Eight months into the Graduate Publishing Scheme, and the challenges keep coming in!
It's been three months since my last blog entry and, again, time has gone by so fast I can barely believe it's almost August already!
As I was saying last time, we published the
10th Anniversary Special Issue of
OBC earlier this month, which was extremely well received by the scientific community and attracted lots of positive attention. I am proud to say that I was able to commission a suitable cover in time (do you like it? And want to have a sneaky peek at the
unlucky rejects?) and it was with much satisfaction and sense of achievement that I proceeded to bake a chocolate cake to celebrate this brilliant success with the rest of the team! We had candles and everything, and I am proud to say that the cake received almost as many rave reviews as the issue itself!
Even more cake (alas, this time not baked by me) was involved in the celebrations for the launch of
Toxicology Research, a new journal to be handled by our team. The first issue was published last month amidst extremely positive reviews too.
After almost 9 months at the RSC, I am now fully trained in proof reading, database abstracting, issue make up and peer review, and my editing training is well underway. I have also been assigned to look after after the Drugs in Middle Space special issue of
MedChemComm, to be published early next year. This is a great opportunity for medicinal chemists (such as I was) and natural product chemists to highlight their work on medium sized molecules of pharmaceutical interest, and I am very excited about it. Despite being almost at the end of my time as a trainee, I still learn new things every day and I suspect this will be true for a long time to come! No two edits, proofs or Editorial decisions are ever the same and every morning I wake up very excited about what the day is going to bring.
Plus, it has now been sunny for almost a week, which has done wonderful things to my mood and has enabled me to enjoy some of the great outdoor activities that are available during the Cambridge summer.
The Shakespeare Festival is currently on and yesterday, some RSC people and I went to see Julius Caesar at the outdoor amphitheatre of Robinson College, which was great fun! Provided that the British summer lasts longer than a millisecond this year, we'll be looking forward to more outdoor plays at the beginning of August.
Elisa is a Graduate working in the Royal Society of Chemistry's Editorial Production Department. To see if there are any current vacancies go to 'RSC: Latest Vacancies' Blog or subscribe to 'RSC: Latest Vacancies' by Email
