Job Posting: Founding Editor-in-Chief (multiple positions) |
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| Contract Term: Temporary Contract Type: Part Time Job Location: Anywhere Application Deadline: applications are accepted continuously Job Categories Business/Strategic Management: Strategy/Planning Information technology Digital Media Editorial/Writing: Documentation/Technical Writing Editing & Proofreading General/Other: Editorial/Writing Job Description JMIR Publications is an open access academic publisher based in Toronto, Canada, and is the leading publisher of peer-reviewed journals in the ehealth domain. Our mission is to reinvent research communication through grassroots, researcher-driven innovation in every aspect of peer-reviewed publishing, making use of Internet, social media, and mobile technologies, and we are currently expanding into other science domains. To expand our journal portfolio we are looking for visionary and highly regarded scientists, primarily working at the intersections between technology and medicine, to lead the creation and development of new journals in emerging disciplines and rapidly expanding research areas (e.g. JMIR mHealth, JMIR Serious Games, JMIR Bioinformatics, JMIR Biomedical Engineering etc.). We are also looking for new editor-in-chiefs for existing journals: JMIR, i-JMR and JMIR Research Protocols. Editors-in-chief must be highly regarded and cited individuals (evidenced by their list of publications and their h-index, generally at least 15-20) and must have a clear vision for their journal, including a plan to solicit editorial board members and the first 20 submissions. The application process consists of developing a journal proposal containing these details. Ongoing tasks will be to guide submissions through the peer-review process, (light) academic editing of submissions, and liaising with the JMIR production team. An honorarium will be paid. (CLICK MORE TO VIEW DETAILS) |
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Job Posting: Editorial Interns / Editorial Assistants |
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| Intern Editorial Internship Contract Term: Temporary Contract Type: Full Time Job Location: Toronto, Canada Application Deadline: applications reviewed throughout 2013 Job Categories Business/Strategic Management: Strategy/Planning Information technology Digital Media Editorial/Writing: Documentation/Technical Writing Editing & Proofreading General/Other: Editorial/Writing Update Mar 21, 2013: This has been reposted, as we are hiring 2 more interns Job Description JMIR Publications is an open access academic publisher based in Toronto, Canada, and is the leading publisher of peer-reviewed journals in the ehealth domain. Our mission is to reinvent research communication through grassroots, researcher-driven innovation in every aspect of peer-reviewed publishing, making use of Internet, social media, and mobile technologies, and we are currently expanding into other science domains. We are seeking enthusiastic recent graduates for the position of Editorial Assistant. This paid, full-time position in our Toronto editorial office (located within the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation at the Toronto General Hospital in downtown Toronto) will last for six to twelve months, and will provide the successful candidate with an excellent opportunity to learn about the rapidly changing environment in scientific communication from an insider’s perspective, to see all aspects of the peer-review and publishing process at different scales, and to be the first to see new research before it’s published. This position was created in response to a rapid increase of submissions and the creation of new spin-off journals. Under the supervision of the editor-in-chief and working closely with our copyeditors and technical analyst, this position requires a sociable, professional attitude, and an ability to quickly and accurately synthesize large volumes of information. The successful candidate will regularly communicate with high-profile scientists. (CLICK MORE TO VIEW DETAILS) |
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Job Posting: Faculty Position at Full Professor Level in Singapore |
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| The area of expertise could include, but is not limited to, health information systems and clinical decision support systems, or medical text mining, information extraction and biomedical ontologies, or ehealth, health 2.0 and consumer health information seeking. JMIR subscribers have received this faculty position posting via email. Advertise your faculty position in JMIR for only US$950 and reach almost 50.000 ehealth researchers. |
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Job Posting: Associate (Section) Editors for JMIR |
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| JMIR is broadening its editorial board and is looking for outstanding scientists in the area of health informatics (or related fields) with a senior appointment at a research institution and with a publication record (in JMIR and/or other leading biomedical journals). The role of section editors (associate editors) is to guide papers through the peer-review process. (Click more) | More... |
Job Posting: Technical Analyst / Web Developer (PHP/LAMP) as JMIR Technical Lead (Toronto, Canada) |
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| POSITION: Technical Analyst - OJS/Web-developer EMPLOYER: University Health Network (http://www.uhn.ca/) - Centre for Global eHealth Innovation (http://www.ehealthinnovation.org), Toronto General Hospital - Eysenbach Research Group, Toronto Click "more" for the complete job posting. | More... |
Job Posting: XML Production Typesetter (Freelancer) |
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| We are looking for one or more freelancers who will assist in preparing XML-tagged documents (NLM-DTD). If you have experience with preparing XML-tagged manuscripts, ideally using the PubMed Central's NLM-DTD (Blue Library), we want to hear from you. Experience with PHP is a further asset. | More... |
Job Posting: Copyeditors (Freelancer or Full-time position in Toronto, Canada) |
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| (Updated/reposted Aug 24, 2102). JMIR Publications Inc. is broadening its network of freelancing copyeditors and is seeking full-time in-house copyeditors. If you are a copyeditor (native English speakers only) with proven experience in editing scholarly manuscripts and particularly the AMA styleguide, and if you have a basic understanding in how statistics should be reported, then please read on and drop an email to us. | More... |