The academic research laboratory: A perfect place to prepare for a career in… scholarly publishing?

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David P Martinsen, d_martinsen@acs.org, ACS Publications, American Chemical Society, 1155 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036
It's not the career usually envisioned when embarking on a graduate program in chemistry, but scholarly publishing is a field with plenty of challenges as well as opportunities for leveraging that chemistry degree. The last decade has been one of many changes in the publishing industry. One thing that hasn't changed is the goal of delivering the best scientific content to scientists, while anticipating the technology advances that will meet the publication needs of tomorrow's chemists.