2005 SSP 27th Annual Meeting
Seminar 5 – New Trends in Outsourcing
The cost savings and increased efficiency publishers have experienced for many years by outsourcing tasks such as proofreading, typesetting, and distribution have encouraged experimentation. New electronic publishing functions like online hosting and e-archiving are often performed out of house, and even core activities like rights and permissions are handled increasingly by external vendors. But even in this brave new world, the same old problems of choosing the right partner and maintaining a positive atmosphere remain the same. In this seminar publishers and vendors explore outsourcing relationships in production, rights and permission, online hosting, electronic archiving, and customer services / fulfillment. They offer case studies of how they chose their partners, and suggest what questions should be asked, and answered, when outsourcing new areas.
Speakers
Eileen Fenton
Eileen Fenton is the founding Executive Director of Portico, a not-for-profit organization which provides a permanent archive of electronic scholarly literature. Since Portico began operations in 2006 nearly 7,400 journals from 50 publishers have been committed to the archive and more than 6 million articles have been preserved.
Previously Eileen was Director of Production at JSTOR, where she oversaw the addition of more than 13 million pages to the archival collection. She has also worked in various positions at the Vanderbilt and Yale University libraries.
Eileen is a librarian and earned her Masters of Science in Information from the University of Michigan and a Master of Arts in English Literature from the University of Kentucky.
John Strange
Frank Stumpf
Charles Watkinson
Charles Watkinson is Director of Purdue University Press, a unit of Purdue University Libraries. He previously worked as Director of Publications at the American School of Classical Studies in Princeton, NJ. He has over 15 years experience in various scholarly publishing roles including management jobs in book distribution, marketing, and bookselling. By background an archaeologist, he also has extensive fieldwork experience in the Mediterranean region and has written and published on subjects related to the ancient world and on digital data. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Society for Scholarly Publishing and a member of the Library Relations Committee of the Association of American University Presses. He is currently working on an IMLS-funded research project on strategies for success in library-based publishing, in collaboration with colleagues from Georgia Tech and University of Utah, as well as Purdue.
Rebecca McLeod
Patricia Shaffer
