The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) New Directions Seminar has been expanded for 2018. Through speaker presentations, panel sessions, roundtables, and a lively debate session, SSP will explore new ways in which publishers are combining new strategies, new technology, and new approaches to their communities to meet today's challenges. The seminar will be held September 25-26, 2018, in Washington. Virtual registration is also available.
Topics will include organisations using collaboration as a competitive strategy, the new pressures of 'publish or perish' in light of the changing definition of what counts toward scholarly productivity, and the new requirement for scientists and scholars to tell their stories beyond academia - to policy-makers and the public - to ensure the greatest societal impact.
The keynote session features Lettie Conrad, Affiliate Associate, Product Research and Development, Maverick Publishing Specialists. Conrad will draw on her experiences as the North American Editor of Learned Publishing, an active Scholarly Kitchen chef, and a doctoral candidate at Queensland University of Technology (via San Jose State's iSchool) to help sort the nutritious wheat from the overhyped chaff: Everywhere is talk of the Next Big Thing. Is it blockchain, a coming tsunami of Big Deal cancellations, workflow management, new Big Deals that include APC subventions - or something else entirely? Are there putative trends to which we are paying too much attention and dark-horse developments to which we are paying too little?
Other seminar highlights include: three panel discussions; collaborating to compete; new ways of counting researcher contribution; science and (social science) communication as storytelling; Oxford debate on the role of artificial intelligence in peer review; and networking with your colleagues in scholarly publishing.
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