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47th Annual Meeting (2025)

Although every year in the scholarly publishing ecosystem is a balancing act of innovation, optimization, and value creation, 2025 is shaping up to be particularly challenging as the pace and scale of change is accelerating more than we’ve ever seen before. There is increasing pressure to provide value to and to meet the incredibly diverse needs of the global research community while maintaining financial health for our own organizations, living our values, and continuing to protect the scholarly record. With AI, open access, integrity, and mistrust frequently dominating the conversation, we are in the midst of an unprecedented shift in both our industry and society as a whole. As always, the SSP community continues to focus on bringing together academics, funders, librarians, publishers, service providers, technologists, researchers and countless others with a communal interest and stake in disseminating scholarly information. We look to the 47th Annual Meeting as an opportunity to continue this tradition and welcome all colleagues and community stakeholders.

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2025 Previews: New and Noteworthy Product Presentations

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Join us once again for SSP Previews! This "lightning round" plenary offers the chance to learn more about the industry's newest and most innovative products, platforms, and/or content in 5-minute, back-to-back presentations. Attendees will leave with exposure to a wide breadth of content on new and updated products of interest to the scholarly publishing community. We will have interactive polling for the attendees to vote for the "Best Innovation," so don't miss this opportunity to make your voice heard! Moderators: Jude Perera, Associate Director of Global Strategic Partnerships, Wiley Elysia Williams, Senior Account Manager, Aries Systems Corporation Participating Organizations: Copyright Clearance Center DataSeer Research Data Services, Ltd Impelsys Kriyadocs Kudos LibLynx ORCID Typefi Systems, Inc. Virtusales
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2025: Oxford-Style Debate: AI Is Fair Use

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This Oxford-Style debate will see two leaders in our industry debating the resolution “AI is Fair Use” with the winner based on audience votes before vs. after the debate. Don’t miss this exciting final session for the conference where your participation will decide the outcome!
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Addressing Research Integrity with Identity Verification

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Most scholarly publishers require little more than a working email address to allow users to submit manuscripts for peer review that can become part of the permanent scientific record. This implicit trust in researcher identities is being exploited in several ways, including authors recommending fake peer reviewers or claiming false co-authors, and researchers using fake identities to become guest editors. This session will explore how and why researcher identity is being exploited in editorial processes, engaging attendees in an open dialog about how our community can tackle these issues. We will present the recommendations of a cross-industry working group for applying more stringent identity verification steps throughout the peer review process. These recommendations reflect the wide disparity in access to technologies across our global community, and provide publishers with a flexible framework to determine the level of risk within their editorial processes, and the verification workflows that are appropriate.
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Breaking the Silos: Using AI to Fuse Copyright Law, Academic Knowledge, and Commercial Innovation

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This session will discuss how scholarly publishers and stakeholders can utilize AI to unite these domains, ensuring respect for content creators’ intellectual property (IP) rights, enhancing academic knowledge access, and unlocking new commercial possibilities.
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Business Processes for Sustainable Open Access: Recommended Practices for Institutions, Research Funders, and Publishers

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The volume of open access (OA) content has proliferated in recent years, but the systems and workflows used by publishers and librarians were designed for traditional, pay-to-read models. Business processes are currently inadequate to address the requirements of—for example—transformative agreements, which require complex financial management and the tracking of authors and publishing outputs across large institutions. In this session, three community leaders, all recognized for their respective roles in developing and maintaining the scholarly infrastructure supporting OA content, will present outputs from NISO’s Open Access Business Processes Working Group. They will outline the group’s draft Recommended Practice, which offers guidelines for publishers, institutions, and authors on the workflows, metadata, metrics, and reporting for OA content, and share how their conversations with the community have shaped their plans. They will also invite session participants to provide feedback on their progress to date.
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Charleston Trendspotting Initiative

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How can we stay ahead of the trends shaping scholarly communication, publishing, and academic libraries in an ever-evolving landscape? The Trendspotting Initiative is your chance to engage in a dynamic, hands-on exploration of the social, policy, economic, and technological shifts that are transforming our industry. Through interactive group discussions and activities, you’ll dive into the possible futures of trust, transparency, and innovation in scholarly communications. Together, we’ll explore questions such as: How likely are certain trends to disrupt our field, challenging our values? What are the best- and worst-case scenarios we could face in the coming years? And how can we collectively craft strategies to address these challenges? Join us for this lively and thought-provoking annual session, where creativity and critical thinking come together. Whether you're a first-timer or a returning participant, you’ll leave with fresh insights, practical strategies, and a renewed sense of direction as we imagine the future.
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Delivering Value at a Mission-Driven Organization: Some Case Studies

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Delivering value is—or should be—just as important to mission-driven organizations in scholarly publishing and communications as it is to their commercial counterparts. However, the values associated with being mission-driven can sometimes seem to be at odds with the need to deliver value to a customer or end-user. For example, if being open is part of your mission, how do you balance that with the need for organizational sustainability? How do you decide what it’s appropriate to charge for, and how much people should pay? How can you demonstrate the value of your organization to your stakeholders, especially if you also rely on them to support your mission as volunteers? In this session, speakers from several mission-driven organizations will discuss how being mission-driven can make a real difference to how they think about, and deliver value to their communities.
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Diversification and Decentralization of Peer Review

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A research article can be seen as a conversation between scholars. In the past this conversation took place almost exclusively between privileged colleagues, and more recently as part of the anonymous peer review process. Today technology allows this conversation to take place in the open, in forums like preprint servers, and the conversation can be ongoing with post publication commenting. There are multiple providers of “community peer review” offering various services targeted at different parts of the scholarly communications ecosystem, from preprint servers to journal peer review to post-publication commenting. These providers are not only pushing boundaries on how peer review is conducted, many are also expanding what peer reviewers look like, bringing in more diversity and working to train early career researchers. In this session we examine various types of experiments, how these services can help diversify science, and how their efforts are contributing to trust and integrity.
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Drowning in Submissions? Smart Guide to AI-powered Peer Review (The Only Answer to the Deluge)

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As scholarly publishing grapples with an unprecedented submission volume crisis (22 million peer reviews annually consuming 130 million reviewer hours), innovative publishers are turning to frontier AI to help editors and eliminate workflow steps. This practical session will showcase stories from leading publishers who are developing their editorial workflows with the latest technology. Publishers will discuss and learn more about: Strategic approaches to integrating new tools/technologies into editorial workflows Data-driven frameworks for measuring AI implementation success and calculating ROI Practical solutions to common technical and cultural adoption challenges Proven strategies for getting skeptical authors, editors, and reviewers on board with AI-assisted workflows
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Experiments in Community Engagement at the Society Associations

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This session aims to showcase society publishers' community engagement projects that have achieved real results. It will feature case studies from ASCB, ASM, FASEB, and AGU, highlighting their innovative approaches. The ASCB initiative provides guaranteed peer review for members, increasing submissions. ASM focuses on community-building through a sustainable open-access publishing model. FASEB has established an Early Career Researcher editorial board to enhance diversity and inclusion, expanding their team to over 100 members. AGU's Thriving Earth Exchange program and the Community Science Exchange platform support local communities by connecting them with researchers to address community priorities and sharing project reports and peer-reviewed articles. Speakers will engage attendees in dialogue to help them develop their community engagement proposals.
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From Chaos to Clarity: GraphRAG, AI, and Process Orchestration

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Artificial intelligence has become an inescapable reality in scholarly publishing, prompting many organizations to implement AI solutions without clear strategy or structure. As a result, we now face a fragmented landscape of AI initiatives that often create more problems than they solve, from inconsistent decision-making to unpredictable outcomes and mounting technical debt. Process orchestration, combined with Graph-based Retrieval Augmented Generation (GraphRAG), offers a sophisticated path forward. Process orchestration provides the essential structure and control that AI implementations desperately need, while GraphRAG empowers AI systems with crucial context by leveraging the intricate network of relationships within publishing data. This powerful combination enables publishers to move beyond simple automation to truly intelligent workflows that enhance rather than complicate existing processes. Through real-world publishing examples, we'll demonstrate how process modeling creates the framework for effective AI deployment. You'll learn practical ways to identify AI touchpoints in your workflows, enhance them with GraphRAG capabilities, and implement the controls needed for quality and transparency. We'll explore specific applications in peer review, content classification, and author services, showing how these technologies work together to create reliable, scalable solutions. Join us to discover how leading publishers are bringing structure and purpose to their AI initiatives through systematic, process-first approaches. Whether you're beginning your AI journey or refining existing projects, you'll gain actionable strategies for orchestrating intelligent publishing processes that deliver measurable results.
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From Pencils to Processors: How AI is Cracking the Peer Review Puzzle

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The growth in research publications has increased the demand for peer reviews, placing pressure on the academic community. In 2023 alone, MDPI processed over 1.5 million peer-review reports for 290,000 published articles. Artificial intelligence (AI) applications revolutionised content generation and introduced powerful tools for the scientific community. However, alongside these advancements come challenges, such as the misuse of AI to generate fraudulent content, posing new hurdles for publishers. Legitimate questions about the value of the written word are raised. This session will explore how AI is transforming the peer review process, enhancing both speed and efficiency while identifying suitable reviewers for each manuscript. Beyond peer review, AI solutions are unlocking a wide range of applications, including content analysis and ethical checks. Our tools for reviewer matching and ethical checks exemplify how AI is being deployed to support editors, reviewers, and authors in maintaining scholarly publishing integrity and quality.
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Going Beyond “Just Trust the Science”: Innovations in Science Communication

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This session will look at how methods of scientific communication affect trust in published research and its societal impact, in addition to the importance of public trust to publishers, researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and communities. Communicators at all levels of the scientific process, from the individual researcher trying to break through the noise, to the communications professionals getting science to journalists, policymakers and the public, will discuss how they think about science communication, what methods are most effective and least effective, and how open access and AI might affect these variables.
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Harnessing AI for Discovery: Analyzing Impact Across Library Users and Insights from Publishers

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How is artificial intelligence transforming the way researchers discover and engage with scholarly content? This session explores the impact of AI-powered tools on discovery and usage through the lens of JSTOR’s 18-month pilot of an interactive research tool. Attendees will gain insights from key data and real-world applications that demonstrate how AI-enabled tools have impacted content discoverability user engagement, and addressed persistent challenges in scholarly publishing and academic libraries.
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How Lessons Learned from Shark Research, Conservation, and Education Can Help Advance Scholarly Communications

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How Libraries and Publishers are Advancing Accessible Scholarly Publishing Amidst Evolving Legislation

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During this session, we will explore themes including how authors can best contribute to accessibility, the opportunities and limitations presented by automation and Generative AI, and the intersection between accessibility and copyright.
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How Publishers and Librarians Can Work Together to Support Early Career Researchers

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Early Career Researchers (ECRs) are at the heart of the future of research. They bring fresh perspectives and unique insights, but often lack the support, publishing experience, and connections that more experienced researchers have. With up to 80% or more of ECRs pursuing a career outside academia post PhD, much of the research created by ECRs goes unpublished. This is a significant loss to the knowledge creation infrastructure. This panel brings together publishers and librarians to discuss how we can work together to better support ECRs throughout their different career paths and ensure that their key insights are not lost but rather amplified. Panelists will address: • how we can better bridge the gap between libraries, research offices, and publishers • rethink the division of labor between libraries, research offices and departments • make better use of the resources that our publishing editors have at their disposal to support ECRs
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How Researchers Are Embracing AI Search: A Growth Opportunity for Journal Publishers

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How Researchers Are Embracing AI Search: A Growth Opportunity for Journal Publishers

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Managing research integrity is an ever-growing challenge for scholarly publishers. In this session, we’ll explore how Dimensions Author Check, an innovative new solution from Digital Science, can speed up your author identification processes, protect your editorial credibility, and demonstrate your commitment to ethical publishing Powered by the world’s most comprehensive research integrity dataset available, Dimensions Author Check enables you to quickly review researchers’ publication histories and collaboration networks, flagging potential concerns such as retractions, expressions of concern, or unusual collaboration patterns. By identifying integrity issues early, you can prevent low-quality research from being published and preserve the integrity of the academic record. Join us for an engaging session that combines best practices with cutting-edge technology solutions. This breakout is a must-attend for anyone dedicated to advancing trust in scholarly research.
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LLMs: Redefining "Value" while Upholding "Values"

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For the past two years, we’ve explored Generative AI’s evolving role—from demystifying LLMs to enabling AI-human collaboration. Now, in this third session of our series, we go deeper—not just into technology, but into the values that guide its use. When LLMs arrived with hype, we asked: Does this add value? Can we trust it? Is it aligned with human intent? These questions led us to train our own models, rethink processes, and redefine "value" while staying true to our values. We’ll share insights from building a Gen AI-based taxonomy solution, highlighting lessons from overcoming challenges and turning setbacks into breakthroughs. Beyond theory, we’ll showcase real-world use cases where AI augments human intelligence. Join us to push boundaries while keeping people at the center, balancing innovation with ethics, and navigating the Gen AI frontier with confidence.
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Measure with My Heart: Outcomes over Outputs

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In our industry, a premium is often placed -- or misplaced -- on measuring outputs (something delivered or completed) over outcomes (benefits or consequences of an output). Outputs are things counted as finished (in a specific moment in time), whereas outcomes are a measure of value delivered (over time to many different people). This lively, interactive, fun session will involve small group activities. After a discussion of what constitutes an outcome and an output, and why the difference matters, we will break into small groups and draft meaningful, outcome-based measures of impact. Each group will write its own outcome statements for specific scenarios, with help from our talented facilitators, and will then share these with the full room. Participants will learn why outcomes matter more than outputs by engaging in collaborative discussion with other attendees. They will leave ready to think more about outcomes when creating goals for individuals, teams, or organizations.
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Measuring Success and Ensuring Progress: Accountability and Metrics in DEIA Programs

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To ensure diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) programs are successful, organizations must have strategies and procedures to measure progress toward goals. In line with the conference theme of intersecting value with values, this session aims to spotlight real-world examples of measuring progress toward DEIA goals, including notable successes and opportunities for improvement. Topics include an approach to assessing and improving employee experiences around the globe, demographic data collection and use, and efforts to analyze the success and impact of a pathway-building editorial fellowship program and uptake of DEIA journal policies. Attendees will gain insight into building measurable DEIA programs in their teams or organizations to ensure accountability and promote meaningful progress against stated DEIA values. Sponsored by the SSP DEIA Committee.
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Moderated Discussion: Preserving Our Value(s): Scholarly Publishing in a Changing World

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In an increasingly chaotic landscape, scholarly publishers must remain committed to their values while adapting to emerging issues. This candid plenary session brings together C-level leaders—from a commercial publisher, a society publisher, a university press, and a library—to explore the critical role of scholarly communication in today’s world. Panelists will tackle questions around research integrity, business models, government mandates, AI, and the role of disruptors. Together, they’ll examine whether the values that underpin our work continue to benefit society—and what we can do if they don't. Attendees will leave with a realistic view of the challenges ahead, but also a renewed sense of possibility and purpose for how scholarly publishers can adapt, lead, and continue to deliver value in a shifting landscape.
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Navigating the AI Frontier: Developing Robust Governance Policies for Publishers, Authors, and Reviewers

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This session will delve into the transformative impact of AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) on scholarly publishing, with a particular focus on enhancing search output and discovery. We will analyze the challenges and advantages these technologies present to traditional publisher websites. By highlighting real-world case studies, the session will showcase insights from publishers who have successfully integrated AI into their operations, including the development of effective governance policies. Our panelists will candidly share their experiences—discussing the obstacles they encountered, the innovative solutions they implemented, and the resulting effects of their policies on various stakeholders within the scholarly publishing ecosystem.
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Non-profits Navigating the Storm: How Non-APC Models are Becoming a Lifeline for Non-profit Publishing Sustainability

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This panel discussion will focus on how and why non-profit publishers are taking these approaches, the risks involved, what works/doesn't, and what the prognosis for long term sustainability looks like. This will be a moderated discussion facilitating audience participation.
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Optimizing Publishing Infrastructure: A Case Study of ASM and ACS

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Publishing infrastructure—which includes submission and peer review platforms, production and finance systems, author dashboards, and any other underlying systems that different users interact with throughout the publishing process—is essential to publishers running their business. Well-connected publishing infrastructure enables publishers to differentiate themselves and can enhance the experience for all users—authors, reviewers, editors, and administrators. In this session, we will discuss the concept of atomizing publishing infrastructure and connecting it under a single platform, thereby enabling publishers to introduce new, innovative capabilities such as custom pre-submission checks or chosen research integrity screenings, without having to deal with constraints from legacy systems. We will hear from speakers from the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and the American Chemical Society (ACS), two organizations that have modernized their publishing workflows by de-coupling submissions from peer review, and connecting different systems on the ChronosHub platform, thereby unifying their user journey and maintaining operational flexibility. We will highlight successes and challenges, and discuss improvements that simplify submissions, enhance efficiency, and enable seamless integration with different peer review and other systems
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Prevention of Systematic Manipulation at Scale: Setting a Proactive Strategy

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Threats to research and publishing integrity have become increasingly complex over the last two decades. Bad actors are more sophisticated at circumventing established integrity checks, online networks now easily facilitate authorship and citation for sale schemes. Researchers face the challenges of a “publish or perish” system, and generative AI makes content generation easier than ever. This session aims to explore a comprehensive set of strategies from a diverse set of speakers dedicated to ensuring quality of research and trust in the integrity of the scholarly record. Building on a related 2023 session, this panel would turn its focus to how research integrity breaches are prevented at scale, rather than how they are addressed post-publication. Importantly, the elements of such a preventative strategy need to work together and cannot rely on one single approach. They include community thought leadership efforts, such as the United2Act initiative; technology that aides in early identification of broad scale integrity concerns ahead of publication; the development of new policies tailored to scale; and supporting editorial leadership in adopting standardized workflows. Maintaining the trust of readers and preventing reputational damage has never been more imperative for journal publishers, editors, and academic institutions. The audience will gain a deeper understanding of the challenges posed by systematic manipulation and the proactive and collaborative strategies underway to address them effectively.
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Publishers and Funders: Future of Manuscript Review and Proposal Evaluation

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The leaders from funding agencies and publishing houses will engage in an open dialogue about their synergistic relationship. These sectors not only depend on each other but continuously exchange data, initiatives, and human resources to further advance science. As both navigate the challenges of finding qualified reviewers, ensuring unbiased evaluation processes, and maintaining diversity in academic assessment, what can they ask from each other to enhance efficiency across both domains? The discussion will explore how emerging technologies and shared data resources could bridge operational gaps while maintaining the integrity of both grant and peer review processes. Attendees will gain valuable insights into potential synergies between funders and publishers that could streamline the advancement of research.
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Real World Results on Peer Review: Pilot Study Indicates a Solution

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In the scholarly publishing world, peer review is essential to the quality and credibility of academic publications. However, there are challenges in finding reviewers, educating peer reviewers, and obtaining useful peer reviewer reports within a reasonable time period. 2 Publishers, 1 Editor in Chief, and 1 Submission Platform Technologist will discuss how the introduction of a structured peer review process (SPR) can decrease peer review time and increase the quality of peer review reports. Get an inside look into the development of a structured peer review program in a pilot study across twenty-three journals. Attendees will gain insights into the study results and learn the 9 structured peer review questions that yielded a 92% reviewer-response rate, so that they can reproduce in their own submission systems. After attending this session, attendees will be able to develop and evaluate a structured peer-review process in their own publications.
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Reimagine Peer Review with KGL Smart Review®

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The peer review process is facing mounting challenges, including rising submission volumes, compliance with open data mandates, and combating unethical actors like paper mills and citation cartels. Smart Review, KGL’s efficient, user-friendly platform, is a new AI-driven tool that empowers the administration, accuracy, speed, and integrity of peer review. Now publishers can automate submission checks and fraud detection, as well as track turnaround times across multiple journals in real time in a unified environment integrated with major manuscript platforms and research integrity services. Join industry experts and visionaries from KGL, integration partners, and peer review leaders as they discuss how AI-driven automation is reimagining manual processes and reliability in research evaluation. Panelists will share real-world insights on reducing turnaround times, enhancing journal oversight, detecting research misconduct, ensuring reproducibility, and maintaining the highest ethical standards in publishing. This session is essential for publishers, editors, and technology professionals seeking to stay ahead in the evolving world of academic peer review. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how KGL’s unique combination of human expertise, intelligent automation, and third-party integrations is paving the way for a more efficient and secure ecosystem for scholarly publishers.
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Rethinking the Current: Swimming Upstream with XML to Transform Submission, Peer Review, and Production

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This session will explore how XML-first workflows add value throughout the publishing workflow and are not just of benefit once an accepted paper goes into production. Kriyadocs has developed next-generation submission and peer review capabilities which take full advantage of the value offered by delivering full-text XML at the outset of the publishing process. We will share how Kriyadocs can help authors to collaborate with each other; provide fast automated checks on language quality, structure, and integrity risks; accurately extract metadata during submission to save time and improve quality; and support a more flexible, granular approach to publishing research outputs. Join us to see how you can future-proof your publishing!
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Revolutionizing Scholarly Publishing: Practical Applications from the CACTUS AI Solutions Playground

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Discover how the CACTUS AI Solutions Playground is revolutionizing scholarly publishing workflows. This session will explore innovative AI-driven tools designed to enhance accessibility, searchability, research integrity, and content optimization. Attendees will gain insights into practical applications such as: Alt Text Generator: Automatically produces descriptive alt text for images, improving accessibility for visually impaired readers. AI Summary: Creates plain language summaries that distill complex research into digestible content, broadening audience reach. Multilingual Audio: Converts research content into audio formats across various languages, catering to a global audience. Generative AI Search: Utilizes AI to provide concise, evidence-based responses to research queries, complete with exact sources from pertinent papers. Concept Extraction: Employs natural language processing to identify key phrases, enhancing discovery and recommendation capabilities. Through demonstrations and case studies, participants will learn how these tools can be integrated into existing workflows to streamline operations and elevate content quality.
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STM goes to Washington: The Scientific Method Meets the Political Process

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The first year of a new Congress, coupled with a new presidential administration, is an opportunity for advocacy, and ideally for progress. As a follow-up to previous "STM goes to Washington" SSP sessions in Portland and Boston, this year's panel will provide an update on the policy landscape for STM priorities in both the White House and the 119th Congress. The panel features a mix of STM professionals and publisher-adjacent specialists with expertise in government affairs, public policy, and science advocacy. Expected topics include the status of grants and agency funding; AI legislation; the implementation of public access plans; and the increasing degree to which lawmakers use science as a "culture war" topic. Given the volume of breaking news, discussion points are subject to change. Overall, the session will cover the STM-related workings of the United States federal government and encourage participants to engage in the legislative process.
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Safeguarding Research Integrity: Enhancing Identity Verification and Accountability with RICS

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The Research Integrity Checks (RIC) platform addresses a critical gap in scholarly publishing by integrating multiple research integrity tools into a unified platform. Developed by HighWire Press and MPS Labs, RICS offers a comprehensive dashboard that streamlines integrity checks within the DigiCorePro submission system and as a standalone tool. Researcher identity is vital in evaluating research integrity. A key feature of RIC is identity verification, ensuring authenticity of authors, editors, and reviewers throughout the entire publishing process. It validates users by examining data from ORCID IDs, IP addresses, retraction histories, conflicts of interest, funding disclosures and more. By integrating resources like Crossref, Retraction Watch, PubMed and Open Alex, RIC centralizes identity checks, reducing reliance on fragmented tools. With configurable scoring and thresholds, RIC helps detect integrity concerns, maintaining publication quality. By generating XML metadata to document these checks, RIC enhances transparency, trust, and efficiency in research publishing.
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Scholarly Publishing Shark Tank: Where to Invest to Achieve Our Goals

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Investing in scholarly publishing requires thoughtful and strategic prioritization, especially given the numerous critical areas demanding attention—ranging from research integrity and publishing workflows to content discovery. How can organizations best allocate resources to secure a successful future for themselves and the broader scholarly publishing landscape? This session will explore investment strategies and frameworks relevant to organizations of all sizes. To put these strategies into practice, we’ll engage in an interactive “Scholarly Publishing Shark Tank," answering key questions around the partnerships, resources, and technological capabilities necessary for success. Our panelists, taking on dual roles as "Sharks," will divide attendees into groups, each tasked with developing a pitch on how to invest one million dollars. How will these aspiring innovators respond to tough questions and unexpected challenges posed by our Sharks?
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Scholarly Publishing and the Law: Copyright, Contracts, and Why You May Need a Lawyer!

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The law impacts scholarly publishing in important ways, particularly with regard to contracts and copyright issues. This session will give you a better understanding of these aspects of the law, why they’re important, what to be on the lookout for, and why you might need professional legal advice. Topics addressed will include: contract formation, contract terms, contract termination, copyright ownership and protections, rights conveyed between author and publisher, protecting rights and consequences of copyright infringement, licensing, copyright and AI-generated content, avoiding pitfalls, and when to call an attorney. There will be ample time for a Q&A session with the panel, which includes scholarly publishing professionals and attorneys.
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Small, but Mighty: Maintaining and Elevating the Value of Humanities Content through Strategic Partnerships

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The missions of small publishers and university presses are not just big at heart—they are ambitious, impactful, and play a huge role in shaping trusted humanities and social sciences (h/ss) scholarship. From flagship journals published in university departments and societies to award-winning books from university presses, small publishers are contributing to publishing on a mighty scale. These publishers bring a wealth of history, editorial experience, and top authors but also take on financial risks. How do small publishers maintain the value of their content amidst shrinking budgets and the devaluing of h/ss research? This panel will explore how small publishers create and distribute content through community collaborations and strategic partnerships. Panelists will discuss the value of h/ss content and how partnerships can amplify groundbreaking ideas, reflect DEIA priorities, and enhance discoverability. Attendees will leave with strategies for building impactful partnerships that increase the reach and influence of h/ss scholarship.
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Teaming Up to Transform: Scaling Responsible AI through Strategic Partnerships

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Artificial Intelligence is reshaping scholarly publishing, and effective partnerships are key to scaling responsible AI solutions. This session offers practical strategies for developing partnerships both within and outside the industry. Through real-world case studies and expert insights, participants will learn strategies to drive collaboration that accelerates innovation while upholding ethical standards.
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The Role of GenAI in Peer Review - Balancing Innovation and Integrity

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Speakers will discuss how GenAI is being integrated into peer review processes, examining both the benefits and challenges. They will consider AI's potential to enhance efficiency, improve accuracy, and reduce bias, while also discussing concerns related to over-reliance on technology, ethical considerations, and the need for transparency. Automated submission screening and desk review checks can swiftly filter out manuscripts that do not meet basic criteria; reviewer matching algorithms ensure that manuscripts are assigned to the most suitable reviewers. Workflow optimization tools further streamline the review process by managing deadlines, sending reminders, and tracking progress, however, generative AI (GenAI) tools are not yet widely (if at all?) integrated into publisher peer review workflows, and many publisher policies restrict reviewers from using publicly availably GenAI in the peer review process. These policies may overlook the benefits that a private and secure GenAI tool could bring to review efficiency and insight. To address these concerns, publishers should be considering the implementation of transparent, traceable, and secure GenAI workflows within the peer review system. Ensuring that GenAI’s role within peer review is fully documented and subject to human oversight will help maintain trust and accountability, whilst also bringing resource efficiencies. The session will close with a demo of the Enago Read AI Peer Review Assistant workspace which provides for AI supported contextually appropriate peer review analysis within a structured peer review form, with the benefits of literature summarization, co-pilot paper querying, reference analysis and related papers suggestions.
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The Sculptor’s Chisel, The Editor’s Tool: Introducing Typefi Orion

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When René Magritte painted The Treachery of Images with its declaration “This is not a pipe,” he challenged us to confront the beautiful imprecision of language and representation. Similarly, when Banksy framed an ordinary water pipe with the text “This is a pipe,” he playfully inverted this premise. And how does Michelangelo’s approach to sculpture—seeing his task not as creating but as liberating figures already present within marble—parallel the work of skilled editors? Just as artists have evolved their tools and techniques over centuries, editorial tools have undergone their own transformation. From the earliest punctuation marks that evolved from simple breath indicators to sophisticated tools for conveying meaning, editors have relied on an evolving toolkit to perform their craft. As Inera eXtyles approaches its end-of-life date of August 13, 2026, Typefi invites editors and publishing professionals to explore the next evolution in editorial tools and contribute their perspectives on the changing landscape. This session presents an exclusive technology demonstration of Typefi Orion, an editorial automation platform that honors the craftsmanship of editing while embracing emerging technologies. Drawing on over two decades of expertise in publishing workflows and content automation, Typefi has created a solution that bridges traditional editorial practices with cloud-based innovations, freeing editors to focus on the art of their craft rather than mechanical processes. Join us for an interactive session that promises both philosophical insight and practical solutions for scholarly publishers working with JATS, BITS, and STS. Your voice matters in shaping the future of editorial automation.
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Transforming ScholarOne: The Evolution of Publishing Workflows

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In November of 2024, Silverchair acquired ScholarOne, a vital piece of the publishing infrastructure ecosystem. With one third of the world's scientific output flowing through ScholarOne, there is a massive opportunity to modernize, find efficiencies, and harness the potential of new technology to ease the burden of authors, reviewers, editors, and publishers. In this session, the Silverchair and ScholarOne leadership teams will share what we've learned in the first six months of our integration, and where we're planning to take the ScholarOne workflows. Built on a foundation of Silverchair's service-oriented culture and robust partnerships with the publisher community, the future of ScholarOne will be marked by greater flexibility, collaboration and investment into solutions for everything from research integrity to improving standards and accelerating time to publish.
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Trends in Academic Publishing 2025

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Patrick Shafe will be joined on stage by Simone Taylor, Chief of Publishing at the American Psychiatric Association, and Jennifer Regala, Associate Director at Wolters Kluwer Health, to explore key trends impacting academic publishing. The panel will examine findings from Deanta's 2025 Trends in Academic Publishing Survey, with special focus on the technological evolution taking place in the industry over the past two years. The discussion will highlight how this period represents a crucial inflection point for publishers, examining the acceleration of AI adoption, digital transformation, and emerging business models that are fundamentally changing how academic content is created, distributed, and consumed.
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What Really Motivates Researchers to Make Real-World Impact?

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A recent survey of more than 1,000 social and behavioral scientists reveals to what extent researchers are motivated to make their work impactful outside of academia and how the leadership at their institutions incentivize and reward (or not) that kind of effort. In a highly interactive presentation, we will reveal the responses to this survey, polling audience members and comparing audience expectations with the survey responses from researchers. A discussion amongst panelists and audience members that follows will address: How researchers feel about making impact on society and what they think their peers feel How publisher metrics may or may not reflect the aims of researchers and where this use and its motivations might be misaligned The role that others in the scholarly ecosystem play in motivating researchers to make impact What technologies exist to support publishers who want to enable the creation of impactful research
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What Smaller Publishers Need from Tech Vendors to Level Up

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As the duties and expectations of scholarly publishers keep expanding at an unprecedented rate, emerging technologies present vital opportunities for smaller publishers to do more with less. The challenge for smaller publishers trying to level up in response to industry changes — from new metadata standards to expanding research integrity checks — is finding software and service solutions tailored to publishing programs with limited bandwidth and budgetary resources. How can vendors best support their unique needs? During this panel-style session, smaller publishers and vendors will come together to discuss how each party is thinking about critical publishing issues and how they can most effectively work together, with a focus on: - Peer review and publishing workflow optimization - Metadata management and interoperability - Research integrity in the age of AI
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Where to Start? Talking with Authors About Open Access

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Authors are one of the most important stakeholders in the scholarly publishing landscape. Yet many struggle to fully understand the transition toward open access and how this publication option affects their scholarship and their individual careers. In this session three HSS authors with experience in open publishing across different modes–one through the TOME program for open access monographs, one through the open access journal of a scholarly society, and one through the Path to Open open access book pilot–will share their own experiences in deciding to pursue open access publication. They will address the questions and concerns they encountered along the way and provide recommendations for productive conversations with their peers. Also joining the conversation is a librarian with expertise in open access who will share experiences and offer suggestions for successful engagement with authors across disciplines.