International Society of Managing and Technical Editors’ Asian Conference 2016

摘要

The International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE) is an organization that was established in 2007 serving working editors. While the ISMTE annual conference is usual- ly held in the United States or Europe, the 2016 conference was held in Asia for the first time, from April 4th to the 5th at Singapore Clarke Quay Hotel. World-renowned publishers such as Wiley, American Chemical Society Publications, American Institute of Physics, Nature Pub- lishing Group, Wolters Kluwer, Oxford University Press, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Thomson Reuters, etc. are registered as corporate members of ISMTE. At this year's conference, publish- ers and their affiliates such as Editage, Aries systems, Cabell's International, Council of Science Editors, ANSInet, etc. participated as sponsors. Over 100 individuals from all over the world attended the conference in order to improve the quality of academic publishing. The partici- pants were editors belonging to companies that run editing or publishing related businesses, and editors belonging to academic societies or journal editorial boards.