11th EASE Conference: Editing in the Digital World

11th EASE General Assembly and Conference
Editing in the Digital World

Tallinn, Estonia
8-10 June 2012

As more and more aspects of  science publishing move into the digital environment, conference delegates examined how this affects editors in their daily work and how they can exploit  new technologies to improve their services to authors, their journals and their businesses/organizations. See Programme.

Reports of the various talks and sessions were published in European Science Editing 38(3), in the August issue which can be found HERE.

See Alan Cann’s presentation on youtube – a fantastic lecture on social media.

Read Toomas Tiivel’s article issued in Horisont. The article is based on his interview with Thomas Babor [article in Estonian]

The Poster Prize was awarded to Dominique Millot for her poster on 2000–2009 Publication metrics reveal global trends in grain legume research.  John Wiley and Sons kindly donated the prize of a book published by them to the value of £50.

The International Association of Veterinary Editors held their 9th Annual Meeting on 7-8 June in Tallinn. Details are on the IAVE website (www.veteditors.org).