By Bill Kasdorf, VP, Apex—There’s a lot of excitement about the new EPUB 3 format (an official recommendation of the IDPF, the International Digital Publishing Forum, as of October 11, 2011)—as there should be. It’s a major advance that was designed to bring …
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) announces the 2011 recipients of two prestigious awards. Eileen Kiley Novak (MRS) and David Smith (CABI) each received the SSP Appreciation Award and Kent Anderson (JBJS) is the recipient the SSP Distinguished Service Award. First …
Dear Colleagues, As fall finally arrives on the East Coast, we can look ahead to SSP’s upcoming learning opportunities and back a bit to IN Conference 2011. Learning at Fall Seminars: Coming November 8th and 9th Your opportunities for learning …
Dear Colleagues, I hope that my first President’s Letter finds you enjoying the remaining weeks of summer-one that many of us will be remembering for years as the longest, hottest one we have experienced. While many of us have been …
By Jean Pugh Shipman—Questions were a-flyin’ and the room was a-buzzin’ with lively conversation when eight librarians were asked their opinions about many topics by about 60 publishers, editors, and fellow librarians at the SSP 2011 Annual Meeting session entitled …
Wheat Ridge, Colorado – The Society for Scholarly Publishing is pleased to announce the results of its election of new officers for 2011-2012: President-Elect: Carol Anne Meyer Manager of Business Development and Marketing, CrossRef Treasurer: Todd Carpenter Manager Director, National Information …
By Norman Frankel, Organizational Collaboration Committee Cochair—SSP, along with other important players in the STM world, participates in the Chicago Collaborative (CC). The CC, established in May 2008, is a working group of representatives from key science, technology, and medicine …
By Todd Carpenter, NISO Managing Director—Our world is increasingly interconnected, and information distribution—even in the scholarly landscape—can take a variety of forms, from print to audio and video. Unambiguously identifying the content creator and then linking the content object to …
By Bill Kasdorf, VP, Apex Content Solutions and SSP Past President—We’re at a key inflection point in the evolution of standards that are important to many of us in scholarly publishing. As it happens, each of the “big three” models …
By Terry Van Schaik, President-Elect and Senior Director & Publisher, Journal Publications, American Society of Clinical Oncology—The SSP Board of Directors and several 2010–2011 committee chairs used the September 21, 2010, meeting to consider the long-range planning needs of the …
The Scholarly Kitchen
