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Ask The Fellows: What Did You Take Away from SSP’s 2025 Annual Meeting?

The 2025 SSP Fellows reflect on their experiences at the Annual Meeting in Baltimore.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Jun 20, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Ask the Fellows: SSP 2024 Annual Meeting

We asked the 2024 SSP Fellows, “What was the highlight of attending SSP 2024 for you?”

  • By Michelle English
  • Jul 2, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 12 mins

Ask the Fellows: SSP 2023 Annual Meeting

We ask the 2023 SSP Fellows: “What was the highlight of attending SSP 2023 for you?”

  • By Michelle English
  • Jun 15, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Humanities and Graduate Education:  The Crisis is Real, but Not New

A new study offers — surprise — mostly bad news about the state of Humanities graduate education. Even while we know how important humanistic perspectives are for, well, humanity.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Apr 29, 2022
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Ask the Fellows: SSP 2021 Annual Meeting

Members of the 2020 class of SSP Fellows share their top take-aways from the recent SSP Annual Meeting.

  • By George Neame, Georgie Field, Hannah Vinchur, Michelle Urberg, David Kim
  • Jun 24, 2021
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

The SSP Generations Fund: Investing in the Promise of our Future

The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is investing in future generations of scholarly communications professionals and championing the values of inclusion, diversity, and equity. Find out how you can help through The SSP Generations Fund.

  • By Julia Kostova
  • Dec 1, 2020
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast: Episode 6, SSP’s Fellowship and Mentorship Programs and the New Generations Fund

Meredith Adinolfi and Sara Grimme speak with Vicky Truter, Adya Misra, and Sai Konda about their experiences and participation in SSP’s Fellowship and Mentorship programs.

  • By Meredith Adinolfi, Sara Grimme
  • Dec 1, 2020
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Remembering Mohammad Asadi-Lari

Remembering SSP Fellow Mohammad Asadi-Lari, who died aboard the Ukrainian International Airlines flight PS752 that crashed in Iran shortly after takeoff.

  • By Adrian Stanley
  • Jan 10, 2020
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post: STEM Fellowship — Providing High School and Undergraduate Students Opportunities to Publish

High School and Undergrad student conduct research all the time, and yet student run journals can come and go. Today’s guest post highlights the STEM Fellowship, which provides a sustainable support structure for student lead journals as well as challenges to inspire research outside the box.

  • By Hannah Rahim
  • Jun 5, 2019
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Where Does a University Press Sit in its Parent’s Priorities?

The unfortunate news about cutbacks at Stanford University Press makes it clear that all presses must develop strategies to make them more central to the university’s set of priorities.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Apr 29, 2019
  • 18 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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The mission of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is to advance scholarly publishing and communication, and the professional development of its members through education, collaboration, and networking. SSP established The Scholarly Kitchen blog in February 2008 to keep SSP members and interested parties aware of new developments in publishing.

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