Lectures will be presented on:

• The Editorial Office and the Editors
• The Publisher as a service provider
• The metier of publishing
• Business model(s), including page charges policies
• Open Access philosophy
• The cost of maintaining web sites
• Publisher work philosophy
• Refereed and non-refereed journals, ISI and non-ISI, etc.
• The Journal A&A
• History of A&A
• From received to printed: Timeline of manuscript flow
• Refereeing process
• Language corrections
• The writing process
• Technical aspects of scientific writing
• Structure of scientific paper
• Graphs, tables, image resolution, etc.
• Proper acknowledgements
• Optimising the visibility of your paper
• The citation-count game
• Affiliations and funding
• Quoting
• Proofreading
• ADS, CDS, and other bibliometric databases
• Libraries, library services and librarians
• Policies of astronomical societies
• Ethical aspects of scientific writing
• Requirements for earning coauthorship
• How to decide the authorlist order
• Proper citation, credit and acknowledgements
• Plagiarism and fraud
• Ethics of refereeing
• etc.