Early Career Publishers

The Early Career Publishers Committee comprises publishers from STM member companies interested in promoting outreach and engagement with entry-level and experienced publishers.   

We’re interested in learning more about you, your career and your aspirations within the publishing industry to tailor our offer directly to your needs.

 

A quick ask: help shape our programming

The STM Early Career Publishers Committee invites you to respond to the 2025 community survey. This year’s survey builds upon the 2021 survey results to better understand the backgrounds and needs of early career professionals in scholarly publishing today to drive programming and resources for the coming years.

Take the survey here!

Membership 

Any STM member organization can put forward colleagues for inclusion on the ECPC, and the committee size varies. Members are limited to two representatives from one geographical area and three total representatives each.

Early Career Professionals are defined by ECPC as anyone with ~0-10 years’ experience in the industry- age is not a factor. The ECPC does include some mid-career professionals as well.

Participation

If someone volunteers to participate in the ECPC they agree to work actively on assigned projects for a minimum of one year. All members are expected to assist with the Mentorship Scheme administration and one TFG. The lift is typically 2-5 hours per month including monthly committee and project calls which members are expected to participate in unless excused. Occasionally, the committee works on more robust initiatives which may require additional work hours.

We’re focused on 4 core areas of activity:

  • Career Development
  • Outreach
  • Mentoring
  • Graduate Publishing

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Committee

For more information on the Committee, please contact Lucy Derges; lucy@stm-assoc.org

  • Melody (Zhuxin) Zhang, Wiley (Chair)
  • Amanda Sulicz, IEEE (Vice Chair)
  • Lucy Derges, STM (Secretariat)
  • AnaMaria Ion-Kary, De Gruyter
  • Andrew Bostjancic, Taylor and Francis
  • Andrew Hyde, CUP
  • Becky Kitchen, BMJ
  • Caroline Sutton, STM
  • Costas Agalou, World Scientific
  • Erin Foley, Copyright Clearance Center
  • Gabie Bauman, CUP
  • Kathleen Hines, J&J Editorial, Wiley
  • Kayla Dos Santos, Elsevier 
  • Laura Bolte, J&J Editorial, Wiley 
  • Maribel Gomez, Copyright Clearance Center
  • Melissa Close, Emerald
  • Naamah Maundrell, Future Science Group
  • Rebecca Ciezarek, CSIRO Publishing
  • Rosanna Zolna, Taylor & Francis
  • Samantha Green, Silver Chair
  • Samantha Jacobs, IEEE
  • Samuel Goodchild, Springer Nature
  • Saskia Pronk, BMJ
  • Sena Evren, Springer Nature

 

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