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.
We welcome members from every corner of the world.
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EASE Conference 2009
The deadline for abstract submission for the next EASE Conference (Pisa, Italy, 16-19 September 2009) is 30 September 2009
The Tenth EASE General Assembly and Conference, "Integrity in Science Communication", will be held in Pisa, Italy, on 16-19 September 2009. Visit the EASE Conference page to download the First Circular for details of the conference, to submit an abstract or to register your interest in attendance and/or participation
EASE has issued a statement on inappropriate use of impact factors
EASE AGM and ESOF outreach activity, July 2008
The next Annual General Meeting of EASE will be held in Barcelona on Saturday 19 July 2008, in conjunction with the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) 2008
EASE is participating in ESOF2008 with an 'outreach activity' entitled "The adventure of writing and publishing: the game of scientific publications" on 19 July . EASE is organising this outreach activity together with Mediterranean Editors &Translators (MET). Further details are on the meetings and EASE Seminar pages
EASE website members' area
The members' areaof the EASE website is now live. The latest issue of European Science Editing (May 2008) may be downloaded by members from the members' area before it becomes available in the archive. If you are an EASE member, to request login details please contact the Secretary of EASE, Sheila Evered, PO Box 6159, Reading RG19 9DE, UK; tel/fax 44 (0) 118 970 0322; email secretary@ease.org.uk
Offers and member benefits
Special offer - EASE members qualify for discounted membership of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP) and receive a special rate EASE subscription as joint members
EASE members may advertise their services on the EASE website free of charge. To place your advertisement, or to obtain rates for non-members, please contact the EASE Advertising Manager, John Allardice, 128 Victoria Rise, London, SW4 0NW, Tel 44 (0) 20 7720 2390; Mobile 44 (0) 7774 444 466; Email john_allardice@hotmail.com
Sign up for the EASE email discussion list on the EASE forum page to participate in discussions of current issues in science editing and related topics
Sample copies of European Science Editing may be requested from the Secretary of EASE, Sheila Evered, PO Box 6159, Reading RG19 9DE, UK; tel/fax 44 (0) 118 970 0322; email secretary@ease.org.uk
The May 2008 Editor's Bookshelf articles are available online. This section of European Science Editing alerts readers to articles and books on topics related to science editing
A pdf file of the updated table of contents (November 2007) of the Science Editors' Handbook can be downloaded for your copy of the handbook
See the Seminar page for full details of last year's EASE seminar, "Alternative ways to measure scientific impact factor", which took place 14 May 2007, Barcelona, Spain
Minutes of the EASE AGM held on 15 June 2006 can be downloaded from the Meetings page
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Latest Editor's Bookshelf articles, job advertisements, European Science Editing files and pdf downloads:
Leydesdorff L. Caveats for the use of citation indicators in research
and journal evaluations. Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology 2008;59(2):278287.
(doi:
10.1002/asi.20743)
Shepherd PT. Final report on the investigation into the feasibility of
developing and implementing journal usage factors. United Kingdom
Serials Group, May 2007.
Steckler A, McLeroy KR. The importance of external validity. American
Journal of Public Health 2008;98(1):910
(doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.126847)
Hartley J, Betts L. The effects of spacing and titles on judgments of
the effectiveness of structured abstracts. Journal of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology 2007;58(14):23352340.
(doi: 10.1002/asi.20718)
Jeandron M. Journal to support astronomy outreach. Physics World 2007;20(12):9.
Johnson RK, Luther J. The e-only tipping point for journals: whats
ahead in the print-to-electronic transition zone. Washington DC:
Association of Research Libraries, December 2007.
Roth DL, Bronsdon R, Phipps TE, Jr, Dylla HF. Open-access publishing at what cost? Physics Today 2008;61(2):89.
Smart P. Journals the wrong model for Africa? Learned Publishing 2007;20:311313.
(doi: 10.1087/095315107X225415)
Van Orsdel LC, Born K. Periodical price survey 2007: serial wars. Library Journal 15 April 2007.
American Physical Society [Heading in Chinese characters]. APSHiC.
Journals to print author names in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. APS
News 2008;17(2):1.
