The European Association of Science Editors (EASE) is an internationally oriented community of individuals from diverse backgrounds, linguistic traditions and professional experience who share an interest in science communication and editing.

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Editing in the Digital World, Tallinn Conference

Registration for Tallinn remains open throughout May. Don't forget that EASE members enjoy significant discounts so ensure your membership is up to date. See Programme.

We have another new poster abstract. Paola De Castro will present the results from the NECOBELAC project.

Unfortunately, Fiona Murphy cannot attend: her presentation in the Data Publishing session will be covered by the other speakers.

Workshops
There are still some places left at the optional workshops, so if you are already registered and would like to take advantage of doing a workshop while you are at the conference, please email the EASE secretary for more information.

A new initiative to monitor proficiency in medical English: sTANDEM

EASE is proud to announce our partnership in this new project to develop a Standardised Language System for Medical Purposes (sTANDEM). This system is intended to promote, assess and certify the command of professional English among health care professionals world-wide. It will enable hospitals and other health institutions where English is the language of communication to assess the English language proficiency of potential staff, research fellows or externs in a professional context.

EASE endorses both standardisation of scientific (including medical) terminology and the use of clear language by all authors of scientific publications in English. Therefore EASE anticipates a valuable interaction between the sTANDEM project and EASE activities, especially the EASE Guidelines for Authors and Translators of Scientific Articles to Be Published in English. During the course of the project, updates will be published in European Science Editing. More details available via www.standem.eu.

EASE Forum

Don't forget that EASE has an interactive Forum for discussing various matters pertaining to editing, so if you have a tricky question or want to share a recent experience with other editors, log on and be an active part of the EASE community.

EASE Blog

There is also the EASE blog, which summarizes relevant publications about science editing and publishing. Members will be familiar with the content from the Bookshelf section of European Science Editing, but the blog contains more articles and more detail.

EASE is a member of various international organizations: these are now listed on the page About Us under a brief history of EASE.

EASE Publications Quick Links