Small, But Mighty: The Role of Societies and Smaller Presses in the Scholarly Publishing Environment

Scholarly publishing, like all other media, is dominated by a group of major players (many of which became major by purchasing smaller companies). This webinar will explore how smaller presses and self-publishing professional societies compete for authors and audiences in this environment: • What advantages do they have? What are their major struggles? • How have technological changes and the shift to new publishing models, including open access models and transformative agreements, affected their business? • How do they evaluate when they should partner with other companies and when they should go it alone? • Has social media helped smaller publishers to level the playing field? These and other questions will be addressed by a panel of representatives from medical, technical, and humanities publishers. || Moderator: Shirley Decker-Lucke | Speakers: Kevin R. Garewal, Eren Gümrükçüoglu, Stephanie Williams, Elizabeth Munn