This summer, the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) introduced a new program, the Communities of Interest Network. With the aim of connecting scholarly communications professionals who share particular areas of expertise and focus, SSP Executive Director Melanie Dolechek explained in a recent post for The Scholarly Kitchen that, “Communities of interest will rely on virtual (or occasionally face-to-face) meetings and web-based collaborative environments to communicate, connect, and conduct community discussions and activities.”
One of the two pilot communities is for Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Publishing Professionals. Facilitated by Laura Ansley, Managing Editor at the American Historical Association, and Dawn Durante, Editor-in-Chief at the University of Texas Press, the HSS community will support the distinctive concerns and issues facing disciplines, fields, and publishing professionals often in the minority of scholarly publishing.
Read more: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/08/25/the-ssp-humanities-community-network-lifts-off/