GETTING INTO PRINT

A TRAINING WORKSHOP ON THE PUBLICATION OF SCHOLARLY RESEARCH

The two day practical training workshop at ZIBF2002 will be targeted at African graduate students, young academics and researchers, and will also involve scholarly publishers. Its objectives are:

  • To explain the decisions, processes and considerations involved in publishing and disseminating scholarly research in Africa and internationally
  • To raise awareness of the options available to young African scholars in seeking to publish their own research and to equip them to make better-informed decisions
  • To facilitate contact between young African scholars and scholarly publishers based in Africa and overseas

Organised by: Southern African Book Development Education Trust (SABDET) in partnership with the African Studies Association and scholars in Africa, as part of the satellite events and training programme of the 2002 Zimbabwe International Book Fair.

Venue: Harare, Zimbabwe

Dates: Provisional dates will be the two days (Thursday & Friday, 1 & 2 August 2002) before the Indaba conference which opens the ZIBF2002 programme. It is expected that participants in the research training workshop will stay on for the Indaba, Saturday 3 August – Sunday 4 August, and the opening of the Book Fair itself from Tuesday 6 August onwards.

Participants: Subject to funding, up to 16 African graduate students and young academics will be sponsored to take part in the workshop. The sponsored participants will be selected according to criteria designed to achieve an appropriate balance of disciplines, experience and countries and regions represented. There will be space within the workshop to accommodate additional participants on a self-paying basis.

Programme: The programme is provisionally expected to cover the following topics:

a) Writing up research; what is required to make it publishable; techniques for developing a thesis into a monograph, journal article or other publication

b) The scholarly publisher's perspective, aims, objectives, constraints, needs, possibilities

c) How to identify, choose and approach a publisher; how to submit a publishing proposal; understanding publishing decisions, including rejections

d) How to prepare and submit a manuscript; the working relationship between author and publisher

e) How to submit journal articles; the process of refereeing and peer reviewing

f) Copyright issues versus intellectual freedom and access to information

g) The use and potential of the Internet and electronic sources for literature searches and for the publication of research; how to submit an electronic manuscript

h) The dissemination of research in Africa and internationally; problems, limitations, prospects, possibilities; the potential of co-publication and other approaches to international dissemination

Participants will be invited to bring examples of work in progress, submissions and rejections, for discussion.

 

For further information contact:

Margaret Ling, Hon Secretary, SABDET
25 Endymion Road
London N4 1EE, UK
Tel +44 (0)20 8348 8463
Fax: +44 (0)20 8348 4403

Email: margaret@geo2.poptel.org.uk

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