4 December 2024 | December 2024, Home Page, Newsletters
By Julie Ganner AE At the end of October, Agata Mrva-Montoya and I attended the Subregional “Right to Read” Conference for Pacific Island Countries, held in Sydney. The conference was hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and supported...
4 December 2024 | December 2024, Home Page, Newsletters
From Editors Western Australia Michèle Drouart is an award-winning author and editor; and an early member of the Society of Editors Western Australia (SOEWA), and the Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd). She was recently awarded Honorary Life Membership (HLM) in...
4 December 2024 | December 2024, Newsletters
By Ann Philpott Twenty-two people attended the Special Interest Group on Academic Editing (SIGAE) meeting on Wednesday 16 October 2024 with the icebreaker topic of “artificial intelligence and academic editing”. We began with the hot topic of ChatGPT. One attendee...
4 December 2024 | December 2024, Newsletters
By Justine Dixon Cooper AE Embarking on a freelance editing career is not for the faint of heart. It comes with both joys (working in your slippers) and challenges (managing the ebb and flow of projects). One of the biggest challenges for many of us is developing an...
4 December 2024 | December 2024, Newsletters
From the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers Looking to expand your editing skills? Are you interested in becoming a Wikipedia editor? The Library and Information Science WikiProject is a fun and supportive place to learn. You don’t have to be a librarian!...
4 December 2024 | December 2024, Newsletters
From Editors Victoria Editors Victoria’s event on “Diversity in the Australian publishing industry and how can we support under-represented editors” with Dr Radhiah Chowdhury and Susannah Bowen took place on 19 November. The discussion addressed the factors that may...
