SSP Fellowship program

The Society for Scholarly Publishing runs a Fellowship Program. “Each year, we invite future leaders into our organization to support them through mentorship, leadership, and collaboration, but it is our membership that benefits from the emerging generation and thought leadership of our Fellows.” This year the Career Development Committee of the SSP has selected twelve students from over seventy applicants from fifteen countries to receive their fellowship support. The committee assesses applicants on their “high level of engagement in their fields and a diverse range of skills in scholarly communications”. A few of the successful applicants are already employed in scholarly publishing. The SSP was founded in 1978. As they themselves claim “The mission of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is ‘to advance scholarly publishing and communication, and the professional development of its members through education, collaboration, and networking’.” The Fellowship program is funded…