Ask the Community: What Did SSP 2022 Mean to You?
In the last of this series of posts about this year’s Annual Meeting, SSP’s Marketing & Communications Committee cochairs ask members of our community what the conference meant to them
Results of the 3rd Annual SSP Professional Skills Survey and the Updated Professional Skills Map
The SSP Career Development Committee’s Professional Skills Map is in its third iteration, and the results are presented here. The Skills Map aims to guide scholarly publishing professionals across industries and career levels in recognizing their personal strengths and interpersonal and technical skills, and then map those skill sets to fitting roles across the industry, empowering them to advance in their current roles and explore potential career paths they may not have previously considered.
Ask the Community: Why Do You Volunteer?
As the long-awaited, in-person SSP Annual Meeting approaches, we are hosting two events where prospective volunteers can learn about opportunities within the Society. We asked members of the community to share: which organization(s) do you volunteer for and why?
A Reorganization at Elsevier
Today, Judy Verses starts as Elsevier’s President for Academic and Government, completing CEO Kumsal Bayazit’s market-based leadership structure for platform-driven corporate strategy.
Ask the Community: The 2022 SSP Annual Meeting
Registration is open for the 2022 SSP Annual Meeting. We asked the community, “What are you most looking forward to about attending the SSP Annual Meeting in person?”
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?
Guest Post — Google, Atypon, NIH, and Information Discovery’s AI-Fueled Future: Notes from a BioASQ Panel
A report from the 9th annual BioASQ workshop discussing the ongoing development and future of AI-based tools.
Revisiting: A 2008 Look at Open Access
A look back at Joe Esposito’s 2008 essay on Open Access — what has come to pass and what has changed since then?
Guest Post — Results of the 2nd Annual SSP Professional Skills Survey and the Updated Professional Skills Map
The SSP Career Development Committee’s Professional Skills Map is in its second iteration, and the results are presented here. The Skills Map aims to guide scholarly publishing professionals across industries and career levels in recognizing their personal strengths and interpersonal and technical skills, and then map those skill sets to fitting roles across the industry, empowering them to advance in their current roles and explore potential career paths they may not have previously considered.
Transforming Scholarly Publishing With Blockchain Technologies and AI: An Interview with Darrell Gunter
Today we feature an interview with Darrell W. Gunter, the editor of a new book on Transforming Scholarly Publishing With Blockchain Technologies and AI.
Off for the Fourth of July — A Few Recent Book Reviews With Musical Accompaniment
We’re off for the long weekend. Some musical reading suggestions for your summer are offered.
Guest Post — BioASQ for the Win: Inside the Healthiest Competition You’ve Never Heard Of
A look at BioASQ — an annual competition to develop AI systems to help drive medical progress.
Journal Citation Indicator. Just Another Tool in Clarivate’s Metrics Toolbox?
Can Clarivate deliver on a single, normalized measurement of citation impact or did its marketing department promise too much?
The 2021 SSP Annual Meeting: What’s New, What’s Different, and How to Get the Most Out of Attending
A glimpse behind the curtain on the planning for the SSP Annual meeting. A conversation between Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen, Lori Carlin, Yael FItzpatrick, and Cason Lynley on what to expect, how the shift to a virtual environment changes things, and how to get the most out of attending.
Guest Post — Building the Last Mile: A Plan for Bringing the Expanding Universe of Digital Primary Sources into Classrooms
Getting digitized primary source materials into the classroom requires an open dialogue among researchers, teachers, and archivists. A workshop from historians of business shows how.