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Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa), (NYSE: JWb), will host a seminar on “Opportunities for Publishing in International Journals in Economics: A Guide for Scholars on How to Get Work Published” at this year’s 10th World Congress of the Econometric Society (ESWC). The Congress will take place in Shanghai from August 17th to the 21st, 2010. Wiley-Blackwell is pleased to offer complimentary access to this valuable seminar for all delegates, which will take place at 7pm on Wednesday 18th August in the Pearl Hall, Shanghai International Convention Centre (SHICC).
The seminar will feature prominent speakers working within the field of economics: Ms. Xiaoming Feng (Managing Editor, China & World Economy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Professor M. Hashem Pesaran (Editor, Journal of Applied Econometrics), Professor Fabrizio Zilibotti (General Editor, the Journal of the European Economic Association), and Professor Orazio Attanasio (University College London, Managing Editor, Quantitative Economics), who will also deliver the congress’s prestigious Walras-Bowley Lecture.
Topics to be presented and discussed within the seminar include opportunities for publishing in international journals in economics, how to get published and how to formulate an article, publishing standards and criteria, the value of publishing for the career of academic economists, new publishing models for economics, and open access publishing.
Caroline McCarley, Executive Editor of Social Science and Humanities Journals at Wiley-Blackwell, who will deliver the welcome remarks and serve as chair at the seminar, says,“We are pleased to be hosting this session on publishing in English language economics journals. We are confident that the panel of participating editors will provide invaluable advice to the researchers and scholars in the audience who are eager to present their work to a larger English speaking community.”
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