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Resources to Further Develop Your Professionalism

One mark of professionalism is membership in a peer organization. Listing such membership on a résumé strengthens a job application. Attending an organization’s meetings is a valuable networking opportunity. Some organizations also have a web page devoted to job postings.

Major Professional Organizations
Specialty Organizations
Editing Institute and Annual Conference
Publishing Institutes

Major Professional Organizations

Association of American Publishers (http://www.publishers.org/) Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division
Association of American University Presses (http://aaupnet.org/). You must be affiliated with a member press.
Association of Learned Professional and Scholarly Publishers (http://www.alpsp.org/)
Association for Documentary Editing (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ade)
Council of Editors of Learned Journals (http://www.celj.org/) (publishers of Journal of Scholarly Publishing)
Society for Technical Communication (http://www.stc.org/); BYU has a student chapter; see Danette Paul of the English Department for more details.
Council of Science Editors (http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/) (formerly Council of Biology Editors). See http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/reference_links.cfm
International Association of Scientific, Technical, & Medical Publishers (STM) (http://www.stm-assoc.org/)
International Publishers Association (http://www.ipa-uie.org/)
Society for Scholarly Publishing (http://www.sspnet.org)

Specialty Organizations

Northwest Independent Editors Guild (Resources for Freelance Editors) (http://www.edsguild.org/resources.htm)
Twin Cities Professional Editors Network (http://www.pensite.org/)
The Christian Pen: Proofreaders and Editors Network (http://www.thechristianpen.com/)
American Society of Indexers (http://www.asindexing.org/)
Society of Indexers (http://www.indexers.org.uk/); in Britain
Indexing Society of Canada (http://www.indexers.ca/)
Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (http://www.anzsi.org/site/)
China Society of Indexers (http://www.cnindex.fudan.edu.cn/introduce_01.htm)
Association of South African Indexers and Bibliographers (http://www.asaib.org.za/)
German Network of Indexers (http://www.d-indexer.org/welcome.html)
Netherlands Indexing Network (http://www.indexers.nl/index_uk.html)

Editing Institute and Annual Conference

Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents (http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/about/campedit/)
Conference on Editorial Problems (http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/cep)

Publishing Institutes

The Publishing Institute at the University of Denver
New York University Summer Publishing Institute
Hudson Valley Publishing Seminar (not offered regularly)
Summer Publishing Institute for Professionals (Charlottesville, Virginia), focuses on online publishing
Stanford Professional Publishing course (for midcareer folks)