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Updated September 23, 2009
Upcoming Meetings and Meetings Summaries are provided as a service to WAME members. Meetings listings do not imply endorsement by WAME. To request that a meeting be listed, please contact Margaret Winker at wame@jama-archives.org.
2009 WAME Member Meeting
The 4th WAME Member Meeting was held on Friday, September 11, 2009, in Vancouver, BC, Canada, in conjunction with the Sixth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication ( http://www.jama-peer.org , September 10-12, 2009). The meeting included WAME business, a small journals research report, discussion of the WAME training program currently under development, and discussion of ethics cases led by the WAME Publication Ethics Committee. A summary and related initiatives will be posted on this Web site shortly.
OTHER MEETINGS OF INTEREST
METM09
Mediterranean Editors and Translators (MET) 5th meeting
Translation, editing, writing: broadening the scope and setting limits
http://www.metmeetings.org/index.php?page=metm09_program
30-31 October 2009, METM09
European Institute of the Mediterranean, Barcelona, Spain
29-30 October 2009, Pre-METM09 workshops
Online registration until 25 October
Please note that registration for the meeting is filling up quickly and there are only limited places left for certain workshops. To date, we have signed up people of over 15 different nationalities from 14 different countries. If you are interested in attending but are not ready to sign up yet, we suggest you keep an eye on our website in case places for attending the meeting also become limited. For further information on registration, please see http://www.metmeetings.org/index.php?page=metm09_registration .
Since Barcelona is a popular holiday destination, make sure to make your travel arrangements in time. Information regarding travel and accommodation can be found at http://www.metmeetings.org/index.php?page=metm09_local.
The Mediterranean Editors and Translators meetings are aimed at author’s editors, copy editors, journal editors, translators, copywriters, proofreaders, teachers of English for specific purposes, project managers, writing instructors, oral communication coaches, web localizers, and any other language professionals working with English at the writing-editing-translation-publishing interface, particularly in the Mediterranean area.
Editing medical journals
Short course
Date: 18-20 November 2009
Location: Oxford, UK
Website: http://www.pspconsulting.org
Now in its 12th year, this short course for Editors-in-Chief, Editorial Board members and managing editors helps build skills and awareness of what it means to be a journal editor and how to make your journal successful. The course covers: how to attract the best authors; how to manage your journal and, how to make your journal successful. Full course details can be found on the website, or by emailing Pippa Smart: pippa.smart@gmail.com .
The Changing Climate of Scientific Publishing - The Heat Is On
http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/events/annualmeeting10/index.cfm
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Venue: Hyatt Regency, Atlanta
Contact: CSE@CouncilScienceEditors.org
