PUBLISHING Special Interest Group

The Publishing SIG's mission is to develop and recognize professional skills, and facilitate networking and information sharing, among ACE members who work in print or electronic publications.

Leadership Chair: Sandy Clarke, Iowa State University Vice Chair: Joy Landis, Michigan State University Vice Chair-elect: Janet Byron, University of California	Leave your footprints! Want to share links, stylebooks, professional development dates, and other info for PubSIG members? Check out "Professional Tools" and "Workshops," and send us a message.
Thanks to all who attended the editing workshop June 9, 2008 in Traverse City. As promised, Susan Allan has provided us with a list of selected editing resources. [PDF]
Case Studies: Learn from the Successes and Mistakes of Your Fellow PubSIG Members Let's Do It Already Case Study: Corn and Soybean Field Guide (aka "42 Covers and Counting"), Kevin Leigh Smith, Purdue University

Goals

PubSIG Mailing List

PubSIG Newsletters

Critique and Awards (C&A) Program Winning Entries

PubSIG Award of Excellence Winners

Professional Development Opportunities

• 2009 ACE/NETC Conference
  June 6-10, Des Moines, Iowa
• Workshops and conferences sponsored by other organizations

Chair's Reports to the ACE Board

Notes from SIG Business Meetings

Professional Tools

• Select Editing Resources [PDF file]
• Editing test for new hires [PDF file]
• Listservs
• Style manuals or other references
• Professional organizations
• Recommended vendors
• Publications-related job descriptions
• Copyright
• Pew Internet Project Reports [PDF file]

• Plagiarizing from the Internet
• When is government governmental? (Adjectival forms of attributive nouns)
• Alphabetizing Hyphenated Last Names
• Conflict of interest survey (Handling commercially published publications by inhouse authors)
• Crediting Sources of Information
• Customizing PDFs survey
• Dictionary and Thesaurus Preferences survey
• Download charges survey
• E-commerce survey
• Editing journal articles survey
• Electronic vs. print publishing survey
• Grammar and punctuation guides survey
• Marketing to libraries survey
• Readability Software Survey

Address comments to Sandy Clarke
Last updated 06/29/2009.