Hundreds helped "Paint the Town Red" and celebrate SSP's 40th Anniversary at a gala event last week in Chicago at the Navy Pier's Lakeview Terrace, complete with music, food and fireworks. Celebrating the big 4 - 0 in a grand fashion SSP members met, drank, danced, and posed for plenty of photos using the event's official... Continue Reading →
40th Anniversary Session: Past Presidents and Founders
The following post contains the introductory remarks from Barbara Meyers Ford duringing a session at the 2018 Annual Meeting discussing past presidents and founders of SSP. The Society for Scholarly Publishing came into being because 3 options of communicating about innovations in publishing were either waning or about to disappear entirely. One was that AAP’s... Continue Reading →
SSP Co-Founder Fred Spilhaus honored at Annual Meeting
During the Awards Luncheon at SSP's 40th Annual Meeting, Barbara Meyers Ford, herself a co-founder of the organization, honored departed co-founder Fred Spilhaus. The content of her remarks on May 31, 2018 are included below. Fred Spilhaus was more than one of the founders, he was a silent supporter of SSP in more ways than... Continue Reading →
View from a Leader: Providing a Network and Knowledge
As President of Informed Strategies, LLC, Judy Luther is a publishing professional leading a team that provides data analysis and market intelligence in support of business decisions and provides a customer-oriented perspective in the design and development of electronic products and services. Her prior experience includes managing sales at the Institute for Scientific Information (now... Continue Reading →
SSP Founding Members Granted Lifetime Membership in honor of #SSPat40
After 40 years, SSP is still going strong after thanks in large part to efforts of the original Board of Directors. In recognition of their impact on the publishing industry, the Board members have been granted an Honorary SSP Lifetime Membership. Name Role Mark Carroll President Anita DeVivo Director E. K. (Woody) Gannett Director Joseph... Continue Reading →
#notfuturecrock! Looking back at SSP ’85 Chicago hype
As we run up to what is looking to be an epic annual meeting in Chicago, we thought we’d look back at other ways SSP meetings in Chicago were positioned. Oh, if only there was Twitter in the mid 80s, #notfuturecrock would surely have its moment. Taken from an earlier talk by Maureen Mitchell, the... Continue Reading →
Throwback Photos: 2009 Annual Meeting
SSP’s 31sat Annual Meeting was held at the Marriott Baltimore Waterfront, Baltimore, MD from May 27-29, 2009. The theme of the meeting was Advancing Scholarly Communities in the Brave Now World. Here's just a sampling of session topics: Keynote: Media Rearchitecting Science: A New Vision and Framework for STM in the 21st Century, Adam Bly, Seed... Continue Reading →