Creating Digital Authorship Educating authors and reviewers about and promoting use of new technology Cara S. Kaufman, Partner Kaufman-Wills Group, LLC Council of Science Editors, 7 May 2001

Overview Technologies Drivers Methods Goals Pitfalls Closing –Acknowledgements –Contact Kaufman-Wills Group

Technologies Manuscript submission and peer-review Digital art Online content Production tracking systems

Drivers Speeding up the publication cycle Technological sophistication of authors Economic forces

Methods communications Announcement pages; boxed ads in journal Editorials in journals; articles in society newsletters, tabloids Instructions for Authors Web sites –Online FAQs –Editor Web pages (APS) Print and online co-promotion

Goals Managing expectations –Instant –Easy –Free Implementing change –Communicate early –Analyze and adjust workflow –Train inside and outside

Pitfalls Disruptive change –Changes workflow, process –Changes individual responsibilities Training shortfall –Internal –External Lack of system integration Unforeseen costs

Acknowledgements Margaret Reich –Publications Manager and Executive Editor, American Physiological Society Suzy Lanier –Associate Managing Editor, Circulation, American Heart Association

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