Out of Office: SSP and Jubilee
We’re off for the rest of the week for the SSP Meeting and for those in the UK, the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
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.
Off for Memorial Day and Off to Chicago for SSP
We’re off for the US holiday on Monday, so here’s a musical interlude for those heading to the SSP Meeting next week.
Ask the Chefs: Which Organizations Do You Volunteer For And Why?
Earlier this month we asked the community which organizations they volunteer for and why. Today it’s the Chefs’ turn!
The Scholarly Kitchen Readership Survey One Year On
Conclusions and responses taken to last year’s Scholarly Kitchen reader survey.
Next Steps for CRediT – An Interview with the Co-Chairs
With CRediT now formalized as a standard, Alice Meadows interviews Liz Allen, Simon Kerridge, and Alison McGonagle O’Connell (cochairs of the working group) about what’s next for the taxonomy
The Ghost of Publishing Past: George Gissing’s “New Grub Street”
A lesson in publishing’s past is provided by George Gissing’s Victorian Era novel.
SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 10: Industry Primer — Sales in the Scholarly Publishing Landscape
The tenth episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast serves as a primer on the sales role within scholarly publishing- what sales professionals do, how they operate as relationship managers, and the role of their interactions from end user to publisher. Andy Douglas, Vice President of Commercial Partnerships and Strategic Business Development at Springer Nature, addresses these questions and more. Hosted by Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science).
The Quest for Home: Transforming from Grant-funded Project to Sustainable Operation
Grant-funded initiatives eventually need a permanent home; here are some lessons learned from Educopia’s Katherine Skinner and Christina Drummond.
10 Years of Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research: An Interview with the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable (Part 2)
An interview with principals of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, whose work significantly shaped the Holdren Memo on public access to federally-funded research.
10 Years of Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research: An Interview with the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable (Part 1)
An interview with principals of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, whose work significantly shaped the Holdren Memo on public access to federally-funded research.
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.
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?
Weaponizing the Research Community
The research community is increasingly caught up in geopolitical events and strategies.
The New STM Integrity Hub
Interview with Joris van Rossum and Hylke Koers about the new STM Integrity Hub service launch and its potential future developments.