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Hi, everyone. Welcome to the SSP awards. Lunch and business lunch. It's great to have you here. I appreciate your patience with us as the waiters are moving around. We have a lot we want to cover. We want to make sure we have plenty of time to do that.
But before we get started, a little quick housekeeping. There is a lost iPhone at the registration desk. So the first person to run out of the room right now may have a lucky day. So we're going to go ahead and get started with our land acknowledgment. Indigenous tribes and bands have been with the lands that we inhabit today throughout Oregon and the Northwest since time immemorial and continue to be a vibrant part of Oregon today.
We would like to express our respect to the first peoples of this land, the nine federally recognized tribes of Oregon. It is important that we recognize and honor the ongoing legal and spiritual relationship between the land plants, animals and people Indigenous to this place we now call Oregon. The interconnectedness of these people, the land and the natural environment cannot be overstated.
The health of one is necessary for the health of all. We recognize the pre-existing and continued sovereignty of the nine federally recognized tribes who have ties to this place and Thank them for continuing to share their traditional ecological knowledge and perspective on how we might care for one another and the land. So it can take care of us. We commit to engaging in a respectful and successful partnership as stewards of these lands.
All right. This is it. What an extraordinary year it has been. I'm truly honored to have served as the president of SSP. The progress and achievements we have witnessed are a direct result of the unwavering dedication and commitment demonstrated by our members. The remarkable SSP staff and our invaluable sponsors. So at the heart of our organization are our core values, community adaptability, inclusivity, and integrity.
As our committees convene this year. One of the things that we did was they began each meeting by presenting the code of conduct, by presenting the core values and the code of conduct. The board recently took on a significant step by voting to update our code of conduct, fostering transparency in the process, and reaffirming SSPS unwavering commitment to supporting equitable opportunities and respectful treatment for all participants in all of our activities.
In addition, starting in 2022, our liaisons from our diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility committee became embedded in all SSP activities to provide feedback and consultation on a number of different initiatives from the annual meeting to the career development, finance and awards and nominations to make them more inclusive and accessible, giving us all a lot to be proud of.
So I'd like to Thank everyone from the committee for everything they've done so far this year. Thank you. So SSP is a resource. It's designed to ensure that we're equipped with the information to do our jobs better. Within SSP, we have almost everything in place and I say almost because today we may not know what challenges lie ahead.
But one thing is certain SSP possesses the foundation exceptional members and steadfast leadership to support our industry and its future challenges. I'm too short. I can't see the sign. Our mission is to advance scholarly publishing. And we do this in so many ways, from the meetings that you all are attending to the webinars, to the scholarly kitchen, our regional events, and most importantly, supporting and advancing the careers of our members no matter their career level.
I've used the analogy of a ship often paying homage to our original founders and recognizing the work they put in Plank by plank, committee by committee to form the SSP. We all know and value now, but I was recently reminded that while it's important to stay the course, it's also important to look ahead. And prepare for the challenges over the horizon. And like the theme of this meeting, SSP has become a place to embrace transformation and instill trust and transparency in the publishing process.
All right. So here's where you guys get to come in. So my question to all of you today is, what role do you play in advancing scholarly publishing and communications? So we'll start there. I love that picture. So quick raise of hands. Since we're all eating.
I don't want to interrupt too much, but are you a member of ssp? Oh, that's great. So you're one of 1095 members from 29 countries, 79 organizations. And one of 600 in-person here today and 100 virtual attendees at the meeting. So thank you for being a part.
Have you ever visited the member exchange or the C3 online community or read an article in the scholarly kitchen? Yes, I knew that was going to be a great one. So your visit was one of 10,000 to the C3 community last year. You engaged in more than 58 discussions and countless committee conversations in the member exchange on topics ranging from ethics and publishing to ChatGPT to who's headed out to the next regional meetup.
Yeah, I heard about New York. If you visited the scholarly kitchen, there's a good chance that you read Roy Kaufman's post. Github is sued and we may learn something about Creative Commons licensing that that post has been viewed more than 27,000 times. Or perhaps you're one of the 153 members who have joined a communities of interest network coin. We have two active groups the humanities and the social sciences, and the other for early careerists.
If you are not a member and you'd be interested in becoming a part of a peer to peer community to share interest concerns with goals of advancing their community and their collective understanding, I encourage you to visit the exhibit hall in the SSP booth. OK, here's a really be honest. Have you ever wondered what your next career step should be? Honestly really?
That's it. Everybody's good. Yeah, I don't think that's true because of this, SSP has their SSP Career Center has posted 101 jobs last year, and now we have more than 120 professionals and new in 2023, Thanks to the amazing staff, you can dive into profiles by career, stage and industry areas. So for those of you who are so busy eating and couldn't raise your hand, you have some visiting to do on the website.
Our early career subcommittee has released 13 podcasts that have been downloaded more than 25,000 times. Our fellowship program that, Thanks to the generations fund, will continue to offer. A wide range of career development, training and network opportunities has supported more than 159 Fellows with our newest class of 16 being honored today.
And I could have made this one the question. But it's just so many of you have been involved. So I just want to give everybody give yourself a quick applause. The mentorship program has served 693 participants since starting in 2017 from 28 countries, and our publishing skills map has been viewed more than 2,400 times. So thank you for everyone who's participating in those programs.
So have you missed anything in the last few years? Have you been busy and missed that webinar? Have you said saw something and you said you really wanted to share it with the colleague? So over the past decade, the SSP Education Committee has successfully hosted 64 webinars and our members have access to these webinars as well as other valuable content from our seminars, workshops and the annual meetings on the SSP on demand and the SSP.
Archived YouTube site. All right. So what's next? Lot going on, right? So we look forward to the work of some of our newest projects, starting with the global perspective task force, which was created last year to audit and understand and share how SSP can better engage in our global community. Scholarly publishing position reference directory, which will be created to allow a collaboration between SSP with the collaboration between SSP and the Association of University Presses received over 1,300 job descriptions over the last year.
Thank you to all who shared to create a first of its kind reference that charts positions, descriptions and career paths in our industry. You can look out for the journals Academy that will be launching this summer to provide training for those new to our industry or those looking to update their skills. Something here that I don't have in my slide. Our Finance Committee is actually looking at our investments to find ways to align our core values with our investments.
We're also exploring the creation of a taxonomy that will allow us to better integrate all of the SSP content across the various platforms. And you'll see the QR code on the screen. As a member of the Coalition for diversity and inclusion in scholarly communication or disc, SSP members have actively participated and supported its efforts to discuss and address issues of diversity and inclusion within our industry.
Much of this work is done through surveys. I'd like to extend a personal invitation for all of you to participate in the recently released workplace equity survey. To begin the survey, you can follow the QR code on the screen, or you can look for additional information and the remember newsletter or post it on the Scholarly Kitchen. So if you were able to pick up your iPhone from the registration desk, you should be able to use it to complete the survey.
So lastly, I just want to say a quick Thank you to everyone who has worked to bring all these together. I'm so impressed with the work of our committees and the work of our volunteers. Their thought, leadership, motivation and commitment to our industry is inspiring. Volunteering is a way to extend your skill set. There's a lot that you get out of volunteering, but there's a lot we get out of you volunteering.
So if you have volunteered to help put these meetings together, if you happen to be a performer in the metadata musical, I just want to Thank you for everything and it's been really my pleasure and my honor to watch you all work this year. So with that, we're going to move on to our finance presentation. All right.
Looked really hard for the funny treasurer joke. I can't find one, so stay tuned for next year. But I'm Emily Dalkey. I'm the treasurer for SSB. This is my third year and today I wanted to give you a little bit of context about the numbers of the financials for SSB. And just so you know, the financials for SSB and the annual report are available to the members at any point.
So if at any point during the year, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out to me. So the last three years were very unusual for everybody, including us, in 2020. We had to cancel our meeting to switch to an online virtual meeting, not almost at the last minute, but on short notice. 2021 we delivered a completely virtual meeting, and then last year, we were back in person in Chicago, where we had a great, very well attended meeting in person and we added on a virtual component to it.
So to explain some of the numbers that are behind you, bringing the annual meeting back in person meant and having the virtual component as well meant that some of the cost and some of the revenues were not quite in line with what we had experienced in the past. And so that definitely put a little bit of pressure on our budget. We were completely expecting it, so there were no surprises there.
But it does explain some of the numbers you're seeing. And then the other big, big component was a lot of our reserve is placed in the stock market. And in 2022, there was a ton of volatility in the stock market. And so a lot of the decrease that you see in the assets there really comes mostly from the stock market. So once again, it's all changes that were unexpected, but we were planning for. So we ended up entering 2023 really confident with our finances.
We feel we're definitely in a good position, and we have a renewed commitment to all of our initiatives and to growing and continue to maintain all the fantastic initiatives behind all the initiatives we have on to boost all of our revenue streams. So, um, yeah, like I said, if anybody has any questions, all these numbers are available to all the SSP members, so don't hesitate to reach out to me. And then finally, a lot of this work and all these financial results are really due to all the hard work and very sound decisions that Melanie and the SSP, SSP staff are making on a regular basis and all the volunteers involved.
So thank you, everyone. Hello, I'm Melanie dolecek. I'm the executive director for SSB. All of the work, all of the programs that you've heard about today would not be possible without the support of many organizations and many individuals within our industry. We want to recognize some of those folks now.
First and foremost, this meeting is very much supported by our sponsors. And so if you work for us, for one of our sponsor organizations, please stand up and be recognized. Now Thank you so much for your support. Past presidents. There have been a number of many amazing leaders at the helm of SSP through the years.
We want to recognize our past presidents. So if you are a past president, please stand and be recognized. And we also want to recognize our founding board members. I don't believe any of them are here today. If I'm missing you, shout out. But these are the important, folks, that really started this organization back in 1978 and who we have to Thank for all of this great experience and networking and community that we have today.
Our committees and task forces are absolutely the lifeblood of this organization. It's how so much gets done. We have more than 250 volunteers at this time. I'd like our committee and task force chairs to stand and be recognized. And please stand, continue to stand chairs.
And we would like committee members and task force members to stand and be recognized. And look around and see how many people are standing up. This organization is successful because of the work of these volunteers and their dedication. Our publications team, David Crotty, the executive editor of The scholarly kitchen, DeAndre Roberts, associate editor, the new learned publishing, North American editor, Michelle herberg, and the Scholarly Kitchen associate editor Angela Cochran do a tremendous amount of work to make sure that you have the latest information available to you about industry information.
So let's give them a hand over, round of applause as well. And our officers, board of directors, officers for 2022, 2023 are president Miranda walker, Randy Townsend, President-elect Emily delk, secretary, treasurer and Alice Meadows past president. Please give them around of applause. And our 2022, 2023 board members at large include Meredith adinolfi, Sean McDonough, Gabe harp, Hannah heckner secunda, Charlotte roe, Sarah Rui and tau tau.
Please stand to be recognized. All right. So if you attended the poster session earlier, you got a little blue ticket and now is the time to pull out that blue ticket because we're going to award $550 piles of books, gift cards. So thank you to all of you that attended the poster session.
You do have to be present to win. So I'm going to call out a couple of numbers. If you have the number, give out a shout. You'll come up here to see Natalie at the edge of the stage here to collect your gift card. So I'm going to draw for those now. All right. The first ticket number is 919161.
One six. One of the last three numbers. Anyone? all right. Somebody missed out. Lucky for the rest of you. All right. Last three numbers. 165 all right, we have a winner.
All right. Next 1147. All right. Come on up and see Natalie. All right. 117 but you have 117. All right.
Two more. One, four, five. Yeah come on up. All right. Last one. One to 1. One to 1.
Anyone? going once. Going twice. All right. One more chance. 015 015. All right. Excellent I'm going to hand hand it back to Miranda.
Thank you and congratulations to the winners. So this is the time where we take a moment to recognize the importance and valued staff of SSP. We have such a unique collection and I still hear me say this all the time. A lot of societies don't have the benefit of having staff who are really a part of their community, even before they join the staff.
We have an amazing staff and I just want to make it take a minute to acknowledge Jacqueline Lloyd, Susan Patton, Madeline stone, Tracy Mitchell, Kristen tartaro, Natalie zundel and Melanie delacourt. I want to talk about Sarah Andrews. We want to take a moment to remember her as she was an SSP member and influential volunteer that passed away this year.
Sarah Andrews was an executive publisher at Mary Ann Liebert since 2021 and previously worked at Oxford University Press and Wiley. She co-authored the book leading from the middle, a resource that shares empowering messages to help readers take control of their environment by seeing themselves as actionable leaders today. She worried greatly about the decline of science and popular discourse, and her diligent work to support important research will be her legacy.
A member of SSP since 2019. Sara was an active volunteer for the career development committee and the joint task force for career progression. She was an integral part of the development of SSP publishing skills map. Sara graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's in linguistics and from NYU Stern business school with an MBA in strategy and global business. So I just want to take a moment to recognize her accomplishments.
So now we get to recognize the people who have been meeting regularly and tackling the problems and challenges and opportunities within SSP. So I'd like to welcome to the stage Meredith. Am I slaughtering your name? Because I'm tired. I'm sorry. Meredith so I kind of. Gabriel harp and Alice Meadows.
Well, let's take a picture. Everybody I came in the wrong direction. OK stand over there by the. By the dock. You got him? All right. Thank you.
Thank you. And now I'd like to introduce and invite to the stage our incoming members at large Denita snow, Simon Holt elsevier, Gail Fitzpatrick, pnas, Emily delich, treasurer and our president elect, and Broadway extraordinaire Heather Staines.
Delta Thank. Yeah Thank you.
OK, here's the fun part. So now I have the opportunity. I've had the opportunity to work closely with Randy Townsend over the last few years with SSP initiatives, and I had the opportunity to witness firsthand his unwavering commitment to the mission of SSP and our core values. His dedication to advancing scholarly publishing and supporting those of us who have chosen to explore this industry is truly remarkable and inspiring.
Scholarly Kitchen. Scholarly publishing is on a transformative journey, and I'm confident that Randy will navigate us through the adventures ahead. So with that, your new president of SSP, Randy Townsend. Thank you. Miranda Perez, you've been such an inspiration to me and so many at SSP.
I am truly honored to follow in your footsteps. I've learned from your leadership and I'm grateful for your unselfish friendship. I'm excuse me.
When Melanie Miranda said I could say a few words, my face lit up. And when they said I could have a few slides, I almost lost it. For those that don't know, I can definitely be death by PowerPoint. But I promise to only have three slides today. And I wanted to start with the SSP vision statement. SSP will be recognized by members in the global publishing community as the first place to turn for information and dialogue on current and emerging issues in scholarly communication.
I see this from two perspectives. The first speaks to reputation. That recognition piece for people who are not yet members of SSP or those who are attending SSP for the very first time. These are the things that we want you to know about us. But we hope you take away, reflect and grow with that vision is aspirational and we must live up to it.
Which brings me to the second perspective, which is how we see ourselves. The internal self love. How we find motivation and purpose. We are part dreamer, part Explorer. We are both practical and whimsical. You don't always have the answers because we're venturing into new territories. We have the right balance to navigate the waters.
SSPS core values serve as the moral compass that guides us in our shared vision is our North Star. There is no vision. The people perish. SSP is an organization of visionaries from the committee members to the committee chairs to the board members, the staff. Those of us in this room and those of us watching remotely. The path ahead may be cloudy at times, but our vision remains very clear.
I'd like to add my voice to that vision for just a few minutes. I call it my sixth sense of honor your individual journey. Everyone's story is a little bit different, and what you had to get through to get here is unique and special. It may have been a bumpy road with unexpected twists. Hopefully every bump made you a little wiser. Each twist helped to expand your perspective.
Cherish the relationships that you make in your involvement with SSP. SPS is made up of special people that will influence your lives in unexpected ways. Our shared experiences create lifelong bonds that enrich our careers. Remain curious and excited about scholarly communications. It seems like it's evolving so fast. Dare to ask the questions that help shape the direction.
How do we protect our content? How do we demonstrate inclusive practices? How do we fortify our business? Celebrate the small victories. A seed doesn't automatically become fruit. There's a process that includes the right elements, the proper attention and care. Along the way. Be sure to recognize the progress being made.
Find reasons to laugh. There are times when things become difficult and heavy. Don't allow every day to be difficult and heavy. There is joy in the smallest of things. And don't be afraid to change. Know your own personal core values and allow them to frame the vision you have for yourselves. Even small change adds up.
And finally, I want to touch on something that's been on my mind. Mental health. We see heartbreaking stories in the news or experienced tragedy and trauma and hyperactive ways. We've been processing events in the dispersed world, and as incoming president, I don't want to wait until tragedy finds its way into our community until I speak to this.
I realized that many of us suffer in silence. We meet our own voices for various reasons. This resonates with anybody within the sound of my voice. Please hear me. You are not alone. You are part of a society that values your voice, that Welcome to your light, and that is better because of you. Baby steps are still steps. And if the world seems too heavy, put something engaging in front of you.
Volunteer for an SSP committee Follow a thread on C three. Take the workplace equity survey. Run the generations fund five-k. Comment on a post in the Scholarly Kitchen and if none of that works, send me an email and let's talk. Shop for those that like to talk, shop with me. You we can talk all day. I know a lot of people in this room would say the same thing or just do it without having to say it.
As Miranda said in the land, acknowledgment the health of one is necessary for the health of all. Nelson Mandela said, what counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made in the lives of others. One thing I love most about SSP is the difference that we make in each other's lives. We inspire, we challenge. We laugh.
We learn. And we teach. We make a difference? Thank you. SSP is an organization committed to leadership and workforce development and ensuring those leaders in our workforce are diverse and inclusive. That's why we launched the generations fund.
Here's more about the important initiative and messages from the individuals and organizations who have made a gift so far. The generation band was established in 2020 with the mandate to provide sustainable funding for SSPS mentorship and fellowship programs, as well as its initiatives.
This is an endowment with a goal of raising $500,000 and we are more than halfway to our goal. More than 300 generous SSP members and industry partners have supported the generations fund. The fund is truly a collective effort of philanthropy to ensure a strong and diverse future for scholarly communications. SSP is grateful for and humbled by the generosity of spirit in our community.
We look forward to reaching our goal. And sharing the impact of your long term investment. So SSP, its programming, its events, community are all extremely important to Silverchair and the mission of the fund in supporting diverse and strong future for our industry is extremely important as we look to ensure that we have the best possible chance at navigating the constant stream of change with a really robust community.
We have to have diverse voices and opinions if we want to have meaningful conversations in our community. Plus, the fellowship program is such a fantastic opportunity to open doors early on to rising stars in our industry. So important to SSP for recognizing this and for leading this important fundraising effort. I was honored to be part of the group that established SSP generations fund a few years ago and am enthusiastically continuing to support it.
Each year I happily support the generations fund. Do I do that? I do that because throughout my career SSP meant so much to me, provided me with mentorship and tools and training, and I want to ensure these are in place for those that are early career folks now and in the generations to come. I donated to the fund both in terms of time and substance because I think it's hugely important that we bring new folks into our industry and support early career professionals as well.
It is literally the future of scholarly publishing. So why delivering support? SSP generations? One of the two reasons. Firstly, because we directly benefit from the programs it supports. We recently hired one of the previous SSP Fellows. I benefited greatly from my participation as a mentor in the mentoring program.
Secondly, and more importantly, we need to be intentional. Investing in the future of our industry and our organizations does not happen by default. It happens because we explicitly choose to do so. And I support the generations fund because I've benefited immensely from being part of the SSP community. And so many people who feel the same way.
And want to make sure that that continues to be the case into the future. I think it's also incredibly important that we have a fund like the generations fund that will support a diverse range of future participants and leaders in our organization to ensure that we remain strong and relevant and inclusive and ultimately ensure our success as an organization, but also success in the wider telecommunications community and.
The generations fund is really important for everybody to contribute to. You don't have to contribute a huge amount. If you do have a huge amount, please, that would be welcome. But I think everybody should at least give a small amount, whatever you can to the generations fund. You know, I can tell you that as an early career person, a very early career person, 40 years, 40 some years ago, there's never been a more important thing in my whole career than SSP.
And it still is to this day. And it's not just folks like me that are important. It's the younger people and the more diverse group of people that make all the difference in making SSP such a rich and powerful and important organization that it is today. And that's why I think should support by no why you should support the generations fund, because that's its mission.
I really believe that the generations fund is going to help strengthen the industry by creating opportunities for mentorship, for fellowship and really increasing our network and strengthening the way that we all work together to make knowledge more accessible and powerful. C.c.c. supports the SSP generations fund because we believe in the SSP mission to support all organizations and individuals in order to advance scholarly publishing like SSP.
C.c.c. is committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace to enrich generous donations from forward thinking. Individuals such as health has already enabled the generations fund to surpass its halfway mark of its goal of 500,000 USD. Like in the past, I have contributed again to it by signing up for the fun upcoming run, walk and roll virtual day run.
I hope that you will also find fun, meaningful and gratifying ways of supporting this great cause to make the scholarly publishing industry more just and equitable. Thank you so much for your support today I have the honor of recognizing our generous supporters.
Behind me on the slide is a list of our individual supporters. To date, more than 300 of our members have pooled their generosity together to make this initiative possible. Joining them are some outstanding industry supporters, too. Today, I would like to recognize these organizations by calling them to the stage to accept a certificate of gratitude for the impactful support of $1,000 or more.
I'm going to call the organizations to the stage as a grouped by their category of giving. Please hold your applause until this group is all on stage. First is our patron level supporters of $1,000 access innovations. American Geophysical Union. American Physical Society. Cadmore media. Clark and Esposito clocks Crossref Emerald publishing frontiers impact journals docs lib.
Linux Lumina datamatics. Nugent North America. Royal society of chemistry. Spy strive virtue sales publishing solutions. Let's give them a big round of applause.
Just let's just keep it moving. Let's do a pyramid. The next up, I'd like to call our contributor level supporters at $5,000 or more to the stage.
American Chemical Society. Add upon Cabell's Cell press. Elsevier Delta Think highwire mdpi. Klaus silver, chair Wolters Kluwer health. Please another round of applause for their generosity.
Step forward as far as you guys can. Last but not least, I would like to recognize our promoter level supporters at the $15,000 and above gifts. Copyright Clearance Center and Springer Nature for the Outstanding support.
We would like to invite them to say a few words today. Please welcome Allison laverty, the vice president of society and partner management at Springer Nature to the podium. I'm honored and delighted to accept on behalf of Springer Nature. We are so proud to be supporting programs that increase diverse representation in our industry.
Besides the generations fund, we're contributing to two programs at present that provide for research based lab experience for underrepresented students. And one of our employee networks created a special nature master class for researchers at historically Black colleges and universities. So we're doing a lot. We're doing more than ever.
But I would say it's still not enough. So if you haven't already, please donate to the generations fund or other similar initiatives. think we need to keep breaking down these barriers and lifting up our community. Thank you.
Next up, I would like to give Jamie Carmichael, the senior director of information and content solutions at copyright Clearance Center. The stage CCC has made two generous gifts to the generations fund since its launch in 2020. Has been an active member of SSP for decades. For us, SSP is an important community where our team can come and engage with current and future leaders in scholarly publishing to work together to overcome industry challenges.
CTC is committed to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce because our differences are what contribute to a stronger, more vibrant ecosystem. The generations fund exemplifies SSPS commitment to cultivate opportunity for all and aligns with csc's culture of facilitating open dialogue and providing innovative, sustainable solutions and resources to foster meaningful industry change. Investment in programs such as the generations fund is essential to helping young professionals find meaning and feel valued in their work.
It is a wonderful way to nurture future stars on a pathway toward learning and career growth. An investment in the generations fund is an investment in the future of global scholarly publishing, and we are so pleased to support it. Thank you.
Thank you, Jamie. If you'd like to learn more about the generations fund. Use your phones if you have it. You got it from lost and found. Use your phone's camera to unlock the QR code on the slide now or visit the SSP booth in the exhibit hall later. One of the ways in which you can support the generations fund is by registering to participate in the second annual virtual 5K run, walk and roll.
There is still time to register to participate before the official race day of June 10. Visit the SSP booth in the exhibit hall to get your official race t-shirt. New this year, we challenged organizations to see which could register the most participants in the 5K. The competition ended this morning right before the event started.
I'm excited to announce first it was. Really tough. There were three changes throughout the day, but I'm excited to announce that Taylor Francis won the very heated battle, a very heated battle with frontiers for the greatest of all times. Please come up BJ Taylor Francis to collect your goat trophy. Bragging rights and take a photo.
Who's taking that home? Now it's my honor to introduce my dear friend, Alice meadows, past president and chair of the nominating and awards committee for awards. Thanks, Randy. Thanks, everyone, for being here. I'm going to try and whiz through these a bit because I think we're already horribly over time.
So apologies in advance for going rather fast. But I also want to make sure that we do take time to recognize everybody who's been involved in this process and of course, the awardees themselves. So first of all, I'd like to recognize Michelle english, the co-chair of the career development committee working group, and her fellow members, Kelly denzer, second Louise Russell, Tricia Miller and Hannah heckner for managing the fellowship program.
Could you stand, please, and be recognized? She and I know that this year we have 16 Fellows as part of our wonderful fellowship program. Eight of them, I believe, are here and 8 are virtual. So hopefully, those of you who are attending virtually can hear this and be honored as well. We had 44 applications this year from 15 countries, which I think is a record.
So big. Congratulations and welcome to this year's cohort and we hope you'll stay very engaged and involved in our work. So please, can you hold your applause until I finish reading this list? And again, apologies in advance. I have pronunciation where needed, but I still might mess up.
So sorry if I do so in alphabetical order. Andrea Blatz from the University of Texas press. Ana maultsby from Wiley. Cassandra Lorenz from royal roads University. Chen from Wuhan University. Chen Yu Zhang from the University of Illinois at urbana-champaign. Francesca soldati from the University of Aberdeen, Idaho. Gabriel gabrio from Afe Babalola University in Ado Ekiti.
Jamaica Jones from the University of Pittsburgh. Janaina Carvalho de Amirault from the University of Illinois, urbana-champaign. Mario Paulo from jubatus International University. Mary Alice Keller from HCA Healthcare. Natalia kaluzna from kyiv National University of culture and arts. Odele abimbola ogunniyi from the University of Ibadan. Rebecca Michaels Walker from Toronto Metropolitan University.
Sarah Frances Gordon from the University of ibero-americana. Andrea Mitchell from aip publishing. Please join us in welcoming all of them to SSP and the fellowship program. And congratulations. OK OK.
OK now, the next presentation is for the best poster award winner. And I am delighted to invite Adriana Borgia from which organization you're from. I'm sorry, Adriana, to the stage for your poster building and maintaining an open editorial board.
It's my great pleasure. The wonderful thing about being past president is you don't have a lot of responsibilities, but the big responsibility. You have is to chair the nominating and awards committee, are just an absolute joy and a privilege. It's also a little bittersweet and hard because the wonderful thing is you get to acknowledge some of the wonderful people in our community.
The hard thing is you want everybody that you consider to win an award of some sort because you're all so amazing. So I really am hugely grateful to the fellow members of the nominating committee for their help and support and advice during this process. So I'd like to ask Robert Hamilton, Leslie beer, Rebecca McLeod totaline and Randy Townsend on stage, and Rebecca Kirk, who was our fantastic liaison from the committee to stand to be recognized, please.
So it was a wonderful, incredibly difficult job. We had a surfeit of amazing volunteers, both for the board positions that we've already heard about and also for the awards. So first of all, I want to present the appreciation awards we had for this year, which is on the high end. But again, we had so many very, very. Wealthy people to consider.
So this award recognizes the work of members whose work over a short term has benefited SSP and the scholarly communication field. All of our awardees this year have made some really significant contributions to our society in the past few years. So again, please can you hold your applause till they all come up on stage? And I'd like to invite Lori Carlin from delta, who has been the co-chair of the annual meeting program committee for the last four years.
Betty Conrad, who's a Consultant who's been the North American editor of learned publishing for six years and has just stepped down for Michelle Oberg, who we appreciated earlier. David miles from data licensing alliance, Inc, who managed the previous session for several years at the annual meeting and very generously stepped down this year to make room for new people. And last but not least, John Warren from George Washington University for his leadership of the Washington DC regional group and also the wonderful collaboration that's been going on between gwu and SSP.
Thank you all so much. OK well, I'm sorry that we can't say Thank you to David and letty in person, but I know letty at least is around here, so please, please Thank her when you see her. The next award is the Emerging Leader Award.
We again had an absolutely a record number of applications this year. I think we usually get 5 or 6 this year we had 13 nominations and every single one was so deserving. So for those of you who were nominated or nominated somebody and weren't successful, please do try again, because we all of you could have were very deserving of winning. But we have three winners this year and they are all absolutely amazing people.
One of them, unfortunately, isn't here in person, but the other two I know are. So it is my absolute pleasure to invite up to the stage, first of all, Erin Foley from the Copyright Clearance center, who was immediately nominated by her colleague, Casey Pickering, with support from Emily Dalkey and Rachel Moriarty of AUP. And I would like to read a quick quote from her from her nomination.
Since beginning her career in scholarly communications 11 years ago, Ellen has been an invested and dedicated member of the scholarly publishing community. Through her work with publishers at c.s.c., Erin found a home in scholarly publishing as an honest and ambitious problem solver and quickly began giving back. Erin has served on several committees, including the committee early career committee, where she was a co-chair and the annual meeting program committee, where she's the incoming co-chair.
So fantastic. Thank you so much, Erin. Our second nominee is Rebecca bex cook from plus. Becks, please come up to the stage. Nominated by Randy Townsend and supported by donita snow. And I should add that Becs recused herself from the emerging discussions because she knew she'd be nominated.
And again, a quote from Randy Becs has been a member of the committee since 2020 and has served as co-chair since 2022. She is committed to working together to drive sustained, meaningful change. She's most proud of being able to get active in the oceans in every single SSP committee this year. The integration of this into every volunteer activity across the organization has been really meaningful and the feedback has been incredible.
So congratulations again, Becs. And then last but again, very much not least and sadly, in her absence, the final nominee this year, the final, final emerging Leader Award this year is DeAndre Roberts of the Royal College of psychiatrists, nominated by Tomita and supported by Randy Townsend. A very successful and to me, too, sales of the year in 2022. Deandra was hired as the associate editor on the Scholarly Kitchen.
She actively uses her platform and expertise to amplify voices and make a practical impact in the scholarly publishing community. The SSP core values are woven throughout deandre's contributions to scholarly communication. She is honest and authentic. Her humility allows her to transform vulnerability into strength, and she courageously shares the human elements of her person that most of us desperately want to hide.
Inspiring an industry to bring their whole selves to their work. So in her absence, please, let's recognize DeAndre. And my very last task is as past president and my very, very great privilege and pleasure is presenting the Distinguished Service Award. This is an award that's given to a member for their work over an extended period of time on behalf of SSP and the wider field of scholarly communication.
And the person that we decided to give the award to this year has a long history of contributions to SSP and to the wider community, including as Scholarly Kitchen chef since 2018 and one of the most highly read as a former board member. And she also developed and delivered a very popular SSP workshop a couple of times and ongoing. You might be guessing who she is now. She recently most recently chaired the publishing North American editor task force, and it's actually very lovely to be making this award to a librarian.
Please welcome to the stage, Lisa janika hinchliff of the University of Illinois at urbana-champaign. Some when you start thinking, wait, I need to teach you.
Yes Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations so well deserved. Thank you. We're going to want to do it all together.
Congratulations to all of our award winners today. Let's give them one last round of applause.
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Hi, everyone. Welcome to the SSP awards. Lunch and business lunch. It's great to have you here. I appreciate your patience with us as the waiters are moving around. We have a lot we want to cover. We want to make sure we have plenty of time to do that.
But before we get started, a little quick housekeeping. There is a lost iPhone at the registration desk. So the first person to run out of the room right now may have a lucky day. So we're going to go ahead and get started with our land acknowledgment. Indigenous tribes and bands have been with the lands that we inhabit today throughout Oregon and the Northwest since time immemorial and continue to be a vibrant part of Oregon today.
We would like to express our respect to the first peoples of this land, the nine federally recognized tribes of Oregon. It is important that we recognize and honor the ongoing legal and spiritual relationship between the land plants, animals and people Indigenous to this place we now call Oregon. The interconnectedness of these people, the land and the natural environment cannot be overstated.
The health of one is necessary for the health of all. We recognize the pre-existing and continued sovereignty of the nine federally recognized tribes who have ties to this place and Thank them for continuing to share their traditional ecological knowledge and perspective on how we might care for one another and the land. So it can take care of us. We commit to engaging in a respectful and successful partnership as stewards of these lands.
All right. This is it. What an extraordinary year it has been. I'm truly honored to have served as the president of SSP. The progress and achievements we have witnessed are a direct result of the unwavering dedication and commitment demonstrated by our members. The remarkable SSP staff and our invaluable sponsors. So at the heart of our organization are our core values, community adaptability, inclusivity, and integrity.
As our committees convene this year. One of the things that we did was they began each meeting by presenting the code of conduct, by presenting the core values and the code of conduct. The board recently took on a significant step by voting to update our code of conduct, fostering transparency in the process, and reaffirming SSPS unwavering commitment to supporting equitable opportunities and respectful treatment for all participants in all of our activities.
In addition, starting in 2022, our liaisons from our diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility committee became embedded in all SSP activities to provide feedback and consultation on a number of different initiatives from the annual meeting to the career development, finance and awards and nominations to make them more inclusive and accessible, giving us all a lot to be proud of.
So I'd like to Thank everyone from the committee for everything they've done so far this year. Thank you. So SSP is a resource. It's designed to ensure that we're equipped with the information to do our jobs better. Within SSP, we have almost everything in place and I say almost because today we may not know what challenges lie ahead.
But one thing is certain SSP possesses the foundation exceptional members and steadfast leadership to support our industry and its future challenges. I'm too short. I can't see the sign. Our mission is to advance scholarly publishing. And we do this in so many ways, from the meetings that you all are attending to the webinars, to the scholarly kitchen, our regional events, and most importantly, supporting and advancing the careers of our members no matter their career level.
I've used the analogy of a ship often paying homage to our original founders and recognizing the work they put in Plank by plank, committee by committee to form the SSP. We all know and value now, but I was recently reminded that while it's important to stay the course, it's also important to look ahead. And prepare for the challenges over the horizon. And like the theme of this meeting, SSP has become a place to embrace transformation and instill trust and transparency in the publishing process.
All right. So here's where you guys get to come in. So my question to all of you today is, what role do you play in advancing scholarly publishing and communications? So we'll start there. I love that picture. So quick raise of hands. Since we're all eating.
I don't want to interrupt too much, but are you a member of ssp? Oh, that's great. So you're one of 1095 members from 29 countries, 79 organizations. And one of 600 in-person here today and 100 virtual attendees at the meeting. So thank you for being a part.
Have you ever visited the member exchange or the C3 online community or read an article in the scholarly kitchen? Yes, I knew that was going to be a great one. So your visit was one of 10,000 to the C3 community last year. You engaged in more than 58 discussions and countless committee conversations in the member exchange on topics ranging from ethics and publishing to ChatGPT to who's headed out to the next regional meetup.
Yeah, I heard about New York. If you visited the scholarly kitchen, there's a good chance that you read Roy Kaufman's post. Github is sued and we may learn something about Creative Commons licensing that that post has been viewed more than 27,000 times. Or perhaps you're one of the 153 members who have joined a communities of interest network coin. We have two active groups the humanities and the social sciences, and the other for early careerists.
If you are not a member and you'd be interested in becoming a part of a peer to peer community to share interest concerns with goals of advancing their community and their collective understanding, I encourage you to visit the exhibit hall in the SSP booth. OK, here's a really be honest. Have you ever wondered what your next career step should be? Honestly really?
That's it. Everybody's good. Yeah, I don't think that's true because of this, SSP has their SSP Career Center has posted 101 jobs last year, and now we have more than 120 professionals and new in 2023, Thanks to the amazing staff, you can dive into profiles by career, stage and industry areas. So for those of you who are so busy eating and couldn't raise your hand, you have some visiting to do on the website.
Our early career subcommittee has released 13 podcasts that have been downloaded more than 25,000 times. Our fellowship program that, Thanks to the generations fund, will continue to offer. A wide range of career development, training and network opportunities has supported more than 159 Fellows with our newest class of 16 being honored today.
And I could have made this one the question. But it's just so many of you have been involved. So I just want to give everybody give yourself a quick applause. The mentorship program has served 693 participants since starting in 2017 from 28 countries, and our publishing skills map has been viewed more than 2,400 times. So thank you for everyone who's participating in those programs.
So have you missed anything in the last few years? Have you been busy and missed that webinar? Have you said saw something and you said you really wanted to share it with the colleague? So over the past decade, the SSP Education Committee has successfully hosted 64 webinars and our members have access to these webinars as well as other valuable content from our seminars, workshops and the annual meetings on the SSP on demand and the SSP.
Archived YouTube site. All right. So what's next? Lot going on, right? So we look forward to the work of some of our newest projects, starting with the global perspective task force, which was created last year to audit and understand and share how SSP can better engage in our global community. Scholarly publishing position reference directory, which will be created to allow a collaboration between SSP with the collaboration between SSP and the Association of University Presses received over 1,300 job descriptions over the last year.
Thank you to all who shared to create a first of its kind reference that charts positions, descriptions and career paths in our industry. You can look out for the journals Academy that will be launching this summer to provide training for those new to our industry or those looking to update their skills. Something here that I don't have in my slide. Our Finance Committee is actually looking at our investments to find ways to align our core values with our investments.
We're also exploring the creation of a taxonomy that will allow us to better integrate all of the SSP content across the various platforms. And you'll see the QR code on the screen. As a member of the Coalition for diversity and inclusion in scholarly communication or disc, SSP members have actively participated and supported its efforts to discuss and address issues of diversity and inclusion within our industry.
Much of this work is done through surveys. I'd like to extend a personal invitation for all of you to participate in the recently released workplace equity survey. To begin the survey, you can follow the QR code on the screen, or you can look for additional information and the remember newsletter or post it on the Scholarly Kitchen. So if you were able to pick up your iPhone from the registration desk, you should be able to use it to complete the survey.
So lastly, I just want to say a quick Thank you to everyone who has worked to bring all these together. I'm so impressed with the work of our committees and the work of our volunteers. Their thought, leadership, motivation and commitment to our industry is inspiring. Volunteering is a way to extend your skill set. There's a lot that you get out of volunteering, but there's a lot we get out of you volunteering.
So if you have volunteered to help put these meetings together, if you happen to be a performer in the metadata musical, I just want to Thank you for everything and it's been really my pleasure and my honor to watch you all work this year. So with that, we're going to move on to our finance presentation. All right.
Looked really hard for the funny treasurer joke. I can't find one, so stay tuned for next year. But I'm Emily Dalkey. I'm the treasurer for SSB. This is my third year and today I wanted to give you a little bit of context about the numbers of the financials for SSB. And just so you know, the financials for SSB and the annual report are available to the members at any point.
So if at any point during the year, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out to me. So the last three years were very unusual for everybody, including us, in 2020. We had to cancel our meeting to switch to an online virtual meeting, not almost at the last minute, but on short notice. 2021 we delivered a completely virtual meeting, and then last year, we were back in person in Chicago, where we had a great, very well attended meeting in person and we added on a virtual component to it.
So to explain some of the numbers that are behind you, bringing the annual meeting back in person meant and having the virtual component as well meant that some of the cost and some of the revenues were not quite in line with what we had experienced in the past. And so that definitely put a little bit of pressure on our budget. We were completely expecting it, so there were no surprises there.
But it does explain some of the numbers you're seeing. And then the other big, big component was a lot of our reserve is placed in the stock market. And in 2022, there was a ton of volatility in the stock market. And so a lot of the decrease that you see in the assets there really comes mostly from the stock market. So once again, it's all changes that were unexpected, but we were planning for. So we ended up entering 2023 really confident with our finances.
We feel we're definitely in a good position, and we have a renewed commitment to all of our initiatives and to growing and continue to maintain all the fantastic initiatives behind all the initiatives we have on to boost all of our revenue streams. So, um, yeah, like I said, if anybody has any questions, all these numbers are available to all the SSP members, so don't hesitate to reach out to me. And then finally, a lot of this work and all these financial results are really due to all the hard work and very sound decisions that Melanie and the SSP, SSP staff are making on a regular basis and all the volunteers involved.
So thank you, everyone. Hello, I'm Melanie dolecek. I'm the executive director for SSB. All of the work, all of the programs that you've heard about today would not be possible without the support of many organizations and many individuals within our industry. We want to recognize some of those folks now.
First and foremost, this meeting is very much supported by our sponsors. And so if you work for us, for one of our sponsor organizations, please stand up and be recognized. Now Thank you so much for your support. Past presidents. There have been a number of many amazing leaders at the helm of SSP through the years.
We want to recognize our past presidents. So if you are a past president, please stand and be recognized. And we also want to recognize our founding board members. I don't believe any of them are here today. If I'm missing you, shout out. But these are the important, folks, that really started this organization back in 1978 and who we have to Thank for all of this great experience and networking and community that we have today.
Our committees and task forces are absolutely the lifeblood of this organization. It's how so much gets done. We have more than 250 volunteers at this time. I'd like our committee and task force chairs to stand and be recognized. And please stand, continue to stand chairs.
And we would like committee members and task force members to stand and be recognized. And look around and see how many people are standing up. This organization is successful because of the work of these volunteers and their dedication. Our publications team, David Crotty, the executive editor of The scholarly kitchen, DeAndre Roberts, associate editor, the new learned publishing, North American editor, Michelle herberg, and the Scholarly Kitchen associate editor Angela Cochran do a tremendous amount of work to make sure that you have the latest information available to you about industry information.
So let's give them a hand over, round of applause as well. And our officers, board of directors, officers for 2022, 2023 are president Miranda walker, Randy Townsend, President-elect Emily delk, secretary, treasurer and Alice Meadows past president. Please give them around of applause. And our 2022, 2023 board members at large include Meredith adinolfi, Sean McDonough, Gabe harp, Hannah heckner secunda, Charlotte roe, Sarah Rui and tau tau.
Please stand to be recognized. All right. So if you attended the poster session earlier, you got a little blue ticket and now is the time to pull out that blue ticket because we're going to award $550 piles of books, gift cards. So thank you to all of you that attended the poster session.
You do have to be present to win. So I'm going to call out a couple of numbers. If you have the number, give out a shout. You'll come up here to see Natalie at the edge of the stage here to collect your gift card. So I'm going to draw for those now. All right. The first ticket number is 919161.
One six. One of the last three numbers. Anyone? all right. Somebody missed out. Lucky for the rest of you. All right. Last three numbers. 165 all right, we have a winner.
All right. Next 1147. All right. Come on up and see Natalie. All right. 117 but you have 117. All right.
Two more. One, four, five. Yeah come on up. All right. Last one. One to 1. One to 1.
Anyone? going once. Going twice. All right. One more chance. 015 015. All right. Excellent I'm going to hand hand it back to Miranda.
Thank you and congratulations to the winners. So this is the time where we take a moment to recognize the importance and valued staff of SSP. We have such a unique collection and I still hear me say this all the time. A lot of societies don't have the benefit of having staff who are really a part of their community, even before they join the staff.
We have an amazing staff and I just want to make it take a minute to acknowledge Jacqueline Lloyd, Susan Patton, Madeline stone, Tracy Mitchell, Kristen tartaro, Natalie zundel and Melanie delacourt. I want to talk about Sarah Andrews. We want to take a moment to remember her as she was an SSP member and influential volunteer that passed away this year.
Sarah Andrews was an executive publisher at Mary Ann Liebert since 2021 and previously worked at Oxford University Press and Wiley. She co-authored the book leading from the middle, a resource that shares empowering messages to help readers take control of their environment by seeing themselves as actionable leaders today. She worried greatly about the decline of science and popular discourse, and her diligent work to support important research will be her legacy.
A member of SSP since 2019. Sara was an active volunteer for the career development committee and the joint task force for career progression. She was an integral part of the development of SSP publishing skills map. Sara graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's in linguistics and from NYU Stern business school with an MBA in strategy and global business. So I just want to take a moment to recognize her accomplishments.
So now we get to recognize the people who have been meeting regularly and tackling the problems and challenges and opportunities within SSP. So I'd like to welcome to the stage Meredith. Am I slaughtering your name? Because I'm tired. I'm sorry. Meredith so I kind of. Gabriel harp and Alice Meadows.
Well, let's take a picture. Everybody I came in the wrong direction. OK stand over there by the. By the dock. You got him? All right. Thank you.
Thank you. And now I'd like to introduce and invite to the stage our incoming members at large Denita snow, Simon Holt elsevier, Gail Fitzpatrick, pnas, Emily delich, treasurer and our president elect, and Broadway extraordinaire Heather Staines.
Delta Thank. Yeah Thank you.
OK, here's the fun part. So now I have the opportunity. I've had the opportunity to work closely with Randy Townsend over the last few years with SSP initiatives, and I had the opportunity to witness firsthand his unwavering commitment to the mission of SSP and our core values. His dedication to advancing scholarly publishing and supporting those of us who have chosen to explore this industry is truly remarkable and inspiring.
Scholarly Kitchen. Scholarly publishing is on a transformative journey, and I'm confident that Randy will navigate us through the adventures ahead. So with that, your new president of SSP, Randy Townsend. Thank you. Miranda Perez, you've been such an inspiration to me and so many at SSP.
I am truly honored to follow in your footsteps. I've learned from your leadership and I'm grateful for your unselfish friendship. I'm excuse me.
When Melanie Miranda said I could say a few words, my face lit up. And when they said I could have a few slides, I almost lost it. For those that don't know, I can definitely be death by PowerPoint. But I promise to only have three slides today. And I wanted to start with the SSP vision statement. SSP will be recognized by members in the global publishing community as the first place to turn for information and dialogue on current and emerging issues in scholarly communication.
I see this from two perspectives. The first speaks to reputation. That recognition piece for people who are not yet members of SSP or those who are attending SSP for the very first time. These are the things that we want you to know about us. But we hope you take away, reflect and grow with that vision is aspirational and we must live up to it.
Which brings me to the second perspective, which is how we see ourselves. The internal self love. How we find motivation and purpose. We are part dreamer, part Explorer. We are both practical and whimsical. You don't always have the answers because we're venturing into new territories. We have the right balance to navigate the waters.
SSPS core values serve as the moral compass that guides us in our shared vision is our North Star. There is no vision. The people perish. SSP is an organization of visionaries from the committee members to the committee chairs to the board members, the staff. Those of us in this room and those of us watching remotely. The path ahead may be cloudy at times, but our vision remains very clear.
I'd like to add my voice to that vision for just a few minutes. I call it my sixth sense of honor your individual journey. Everyone's story is a little bit different, and what you had to get through to get here is unique and special. It may have been a bumpy road with unexpected twists. Hopefully every bump made you a little wiser. Each twist helped to expand your perspective.
Cherish the relationships that you make in your involvement with SSP. SPS is made up of special people that will influence your lives in unexpected ways. Our shared experiences create lifelong bonds that enrich our careers. Remain curious and excited about scholarly communications. It seems like it's evolving so fast. Dare to ask the questions that help shape the direction.
How do we protect our content? How do we demonstrate inclusive practices? How do we fortify our business? Celebrate the small victories. A seed doesn't automatically become fruit. There's a process that includes the right elements, the proper attention and care. Along the way. Be sure to recognize the progress being made.
Find reasons to laugh. There are times when things become difficult and heavy. Don't allow every day to be difficult and heavy. There is joy in the smallest of things. And don't be afraid to change. Know your own personal core values and allow them to frame the vision you have for yourselves. Even small change adds up.
And finally, I want to touch on something that's been on my mind. Mental health. We see heartbreaking stories in the news or experienced tragedy and trauma and hyperactive ways. We've been processing events in the dispersed world, and as incoming president, I don't want to wait until tragedy finds its way into our community until I speak to this.
I realized that many of us suffer in silence. We meet our own voices for various reasons. This resonates with anybody within the sound of my voice. Please hear me. You are not alone. You are part of a society that values your voice, that Welcome to your light, and that is better because of you. Baby steps are still steps. And if the world seems too heavy, put something engaging in front of you.
Volunteer for an SSP committee Follow a thread on C three. Take the workplace equity survey. Run the generations fund five-k. Comment on a post in the Scholarly Kitchen and if none of that works, send me an email and let's talk. Shop for those that like to talk, shop with me. You we can talk all day. I know a lot of people in this room would say the same thing or just do it without having to say it.
As Miranda said in the land, acknowledgment the health of one is necessary for the health of all. Nelson Mandela said, what counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made in the lives of others. One thing I love most about SSP is the difference that we make in each other's lives. We inspire, we challenge. We laugh.
We learn. And we teach. We make a difference? Thank you. SSP is an organization committed to leadership and workforce development and ensuring those leaders in our workforce are diverse and inclusive. That's why we launched the generations fund.
Here's more about the important initiative and messages from the individuals and organizations who have made a gift so far. The generation band was established in 2020 with the mandate to provide sustainable funding for SSPS mentorship and fellowship programs, as well as its initiatives.
This is an endowment with a goal of raising $500,000 and we are more than halfway to our goal. More than 300 generous SSP members and industry partners have supported the generations fund. The fund is truly a collective effort of philanthropy to ensure a strong and diverse future for scholarly communications. SSP is grateful for and humbled by the generosity of spirit in our community.
We look forward to reaching our goal. And sharing the impact of your long term investment. So SSP, its programming, its events, community are all extremely important to Silverchair and the mission of the fund in supporting diverse and strong future for our industry is extremely important as we look to ensure that we have the best possible chance at navigating the constant stream of change with a really robust community.
We have to have diverse voices and opinions if we want to have meaningful conversations in our community. Plus, the fellowship program is such a fantastic opportunity to open doors early on to rising stars in our industry. So important to SSP for recognizing this and for leading this important fundraising effort. I was honored to be part of the group that established SSP generations fund a few years ago and am enthusiastically continuing to support it.
Each year I happily support the generations fund. Do I do that? I do that because throughout my career SSP meant so much to me, provided me with mentorship and tools and training, and I want to ensure these are in place for those that are early career folks now and in the generations to come. I donated to the fund both in terms of time and substance because I think it's hugely important that we bring new folks into our industry and support early career professionals as well.
It is literally the future of scholarly publishing. So why delivering support? SSP generations? One of the two reasons. Firstly, because we directly benefit from the programs it supports. We recently hired one of the previous SSP Fellows. I benefited greatly from my participation as a mentor in the mentoring program.
Secondly, and more importantly, we need to be intentional. Investing in the future of our industry and our organizations does not happen by default. It happens because we explicitly choose to do so. And I support the generations fund because I've benefited immensely from being part of the SSP community. And so many people who feel the same way.
And want to make sure that that continues to be the case into the future. I think it's also incredibly important that we have a fund like the generations fund that will support a diverse range of future participants and leaders in our organization to ensure that we remain strong and relevant and inclusive and ultimately ensure our success as an organization, but also success in the wider telecommunications community and.
The generations fund is really important for everybody to contribute to. You don't have to contribute a huge amount. If you do have a huge amount, please, that would be welcome. But I think everybody should at least give a small amount, whatever you can to the generations fund. You know, I can tell you that as an early career person, a very early career person, 40 years, 40 some years ago, there's never been a more important thing in my whole career than SSP.
And it still is to this day. And it's not just folks like me that are important. It's the younger people and the more diverse group of people that make all the difference in making SSP such a rich and powerful and important organization that it is today. And that's why I think should support by no why you should support the generations fund, because that's its mission.
I really believe that the generations fund is going to help strengthen the industry by creating opportunities for mentorship, for fellowship and really increasing our network and strengthening the way that we all work together to make knowledge more accessible and powerful. C.c.c. supports the SSP generations fund because we believe in the SSP mission to support all organizations and individuals in order to advance scholarly publishing like SSP.
C.c.c. is committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace to enrich generous donations from forward thinking. Individuals such as health has already enabled the generations fund to surpass its halfway mark of its goal of 500,000 USD. Like in the past, I have contributed again to it by signing up for the fun upcoming run, walk and roll virtual day run.
I hope that you will also find fun, meaningful and gratifying ways of supporting this great cause to make the scholarly publishing industry more just and equitable. Thank you so much for your support today I have the honor of recognizing our generous supporters.
Behind me on the slide is a list of our individual supporters. To date, more than 300 of our members have pooled their generosity together to make this initiative possible. Joining them are some outstanding industry supporters, too. Today, I would like to recognize these organizations by calling them to the stage to accept a certificate of gratitude for the impactful support of $1,000 or more.
I'm going to call the organizations to the stage as a grouped by their category of giving. Please hold your applause until this group is all on stage. First is our patron level supporters of $1,000 access innovations. American Geophysical Union. American Physical Society. Cadmore media. Clark and Esposito clocks Crossref Emerald publishing frontiers impact journals docs lib.
Linux Lumina datamatics. Nugent North America. Royal society of chemistry. Spy strive virtue sales publishing solutions. Let's give them a big round of applause.
Just let's just keep it moving. Let's do a pyramid. The next up, I'd like to call our contributor level supporters at $5,000 or more to the stage.
American Chemical Society. Add upon Cabell's Cell press. Elsevier Delta Think highwire mdpi. Klaus silver, chair Wolters Kluwer health. Please another round of applause for their generosity.
Step forward as far as you guys can. Last but not least, I would like to recognize our promoter level supporters at the $15,000 and above gifts. Copyright Clearance Center and Springer Nature for the Outstanding support.
We would like to invite them to say a few words today. Please welcome Allison laverty, the vice president of society and partner management at Springer Nature to the podium. I'm honored and delighted to accept on behalf of Springer Nature. We are so proud to be supporting programs that increase diverse representation in our industry.
Besides the generations fund, we're contributing to two programs at present that provide for research based lab experience for underrepresented students. And one of our employee networks created a special nature master class for researchers at historically Black colleges and universities. So we're doing a lot. We're doing more than ever.
But I would say it's still not enough. So if you haven't already, please donate to the generations fund or other similar initiatives. think we need to keep breaking down these barriers and lifting up our community. Thank you.
Next up, I would like to give Jamie Carmichael, the senior director of information and content solutions at copyright Clearance Center. The stage CCC has made two generous gifts to the generations fund since its launch in 2020. Has been an active member of SSP for decades. For us, SSP is an important community where our team can come and engage with current and future leaders in scholarly publishing to work together to overcome industry challenges.
CTC is committed to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce because our differences are what contribute to a stronger, more vibrant ecosystem. The generations fund exemplifies SSPS commitment to cultivate opportunity for all and aligns with csc's culture of facilitating open dialogue and providing innovative, sustainable solutions and resources to foster meaningful industry change. Investment in programs such as the generations fund is essential to helping young professionals find meaning and feel valued in their work.
It is a wonderful way to nurture future stars on a pathway toward learning and career growth. An investment in the generations fund is an investment in the future of global scholarly publishing, and we are so pleased to support it. Thank you.
Thank you, Jamie. If you'd like to learn more about the generations fund. Use your phones if you have it. You got it from lost and found. Use your phone's camera to unlock the QR code on the slide now or visit the SSP booth in the exhibit hall later. One of the ways in which you can support the generations fund is by registering to participate in the second annual virtual 5K run, walk and roll.
There is still time to register to participate before the official race day of June 10. Visit the SSP booth in the exhibit hall to get your official race t-shirt. New this year, we challenged organizations to see which could register the most participants in the 5K. The competition ended this morning right before the event started.
I'm excited to announce first it was. Really tough. There were three changes throughout the day, but I'm excited to announce that Taylor Francis won the very heated battle, a very heated battle with frontiers for the greatest of all times. Please come up BJ Taylor Francis to collect your goat trophy. Bragging rights and take a photo.
Who's taking that home? Now it's my honor to introduce my dear friend, Alice meadows, past president and chair of the nominating and awards committee for awards. Thanks, Randy. Thanks, everyone, for being here. I'm going to try and whiz through these a bit because I think we're already horribly over time.
So apologies in advance for going rather fast. But I also want to make sure that we do take time to recognize everybody who's been involved in this process and of course, the awardees themselves. So first of all, I'd like to recognize Michelle english, the co-chair of the career development committee working group, and her fellow members, Kelly denzer, second Louise Russell, Tricia Miller and Hannah heckner for managing the fellowship program.
Could you stand, please, and be recognized? She and I know that this year we have 16 Fellows as part of our wonderful fellowship program. Eight of them, I believe, are here and 8 are virtual. So hopefully, those of you who are attending virtually can hear this and be honored as well. We had 44 applications this year from 15 countries, which I think is a record.
So big. Congratulations and welcome to this year's cohort and we hope you'll stay very engaged and involved in our work. So please, can you hold your applause until I finish reading this list? And again, apologies in advance. I have pronunciation where needed, but I still might mess up.
So sorry if I do so in alphabetical order. Andrea Blatz from the University of Texas press. Ana maultsby from Wiley. Cassandra Lorenz from royal roads University. Chen from Wuhan University. Chen Yu Zhang from the University of Illinois at urbana-champaign. Francesca soldati from the University of Aberdeen, Idaho. Gabriel gabrio from Afe Babalola University in Ado Ekiti.
Jamaica Jones from the University of Pittsburgh. Janaina Carvalho de Amirault from the University of Illinois, urbana-champaign. Mario Paulo from jubatus International University. Mary Alice Keller from HCA Healthcare. Natalia kaluzna from kyiv National University of culture and arts. Odele abimbola ogunniyi from the University of Ibadan. Rebecca Michaels Walker from Toronto Metropolitan University.
Sarah Frances Gordon from the University of ibero-americana. Andrea Mitchell from aip publishing. Please join us in welcoming all of them to SSP and the fellowship program. And congratulations. OK OK.
OK now, the next presentation is for the best poster award winner. And I am delighted to invite Adriana Borgia from which organization you're from. I'm sorry, Adriana, to the stage for your poster building and maintaining an open editorial board.
It's my great pleasure. The wonderful thing about being past president is you don't have a lot of responsibilities, but the big responsibility. You have is to chair the nominating and awards committee, are just an absolute joy and a privilege. It's also a little bittersweet and hard because the wonderful thing is you get to acknowledge some of the wonderful people in our community.
The hard thing is you want everybody that you consider to win an award of some sort because you're all so amazing. So I really am hugely grateful to the fellow members of the nominating committee for their help and support and advice during this process. So I'd like to ask Robert Hamilton, Leslie beer, Rebecca McLeod totaline and Randy Townsend on stage, and Rebecca Kirk, who was our fantastic liaison from the committee to stand to be recognized, please.
So it was a wonderful, incredibly difficult job. We had a surfeit of amazing volunteers, both for the board positions that we've already heard about and also for the awards. So first of all, I want to present the appreciation awards we had for this year, which is on the high end. But again, we had so many very, very. Wealthy people to consider.
So this award recognizes the work of members whose work over a short term has benefited SSP and the scholarly communication field. All of our awardees this year have made some really significant contributions to our society in the past few years. So again, please can you hold your applause till they all come up on stage? And I'd like to invite Lori Carlin from delta, who has been the co-chair of the annual meeting program committee for the last four years.
Betty Conrad, who's a Consultant who's been the North American editor of learned publishing for six years and has just stepped down for Michelle Oberg, who we appreciated earlier. David miles from data licensing alliance, Inc, who managed the previous session for several years at the annual meeting and very generously stepped down this year to make room for new people. And last but not least, John Warren from George Washington University for his leadership of the Washington DC regional group and also the wonderful collaboration that's been going on between gwu and SSP.
Thank you all so much. OK well, I'm sorry that we can't say Thank you to David and letty in person, but I know letty at least is around here, so please, please Thank her when you see her. The next award is the Emerging Leader Award.
We again had an absolutely a record number of applications this year. I think we usually get 5 or 6 this year we had 13 nominations and every single one was so deserving. So for those of you who were nominated or nominated somebody and weren't successful, please do try again, because we all of you could have were very deserving of winning. But we have three winners this year and they are all absolutely amazing people.
One of them, unfortunately, isn't here in person, but the other two I know are. So it is my absolute pleasure to invite up to the stage, first of all, Erin Foley from the Copyright Clearance center, who was immediately nominated by her colleague, Casey Pickering, with support from Emily Dalkey and Rachel Moriarty of AUP. And I would like to read a quick quote from her from her nomination.
Since beginning her career in scholarly communications 11 years ago, Ellen has been an invested and dedicated member of the scholarly publishing community. Through her work with publishers at c.s.c., Erin found a home in scholarly publishing as an honest and ambitious problem solver and quickly began giving back. Erin has served on several committees, including the committee early career committee, where she was a co-chair and the annual meeting program committee, where she's the incoming co-chair.
So fantastic. Thank you so much, Erin. Our second nominee is Rebecca bex cook from plus. Becks, please come up to the stage. Nominated by Randy Townsend and supported by donita snow. And I should add that Becs recused herself from the emerging discussions because she knew she'd be nominated.
And again, a quote from Randy Becs has been a member of the committee since 2020 and has served as co-chair since 2022. She is committed to working together to drive sustained, meaningful change. She's most proud of being able to get active in the oceans in every single SSP committee this year. The integration of this into every volunteer activity across the organization has been really meaningful and the feedback has been incredible.
So congratulations again, Becs. And then last but again, very much not least and sadly, in her absence, the final nominee this year, the final, final emerging Leader Award this year is DeAndre Roberts of the Royal College of psychiatrists, nominated by Tomita and supported by Randy Townsend. A very successful and to me, too, sales of the year in 2022. Deandra was hired as the associate editor on the Scholarly Kitchen.
She actively uses her platform and expertise to amplify voices and make a practical impact in the scholarly publishing community. The SSP core values are woven throughout deandre's contributions to scholarly communication. She is honest and authentic. Her humility allows her to transform vulnerability into strength, and she courageously shares the human elements of her person that most of us desperately want to hide.
Inspiring an industry to bring their whole selves to their work. So in her absence, please, let's recognize DeAndre. And my very last task is as past president and my very, very great privilege and pleasure is presenting the Distinguished Service Award. This is an award that's given to a member for their work over an extended period of time on behalf of SSP and the wider field of scholarly communication.
And the person that we decided to give the award to this year has a long history of contributions to SSP and to the wider community, including as Scholarly Kitchen chef since 2018 and one of the most highly read as a former board member. And she also developed and delivered a very popular SSP workshop a couple of times and ongoing. You might be guessing who she is now. She recently most recently chaired the publishing North American editor task force, and it's actually very lovely to be making this award to a librarian.
Please welcome to the stage, Lisa janika hinchliff of the University of Illinois at urbana-champaign. Some when you start thinking, wait, I need to teach you.
Yes Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations so well deserved. Thank you. We're going to want to do it all together.
Congratulations to all of our award winners today. Let's give them one last round of applause.
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