Biography:

Carl Schwarz trained as a physicist at Utrecht University. After his studies he started working in various publishing roles within Elsevier since 1988. During this period he has seen how electronic publishing changed the nature of scientific communication. As publisher he has started new journals and pioneered with small scale electronic innovations many of which were later rolled out in the main Elsevier electronic offerings. In his current role as director of International Publishing Development he is now collaborating with scientists from countries which are rapidly developing in global importance. It is the aim of Elsevier to serve these countries to help them bring their science to the forefront of the international scientific community.

Abstract:

Elseviers View on Scientific Publishing:

The workshop is presenting Elseviers - the leading scientific publisher -, view on scientific publishing. It gives an overview of what scientific publishers and editors like and hate the most about authors manuscripts, and gives important publishing advices for authors preparing a good manuscript for an international journal. The workshop provides the participants with guidelines for the construction of the manuscript, the formulation of the articles title and its different sections and/or parts, including the abstract, the keywords, the introduction, the methods, the findings, the discussion, the conclusion and the references; this is in addition to key language, grammar, and text layout guidelines.