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Charleston Library Conference 

Jan 30, 2023

Today we’re featuring a fascinating conversation with Kent Anderson, founder of Caldera Publishing Solutions, which provides strategic and business consulting for scientific and scholarly publishers. Kent also writes and edits the Geyser, a paid subscription e-newsletter covering  scholarly and scientific publishing...


Jan 24, 2023

Audio from the 2022 Charleston Conference brand new Leadership Interview Series. In this episode, Heather Staines, Senior Strategy Consultant, Delta Think and a Director for the Charleston Conference interviews Gary Price, co-Founder, InfoDJ, and Editor, InfoDOCKET.  Gary is also a librarian, consultant and...


Jan 16, 2023

Audio from the 2022 Charleston Library Conference from the session titled “Data-Driven DEI Perspectives; Know Where You Are, so You Know Where You Need to Go.” This session was presented by Heather Staines, Senior Consultant, Delta Think; Gwen Evans, VP of Global Library Relations, Elsevier; Beth Blanton, Director...


Jan 10, 2023

Today we’re featuring a fascinating conversation with Elliott Lumb, Founder and CEO of PeerRef, which is described as “a journal-independent open peer review platform.”  Elliott says that he had initially hoped to disrupt the traditional publishing process with PeerRef by assisting authors to post their work...