Reimagining the Future of Scholarly Publishing at the Intersection of Value and Values
Although every year in the scholarly publishing ecosystem is a balancing act of innovation, optimization, and value creation, 2025 is shaping up to be particularly challenging as the pace and scale of change is accelerating more than we’ve ever seen before. There is increasing pressure to provide value to and to meet the incredibly diverse needs of the global research community while maintaining financial health for our own organizations, living our values, and continuing to protect the scholarly record. With AI, open access, integrity, and mistrust frequently dominating the conversation, we are in the midst of an unprecedented shift in both our industry and society as a whole.
As always, the SSP community continues to focus on bringing together academics, funders, librarians, publishers, service providers, technologists, researchers and countless others with a communal interest and stake in disseminating scholarly information. We look to the 47th Annual Meeting as an opportunity to continue this tradition and welcome all colleagues and community stakeholders.
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Proposed Topics
We have identified a number of topics we think attendees will find of high interest. We seek proposals encompassing all aspects of scholarly publishing, from STEM subjects to the humanities and social sciences, and from journals and books to the many other diverse formats that our community publishes. When you submit your proposal, you’ll be asked to select the topic most closely aligned with your proposed session.
- Real-World Results & Tangible Outcomes: Our community is highly innovative and many organizations have been working on exciting projects related to many of the topics we expect proposals on. We see great value in sharing real-world examples of projects and results that have had tangible outcomes over the past year.
- Career Advancement: One of the most exciting things about our quickly changing landscape is how many opportunities are and will continue to open up in emerging and maturing fields. We expect new trends around career advancement at all stages: what new skills are needed to advance careers in our industry today and what resources can our community rely on?
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Artificial Intelligence: Cure or curse, there’s no denying the transformational impact that AI will have on scholarly communication over the next few years. Session proposals showcasing new opportunities and/or debating the significant challenges ahead are encouraged.
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Globalization: How do we balance the need to be more inclusive and engage a broader range of global stakeholders while recognising that current publishing models are driven by decision makers in traditional markets?
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Publishing Impact: While journal impact factors have long been a proxy for signaling quality, the shifting dynamics of the industry provide a timely opportunity to evaluate the impact scholarly publishers want to have on the communities we serve.
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Open Scholarship: The open scholarship movement is a disruptor that is re-shaping much of the infrastructure and workflows that underpins scholarly communications. We’re interested in proposals examining the impact and potential future directions of open scholarship.
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Publishing Models: The sharing of research content is at the heart of our community. We continue to see the evolution around content distribution and dissemination, and value the experiences and thoughts of colleagues in exploring varying models.
Not seeing your topic listed? Don’t despair. We are open to ideas for additional topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, change management, editorial and production issues, humanities and social sciences, librarian-focused sessions, networking, sales and marketing, professional development, society publishers, sustainability, university presses, and more. And if you’re still not sure, note that your ideas for topic areas are always welcome!
Submission Process for 2025
SSP is using Ex Ordo for abstract submissions. A big and sincere THANK YOU to Ex Ordo for their sponsorship of SSP’s proposal submission system!
Four possible session proposal options are offered as part of the submission process as follows. Submitters must select their session type at the beginning of the submission process for each proposal. You are permitted to submit more than one proposal of one or more types.