Society for Scholarly Publishing
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The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is a professional society, founded in 1978, dedicated to promoting and advancing communication and networking among all sectors of the scholarly communications community. It has approximately 1,100 members from 24 countries including publishers, vendors, librarians, researchers, and consultants.
SSP is organized as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational society.
SSP openly encourages dialog on sometimes controversial issues, including Open Access to scholarly publishing, during its events and in its communications vehicles. SSP is also unique among scholarly communications associations in that it does not take positions on political issues. It is also one of the few scholarly communications societies and associations that allows members to join as individuals.
SSP has held an annual meeting since its formation, bringing together many participants in scholarly publishing including librarians, publishers, and scholarly societies. It also holds additional educational seminars, webinars, and a Librarian Focus Group during the year.
SSP maintains an active social media presence on LinkedIn, where its group has over 7000 members, Twitter, and Facebook.
The Scholarly Kitchen is an independent blog supported by SSP with a variety of contributors from the scholarly communications community. Contributions to the Scholarly Kitchen represent the thoughts and opinions of the various authors, and not those of the Society, which does not take political positions.
Learned Publishing is a journal published by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers in collaboration with SSP. Learned Publishing's readers are "not-for-profit and commercial publishers worldwide and members of other professions involved with scholarly publishing – librarians, academic authors and teachers, and subscription agents – as well as printers and other suppliers of services to book and journal publishers." SSP appoints the North American Editor of Learned Publishing.
SSP maintains a library of presentations from past events from 2009 to the present. Conference proceedings were published in book form in earlier years. SSP makes an online directory of members and services available to its members.
SSP is a volunteer-led organization run by an unpaid board of directors and committees. All volunteers must be SSP members in good standing.
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