As the Society for Scholarly Publishing celebrates its 40th anniversary, the theme for the conference highlights the many crossroads within scholarly publishing, including past and future practices, changing revenue models, funding challenges, regulation changes, technological innovations, and reaching new markets while maintaining established ones. These crossroads introduce new challenges as well as new opportunities for scholarly publishing and for the communities it serves and help keep up with the changing needs of researchers and academics who both generate and use the content. As we look back, could we have predicted forty years ago where scholarly publishing would be today? How can we anticipate the needs for the future? What questions do we need to be asking—and answering—to move forward?
The annual meeting will be held in Chicago, a crossroad city itself, and will explore which strengths to draw on from the past, what might be holding us back, and where to go to meet the needs of researchers and other important stakeholders. Publishers, librarians, vendors, and academics will discuss the challenges and opportunities that face them as an industry and how they can best continue to serve the mission of publishing and distributing quality scholarly content.
Proposals from and for all types of stakeholders in scholarly communications are welcome. Proposed tracks include: Funding and Revenue Sources (perspectives from funding sources/agencies, alternative revenue streams, monetisation, funding challenges, open access models, sustainability); Practical Skills/Publishing 101 (skills-based instruction, management and leadership; topics can include advice on career development or content geared toward early-career professionals); Marketing and Sales (ways to increase visibility and usage, internationalization, product differentiation/enhancement, market expansion, analytics); Tools and Technology (breakthroughs and innovations, add-ons to content platforms for researchers and/or publishers, content management / workflow tools, data, development methodologies); Research and Scholarship (changing needs/practices for researchers, roundtables or panels of academics, collaboration, government mandates); and Innovations and Challenges (new content models/delivery, end user customisation, security, metrics, design, product development).
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