The closing date for applications is March 27th.
Society for Scholarly Publishing: 2013 Annual Meeting and Travel Grants
SSP Conference Travel Grant Program
If
you are a student in a publishing or library/information science
program, or have been working in this field for three years or less,
please consider applying for a grant to
attend the SSP Annual Meeting (see details below). If you¹re not a
potential candidate, but know someone who is, please share this
announcement with your fellow-student, colleague, or protégé.
SSP's
2013 travel grant program has grants for up to 14 successful
applicants. The awards will support travel to and attendance at SSP¹s
35th Annual Meeting, to be held June 5-7 in
San Francisco, CA, as well as SSP membership for 2013. The travel
grant program is designed to introduce students of publishing and
information science and early career publishing professionals to the
many educational and networking opportunities available
at the popular and informative SSP annual meeting.
Successful
applicants will be granted free registration at the Annual Meeting and
will be eligible for reimbursement of up to $1,000 for travel and
lodging expenses incurred to
attend the meeting. Higher rates of reimbursement are available for
applicants located overseas, and the Society offers special
encouragement to applicants from outside North America.
Applications must be completed online; see the link to the online form at
The application deadline is Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Grant awardees will be selected and notified by the first week in April.
The
SSP Board has developed several supporting programs that will help
grant awardees optimize their experience. Awardees will be paired with
mentors who hold senior management
positions within SSP member organizations. Mentors will help grantees
plug into the educational and networking opportunities available at the
Annual Meeting. Additionally, the meeting program will offer several
opportunities designed to engage those who are
relatively new to the industry.
SSP Annual Meeting 2013: “Surviving (and Thriving!) in Our Multi-Access World: Navigating
the New Publishing Paradigm”
June 5 – 7, 2013 San Francisco Marriott Marquis, San Francisco, California
Meeting Highlights
- Opening Keynote Speaker: Tim O’Reilly on June 5th
- Two Plenary Sessions:
- A group of experts on the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) who will review how these are transforming scholarly communication on June 6th
- An international panel who will discuss policy shifts in their regions and emerging opportunities for publishers on June 7th
25 concurrent sessions divided over 5 tracks, which will include:
- Business models — panels on article-level metrics, Open Access, Academic Social Networking Platforms, digital textbooks, and remixing content
- Sales and marketing — including panels on metrics 2.0, altmetrics, discovery services
- Technology — panels on mobile, responsive design, enhancing discoverability of book content
- Workflow/production — panels on HTML, future of peer review, metadata management, automating rights and permissions, accessibility challenges
- Global outreach — panels on reaching a global audience, digital publishing in China, and models for non-profit publishing from around the world
For more details of session abstracts, speakers, and hotel details, see http://www.sspnet.org/
SSP is a dynamic membership organization, working to advance the development of members through education and networking.
Sincerely,
Will Wakeling,
Chair, SSP Travel Grants Committee
