The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has announced the program for its 2019 New Directions Seminar, now in its third year. This year, SSP will explore ways publishers and industry leaders are creating new business models, new technologies, and new approaches to new challenges through keynote presentations, panel sessions, and roundtable discussions. The seminar will be held October 2-3 in Washington, DC, USA. A discounted virtual registration is available for those who cannot attend in person.
This year’s seminar will highlight ‘the good, the bad, and the ugly’ of current and emerging initiatives in academic publishing. Themes will include some of the most talked-about enterprises in the field, from Plan S and OA2020 to new peer review models and preprint servers, spam journals, and mega journals. The seminar will highlight and emphasise the ‘good’ of these new models, while simultaneously providing constructive deliberation on the ‘ugly’ proposals from the perspective of a variety of stakeholders, including academics, librarians, researchers, and open access advocates.
Opening keynote speaker, Rachel Burley (Vice President, Open Publishing Innovations, SpringerNature) will share her thoughts on the “new normal” in publishing. Other seminar highlights include new OA models and initiatives; new tools and services in scholarly indexing and discoverability; current disruptors in academic research; disruptors in peer review interactive session; and the Scholarly Kitchen Chefs on The Future of Independent and Society Publishing.
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