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dthawkins — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:33:44 +0000

Selections from The Scholarly Kitchen’s Dessert Cart

dthawkins — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:31:09 +0000

Traditionally, the closing plenary session of SSP meetings features a summary of topics of interest that have been discussed on SSP’s blog, The Scholarly Kitchen. Kent Anderson, CEO/Publisher of the Journal of Bone [...]

What Publishers Need to Know About Discovery Services

dthawkins — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:02:41 +0000

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Jay Henry from Ringgold led off this session with a discussion of web scale discovery and why it matters, the role of metadata, and an appeal for standards. An improved search interface has always been [...]

An International Update on Policy and Research Shifts: The Friday Plenary Session

dthawkins — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:18:52 +0000

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This panel featured representatives from the UK, Latin America, Japan, and the Middle East answering questions on policy shifts in their regions and emerging opportunities for publishers. Toby Green, the moderator, from the Organization for [...]

Marketing to Individuals: Insights from Pioneers

dthawkins — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 13:47:56 +0000

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Demand-driven acquisition of electronic content (particularly e-books) has resulted in the growth in sales of single titles to consumers, which is a different sales model for publishers. This session discussed some of the issues.

Till [...]

Measure for Measure: The Role of Metrics in Assessing Research Performance

dthawkins — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:37:46 +0000

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Melissa Kenneway from TBI Communications moderated this session on metrics. The old metrics of citation counts and impact factors are being replaced by a number of new ones. In her introduction, Melissa [...]

Sweet Treats in the Exhibit Hall

dthawkins — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 05:13:31 +0000

By Donald T. Hawkins About Me Email Me

The afternoon networking break in the Exhibit Hall featured some sweet treats designed to give attendees a needed energy boost.

All were delicious!

Don Hawkins
Blogging for The Chraleston Group, LLC

Serving an Online Audience with Responsive Design

dthawkins — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 05:08:32 +0000

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Toby Plewak introduced the subject of responsive design.

Several websites with lists of mobile apps from publishers exist. What have we learned from this? Here is what the landscape looks like to a user:

Do [...]

Rethinking and Remixing Content

dthawkins — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:17:19 +0000

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Michael Cairns introduced the session by discussing roles for our content. We must think about it as a strategic asset and the role it can play in our business. We need to set out strategic [...]

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): The Thursday Plenary Session

dthawkins — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:13:42 +0000

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Thursday’s plenary session, “MOOCs: Everybody’s Doing It, But What’s In It For Me?”, featured this panel discussing the rapidly emerging field of MOOCs. David Smith (CABI), the moderator opened with an introduction to MOOCs and [...]

Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall

dthawkins — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:21:38 +0000

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Breakfast was listed on the program as a “Continental Breakfast”, but it was the best Continental Breakfast I have ever seen at a conference–lots of fresh fruit (but this is California, after all!), breads, hot [...]

SSP Opening Session and Keynote Address

dthawkins — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 05:32:00 +0000

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Carol Anne Meyer, SSP President, opened the SSP 2013 conference with the announcement that there are 851 people registered, and over 100 of these are first-time attendees.

Tim O’Reilly presented [...]

Icons of San Francisco

dthawkins — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:40:19 +0000

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I had a little spare time before the conference begins this afternoon, so I went out and took some pictures of well known sights in San Francisco–a wonderful city to visit!

And now, it’s off [...]

SSP Reports Record Advance Registrations for the Upcoming Annual Meeting

dthawkins — Fri, 31 May 2013 16:17:47 +0000

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The SSP Meeting is set to open in Wednesday, June 5 with the keynote address at 4 PM. Below is part of an e-mail that I received reporting a record attendance expected–815 advance registrations!

I [...]

Y’all Come Back!

dthawkins — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:41:39 +0000

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And so another Charleston Conference has drawn to a close. It was highly successful from start to finish. A vote of thanks goes to Katina Strauch, the organizers, sponsors, exhibitors at the Vendor Showcase, and [...]

Hyde Park Corner Debate: The Traditional Research Library is Dead

dthawkins — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:33:56 +0000

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The final session, called “Hyde Park Corer” took the form of a debate on the statement: “The Traditional Research Library is Dead”. Oxford Union-style rules were followed:

The audience was asked to vote “yes” or [...]

The Long Arm of the Law

dthawkins — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:37:46 +0000

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This popular session, now in its 3rd year, reviews recent legal cases impacting libraries.

Library and Archive Users Rights: An International Treaty on Copyright Exceptions and Limitations for Libraries and Archives
Winston Tabb, [...]

Find is Greater Than Search

dthawkins — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 23:30:40 +0000

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This panel conducted an informal conversation (edited transcript below) addressing the questions of whether searchers are really finding what they are looking for and what new technologies are helping them.

How does your organization think [...]

SCOAP3: Living the Dream

dthawkins — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 02:42:45 +0000

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Ann Okerson presented a report on the SCOAP3 project and its current activities.

SCOAP3 is the first project to convert all of the peer-reviewed journals of a discipline to open [...]

Open Access Book Publishing: Case Studies

dthawkins — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 02:29:35 +0000

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Charles Watkinson from Purdue University, moderator, introduced this session by noting that Open Access (OA) books are the next frontier in publishing. How different are they from journals? We need to develop our positions, but [...]