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A Physicist in Scientific Publishing: From Quark Dynamics to Database Publishing

A Physicist in Scientific Publishing: From Quark Dynamics to Database Publishing. Stefan Scherer. From Quark Dynamics to Database Publishing. ≠. A few Facts about Springer. In 1842, Julius Springer founded what is now Springer Science+Business Media in Berlin .

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A Physicist in Scientific Publishing: From Quark Dynamics to Database Publishing

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  1. A Physicist in Scientific Publishing:From Quark Dynamics to Database Publishing Stefan Scherer

  2. From Quark Dynamics to Database Publishing

  3. ≠

  4. A few Facts about Springer • In 1842, Julius Springer founded what is now Springer Science+Business Media in Berlin. • Merged with Kluwer Academic Publishers (KAP) in 2004. • Leading global scientific publisher, … provider of local-language professional publications in Europe, especially in Germany and the Netherlands • Around 55 publishing houses in about 20 countries in Europe, Asia and the USA • Consolidated turnover in 2010: EUR 866 million • More than 5,500 employees around the world – about 500 in Heidelberg • Springer eBook Collection with more than 45,000 titles available on www.springerlink.com • Product range across all media: books, journals, newsletters, CD-ROMs, online platforms, protocols, databases … • Some 2,000 journals and more than 7,000 new book titles every year in the STM (science, technology, and medicine) and B2B (business to business) • main publishing fields: science, technology, medicine, business, transport and architecture Source: http://www.springer.com/about+springer/company+information?SGWID=0-174704-0-0-0

  5. Physics at Springer • Physics & Astronomy is just a part of the global company • About 20 Physicists working for Springer world-wide, half of them in Heidelberg

  6. In Publishing, everyone is an Editor … But what you are actually doing depends on the product you are “editing” • “Managing Editor“organizing peer reviewassisting editorial boardsoverseeing production schedules • „Commissioning Editor“looking for new titles,organize editorial boards • No active participation in peer review! • Editor for Journals • Editor for Textbooks and Monographs • Editor for Reference Works • “Commissioning Editor“, “Planer”looking for new titles and new authors,organizing review of book proposalskeeping contact with authors,assisting authorspolishing/improving manuscripts can be part of the job • “Commissioning Editor“, “Planer” • “Development Editor”keeping contact with scientific editors and authors,assisting authors,organizing production,polishing/improving manuscripts (“copy editing”) • “Market analysis” • “Sales Representative”There are actually physicists doing this! … or a Product Manager

  7. German-Language Publishers in Physics

  8. Publishers in Physics World-Wide (not exhaustive ….)

  9. My path to where I am in Publishing… For example, there was the classic (and, in my experience, largely useless) question about how we each found our current jobs. … The students really wanted to hear stories about how we noticed a posting on Science Careers or Monster.com, answered an ad, and survived competition with 200 random applicants -- …. Instead, each of the panel members talked about how we found our own careers through serendipitous meetings, friends-of-friends, and good old blatant nepotism.

  10. … was a bit serendipitous Saarbrücken, 1995 Frankfurt, 1997 Darmstadt, 2006 Heidelberg, 2008

  11. Albert Einstein: Die Plancksche Theorie der Strahlung und dieTheorie der spezifischen Wärme Annalen der Physik 22 (1907) 180-190. DOI: 10.1002/andp.19063270110

  12. What is Landolt-Börnstein? • 200.000 pages |150.000 figures | 100.000 online documents • 250.000 chemical substances | 1.200.000 references to original publications • systematic and comprehensive critical evaluation of data by renowned authors and editors (… since 1883)

  13. Landolt-Börnstein is now SpringerMaterials www.springermaterials.com

  14. How do I profit from my PhD background? • Knowing „How physicists tick“ • Experience of teamwork and cooperation with people from all over the world • Experience in giving presentations • Practical skills: Working with computer, and computer, and computer …(Perl, HTML, CSS, XML, LaTeX, mySQL, but even bash and vi …)

  15. What are „essential skills“ in Publishing? • You have to communicate a lot:with authors and editors, vendors, colleagues from other departments, people from other companies in publishing, with customers and users … • You should develop an understanding of what topics are profitable and worth the effort – they might not be your pet topics, but in the end, it should pay your salary! • You should have a broad knowledge and overview of physics, and curiosity and openness to learn new things Stop worrying and learn to love phyllosilicates!

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