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46th Annual Meeting

"Inflection Point: Setting the Course for the Future of Scholarly Communication" Huge growth in proposals and publications, a greater focus on researchers as both author and reader, evolving open access publishing models, and the urgent need for equity and inclusion are disrupting traditional publishing infrastructure and processes. In addition, the explosive capabilities of artificial intelligence will likely disrupt every facet of scholarly communication, but represent both opportunities and threats. We are at an inflection point—our decisions will determine both the value we deliver as an industry, as well as the values we reflect as a community.

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Building a Best-in-Class Workflow: Auditing, Streamlining, Standardizing

29:12

As organizations plan for the future of scholarly communication, it is understandable that workflows and systems will need to evolve. Change management can present several challenges and it can be difficult to know where to start and what to prioritize. In this session, we will present case studies that highlight key steps for making workflows more efficient and streamlined. We will present both systems and workflow standardizations that we've used to set journals up for success and improve the overall author experience. A few key topics that will be considered will include publishing operation assessments, optimizing system integrations, introducing changes to key stakeholders, and customizing a plan of action that fits the overall strategic needs of your organization.
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2024 Previews Session: New and Noteworthy Product Presentations

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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! Participating Organizations: Aries Systems Corporation, arXiv, Atypon/Wiley, ChronosHub, Clear Skies Ltd, CLOCKSS, Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), Infolinx, Sage, Silverchair
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AI in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: From Research to Dissemination

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AI is set to transform scholarly publishing, from the way scholars conduct research throughout the publishing workflow and supply chain. For scholarly book publishers, in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, AI presents distinct challenges and opportunities. In this panel we will discuss the ethical and practical implications of AI in the arts, humanities and social sciences from the perspective of a researcher, digital librarian, and publisher. The panelists will present case studies to illustrate the ways they are each using AI to enhance and enrich metadata and improve data discoverability, and will also highlight the distinct operational opportunities and challenges that exist for book publishers. In this panel, we invite industry experts to share their thoughts on where we are now and what the future might hold. Mixed-learning: Includes both applied and strategic perspectives on an issue; appropriate for those with at least some experience of the subject area seeking a mix of immediate/practical and future/planning information.
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Are Online Events the Next Scholarly Content Type? A Case Study with the American Medical Association

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Webinars, broadcasts, screenings: interactive online events are everywhere in scholarly communications. But they're also nowhere in particular. Lost between platforms, random logins and expired links, events are as hard for publisher and society staff to put together as they are for attendees to attend them. What if scholarly online events were run directly on their natural home, content platforms and society websites, and powered by streamlined workflows? Can the scholarly record be co-created in real-time with your audience? Do interactive experiences with your audience show the long-term value of a publisher and the limits of AI? Discover how the American Medical Association, in partnership with Cadmore Media, has developed and is growing AMA Broadcast, an online event management platform that allows the society to run highly successful webinar programs with high production value, sophisticated moderation tools, and powerful workflows, from scheduling to final on-demand publication.
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Building Inclusive Community-Based Models for Open Humanistic Scholarship

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This session offers two case studies for community-based models that bring together diverse expertise to support open and innovative humanistic scholarship. Path to Open, a three-year pilot hosted by JSTOR, tests a new funding model for open access monographs. In 2023 the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) launched a mixed-stakeholder community forum that offers guidance to JSTOR in developing transparent policies and creating a sustainable structure beyond the pilot. The forum aims to build a more equitable model for open monograph publishing. "Advancing HBCU Scholarship, Diversifying Digital Publishing" is a collaboration among the HBCU Library Alliance, Brown University Digital Publications (BUDP), and the University of Michigan Press to build capacity for developing enhanced born-digital monographs. Librarians at three HBCUs, mentored by BUDP and Michigan Press, will obtain the necessary skill set to support a member of their faculty in authoring a born-digital monograph that will be published open access.
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Career Progression in Academic Publishing: A Skills-Based Approach

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What skills should I foreground if I want to work in marketing, production, or acquisitions? I have good speaking and time management skills; what publishing role would I thrive in? An interactive dashboard prototype developed by the SSP, AUPresses, and ALPSP Career Progression Task Force empowers job seekers and ambitious publishing professionals. Based on systematic coding of over 1,000 scholarly publishing job descriptions, this evidence-based tool brings transparency to an industry that can feel exclusionary to first-time job seekers and where advancement can appear arbitrary. This session will provide an overview of the problems the Task Force set out to address, the laborious work of aggregation and systematic coding it engaged in, and how the dashboard tool can open up opportunities. We seek feedback on other questions we should be asking of existing data, development opportunities for the dashboard, and areas where more data needs to be gathered and exposed. Applied: Focus on understanding and comprehension; appropriate for those with some experience seeking to build on, apply, or enhance existing knowledge using content in practical applications/implementations.
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ChronosHub: One Author Experience, Many Underlying Systems

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Most publishers communicate with their authors through various platforms and systems, often resulting in a broken user journey and an inconsistent interaction with a publisher's brand. In this breakout session, we'll share how the ChronosHub platform can sit on top of existing legacy systems to provide one coherent platform for author interactions throughout the publishing process, starting with submissions, through to the signing of author licenses and processing of payments. We'll talk about modern, user-centric design, configurations at your fingertips, and, of course, integrations with other systems in the workflow, such as peer review, production, and publication.
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Clarivate: Solutions to Identify, Attract and Retain Authors

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Under pressure to increase your number of submitting authors? Need to reach beyond your normal audience to increase submissions? Looking for a peer review software solution that streamlines the peer-review process for greater author satisfaction? Clarivate offers solutions that help you build, engage, and retain a community of trusted authors and reviewers. Join us to learn how you can: - Identify new authors using a trustworthy contact database and precise targeting options. - Attract submitting authors & readers and drive successful outcomes. - Retain valuable authors and reviewers by providing a superior researcher experience throughout the submission and peer review process. Spend 30 minutes with us to learn more about how Web of Science, Web of Science Author Connect, and ScholarOne Manuscripts can help you grow your ability to identify, attract, and retain authors in today's competitive landscape.
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Crowdsourcing A GenAI Prompt on The Future of Scholarly Publishing: “Tell Me How To Implement AI Solutions While Staying True To My Values.”

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The prompt is the core element of every Generative Artificial Intelligence solution. Typically posed as a question, the prompt communicates what the user seeks, from the basic the complicated. For this program, the panel—a publisher, a research librarian, and an author services specialist—will lead the audience in development of a GenAI prompt to give SSP guidance on the future of scholarly publishing. Opening with, "Tell Me How To Implement AI Solutions While Staying True To My Values," the audience will work in groups at roundtables to crowdsource the prompt further. The final prompt will incorporate the professional and personal values of transparency, integrity, diversity, and authenticity for researchers, peer reviewers, editors, and others in the scholarly community. Participants in the interactive session will develop prompt writing skills while reflecting on the collision of technology and publishing principles. Mixed-learning: Includes both applied and strategic perspectives on an issue; appropriate for those with at least some experience of the subject area seeking a mix of immediate/practical and future/planning information.
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Data in the Driver’s Seat: Using Data to Steer Your OA Business Strategy

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As publishers continue to evaluate business models to support the move to Open Access, many are asking: Which model is right for us? Is it through transformative agreements like Read and Publish? Subscription-funded OA models like Subscribe to Open? Direct deals with funders? A mixed model where the business is supported by different approaches? With decisions that can feel so daunting, publishers are on the hunt for insights into how to move forward. Data analysis to support the transition is key, but the challenge lies in the quality of the data that should be used to inform this strategy. More often than not, data are not structured or disambiguated enough to help provide accurate, trustworthy direction. In this Industry Breakout session, Copyright Clearance Center will share the feedback we hear directly from publishers who are investing in new business models about the key data points and enrichment practices they leverage to inform their strategy. This informative, interactive session will highlight questions publishers are asking when considering new models, identify data points that can help answer those questions and showcase new technology that can help you leverage your data to better understand the best road forward.
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Digital Science and Writefull: Manuscript Analysis Tools to Publish Better in Less Time

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Come learn about the most recent addition to the Digital Science portfolio of technology companies that help publishers be more effective, efficient, and impactful. Writefull provides a collection of AI-based tools that analyze submissions to help the author and publisher improve the quality and speed of publication. Writefull Revise and Writefull’s Language technologies help authors and copy editors evaluate and quickly improve the language of manuscripts, before or after submission. These tools fit cleanly into workflow, making this a seamless process. Writefull’s Manuscript Categorization API scores and categorizes manuscripts based on language quality, to triage submitted manuscripts, assign copyeditors, and more. Writefull also has a metadata extraction tool that can automatically populate key fields at submission, eliminating time and error potential.
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Empowering Researchers through Publish-Review-Curate Workflows

01:27:24

This 60-minute SSP panel will explore the emerging Publish-Review-Curate model empowering researchers through preprint servers, open peer review, and overlay journals. We will discuss how traditional publishing limits access and transparency while new models enable researcher-driven workflows. Guidance will be provided on implementing infrastructure and culture changes needed to support these community-owned approaches. Real-world examples will showcase organizations pioneering open scholarly communication centered around preprint discovery, transparent review, and editor/reader curation into overlay journals. We will make the case that putting distribution, evaluation, and curation directly into researchers’ hands, with openness and transparency at the center, can accelerate discovery and enhance research integrity. Join us to discuss the future of research communication.
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Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Peer-Review: Perspectives from a C4DISC-SSP Toolkit, a Major University, and a Scholarly Publisher

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Although most scholarly journal editors/publishers recognize the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion among their associate editors and editorial boards, it can be overwhelming to actually constitute a new editorial board or change a long-established one in which diversity has not been included. Editors need advice regarding the actions they can take to diversify their boards. This panel will look at the perspectives of three organizations that have recently developed toolkits/guidelines to ensure equity in peer review and present practical suggestions. 1) The C4DISC Toolkit authored by members of the SSP DEIA Committee, “Building Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Editorial Roles and Peer Review: A Focused Toolkit for Journal Editors and Publishers,” 2) the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communication website developed by the University of California, and 3) the Sage website, “Embracing the role of the reviewer: developing diverse, equitable, and inclusive peer review teams.” Although speaking from different perspectives, the panelists will discuss strategies for broad and intentional recruitment among marginalized communities, developing an inclusive culture within the journal team, gathering and using demographic data, changing review processes to avoid biases, increasing training opportunities, instituting mentorship programs, providing authors with feedback about bias-free wording in reviewer comments, posting open calls for editorial board vacancies, setting goals for accountability over time, and appointing special diversity oversight editors.
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Good Data: The Most Important Ingredient for AI

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If your data isn't ready for AI, your business isn't ready for AI. Hum helps publishers access and use advanced intelligence where identity and behavior intersect by revolutionizing how they collect, connect, and activate high-value first-party data. In this session, we will discuss practical ways to harness data intelligence to understand readers, authors, and content more intimately, and explore case studies showing how data can be used to deliver unprecedented personalization, optimize workflows, and prepare for the AI future.
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How Deep is your Love for Authors?

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Do you have a strategy for how to interact with your authors? Do you use modern marketing technology to personalize their experience? How do you guide your authors through the submission process? Do you update them about the status of their manuscript? If an author complains about parts of your service, how do you respond? In this fun and interactive session, we'll help you assess just how good your Author Experience is. We will start off with lightning presentations from a couple of publishers that have embarked on an innovative journey to shake up their Author Experience. Next, we will take you through our self-assessment quiz that will reveal just how much you really care about your authors. We will discuss different elements of author experience with our guest speakers while participants complete their answers. In the end, you will leave with a score and some practical suggestions for improvements.
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How is ‘Data’ Understood in the Humanities and What Does it Mean for Open Scholarship and Data Sharing Policies?

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Data is a hot topic these days but what is considered data in the humanities? Sharing qualitative data, in any field, has its own challenges. And what does (or could) this mean for data sharing requirements handed down by the OSTP Nelson memo, among others? Data is not a term commonly used for humanities research, which is grant funded to a much smaller degree than STEM or social sciences, which in turn influences whether or how open and public access mandates affect the humanities. In this moderated panel session, we get perspectives on these issues from a publisher, a librarian and a researcher working in infrastructure in this sometimes overlooked corner of research. The discussion will touch on social sciences as well, in part because infrastructures for the humanities are so often linked with social sciences. Audience participation in this emerging topic is very welcome.
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Improving the Preservability of your Complex Digital Publications

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It Doesn’t Just Happen: Accountability in Organization-wide Accessibility and Disability Equity Initiatives

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In one of her blog posts, Dianndra Roberts wrote, "Accountability is at the center of 'doing the work', we need it for ourselves and for each other if we are working to dismantle colonial structures, change systemic policies and systems." Like any equity initiatives, disability equity and accessibility advancement doesn’t just happen. To reach that inflection point that results in a significant change our organizations must not only commit to the process, but those involved must have the tools, environment, and support in place. Along with assigning responsibility and proactive work, building accountability systems reduces the risk of failure. Sponsored by the DEIA Accessibility subcommittee, this session presents examples of organization-wide, replicable initiatives that enhance accessibility and disability equity. It is focused not only on explaining the undertaken projects but also on the type of organizational changes that were applied and support those initiatives received to be successful and sustainable.
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Kriyadocs: Help Your Authors Put Their Best Foot Forward

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Authors play a pivotal role in the dynamic landscape of research publishing as both content producers and consumers. At Kriyadocs, our steadfast commitment over the last two decades has been delivering a fantastic author experience by placing them at the core of the publishing process. In this session, we will delve into the symbiotic relationship between publishers and authors, emphasizing the role of technology in optimizing the author submission process. By leveraging innovative and intuitive tools to enhance the quality of submissions, we empower publishers to help their authors put their best foot forward. This not only elevates authors' research but also leads to significant time savings for publishers. Join us as we unveil these strategies, making the scholarly publishing process more efficient and fostering positive and meaningful outcomes for authors and publishers alike.
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Launching AI Products: From Idea to World-scale

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Have you wondered how AI products get out into the world? Join four builders from Informa, American Medical Association (AMA), American Institute of Physics Publishing (AIPP), and Oxford University Press (OUP) as they share their real world experience of building and launching AI products. To help ground the exploration, we introduce a framework (AI Maturity Curve) for thinking through where an organization, or individual AI project/product is on its journey from idea to world-scale product: 1. Getting Oriented, 2. Ideation and Idea Selection, 3. Experimentation, 4. Prototypes and Testing, 5. Alpha/Beta Product, 6. Scaled Production Product. Participants will discuss case studies from their organizations: a deeper dive into a specific use case and experiment, tackling how 1) the decision to focus here was arrived at, 2) data and technical work/decisions, 3) prototyping/ product, 4) results, and 5) lessons learned.
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Let's Prioritize Delivering the Content our Members Want, Not Just What We Have

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OrthoSearch, is a unique offering aimed at giving an orthopedic publishing society member the research that they need, instead of serving up content that is only published in accordance with the scope of the journal portfolio. The conscious effort involved in this model to include diverse content types, including open access research ensures that a member gets value out of the product which in turn ensures engagement on the platform and a differentiated revenue model for the publisher. OrthoSearch today boasts of 390,000 documents across ~8 content types including journal articles, preprints, proceedings, videos and standards. About 41% of mainstream content is open access, members have the option to browse the product by any/all specialities/topics they are interested in and/or find interesting connections across topics. This one-stop portal also has a niche alerting service backed by a powerful AI led natural language search, which enables delivering relevant content sourced from multiple avenues efficiently and precisely. Moreover, it is SEO compliant, enabling the portal to be featured in the top three hits in Google searches for the domain. Its repurposing content, adding value to content, keeping the member community engaged, promoting your own content and generating revenue—all at the same time.
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Leveraging AI Tools in Small Organizations: Strategies for Success

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AI seems like one of those things that might be best left to the big guys– the sheer complexity of projects, the uncertain future, and the additional work on an already stretched team–but these panelists will show specific ways they are using and creating AI tools to benefit their audiences. Even small organizations have opportunities to engage with AI and these leaders show how their teams chose which projects to pursue, found partners, and adopted an agile approach to beta and launch. Adopting a customer-centric focus to identify gaps in the offerings, finding a niche problem that needs solving, and integrating these tools with other offerings are some of the ways leaders can ensure AI adoption doesn't derail their teams, but instead can motivate them to adopt a curious, problem-solving approach to answering the question, "how can AI serve small societies and publishers?" Mixed-learning: Includes both applied and strategic perspectives on an issue; appropriate for those with at least some experience of the subject area seeking a mix of immediate/practical and future/planning information.
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Leveraging Bibliometric Data for Strategic Growth: Publisher Use Cases

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In today's turbulent scholarly publishing environment, journals or portfolios that publish more--and more high-quality--content are much more likely to succeed than those that publish less content. A clear, cohesive growth strategy is critical to attract more diverse, quality content. Bibliometrics can underpin and guide development of these strategies, but the amount and variety of available data can be overwhelming, leaving journal managers uncertain as to how to select, interpret, and integrate appropriate metrics. During this session, KGL Consulting will introduce use cases of organizations that have harnessed bibliometric data to inform and optimize their growth strategies. Speakers will explain in practical terms how they have used different bibliometric reports to understand their journal or portfolio's market position; uncover and reach underrepresented areas and groups; and identify high-potential opportunities to improve their journal or portfolio's reach and value. The panel will also address audience questions and share actionable, creative approaches to integrating bibliometric data into strategies to drive quantity, diversity, and quality of content.
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More than Words? The Unspoken Experience of DEIA … and How we can Create More Inclusive Work Cultures

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The lived experience of workplace culture can be an uncomfortable public conversation. In this UN-spoken word session, we share the authentic voices in scholarly publishing. We will feature anonymous testimonials from brave colleagues across 2018 to 2024. Data and themes from the 2023 Workplace Equity survey (WE Survey) sponsored by Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) will provide the framework. Is our workplace culture more supportive today? How are commitments to inclusion perceived by majority and historically excluded groups? How can we remove barriers to and create support for career progression?
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Only You Can Prevent Research Integrity Fires!: What Practices Contribute to Improving Research Integrity and how can you Help?

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Research communications has a role to play in ensuring the integrity of the research ecosystem. Whether you work on editorial practices, production, or even post-production, there are numerous checks and processes that can be applied to ensure the validity of content. Importantly, this landscape is rapidly evolving and new tools for ensuring overall quality of the scholarly record. Integrity supporting tools, such as CrossRef's Retractions Watch dataset, the STM Integrity Hub and NISO's new Recommended Practice on Communications of Retractions and Expressions of Concern (CREC) can all help keep your corner of the research ecosystem safe. Learn more about these tools during this critically important session on the safety of your authors' research-content. Don't let the spark of some bad practice cause a four-alarm fire in your organization. Remember: Only you can prevent research integrity fires! Foundational: Focus on awareness and relaying information; appropriate for those with limited experience of the subject seeking introductory understanding of the content area(s).
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Opening Keynote: Publishers in the Age of Mistrust

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Scholarly communication faces significant challenges, both in terms of its credibility as a process as well as questions about the value it delivers to society at large. Recent Pew Research Center polls show a continued decline in US public trust in scientists, fed by a steady stream of research misconduct, accusations of political bias, and deliberate misrepresentation of research. How can scholarly communication reconnect with society to rebuild trust, and what lessons can we learn from initiatives outside of our industry to bring understanding of research and its contributions to a broad, international audience. Our keynote speaker, Deborah Blum, has a long and distinguished career as an educator, scholar, and commentator on the intersection of scholarly research and society. We've asked her to share her views on how scholarly communication has changed over the last decade, what she's learned, and her thoughts on how we can more effectively build trust and engagement.
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Optimizing Scholarly Publishing Workflows: A Deep Dive into BPMN for Journals

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Join us for an insightful session that unveils the power and intricacies of BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) and its transformative impact on scholarly publishing workflows. This comprehensive exploration will showcase a highly-configurable BPMN workflow engine that optimizes concurrent journal article editorial and production processes. Learn how automation facilitates critical tasks, including copyediting, file format conversions, citation validation, task alerts, content classification, and product transformations and deliveries. This session promises to shed light on how BPMN becomes the driving force behind streamlining publishing operations, ensuring a future-ready approach to content dissemination.
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Oxford-style Debate: Has the Open Access Movement Failed?

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Open Access was intended to solve the problems of accessibility, affordability, and equity in scholarly communication and has fundamentally reshaped scholarly communications in the 20+ years since the Budapest Open Access Initiative. And yet, a longtime and respected commentator on the open access movement, Richard Poynder, recently declared that the Open Access movement has failed, noting that it had failed to solve affordability and equity and that improvements in accessibility were at risk from the deteriorating geopolitical situation.

This Oxford-style debate will see two teams debating the resolution "The OA Movement has Failed," with the winner based on audience votes before and after the debate. Don't miss this exciting final session for the conference, where your participation will decide the outcome!
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Plenary and Moderated Discussion: The Rise of the Machines

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While Generative AI gets closer to peak expectations on the hype cycle, automation and machine learning have long been a feature of scholarly communications. However, the explosive growth in capabilities (and expectations) over the last year has started to reshape our visions of the future of our industry. Will automation inexorably take over every aspect of publishing, and what roles will humans continue to play in this tech-driven future? Join our panel of experts for a discussion about how AI may profoundly change what we do and how we do it, as we look up from current experimentation to debate where we're heading.
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Publishing Systems that Enable Collaboration and Build Community

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The publishing process has become highly automated, with online systems handling much of the coordination and communication between authors, editors, reviewers and other professionals involved in the scholarly publishing endeavor. Technology is not just used to keep the publishing process organized, tools and microservices are now being seamlessly integrated into workflows, increasing the efficiency for all participants in the value chain, assisting our shared infrastructure, and ultimately shortening the time from submission to publication. Online publishing systems also offer the opportunity for organizations that serve the scholarly researcher to collaborate, providing important services directly to the researcher and publisher during the publishing process. Nonprofits that provide industrywide standards are integrated into the workflow alongside commercial companies that build new and innovative products. Suppliers of PIDs, like ORICD and Ringgold, help connect people, places and money. Those PIDs are used by services the OA Switchboard to facilitate funding recognition. Initiatives like the STM Research Integrity Hub and AAMC's Convey help reinforce trust in science by identifying potential fraud in research. Companies like Prophy help editors increase diversity in their reviewer pool, helping to relieve the crisis in peer review. All of these organization are made more efficient through integration with automated workflows. In this session, we will discuss how a modern, modular microservice-based workflow system can be designed to encourage collaboration. Each of the above-named services will discuss how they are involved in building scholarly community. Together we will show how our scholarly shared infrastructure is made more accessible when these services are easily available to researchers, editors and publishers, through online systems.
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Redefining Value Propositions in Scholarly Communications

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Not so very long ago, we all had a pretty good idea of what constituted a value proposition for the organizations in our space. But today it's not so simple… With the move to a digital, increasingly open access world with a widening range of research outputs, defining a clear value proposition for the work we do is more challenging. Many organizations and communities are now grappling with how to effectively communicate the value that they bring to the research life cycle. In this session, we will bring together representatives from across scholarly communications to discuss why it's important to understand and articulate your value proposition(s), how to develop one, what tools and resources are available, and more. They'll share their thoughts on what they see as the key value propositions for their community (discipline, publisher, society, scholarly infrastructure) and, by extension, for their own organizations. Mixed-learning: Includes both applied and strategic perspectives on an issue; appropriate for those with at least some experience of the subject area seeking a mix of immediate/practical and future/planning information.
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Reimagining the Vendor-Publisher Service Relationship: The Case for Vested Publishing Services

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Newgen Knowledge Works is known around the academic publishing world for its array of services ranging from online typesetting, workflow management, content conversion platform, and digital distribution services. But did you know that Newgen can provide critical support in every aspect of the modern publishing house, including commissioning and acquisitions, website development and design, digital delivery platforms for ebooks and journals, content management, royalty administration, and even management of third-party distribution relationships. In short, Newgen can support any and every aspect of your publishing business. Typically, publishers pay for these services but this case study will explore one unique case, along with examples from other publisher-clients, where publishers have partnered with Newgen on a revenue-sharing basis to deliver mission-critical services. Lived Places Publishing, founded in 2021 via a partnership with Newgen, has leveraged the expertise and technology of the Newgen team to build its commissioning strategy, design its websites, launch its institutional ebook platform, manage its accounting and royalty payments, and develop unique distribution partnerships for ebooks around the world.
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STM Goes to Washington: Public Access, AI, Copyright ... and Yes, the Election

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As a follow-up to 2023's session in Portland, this year's panel will provide an update on and explanation of STM priorities of the moment, including NASA's Year of Open Science, the status of federal agencies' public access plans, the Biden Administration's Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence, and the US Copyright Office's evolving policies on AI -- and yes, how these topics might play out in the November presidential and congressional elections. The panel will feature a mix of STM professionals and publisher-adjacent specialists from government, advocacy, and media. We'll aim to shed as much light as possible on the STM-related workings of the United States federal government and to encourage publishers to get involved in the legislative process.
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Session 2E: Charleston Trendspotting Initiative: Setting the Course

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The Trendspotting Initiative is a community-engaged process for cooperatively and collaboratively exploring social, policy, economic, technology, and educational trends and forecasting the impacts of these trends on scholarly communication, publishing, and academic libraries. This session will engage participants in small group dialogue and activities to explore the potential implications of policies and events on trust and transparency in scholarly communications and work through what the possible effects on our industry could be. How probable are these possibilities? What are the best and worst case scenarios for these trends on various timelines? What might disrupt these trends that we should be tracking? How can we collaboratively evaluate possible solutions and strategies for these issues? What steps can we take to meet these challenges together? This annual workshop session is always lively and through-provoking. Join us as we consider the future of our industry and the changes that are shaping it! Mixed-learning: Includes both applied and strategic perspectives on an issue; appropriate for those with at least some experience of the subject area seeking a mix of immediate/practical and future/planning information.
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Supercharge Your AI

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In this packed presentation, Access Innovations will share some insights on how to supercharge your AI. Starting with some definitions and things you probably forgot about how computing - especially AI - works, we'll walk you through some tried-and-true techniques for making AI better. This 30-minute session will open your eyes and give you several "a-ha" moments, along with actionable insight to take back to your organization.
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Technological Catalyst: Embracing Technology for Books and Journals in Scholarly Publishing

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Renowned scholarly publisher and pioneer of Open Access publishing, MIT Press recently embarked on a project to implement BiblioSuite publishing software across its entire business. Leaving disparate technologies and its pre-existing, siloed systems in the past, this project will seamlessly consolidate MIT Press' books and journals workflows into a single, unified, and fully integrated system, with a view to increasing the publisher's efficiency and productivity companywide. Join MF Gydus (MIT Press) in conversation with Rodney Elder (Virtusales Publishing Solutions) as they discuss the project and its benefits in detail. The session will cover the full publishing lifecycle from acquisitions and product management through digital asset workflow and production, to contracts, rights, royalties and sales analysis. In the ever-changing landscape of publishing, the importance of technological support is critical in navigating the supply chain and meeting emerging industry trends. This session will showcase the range of solutions available within BiblioSuite, and will shed light on the motivations behind this ambitious project
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The Coordinated Dance Between AI and Human-Intelligence for Optimal Outcomes

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There are enough discussions on Gen AI, its pros and cons and how to make use of it for improved outcomes. In these discussions, Human intelligence is downgraded to scepticism, fear, and talks of redundancy. In this talk we will explore the intricate dance between automated process and human intuition. Without going much into philosophy and using practical examples as well as real life experiences and perspectives through audience interaction, we hope to discuss why human involvement remains indispensable in achieving superior results and what could be some metrics, indicators and quality benchmarks to make informed decision on when to trust AI outputs and where to inject human expertise for best efficiency and quality. Join us as we discuss the competition and conflict between Gen AI and Human intelligence and together determine the nature of the symbiotic relationship that could lead to unprecedented possibilities for the future.
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The Diminishing Importance of the Article: An Overview of the Emerging Modular, Multi-modal Research Landscape

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The formal, peer-reviewed scholarly article is declining in importance to many scholars and researchers—and especially to their funders. Increasingly, research needs to be communicated on an ongoing basis throughout the research lifecycle. The surge in preprints is a manifestation of this trend. New formats are emerging, such as the new NISO Content Profile/Linked Document format, that facilitate publishing research in smaller, more frequent chunks and incorporating the research data, software, protocols, results, and other important components of the research that have become essential to enable thorough review and replication. Multimodal publication, incorporating videos, 3-D imaging, animation, and other advanced technologies, has become invaluable in communicating some types of research. And platforms have been developed that enable real-time collaboration throughout the research process. This session will provide a broad overview of this new research landscape and a discussion of its potential ramifications, such as the reconceptualization of authority and tenure. Foundational: Focus on awareness and relaying information; appropriate for those with limited experience of the subject seeking introductory understanding of the content area(s).
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The Future of Journals

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In this lively session, Morressier co-founder and CEO Sami Benchekroun lifts the lid on the company's next-generation journal-submission and peer-review workflows. Scheduled for release in December 2024, Journal Manager brings unparalleled user experience and efficiencies to the journal publication process. How are Morressier and publishing partner IOP Publishing approaching this task as they prepare to onboard the first journals? What are their measures of success? Learn answers to these and many more questions.
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The Other AI: The Role of Actual Intelligence In the Future of Scholarly Publishing

01:00:25

With artificial intelligence hailed as the game-changer in modern workflows, where does that leave us lowly humans? This interactive session is dedicated to exploring the aspects of our work that are uniquely human. As we navigate through the latest digital transformation, we'll delve into the critical roles we play, from the art of curation to the power of community building and supporting DEI needs. We'll discuss the irreplaceable human touch that brings creativity, empathy, and a deeper understanding to our work, qualities that AI, despite its prowess, is yet to master. Join us as we take a refreshing break from AI discussions, and instead, focus on the human core of our industry. For ONE session, we promise to NOT talk about AI but celebrate the essential human attributes that continue to make us indispensable in an increasingly automated world.
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The Transformation of Publishing Platforms: Trends & Predictions

30:52

The world of scholarly publishing platforms is growing ever more complex, with new standards, data, technologies, and user experience requirements driving their evolution. Given these changes, and ongoing pressures for further change, how are platforms rising to the occasion? In this breakout session, Silverchair leaders will share their insights on platform trends they're seeing, as well as some predictions for the future – both in the short term and the long term. From new collaborations that lead to a more integrated infrastructure, to revenue diversification opportunities, publishing platforms can continue to be a valuable tool for organizations going forward. Our overview of trends and predictions is designed to spark curiosity and ideas for platform development, as the decisions we make today as an industry will shape the future of publishing platforms more broadly. This session will be interactive, so come prepared to share your own insights on platform trends and predictions for the future.
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Throwing Out the Rulebook: Case Studies in Innovative Journal Publishing Models

01:01:24

A changing publishing landscape requires journal publishers to consider new models to remain financially viable and useful to the communities that they serve. A cross-industry panel will present case studies for novel changes that challenge the traditional "rules" of publishing. In each case, the speaker will discuss why the change was made, how it was implemented, and what has been learned post-launch. The session will conclude with a brief panel discussion and audience questions. Mixed-learning: Includes both applied and strategic perspectives on an issue; appropriate for those with at least some experience of the subject area seeking a mix of immediate/practical and future/planning information.
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Trends in Academic Publishing 2024

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Patrick Shafe will be joined on stage by two leading USA publishers: Gillian Shasby, Chief Publications Officer of the Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and Jennifer Gilbreath, Director of Books Editorial at American Psychiatric Association Publishing. The panelists will discuss the key findings from Deanta's 2024 Trends in Academic Publishing Survey and examine how publishers are adopting technologies to support their push for independence.
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What Researchers and Librarians Want Publishers to Know about the OA Mandate Compliance Process

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Publishers spend a lot of time thinking about open-access solutions for mandate compliance, but researchers’ priorities often lie elsewhere—in producing the work that they want to get into the world. What should publishers know about researchers' experience navigating publisher policies and workflows for OA? This panel will discuss the impact of different OA models on researchers' work, the choices and trade-offs that OA mandates require researchers to make (e.g. paying a high APC for a prestigious journal or paying a research assistant) and the impact of OA on the submission process. Speakers will discuss how publishers can support a more equitable open-access landscape, reduce barriers to participation, and make mandate compliance as easy as possible. We will share examples of language from research grants, processes around OA waivers, and libraries' processes for supporting researchers in the path to open scholarship.
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Our industry is taking action for inclusion. In this session, the 2023 Workplace Equity (WE) survey committee will present results comparing 2018 and 2023 findings, sponsored by Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications. We will report on changes in perceptions of workplace culture, values, and organizational support. We will involve the audience with anonymous polling to encourage engagement privately and safely, to share agreement and disagreement with sentiments. Then we'll choose themes to explore in this working session. At roundtables, we'll provide Workplace Equity survey data and resources from the DEIA toolkits and other resources to facilitate conversations. We'll explore practical recommendations to break down barriers and uplift values of belonging and inclusivity in our workplaces and industry-wide initiatives such as mentorship and recognition programs, networking and promotion opportunities. Leave this session ready to take action as individuals and line managers to make a difference in our organizations.