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Charleston Trendspotting Initiative

Charleston Trendspotting Initiative
How can we stay ahead of the trends shaping scholarly communication, publishing, and academic libraries in an ever-evolving landscape? The Trendspotting Initiative is your chance to engage in a dynamic, hands-on exploration of the social, policy, economic, and technological shifts that are transforming our industry. Through interactive group discussions and activities, you’ll dive into the possible futures of trust, transparency, and innovation in scholarly communications. Together, we’ll explore questions such as: How likely are certain trends to disrupt our field, challenging our values? What are the best- and worst-case scenarios we could face in the coming years? And how can we collectively craft strategies to address these challenges? Join us for this lively and thought-provoking annual session, where creativity and critical thinking come together. Whether you're a first-timer or a returning participant, you’ll leave with fresh insights, practical strategies, and a renewed sense of direction as we imagine the future.
Publication Date
May 2025

47th Annual Meeting (2025)

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Although every year in the scholarly publishing ecosystem is a balancing act of innovation, optimization, and value creation, 2025 is shaping up to be particularly challenging as the pace and scale of change is accelerating more than we’ve ever seen before. There is increasing pressure to provide value to and to meet the incredibly diverse needs of the global research community while maintaining financial health for our own organizations, living our values, and continuing to protect the scholarly record. With AI, open access, integrity, and mistrust frequently dominating the conversation, we are in the midst of an unprecedented shift in both our industry and society as a whole. As always, the SSP community continues to focus on bringing together academics, funders, librarians, publishers, service providers, technologists, researchers and countless others with a communal interest and stake in disseminating scholarly information. We look to the 47th Annual Meeting as an opportunity to continue this tradition and welcome all colleagues and community stakeholders.