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2005 SSP 27th Annual Meeting

Concurrent 1A – What Are Scholarly Publishers Good For?

In the past decade publishers and librarians have come to coexist with and even accept significant changes in STM publishing, from the rapid expansion of on-line publishing to open access. These changes and challenges lead some to ask what value we bring to STM publishing and what opportunities exist to employ our unique skills and experience to expand the services, products, and value we offer our customers and patrons. The panelists will explore innovations in STM publishing that are responses to changes to the publishing model and will predict innovative responses yet to come.

Speakers

Mary Waltham
Mary Waltham founded her own consulting company (www.MaryWaltham.com) in 1999 to help scholarly publishers confront the rapid change that the networked economy poses to their business models and to develop new opportunities to build publications that deliver outstanding scientific and economic value.

Prior to creating her company, Mary was President and Publisher for Nature and the nature family of journals in the U.S. Earlier she was Managing Director and Publisher of The Lancet.

Mary has worked at a senior executive level in science and medical publishing companies across a range of media, which includes textbooks, magazines, newsletters, journals, and open learning materials.

A graduate in biology from QMC, University of London, Mary received her education in business administration at Henley.

Mary lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Lynne Herndon
Mark Mandelbaum
David Stern