The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has announced the results of the recent election.
Jennifer Pesanelli, Deputy Executive Director for Operations and Director of Publications for the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), will be president-elect in 2016. Jennifer directs the publishing operations for The FASEB Journal and oversees the publishing programs of several other scientific societies including supporting them in efforts ranging from vendor selection and contract negotiation to editorial policy and publication business model changes. She currently serves on the SSP Board of Directors, is chair SSP's Audit Committee, and has participated as a member of the Scholarly Kitchen's Kitchen Cabinet. Jennifer also previously served on SSP's Education Committee for five years.
Other board members include Lori Carlin, Senior Consultant at DeltaThink; David Crotty, Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press; and Alice Meadows, Director of Community Engagement & Support for ORCID. These new board members will begin their terms at the end of the 38th Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, in June, and join the following 2016-17 Board members.
Brought to you by Scope e-Knowledge Center, a world-leading provider of metadata services, abstraction, indexing, entity extraction and knowledge organisation models (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies).
