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July 18, 2024
11 AM – 12:15 PM ET
Join us for a free webinar highlighting new and exciting industry innovations. Speakers will present their solutions in brief presentations and take your questions. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about developments in the industry.
Please note that participating companies are responsible for securing speakers and developing content for their presentations. While we would like presenters to represent the diversity of the scholarly publishing workforce, we acknowledge that this may not be fully achieved because of the event structure. All speakers are required to adhere to the SSP Code of Conduct.
Session Moderator:
Dave Myers, CEO, Data Licensing Alliance, Inc.
Webinar Registration Pricing:
Free
Content is sponsored by our presenting organizations.
Participating Companies:
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CloudSource from SirsiDynix
CloudSource is a different approach to not only the management, but the discovery and access of digital resources. Not relying on content subscription revenue for fiscal viability, SirsiDynix can focus its efforts on the end user experience: a discovery interface that connects end users with full text efficiently and intuitively.
Speaker: Maryska Connolly, Director of Partnerships & Communications, CloudSource
Maryska Connolly is the Director of Content Solutions and Partnerships for CloudSource. Her connections with both SirsiDynix employees and customers run deep. Her tenure at SirsiDynix began in 2021, when she joined the company as a Library Relations Manager (LRM). In this role, she represented 74 customer accounts, educating libraries across the United States on system features and functionality and integrating their feedback into future product roadmaps. Prior to joining SirsiDynix, Connolly, who holds a Master of Library and Information Science from Valdosta State University, spent more than a decade working in academic libraries.
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Hum
AI-Generated Taxonomy
Hum’s Alchemist Taxonomy and Tagging Engine reads, analyzes, and understands your content using natural language processing to create a bespoke taxonomy, then applies complete and relevant tags consistently across your full body of content.
Speaker: Richard Bennett, Hum Chief Growth Officer
Richard Bennett is a visionary business leader and Hum's Chief Growth Officer. With 25+ years of sales and marketing experience with both established publishing brands and research technology start-ups, Richard leads Hum’s mission of bringing data and frontier AI to solve the challenges of publishers, societies, and media organizations.
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Silverchair
Silverchair will discuss Sensus Impact, a new community platform to help publishers and funders to quantify the reach and impact of funded research articles.
Speaker: Hannah Heckner Swain, VP Strategic Partnerships, Silverchair
As Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, Hannah Heckner Swain is responsible for working with Silverchair’s clients, prospects, and the industry at large to shape Silverchair’s product vision and roadmap; overseeing the development of Sensus Impact; and managing the Silverchair Universe trusted partner program in addition to other key external partnerships. She has worked within academic publishing for nearly 15 years and has experience with both commercial and non-profit publishing and is a proud Member-at-Large of the Society for Scholarly Publishing Board of Directors and participates on the GetFTR Advisory Board.
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SiteFusion ProConsult
Speaker: Colin O’Neil, Senior Content Solutions Specialist, SiteFusion ProConsult
Colin O’Neil Colin O’Neil is a Senior Content Solutions Specialist at SiteFusion Proconsult. Previously, Colin worked as a Business Analyst then Senior Developer at Oxford University Press. He has worked in all facets of publishing solutions, including CMS development, editorial production, data architecture and XML strategy. Colin has a passion for technology solutions which enable all roles with the best information at the most relevant time.
If your company would like to be featured, contact our Industry Relations Associate Kristen Totaro for more information.
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