{"id":949,"date":"2017-06-26T11:30:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T11:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/39th-society-for-scholarly-publishing-annual-meeting-2017-conference-report-part-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T11:19:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T11:19:39","slug":"39th-society-for-scholarly-publishing-annual-meeting-2017-conference-report-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/39th-society-for-scholarly-publishing-annual-meeting-2017-conference-report-part-2","title":{"rendered":"39th Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting 2017: Conference report (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the second part of the two-part series where Sneha Kulkarni, Managing editor,\u00a0Editage Insights, attended the\u00a039th\u00a0annual meeting of Society for Scholarly Publishing\u00a0in Boston, USA, accompanied by\u00a0Nikesh Gosalia, Director, Academic and Publisher Relations, Editage, and Donald Samulack, President, US Operations, Editage. This is Sneha’s personal account of the three-day event. Please read the first part<\/a> of her post.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The next two days of the conference were as buzzing with sessions, networking breaks, and conversations as the first one.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Day 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

The day\u2019s sessions began with the keynote by Jeffrey Mervis, who is reporter and editor at Science magazine. His talk focused on one of the topics that is widely being discussed across the globe \u2013 Trump\u2019s science policies and the impact of his appointment on the future of science. Jeffrey pointed out the inadequacies in Trump\u2019s administration, such as the lack of interest in staffing up the working government. He also emphasized the need for academics to find ways to ensure responsible changes. The keynote was followed by a very interactive question and answer session with several participants discussing their views on how Trump could provide better opportunities to researchers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Soon after this, the day\u2019s sessions began. I st<\/span>arted off by attending the session Breaking free of the platform: Journals leveraging distributed web technology<\/em>. The panelists comprised representatives of technology companies and not-for-profit initiatives such as eLife, TrendMD, Hypothes.is<\/span>, Open Science Framework, Public Knowledge Project, and Collaborative Knowledge Foundation. They drew the attendees\u2019 attention to how technology is changing the ways users are accessing content, which means\u00a0that there is a need to explore new platforms that cater to the newer user needs. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Following this interesting session was the talk I was looking forward to:\u00a0Defining impact: Views from across the research ecosystem<\/em>.\u00a0The panelists discussed questions such as: What are important signals of impact? Which metrics matter when defining success for researchers, publishers, and other organizations across the research ecosystem? This was indeed a\u00a0great session! The final session of the day was Meet the user (personas)<\/em>\u00a0in which I understood the importance of knowing your users and defining them through different personas. Interestingly,\u00a0Deirdre Costello, Principal UX Researcher at EBSCO Information Services, who was one of the panelists, explained the personas using characters from the popular Harry Potter books!<\/p>\n

Since the last activity for the day involved\u00a0networking at the exhibitors\u2019<\/span>\u00a0marketplace, I headed to the Editage booth and engaged with everyone who stopped by to know more about our services and also about the survey results that Don presented the previous day. All in all, the second day was very fruitful!\u00a0<\/p>\n