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I mean as a broke masters student with a graphic design degree this sounds like the kind of job I would actually enjoy doing, only I have no idea how one goes a

• jahewson 6y ago
  The journals I’m familiar with outsource this kind of work to India.
  • Topolomancer 6y ago
    And the bad thing about this is that their employees there do not receive a lot of training. So they are stuck with not a lot of knowledge about a process and are often the ones who have to endure the wrath of authors.
  • aitchnyu 6y ago
    How underqualified are the staff? I'm Indian and I know Chartered Accountants (5+ years of self study, rigourous exams), pharmacists, lawyers doing outsourcing.
• impendia 6y ago
  As jehewson said, among large commercial publishers it's common to outsource abroad. For journals run by professional societies, it might be more common to do things in-house. That said -- and keep in mind that this might be different in different academic disciplines -- I'm not sure that this would be appealing work for a graphic designer. There just isn't room for creativity of any sort. Mathematics papers have an extremely homogeneous look and feel, and everyone in the discipline is perfectly okay with that. Maybe textbook companies would be a better bet -- although with its $200+ textbooks that industry has its own set of problems. That said, if I were writing a student-oriented book (as opposed to a research paper), I would welcome the chance to work with someone with creative ideas for the visual presentation. Good luck!