The rapid development of artificial intelligence and AI-driven automation has barreled through scholarly communications, leaving a path of both opportunity and opposition. We can see AI now playing roles once served by humans, as AI tools are “reading” websites, “authoring” papers, and “reviewing” manuscripts. Are scholarly communications professionals prepared to access AI bots as our “users”? Are there aspects of reading, authoring, and reviewing that we should accept or even encourage? And which aspects should we avoid, which remain the exclusive domain of human users? What incentives (and disincentives) can we implement to impact the appropriate use of AI in research in publishing?

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.