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This study aimed to investigate the views of students enrolled on a desktop publishing course of the flipped classroom model adapted to a design course conducted in an online learning environment. The model was implemented over one semester, and at the end, semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 65 volunteer students. Content analysis was used to analyse the students' views. It was determined that delivering course content through instructor‐created videos had a positive effect on student views of the course. In addition, the students stated that doing assignments outside the classroom and evaluating them during the course contributed significantly to their learning design. Finally, student views on the feasibility of conducting the course through traditional design teaching methods in an online learning environment were examined. The students stated that delivering the course in live online classes may have both positive and negative aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In June 2023, a conference organized by the European Publishing Studies Association (EuroPub) – entitled 'By the Book8' – was held at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (Faculdade de Letras Universidade do Porto – FLUP). This article analyses the participation at the conference, including details of academic affiliation and nationality, alongside the themes represented by the conference papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objectives, subjects, and graduate profiles of postgraduate publishing programmes in the Ibero-American region are examined. The study analysed 16 postgraduate programmes at university institutions in Spain and Ibero-America and interviewed 109 people, including programme coordinators, graduates, and editorial directors. In terms of objectives, the results show that institutions prioritise improving the skills of professionals in the productive and commercial sectors. Publishing houses also offer training programmes to qualify and update the profile of publishers and standardise the publishing processes throughout the value chain. In terms of subjects, there is evidence of a preference for editorial processes through the use of ICT, which to some extent affects their professional performance. The graduate profile emphasises editors who are skilled in editorial processes, followed by administrative editors with ICT skills, entrepreneurs, and experts in editorial design. These findings confirm some of the assumptions of the project. Specifically, the training of editors is mainly focused on the creation of digital products. In addition, master's level training programmes at prioritise commercial needs, and technical training is prevalent in Ibero-America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: This article highlights the importance of providing accessible scholarly publishing education and support to graduate students by presenting a case study of how the University of Louisville’s Publishing Academy was modified to be fully online and intentionally focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Literature Review: The literature review examines existing scholarship related to publishing support for graduate students, focusing on literature discussing the importance of publishing for doctoral students and describing successful publishing and writing support programs. Overview of Publishing Academy: University of Louisville’s Publishing Academy is a biennial scholarly publishing program for graduate students founded in 2016. Planning and execution of the spring 2021 iteration of the Academy occurred during the global COVID-19 pandemic and during a time of national civil unrest due to racial inequity and injustice. The context of the times necessitated changes to the Publishing Academy, including moving the Academy to a fully virtual format and intentionally focusing on DEI in developing Academy sessions and faculty panels. Next Steps: Next steps for the Publishing Academy are considered based on participant feedback and organizers’ observations.

Writing, editing, designing and publishing a book is a wonderful achievement for anyone, let alone a group of 10-12 year old students, but it is the process by which they accomplish this goal that is valuable for the development of student creativity and agency. In this article we outline how 100 Story Building's Early Harvest program delivers a process rich with decision-making, discussion, and negotiation that supports and scaffolds creativity and student agency. We offer teachers a selection of the strategies used in the program to support students making consequential and informed decisions about their writing, doing so within the context of fostering a creativitysupporting classroom environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract. At present times finding of formal and informal platforms for professional interaction and exchange of information between the scientific community, practitioners, higher education providers and educators is an important task for professional communication in the field of publishing. Free exchange of information, constructive professional discussion facilitates the exchange of experience in solving complex professional problems, improving the quality of education, the use of scientific achievements in the field of publishing. Purpose: To identify practical ways of professional communication as a result of the work of the roundtable «Publishing: Challenges of Modernity». The aim is to outline the practical ways of professional communication as a result of the roundtable; to find out the scientific and practical results of the roundtable work for each group of subjects of communication. The main task is to hear the professional queries of the publishing industry and take them into account when preparing students. The roundtable assumed that modern publishing houses require professionals who can provide effective communications to create a brand for the publisher, promote and promote novelties of booksellers, beginner authors and the like. Professional communication requires effective and efficient interaction with the scientific community. The roundtable became an effective channel of communication, precisely because it created the conditions for the exchange of information between scientists and practitioners, demonstrated a high commitment of experts in the scientific research including investigation and forecasting of the most sophisticated state of the publishing industry.

An idea of publishing business as an editorial and publishing process for editing of a particular edition is a thing of the past. A modern specialist in publishing business is primarily a cultural figure, an innovator, a creative generator of new ideas who has high-quality professional education, teamwork skills, and leader’s competencies. Institute of Journalism of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University educates and trains such specialists. The practical- oriented education is particularly the project work with students where the more real and significant projects are, the more interesting training are and the better results are traced. The author of the article studies innovative methods of teaching practical subjects in the field of publishing at a higher educational institution, the ways of involving students in classroom lessons and out-of-school activities in real long- term projects aimed at obtaining the planned results, as follows: firstly, increasing the quality of education; secondly, improving the image of educational institution; thirdly, solving important publishing and cultural tasks. The project “Kyiv – a World Book Capital”, implemented within the discipline “International Publishing Business” as the basis, aims to prepare the ground for representing the city of Kyiv as a nominee for such an honorary status and to prepare analytical information. In the course of work on the project, the students have developed an application form for applying for the status of the World Book Capital. The author of the article draws attention to other student projects. The researcher has also studied the festival’s activities of the Institute of Journalism, in particular the festival “Book fashion”, which is organized and conducted annually by the students-publishers. As well another project work of the Department of Publishing is studied.

This article describes how The Levy Library at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai founded its institutional Publishing Press and journals to support scientific publishing education. By creating trainee-driven open access journals, the library was able to offer students, trainees and faculty an opportunity to edit, manage and publish scientific articles while learning first-hand about the many facets of scholarly publishing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As traditional publishing becomes more digitized, the responsibilities of its professionals become increasingly distributed. This is especially true in situations where copy editors are required to work within a mark-up (increasingly XML) paradigm. In developing our curriculum, we have shaped our teaching of editorial practice to consistently reinforce the underlying structure of a publication, as inferred from the technology and practices of a production department. As such, the philosophy of creating a publication from an informed structural perspective has become one of our key driving concepts reinforced over the course of several modules in our degree and continuing professional development programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In some parts of the world, Publishing Studies are a fairly well-established field of research as well as of higher education. Not least since this is not so much the case in continental Europe, the Publishing Studies community increasingly sees a more elaborated self-concept as an important prerequisite for a prosperous further development of the field in research as well as in teaching. This paper starts off by relating the question for an advanced self-concept of Publishing Studies to the question what criteria have to be fulfilled to call a field (like Publishing Studies) a scholarly discipline. As the second source for the possible formation of a more elaborate self-concept, the paper presents the first results of an ongoing empirical research project. In this projects, extensive expert interviews with representatives of UK Publishing Studies study programs and research institutions are evaluated to shed light on the core questions related to Publishing Studies as a discipline /„discipline” in a bottom-up manner. After presenting a very clear and differentiated North American view as an additional point of reference, a contribution to the discussion on Publishing Studies is proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze and compare publishing studies, their programmes at the undergraduate and graduate levels and scholars involved in the teaching of publishing courses at the top universities around the world and in Croatia. Since traditional publishing business is rapidly changing, new skills and new jobs are involved in it. The main research question is: Can modern publishing studies produce a modern publisher? Or, is it the other way around? The hypothesis of the paper is that scholars involved in the teaching of publishing courses at the top universities around the world have a background in publishing business. So, can they prepare their students for the future and can their students gain competencies they need to compete in a confusing world of digital authors and electronic books? The research methods used were content analysis and comparison. Research sample included 36 university publishing programmes at the undergraduate and graduate level worldwide (24 MA, 12 BA).The research sample was limited mainly to the English-speaking countries. In most non-English-speaking countries, it was difficult to analyse the programme curriculum in the native language because the programme and course description did not exit. In the data gathering phase, a customized web application was used for content analysis. The application has three main sections: a list of websites to evaluate, a visual representation of the uploaded website and a list of characteristics grouped by categories for quantifying data. About twenty years ago, publishing was not considered a separate scientific branch in Croatia. Publishing studies are therefore a new phenomenon to both scholars and publishers in Croatia.To create a new, ideal publishing course, can we simply copy global trends or is it better to create something of our own? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the ways to equip students of publishing with the skills necessary to enter an industry facing unprecedented change. Digital strategies and business models are evolving rapidly within the hook industry. Publishers need to recruit for the digital environment and can find if difficult to identify employees with the sort of skills they need. A short study was undertaken to explore the importance of teaching publishers in training ahout the skills required to design effective digital strategies in an environment that is always changing. Developing a simulation approach in this case allowed students to experience decision making, problem solving, and creative thinking, enabling them to be ready to adapt as the industry moves forward, and preparing them to be the publishers of the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on A Court for King Cholera, a full-page wood engraving published in Punch in September 1852. I argue that the Punch cartoon needs to be appreciated as part of a set of communicative practices that made shared experiences meaningful in unique and vibrant ways, and I discuss the ways in which it reflected and reinforced specific middle-class social anxieties about dirt, disease, the poor and the Irish, and fully engaged with the medical, political, and social debates that crystallised around cholera in the mid-nineteenth century. I argue that the Punch cartoon needs to be 'read' within the context of both the comic periodical and contemporary socio-medical debates in order to appreciate the complex relationship between graphic medium and political message. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Greek publishing industry, tradition and the desire for innovation go hand in hand. The industry is influenced by European developments in publishing and bookselling in terms of book promotion methods, the role of chain bookstores and the impact of information technology. Greece shares the features of other small book markets in Europe, whilst retaining the individuality defined by the Greek language and the country’s cultural and social conditions. This article provides an overview of the publishing industry in Greece through a review of the relevant literature and the available statistics. This work also focuses on the need to develop publishing skills through publishing education and continuous professional development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Is journal editing a profession? If so, it is not - and should not be - a traditional one, like law or medicine. Rather, it should be a profession open to innovation and talent and transparent to those who interact with it as authors, subscribers, and readers. This article, which began as the keynote address at the 2006 meeting of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, examines the characteristics of the professions, the ways they are - and are not - appropriate to journal editing, and some possibilities for increasing professionalism without encumbering ourselves with its less desirable features. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the role of publishing education in academia. The main question it asks is whether the publishing education remains to be focused on vocational training and as such resembles classical polytechnics, or is it gaining research component after it became part of European and American universities. The paper looks for answers to these questions in the body of texts that were published on book publishing in scientific and professional journals and monographs between 2003 and 2006. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides a historical overview of professional publishing education in United States. The author discusses how the U.S. publishing industry, particularly the Association of American Publishers, address the growing need for professional training in publishing. She lists and descibes several graduate-level publishing training programs which are offered in U.S. and presents the reaction of several graduates who went through these programs.

Addresses the question of whether publishing education meets employment needs of the book publishing industry in the U.K. and the U.S. Absence of formal entry qualification in the industry; Undergraduate and postgraduate courses in publishing that emerged in the 1990s; Resistance to initiative by Dag Smith to establish industry training standards in the U.K.; Professionalization or credentialing of publishing in the U.S.; Ways to convince the publishing industry about the merits of publishing education.

Looks at the challenges facing publishing educators from globalization of the industry in the 1990s. Discussion on the number of limitations on that process which are of interest not only to publishing educators but to practicing publishers.

Reviews the history of publishing education in France. Description of current postgraduate programs in the country; Listing of the basic French periodicals that cover publishing.

Discusses some theoretical and practical ideas about teaching publishing in the United States. Establishment of an advisory board of industry leaders; Creation of a comprehensive publishing curriculum that draws upon the academic resources of other departments and schools within a university; Development of an effective internship and job placement program.

Looks at the need for publishing educators in Great Britain to view publishing as the practice of a profession. Factors which make it unwise and impossible to separate practice from theory; Benefit of providing students with both the skills and the understanding they will need as publishers.

Presents an overview of the development of education for publishing programs in the United States (US) Information including the addresses of the main introductory programs, continuing education programs, Masters Programs and several organizations offering courses in publishing. Concept of education for publishing; International outreach; Career-directed introductory programs.

The article focuses on the undergraduate and graduate publishing studies offered by Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. Only Hofstra offers an undergraduate degree program in publishing studies in the world. The university's Publishing Studies and Literature course provide students the opportunity to participate in a program that emphasizes practical application of language skills and development of their literary background.

This article presents a letter from the editor in which she celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecología (Interamerican School of Library Science) at the Universidad de Antioquia in Colombia. She comments on the development of pre-graduate and post-graduate courses in information science, archival management, and publishing.

The letter discusses the University of Antioquia (Universidad de Antioquia) and its Interamerican School of Library Science (Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecología) as well as the postgraduate programs that it offers including specializations and a Master's degree in Information Services Management and Publications Editing. The high demand for managers and competent specialists in the field of management is discussed.

The article presents the author's views on the efficacy of graduate programs in publishing courses. Brief information on colleges offering these programs in New York City is presented. It further discusses reasons and benefits of doing a graduate program in the publishing, and also discusses areas where the electronic publishing works.

This article examines the thinking behind the establishment of the year-old, New York City-based CUNY Publishing Institute (cpi.journalism.cuny.edu/), the latest entry to the field of book publishing courses. CPI purports to offer an alternative approach to studying the industry, and to do so in an energetic, intensive and hands-on manner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the controversy concerning the growth of publishing education in European and American universities that took place in the 1990s. It discusses the factors underpinning the growth of publishing education, as well as the reasons on why people enroll in such courses including the increasing number of publishing firms in the sector. It denotes that the growing amount of work performed in the book industry has been visible in the said period. It argues that the positive trend of the said education has been triggered by the economics of publishing.