LECTURE: FROM MANUSCRIPT TO POST-PUBLICATION TASKS: EDITORIAL WORK ON A MONOGRAPH
On Thursday, 6 November 2025, at 11.00 you are invited to the online lecture From Manuscript to Post-Publication Tasks: Editorial Work on a Monograph. Lecturer will be Prof. Dr. Jonatan Vinkler (director of the University of Primorska, University Library). The event will be streamed online via Zoom (https://upr-si.zoom.us/s/69256942615, Meeting ID: 692 5694 2615). The lecture will be held in Slovenian.
The editor’s duties in publishing a monograph usually are:
1) manages the process from the publisher’s first contact with the manuscript to publication,
2) performs the first review and, based on this, proposes acceptance into the book program or rejection of publication, in the event of acceptance, proposes possible modifications to the text and achieves coordination with the author,
3) organises and manages the review process (in the case of scientific publications),
4) proposes the conclusion of an author’s contract and (usually) prepares a draft of it,
5) manages the technical editor or performs technical editing himself,
6) manages the work with the designer, typesetter and/or art editor,
7) manages proofreading and obtains authorization for the publication of the final image from the author,
8) performs a review of the entire work before submission to print,
9) performs a review of all trial prints (match or best print) and signs the printing authorsation,
10) checks the quality of the printed materials upon receipt of the stock,
11) prepares a press presentation of the work and author,
12) monitors the sales success of the project (in the case of commercial publications).
The lecture will focus on editorial reading, using the example of texts that form a scientific monograph in the field of humanities/social sciences. It will provide practical guidance on how and with which tools to review a text from the point of view of:
1) plagiarism,
2) the use of artificial intelligence in writing,
3) spelling quality,
4) morphological and syntactic correctness,
5) terminological adequacy,
6) stylistic appropriateness,
7) information quality,
8) argumentative integrity,
9) text-structural balance, and
10) the appropriateness of the choice of the title and/or subtitle of the work.
Taking into account the textual concepts of coherence and cohesion, the lecture will highlight the key questions that an editor asks himself when reading a discussion text for publication in book form.
Prof. Dr. Jonatan Vinkler is a specialist in the literary and cultural history of the early modern age, editor and librarian. Editor-in-chief of Collected Works of Primož Trubar and editor of the individual books of the mentioned scientific critical edition (2003–2018: the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth – with F. Kranjc-Vrečko, the eighth, the ninth – with B. Javornikom and M. Šetinc, the twelfth, the thirteenth and the fourteenth book). He is the editor of a scientific critical edition of the Symphony in F major, opus 68: ‘Ljubljana transcript’, Ludwig van Beethoven with an international review in an indexed scientific journal (A&HCI, Scopus (h), ERIH PLUS …). On the reception of the Hussite and Lutheran Reformations, the imaginary of the ‘Turkish’ threat in the Slovenian cultural space and Czech-Slovenian and Slovene-Czech cultural and literary contacts in the century of ‘townspeople and revolutions’ he has published several single-authored scientific papers and monographs, which are cited in domestic and foreign scientific papers and monographs. Bibliography of dr. Vinkler has 360 units; he is the mentor of several doctoral students. He is the director of the University of Primorska University Library, chairman of the Board of Directors of the University of Primorska, and vice president of the National Council for Library Activities. He has received several awards for his work, among them the Prešeren Award of the FF UL (2000), the Trubar’s plaque of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of (2017) and the Golden Plaque of the University of Primorska (2020).
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This is the tenth lecture in the OSUP series – Open Science at the University of Primorska. The event is organised by the University of Primorska as part of the project SPOZNAJ (Support for the Implementation of Open Science Principles in Slovenia). If you have any questions you can contact Dr. Ana Slavec, the editor of the OSUP series.
Past lectures that were organised within the OSUP series are available on the YouTube channel of the UP University Library >>
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Project SPOZNAJ is co-financed by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation and the European Union – NextGenerationEU through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.
