The Society for Scholarly Publishing is holding their 40th annual meeting May 30-June 1, 2018 in Chicago. It seems fitting as they are celebrating theirs 40th anniversary that the theme for the conference – Scholarly Publishing at the Crossroads: What’s working, what’s holding us back, where do we go from here? – highlights the many crossroads within scholarly publishing, including past and future practices, changing revenue models, funding challenges, regulation changes, technological innovations, and reaching new markets while maintaining established ones.
They just recently announced their keynote speakers. On Wednesday, May 30, Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble will be presenting Toward an Ethic of Social Justice in Information. Noble is an assistant professor at the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communication.
On Thursday, May 31st, Steve Mirsky will be presenting How Cialdini’s Six Principles of Persuasion Can Help Us Transform Scholarly Communication. Mirsky has been an editor and columnist for Scientific American since 1995.
Learn more about the meeting and register today to hear from all the session leaders and keynotes.
Melody K. Smith
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