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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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.
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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 [...]
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