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Overview

Microbiology Society is pleased to announce a Publishing Fundamentals webinar, designed to provide attendees with an overview of the academic publishing process. This session will provide an outline of the lifecycle of research, from submission to publication, detailing the various stages along the way to help you get your research published.

The webinar will take place on Tuesday 4 March 2025, 14:00–15:30 GMT.

Publishing Fundamentals

Our Publishing Fundamentals programme is developed for early-career researchers and those who want to better understand how academic publishing works, including how to get involved with the Society’s journals as authors, editors, or reviewers.

The Publishing Fundamentals webinars will offer attendees the opportunity to learn from publishing specialists from the Society’s staff and research scientists who are experienced editors across the Society’s journals and have an active role in shaping our publishing portfolio and assessing papers submitted to our journals.

Programme

Attendees will have the opportunity to understand how the publishing process works and the lifecycle of a manuscript through the lens of a publishing specialist from the Society’s staff and an experienced academic editor and scientist.

  • Overview of the publishing process
  • Preparing your manuscript for submission
  • Peer review and revisions
  • Production and publication
  • Sharing your research
  • The editor’s perspective: common pitfalls and how to avoid them, assessing a manuscript for quality, sending manuscript out to review, selecting reviewers, assessing reports, and interacting with the authors.
  • Q&A

Hosts

Academic Editor: Conor Meehan, Microbial Genomics Editor

Publishing Professional: Tamanna Khanom, Publishing Editor

Registration

This Publishing Fundamentals webinar will be free to attend for Microbiology Society members. Non-members registration is £50.00.

You will receive an email with joining instructions, a Zoom link, and any other relevant information two days before the webinar. A second reminder email will be sent one hour before the webinar. Please note registration will close one hour before the webinar.

Please note all times listed on the programme are in UK time.

Technology
The seminars will be run via Zoom, a link for which will be sent to you via email prior to the meeting. Please ensure you have updated to the latest version of the Zoom desktop or mobile application (version 5.3 or higher is recommended).