2015 SSP 37th Annual Meeting
Opening Remarks by SSP President Howard Ratner…
After Opening Remarks by outgoing SSP President Howard Ratner, Dr. Amy Brand will present the results of a survey examining our profession.
While a great deal has been written about the substantive issues impacting scholarly publishers and their journals, there is a paucity of research about the demographics and education of scholarly publishing and communication professionals. To address this situation, Digital Science, working with Amy Brand of Digital Science, Professor Albert Greco of Fordham University, and a number of professional societies, including the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM), and the Council of Science Editors (CSE) joined forces to distribute a survey to their scholarly communications members in North America and Europe. The goals were to collect basic, anonymous data about individuals in scholarly publishing and communications and to increase the public understanding of our profession. Over 800 responses were received and analyzed and the results of the survey will be presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting.