The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has announced that twelve students and early-career professionals have been awarded highly competitive Fellowships for 2020. The Career Development Committee selected these outstanding individuals from a robust applicant pool across publishing, librarianship, and information science. Jiayun Wang, a 2018-year-grade doctor candidate majoring in Publishing and Distribution, was one of them. Jiayun Wang was one of the only two students among the 12 selected fellows, and she was also the first Chinese student selected by SSP since it established the program in 2011.

Jiayun Wang have spent her undergraduate years and graduate years in our school, and she served as the Chairman of the Graduate Students Association and Doctor Candidates’ Branch of our school. Her research direction is scientific exchange and academic publishing. She has visited Pace University in the USA and University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands for joint education. She has participated in top academic conferences at home and abroad, such as iConference and By the Book5. She has published 2 papers in SSCI journals and 10 papers in CSSCI journals. This fellowship will further broaden her international and industrial vision, and also reflect the high quality and international development of our graduate education, as well as the cultivation effect of international exchange and combination of industry, teaching and research.

In this fellowship, SSP invited Arend Küster as Jiayun Wang’s mentor. Arend Küster has worked in publishing for over 25 years, mainly in academic and professional journals. He currently is on the Council of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). Prior to joining Bloomsbury in London, Arend was the European Director for Publishers Communication Group (PCG) and developed Sales and Marketing Strategies for scientific, technical and medical (STM) publishers including Elsevier Science, Springer, American Physical Society, Taylor and Francis, Wiley Blackwell, University of Chicago Press, British Medical Journal, Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, Palgrave Macmillan and many others. He is particularly excited about developing sustainable and innovative publishing processes which work with new technologies to improve access to information.

About the Society for Scholarly Publishing^*

The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), founded in 1978, is a nonprofit organization formed to promote and advance communication among all sectors of the scholarly publication community through networking, information dissemination, and facilitation of new developments in the field. SSP members represent all aspects of scholarly publishing—including publishers, printers, e-products developers, technical service providers, librarians, and editors. SSP members come from a wide range of large and small commercial and nonprofit organizations. They meet at SSP’s annual meetings, educational seminars, and regional events to hear the latest trends from respected colleagues and to discuss common and mutual (and sometimes divergent) goals and viewpoints.

* Information is from the webpagehttps://www.sspnet.org/community/news/society-for-scholarly-publishing-awards-2020-fellows/