the terminology is a bit interchangeable), how she got into the field, the big issues in journals publishing and how she felt about and is preparing for open access. Again, great talk.
So another day at Wiley and a lot more learnt. Only two more days left to go now.
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