Videos of the SSP 2019 Meeting Sessions Now Available

The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Annual Meeting offers a lot to take in over a short amount of time. The information density can be overwhelming, so I’m always happy a couple of months later when all of the video of the sessions has been processed and made publicly available. It’s a great chance to revisit sessions and to share them with colleagues who could not attend. You can find it all in the SSP Library, just use the pull-down under “Annual Meeting” and select 2019. There were so many great sessions this past year that I’m struggling to select which ones to embed here, so instead I’ll go with what the SSP has chosen to feature:

First, the opening keynote, “Scholarly Publishing in Africa: Impact Factor vs. Societal Impact”, delivered by Dr. Mariamawit Yeshak, Assistant Professor of Pharmacognosy, Addis Ababa University.

Next, Betsy Beaumon, CEO of Benetech’s Keynote Address, “Why Inclusion Matters to Technology and Why Technology Matters to Incusion”.

And finally, a bit of homerism here, The Scholarly Kitchen’s closing plenary at the end of the meeting:

David Crotty

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David Crotty is a Senior Consultant at Clarke & Esposito, a boutique management consulting firm focused on strategic issues related to professional and academic publishing and information services. Previously, David was the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press. He oversaw journal policy across OUP’s journals program, drove technological innovation, and served as an information officer. David acquired and managed a suite of research society-owned journals with OUP, and before that was the Executive Editor for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, where he created and edited new science books and journals, along with serving as a journal Editor-in-Chief. He has served on the Board of Directors for the STM Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing and CHOR, Inc., as well as The AAP-PSP Executive Council. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech before moving from the bench to publishing.