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 — 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.
Chef de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Barbara Kline Pope
Robert Harington talks to Barbara Kline Pope, Director of Johns Hopkins University Press, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for- profit sectors of our industry.
#PIDfest – Bringing the PID Community Back Together Again!
There’s a new PID conference in town – PIDfest will take place at the Czech National Library of Technology in Prague on June 11-13, 2024. Learn more in this post by Mary Beth Barilla and Alice Meadows, respectively,chairs of the Marketing & Communications and Programme Committees
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.
The Necessity of Book Reviews
Is the scholar-to-scholar exchange found in book reviews still of value to the community? There is concern over their decline.
Ask the Community: How are you using Social Media in 2023?
Social media is changing — as we all reconsider our approaches and channels, we asked the community to weigh in with their response to the question, “How has your / your organization’s approach to social media changed in the last year?”
GPT, Large Language Models, and the Trough of Disillusionment
In 2023, AI has been back in the news in a big way. Large Language Models and ChatGPT threatened our’s and many other industries with huge disruption. As with so many threatened techno-shocks, a large degree of this one was hype, but what will happen after the hype fades. What, if anything, will be the lasting legacy of ChatGPT?
Bambi for the Serious Reader
The Disney film may be considered a classic, but Princeton University Press has more successfully delivered Felix Salton’s original message.
Guest Post — Funding Open Access Book Publishing: A Different Approach
New models are emerging for funding open access, which may serve to alleviate one of the publishing industry’s most problematic practices: Levying book processing charges on authors.
Ask the Co-Chairs: A Look at the 2023 SSP Annual Meeting
Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen sat down with the Co-Chairs of the SSP’s Annual Meeting Program Committee to learn more about the event and what we can look forward to.
Guest Post: AI and Scholarly Publishing — A (Slightly) Hopeful View
The impact of the changes artificial intelligence will cause rests on how creative humans can be at harnessing novel technologies to the greatest benefit. The challenge, then, for publishers, is to ensure they are the creative adopters leading the charge, as opposed to being trampled by better customer experiences created by other technological disruptors.
Guest Post — Advancing Accessibility in Scholarly Publishing: Building Support
Part two of a three-part series aims to discuss the topic of advancing accessibility within scholarly communication with the focus of digital accessibility.
Editors can’t spot talent. I’ve heard this joke before. It isn’t funny
Editors at The BMJ are lousy at predicting the citation performance of research papers. Or are they?
Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2022, Part 2
The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read (and other cultural creations experienced) during the year. Part 2 today.