My experience as a publication assistant during formatting, editing and publishing RUFORUM Working Document Series: Biennial 2016 Conference papers

This paper shares the author’s perspective and experience during the formatting and editing of manuscripts for the Fifth African Higher Education Week and RUFORUM Biennial Conference held 17-21 October 2016 in Cape Town, South Africa. These manuscripts were prepared by students, university researchers and others for presentation at the Conference and for publication in RUFORUM Working Document Series. The papers had to be reviewed, formatted, edited, and those meeting publication quality and guidelines published online with open access for global sharing. There were challenges throughout this process as elucidated in the paper, especially from authors in following guidelines, improper citation of references and poor grammar. Most papers had to go through three to six rounds of editing and formatting.The papers provide useful information to inform researchers, implementers, policy makers and others.