Mastering Journal Publication and Peer Review: Strategies for Success in the Natural and Life Sciences / 26-5-JP-3

Content

The aims of the workshop are:

• Understand the “bigger picture” of academic publishing
• List key criteria for choosing a target journal
• Write the cover letter for your next manuscript
• Describe the peer review process and its variants
• Deal with feedback and criticism in different cultures
• Identify unethical practices in publishing

• Introduction to scholarly publishing
• How to select a target journal
• The peer review system: submitting, revising, and resubmitting
• Skills needed to master the peer review process
• Giving and receiving feedback and criticism in Germany and across other cultures
• How to effectively communicate with editors and reviewers
  
• Copyright and licenses
  
• Ethical issues in publishing (e.g. predatory publishing, authorship disputes, plagiarism)
  
• Artificial Intelligence and scholarly publishing

 

Participation

Doctoral researchers (Natural and Life Sciences) of the Berlin University Alliance.

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Further Information 

Doctoral programs calculate credit points based on the number of work units earned through workshop participation.
Each work unit represents 45 minutes of workshop time, and 8 work units equal 0.5 credit points.
For mini workshops (less than 8 work units), credits are calculated proportionally based on the work units.
Please note: To be eligible for credit transfer, you must accumulate enough work units from short workshops.
For example, attending two 3-hour workshops results in 8 work units (2 workshops x 4 work units each), which equals 0.5 credits.

 

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Workshops free of charge at the BUA partner institutions: Graduate Studies Support Program.