News and Events

When events are added, each listing in the upcoming events section will give the date, the location (or the platform for an online session) and how to register. Once an event has taken place it moves to past events, so the page also works as a record of where Pubrica and Guires Group have presented or exhibited. Company news covers announcements such as new services, partnerships and team news. Updates on regulation, publishing policy and open calls are published separately in Pubrica Insights, so that this page stays focused on Pubrica's own activities.

Requests for a speaker or workshop are easier to plan when they include:

• Audience: postgraduate students, early-career researchers, clinicians, research office staff or industry teams, and their disciplines.
• Format: a single talk, a hands-on workshop with participants' own drafts, a webinar series or a conference session.
• Length and size: session duration and expected number of participants, which affects how much individual feedback is possible.
• Delivery: in person or online, and the platform your institution uses.
• Dates: preferred dates and any fixed points such as a thesis submission period or grant round.
• Learning goals: what participants should be able to do afterwards.

Send these details through the contact page to start the conversation.

If the session is part of a credit-bearing course or a doctoral training programme, mention any learning outcomes or assessment it needs to support, so that the content can be planned around them.

The page notes that sessions can cover research writing, publication and regulatory documentation. Within those areas, topics that institutions commonly request from publication specialists include structuring an original research article, choosing a journal and avoiding predatory publishers, writing a response to reviewers, applying reporting guidelines such as CONSORT, STROBE and PRISMA 2020, authorship and acknowledgement under the ICMJE Recommendations, and publication ethics as set out by COPE. For regulatory audiences, sessions may focus on clinical documents and the ICH guideline framework. The exact content of any session is agreed with the host in advance.

Participants who want to read ahead can use Pubrica Academy articles on publication ethics and research writing.

Pubrica's own event listings are only part of the picture. Researchers looking for conferences, abstract deadlines and special issue calls in their discipline will find them collected under Calls and Conferences. When planning an abstract for a meeting, check the society's embargo rules and whether a later full paper in a journal is permitted, since most journals accept papers previously presented as conference abstracts but expect this to be disclosed at submission.

Conference presentations are also a route to feedback before submission. Questions raised by an audience often anticipate what reviewers will ask, so note them down while the session is fresh.