ANALYSIS AND NEWS
SSP MEETING TICKS ALL THE BOXES
Tim Gillett reports from the Society for Scholarly
Publishing’s June meeting in Vancouver
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hen the sun comes out in Vancouver, the city positively glitters – and appropriately enough the SSP’s 38th Annual Meeting,
made up of academic publishing’s brightest stars, was blessed with perfect weather. This year’s theme was Crossing Boundaries: New Horizons in Scholarly Communication; with publishers,
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librarians, researchers and vendors brought together to discuss, debate and learn with the purpose of advancing scholarly communications.
There were some superb plenaries and discussion sessions, a wide range of companies in the exhibitor marketplace and loads of networking events, all set against a backdrop of the city’s glittering waterfront and surrounding forests and mountains. For Research Information, the only downside was a severe lack of print magazines to hand out to delegates – more about that later!
After Melanie Dolechek – SSP’s first full-time executive director – opened the conference, the first plenary tackled the subject of mentorship within the scholarly
publishing industry. Setting the scene, moderator David Thew pointed out that the SSP’s Fellowship Programme was launched this year to big demand, with more than 100 fellowship applications for just 12 places.
All four speakers – Jean Shipman of the University of Utah, Ann Michael of Delta Think, Meredith Adinolfi of Cell Press, and Nick Dormer of Wiley – praised the benefits of mentorship and spoke eloquently about how it had been a critical component of their development.
Adinolfi recalled: ‘My entire publishing career so far has been with one company. Mentorship has played an important role for me. At any level, people have more to learn and gain, and everyone has something that they can teach to other
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