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Archives: Pandemic

Guest Post — Hybrid Versus In-person: What Will Be the Future of Academic Conferences?

Marco Marabelli reports on the results of a study looking at the benefits and problems of remote and hybrid conferences, and what the changes in recent years will mean for meetings going forward.

  • By Marco Marabelli
  • May 16, 2022
  • 8 Comments

Guest Post — Results of the 2022 Survey on Travel, Events, and Return to Office Plans

A look at the results from the SSP’s survey on travel, returning to the office, and attending in-person events.

  • By Madelyn Stone
  • Apr 21, 2022
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post — Love in the Time of COVID: Lessons in Change Management and Hope Amid the Chaos

Lily Garcia Walton discusses Silverchair’s ongoing adaptation of working spaces and policies as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

  • By Lily Garcia Walton
  • Apr 6, 2022
  • 5 Comments

Guest Post — Learning from the Experience of SSP’s 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting

What can the SSP learn from our experience of the virtual 2021 meeting that can inform future annual meetings, whatever the format?

  • By Tim Lloyd
  • Mar 9, 2022
  • 4 Comments

Guest Post — Updating “What Should a Conference Cost?”: Lessons Learned from Another Year of Online Meetings

Mark Carden offers lessons learned from year of running an online conference in 2021, designing a hybrid conference for 2022, and observing what event providers have offered and delegates have experienced.

  • By Mark Carden
  • Feb 15, 2022
  • 9 Comments

The Charleston Conference — Trailblazing the Return to In-Person Events

Interview with Leah Hinds, ExecDir of Charleston Hub, reflecting on preparations for holding the Charleston Conference in-person as well as virtual. @chsconf @lisalibrarian

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Sep 27, 2021
  • 3 Comments

Experiences Behind the Data: Making Human Sense of Pandemic Usage Reports

As publishers and librarians draw conclusions from the last year of usage data, we must look to qualitative analysis to round out the picture of the human conditions behind the quantitative trends.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • May 4, 2021
  • 5 Comments

How Has COVID-19 Affected Research Funding, Publishing and Library Budgets? Or, Finding the Truth in the Gap Between Perception and Reality

Publication of the final report of a major global study of the effects of COVID-19 on research funding, publishing, and library budgets – and the truth that emerged in the gap between perception and reality.

  • By Charlie Rapple, Christopher Daley
  • Mar 24, 2021
  • 8 Comments

Guest Post — Publishing in a Pandemic: 5 Factors Limiting Scholarly Research

Survey results on COVID pandemic impacts on researchers and educators across the disciplines, and implications for scholarly publishers.

  • By Deirdre Watchorn, Chris Smith
  • Dec 22, 2020
  • 0 Comments

The Global Pandemic and Scholarly Societies

Robert Harington asks how scholarly societies are coping as the global coronavirus pandemic continues to cast a shadow, certainly well into 2021 and very likely into 2022 and beyond?

  • By Robert Harington
  • Oct 6, 2020
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post — Pivoting your Conference: Pandemic as the Mother of Invention

Simon Inger rethinks the online conference through the lens of product development.

  • By Simon Inger
  • Jul 7, 2020
  • 7 Comments

How COVID-19 is Changing Research Culture: An interview with Daniel Hook, CEO of Digital Science

In this interview Robert Harington asks Daniel Hook (CEO of Digital Science and co-author of the new Digital Science report. How COVID-19 is Changing Research Culture) about his views on fundamental shifts in research culture as a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jun 24, 2020
  • 0 Comments

What We’re Missing From Being in Person, or, What Will a Born Digital Conference Look Like?

In this era of COVID-19, what is the new normal for conferences in our community. Moving forward, what might a born digital conference entail?

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • May 18, 2020
  • 5 Comments

A Font for these Uncertain Times

Uncertain times call for distressed typography.

  • By David Crotty
  • May 8, 2020
  • 4 Comments

Guest Post — On Working from Home in a Pandemic

Gabe Harp from MIT Press offers tips on how to maximize your efficiency and preserve your sanity while working from home.

  • By Gabe Harp
  • May 4, 2020
  • 15 Comments
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