This episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast welcomes current SSP President Heather Staines to chat about her career trajectory, plans and goals for her presidency, and advice for Early Career Professionals. Heather, also the Directory of Community Engagement and a Senior Consultant at Delta Think, offers up creative tidbits about staying informed and staying current in the industry and a sneak peak into what 2025 will hold for her personally and professionally. Hosted by Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science).

In this episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast, hosts Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science) speak to Dawn Durante, the Wyndham Robertson Editorial Director at the University of North Carolina Press, about a range of topics that include how the university press model and structure can differ or align from the traditional for-profit model, what books and journal operations look like in this environment, and a “typical” day as an Editorial Director.

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In this episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast, hosts Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science) recap this year’s SSP Annual Meeting, "Inflection Point: Setting the Course for the Future of Scholarly Communication."

In this episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast, hosts Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science) talk about how first-time conference attendees can get the most out of their experience.

In this episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast, hosts Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science) chat with Magdalena Skipper, Editor-in-Chief of Nature and the first woman to lead the journal.

In this episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast, host Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) is joined by SSP’s current president, Randy Townsend. Randy is the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing and is an Adjunct Professor of the MPS in Publishing program in the College of Professional Studies at George Washington University. Meredith and Randy discuss Randy’s presidency so far, his plans for 2024, and his perspectives on the critical role of early career professionals (ECPs) in our industry.

This episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast serves as a primer on publishing operations in the scholarly publishing landscape- what does it mean, why is it important, and what does a typical day in this space look like? Midori Baer (PNAS) and Anne Flegel (Oxford University Press) address these questions and more.

This episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast serves as a current refresh on the Open Access funding landscape, and, more specifically on the 2022 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Nelson Memo. Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (University Library, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) briefly overviews the memo, next steps, implications, and more.