Yale University Press offers competitive paid internship opportunities to learn about publishing in various business areas. By participating in the internship program, students observe the inner workings of a major university press and successful business. The value of this internship is to gain experience and to show a potential employer your skills and abilities to obtain future employment.
Eligibility
Either one of the following:
- Undergraduate students
- Graduate students
- Students who graduated from an undergraduate or graduate program within past 18 months.
Tenure of fellowship: June 2 to August 2025
How to apply
- Candidate need to choose one department from the list given below and according to skills and interest they posses.
- Then, Candidate can access application through direct apply link
- Applications will be accepted only in the form of Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF formatting. Each application must include a Cover Letter and Résumé.
- While applying, applicants must indicate to which department they are applying both in the submission form and in the cover letter.
- A seperate cover letter must be submitted for each department applied to.
- Yale University Press does NOT sponsor work visas; and will not provide any supporting documentation for existing visas including offer letters for Curricular Practical Training.
| Deparment | Skills required | What internship provides |
|---|
| Acquisitional Editorial | - Strong writing and communication skills
- Ability to work independently
- Highly detailed-oriented and organized
| - Learn about the publishing world from the ground up
- Evaluates proposals and manuscripts received from potential authors and literary agents summarizes and presents selected projects to colleagues through out the press,signs book projects, and works with authors
- Summarizing Proposals, researching sales data, contacting reviewers and blurbers, analyzing manuscript drafts, evaluating illustrations and permissions, and sending complimentary books
- Observe Press-wide decision making and interact with other departments
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| Art Workshop | - A background or demonstrated interest in art history and/or architectural history
- Stronger Writing skills
- Detail orientation
- Ability to work independently
| - Experience working with illustrated books
- Opportunity to learn about all aspects of the publishing process, from acquisition and manuscripts editorial and production assistant
- Work on projects such as test and art preparation, descriptive writing for internal memos, proofreading; and sales and marketing research
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| Art & Architectural ePortal | - Taken classes in art and/or architectural history and demonstrate attention to detail
- Experience working with Excel, Adobe Acrobat, and Photoshop are preferred
- Ability to work indepently and judge multiple tasks.
| - A digital platform and first-hand experience with digital publishing
- Prepare images for upload to site, creating conversion instructions, checking newly converted books for scanning errors, updating ebook metadeta, and prepare shipments of books to freelance taaggers and proofreaders
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| Manuscript Editorial | - Keen eye anad attention to detail in a short written exercise
| - Copyediting and proofreading as well as evaluating corrections to text and illustrations
- Work with authors, freelancers, and in-house colleagues
- Learn about the editorial organization of books, editorial and typographical considerations in typeset pages, and house processes and to become familiar with The Chicago Manual of Style
- Gain hands-on-experience by checking typeset pages(PDFs) and indexes at various stages, with appropriate supervision and feedback
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| Marketing Department | - Experience with Excel, HTML, Photoshop and InDesign is a plus
| - Tasks related to promotional activities, which may include reasearch assigments, culling citations from reviews, assisting with catalouge and galley production, blogging, producing digital marketing assests, and oraginizing data
- Attend press-wide launch meetings and monthly marketing meetings
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| New Business and Product Development | - Analytical Skills
- Bright and Curious
- Interested in learning more about digital publishing for Yale University Press
| - User research, competitive analysis, and site testing
- Ongoing product development of the A&AePortal and updates to our interaction of ColorApp
|
| Production Department | - Attention to detail
- Experience with data entry
- Knowledge of Microsoft Excel
| - Learn about bookmaking behind the scenes
- Aid in various duties, such as assisting the senior reprint controller with ordering print-on-demand editions, working with spreadsheets to track metadata for backlist books
- Update electronic archives of book jackets and covers
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| Publicity Department | - Experience with Adobe Acrobat and Outlook
| - Gain hands-on-experience in a publicity department as they work under the supervision of the publicity assistant
- Learn to liaise with media contacts, assist in the production of promotional materials, track media coverage, and send materials, both digital and print, to media contacts across North Amaerica
- Work on long-term projects, such as compiling the annual holiday gift book catalog and reasearching media outlets and opprtunities for select dall titles
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| Sales Department | - Interest in book publishing, marketing or business
| - Generating a variety of sales and inventory report for analysis; outreach and support for books sales at author; support sales reps and other projects as they rise
- Attend launch meetings and monthly marketing meetings, among others
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Selection Process
- Selection candidates will be notified after 3 March 2025
- If a candidate do not receive an offer by 3April 2025, then they have not been selected as a candidate for the current year
- The selected candidate will commit to the full 10 weeks and have to spend 30 hours a week.
- Internship will take
Perks of the Program
- Stipend at rate of $16.35 per hour
- Work with Yale either in-person, remote, or hybrid depending on position.
- Learning new things and polishing skills
Last Date to apply: 10 Febrauary 2025
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