The weeklong combined event of the STM annual dinner and conference followed by the Frankfurt Book Fair can be an intensive affair. Thousands of publishers from around the world come together to discuss collaborations, technology, sales, challenges, and opportunities. For some, it offers a great opportunity to run into friends and colleagues in the scholarly […]

CACTUS participated in the biggest conference in academia last week. The 45th Annual Meeting of the Society of Scholarly Publishing (SSP) was organized in Portland this year and Nishchay Shah, Chirag Patel, Pablo Palmeiro, and I represented CACTUS. The sessions covered a lot of ground under the themes of transformation, trust, and transparency. In particular, […]

Publishers, Journals, and Societies (PJS) was identified as a key segment for CACTUS a few years ago.  We wanted to partner with some of  the biggest names in the industry—key players who shape the academic publishing landscape. I was given the task of building a team that understood the ground realities of these players and […]