Guest Post — Results of the 4th Annual SSP Professional Skills Survey
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Career Development Committee is pleased to announce the 4th annual Professional Skills Survey and updated Professional Skills Map.
Guest Post: Navigating a New Virtual Experience at the 2024 SSP Annual Meeting
The SSP Annual Meeting Planning Committee has put together a unique and strong program for virtual attendees to the SSP 2024 Annual Meeting.
Guest Post — Shipping up to Boston? Plan Some Workers’ Playtime during the SSP Annual Meeting
Heading to Boston for the SSP’s annual meeting? Here’s an insiders’ guide to the city.
Looking Forward, Looking Back: Mental Health Awareness Mondays on The Scholarly Kitchen
The Scholarly Kitchen’s Mental Health Awareness Working Group has been active for around six months now. With May designated as Mental Health Awareness Month, we wanted to take a look back at what we’ve achieved, and a look forward to what we are planning for the rest of 2024.
Inclusivity is Making This Year’s SSP Annual Meeting Better than Ever
Behind the scenes, we’ve been working over the last 9 months to re-engineer the SSP’s Annual Meeting program to include more new voices in our industry, and we can’t wait to share the results with you.
SSP’s Generations Fund Exceeds 75% Mark — Pulls Close to Goal
The Generations Fund is celebrating its next milestone achievement and SSP thanks 373 Individual & Organizational Contributors.
SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 16: Interview with SSP President Randy Townsend
In this episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast, hosts Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) is joined by SSP’s current president, Randy Townsend. Randy is the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing and is an Adjunct Professor of the MPS in Publishing program in the College of Professional Studies at George Washington University.
Guest Post — European Accessibility Act: Working Toward Compliance and Beyond
Today’s post puts the spotlight on the European Accessibility Act (EAA) directive and how different organizations are getting ready to make their publications and services EAA compliant.
Guest Post — Scholarly Social: Findings from the SSP Social Media Survey
Results from the SSP survey on the changing nature of social media use by publishers, research societies, libraries, vendors, and others in our community.
Guest Post: Introducing SSP’s AI in Scholarly Publishing Community of Interest (CoIN)
Introducing the AI in Scholarly Publishing Community of Interest (CoIN), the SSP’s latest offering to all its members to explore and engage in all matters AI as they relate to scholarly publishing.
Last Call: Submit Your Session Proposals for the 2024 SSP Annual Meeting
As the deadline for submitting proposals for the 2024 SSP Annual Meeting rapidly approaches, Rebecca Benner interviews Tim Lloyd about this year’s theme and what attendees can expect.
Guest Post – SSP Assembles Presidential Task Force to Prioritize Mental Health Awareness and Support Within the Scholarly Communications Ecosystem
SSP Past Presidents were convened in a task force to consider ways in which SSP as a society can and should support the mental health of members, with work-related issues being the primary but not the only focus. The goal of this Task Force is to identify potential opportunities, activities, resources, and initiatives.
Ask the Community: What Did SSP 2023 Mean to You?
In the last of this series of posts about this year’s Annual Meeting, SSP’s Marketing and Communications Committee asked members of our community what the conference meant to them.
Ask the Vendors: SSP 2023 Annual Meeting
We check in with scholarly publishing vendors for their experiences at the 2023 SSP Annual meeting in Portland.
Ask the Fellows: SSP 2023 Annual Meeting
We ask the 2023 SSP Fellows: “What was the highlight of attending SSP 2023 for you?”