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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

By Donald T. Hawkins About Me Email Me

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

By Donald T. Hawkins About Me Email Me

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

By Donald T. Hawkins About Me Email Me

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

By Donald T. Hawkins About Me Email Me

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

By Donald T. Hawkins About Me Email Me

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

By Donald T. Hawkins About Me Email Me

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

By Donald T. Hawkins About Me Email Me

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 [...]

Caught My Eye 6/6/13

gilsont — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 23:49:03 +0000

Publishers Propose Public-Private Partnership to Support Access to Research is a piece by Jennifer Howard in the Chronicle of Higher Education that reports on the formation of CHORUS (the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States). In the article, CHORUS is described as “a publisher-run partnership” that would employ “existing infrastructure [...]

Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall

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

By Donald T. Hawkins About Me Email Me

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

By Donald T. Hawkins About Me Email Me

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

By Donald T. Hawkins About Me Email Me

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 [...]

Caught My Eye 6/4/13

gilsont — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:07:55 +0000

Shared Governance and Library Faculty: Jazzing Academic Community appeared in ACRLog and is a guest post from Sue Wiegand, Periodicals Librarian at St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN. Sue recounts her experience as the first librarian to serve as Chair of her Faculty Assembly and in the process touches on issues [...]

SSP Reports Record Advance Registrations for the Upcoming Annual Meeting

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

By Donald T. Hawkins About Me Email Me

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 [...]

Coming Soon – Out and About: Don’s Conference Notes

hindsl — Thu, 30 May 2013 13:48:37 +0000

By Donald T. Hawkins About Me Email Me

Coming soon: Coverage of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) conference, June 5-7, by Donald T. Hawkins.

Keynote speaker: Tim O’Reilly, CEO, O’Reilly Media.
Conference theme: Surviving (and Thriving!) in Our [...]

Caught My Eye 5/13/13

gilsont — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:12:08 +0000

Here are a few item from Publishing Perspectives; Magellan Media; Washington State University; JISC and LibraryScienceList.com we thought you might finding of interest.

Big Data and MOOCs Herald Change for Academic Publishers According to this article from Publishing Perspectives “big Data, MOOCs and author/researcher tools were the main themes [...]

Caught My Eye 4/17/13

gilsont — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:41:28 +0000

Here is an eclectic list of recent publications that includes an editorial in a local newspaper in Steamboat Springs, CO; a report in the NY Times on academic conferences and journals; a SPARC primer on article level metrics; a presentation made at the ISIC: The Information Behaviour Conference; and a white paper sponsored by [...]

Caught My Eye: Southern Exposure – Trendy Charleston Restaurants

gilsont — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:24:41 +0000

We just posted the Call for Papers for the 2013 Charleston Conference so the timing couldn’t be better for this New York Times “Southern Exposure” article by Charleston culinary experts Matt and Ted Lee.

Matt and Ted highlight six trendy, must visit restaurants starting with James Beard Award-winning Chef [...]