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New Directions 2023 | Navigating the Shifting Sands

We are living through a time of accelerating change and transformation, where the landscape of scholarly publishing is undergoing tectonic shifts in how we operate, how we communicate, and where we add value to the research and learning lifecycles. Like all organizations dedicated to the business of information and data, content and service providers in our industry are experiencing challenges brought on by open access mandates, ongoing institutional budget crises, technological revolutions, and more. The 2023 New Directions Seminar will focus on how those working in scholarly communications manage commercial and cultural disruptions. Where are the sands shifting most dramatically? How are content and service providers responding to these disruptions? What are the priorities and what is being left behind? What tools and methods do we need to successfully weather these disruptive changes? Framework Viewed through the lens of a typical research workflow, we can observe disruptions and systemic changes underway at every step along the journey. The 2023 New Directions seminar will be designed to address where and how the “sands” are shifting at each junction of the scholarly communications lifecycle. Sessions will address topics from how changing funder mandates and AI tools are impacting researcher practices to open peer review, data sharing, and more. We hope to close the session with a change management workshop-style session designed to support resiliency in publishing professionals.

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Authorship in the Age of AI

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2023 | October, Ashish Uppala, Chirag Jay Patel

Artificial intelligence and machine learning tools are not new to the scholarly publishing community, but recent, compelling technologies like ChatGPT and DALL-E are rapidly transforming the processes and methods used by authors in the manuscript preparation and presentation stages of their research workflows. In this session, we will hear from an expert panel convened to discuss and debate the current trends surrounding AI applications positioned to support researchers in the writing and presentation of their work. Panelists will present cutting edge AI use cases bringing new workflows and insights to the authorship process—e.g., AI to reduce language barriers, data scraping, and reference accuracy. This session will highlight guidelines that are in place to help authors and reviewers—as well as editors, publishers, and readers—correctly source and cite AI tools in their manuscripts. Learn from this expert panel as they take a closer look at specific tools being deployed today, their uses, and their limitations.
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Coping with New Directions: Developing a Growth Mindset

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2023 | October, Lori Carlin

To close the seminar, Lori Carlin, Chief Commercial Officer at Delta Think, will lead attendees in an interactive workshop on managing change and developing professional resiliency. This session will offer everyone a chance to reflect on how we cope with change and address the skills and tools to help mitigate the physical and emotional impacts of stress wrought by these constant cycles of disruption and change. We will begin with a short presentation, break out into smaller discussion groups, and conclude with a reflection exercise. This workshop is designed to foster a growth mindset and to support a healthy, resilient SSP community.
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New Directions in Research Integrity: Values to Value in Research and Publishing

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2023 | October, Rebecca Weintraub Brendel

Values including objectivity, respect for participants, reliability and reproducibility, and transparency have guided standards for research in the sciences and humanities, and publication in scholarly literature. Notwithstanding these efforts, substantial disparities persist regarding who is included in research, how broadly findings may be generalized to all in society as opposed to those included in sufficient numbers to power research, and how using existing research data in rapidly evolving algorithms and other forms of augmented intelligence will affect equity and social justice. Articulating the values at stake in the research enterprise and explicitly attending to these considerations in scholarly publishing—from the point of solicitation of submissions to post-publication engagement—has the potential to enhance both the impact of research and its applicability across an increasingly diverse population. These considerations are especially critical now amidst the explosion of innovative technology and machine learning, rapid scientific advances, and the rapidly changing health care ecosystem more broadly. This talk will start a conversation in what we value, and how those values will define our commitment to the integrity of the research-to-publication-to-engagement-research cycle.
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Rethinking Peer Review: Will New Models Bring New Voices to the Scholarly Dialogue?

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2023 | October, Janaynne do Amaral, Alessio Bolognesi, Elizabeth Marincola

Throughout the history of scholarly communication, “peer reviewers” have typically been two or three academics selected by editors and dissemination has happened largely through scholarly journals. This session will discuss the ways in which this traditional model is being disrupted through initiatives such as public review and preprint workflows, such as eLife’s recent shift in their publishing model. New modes of peer review and publication seek to increase the number of individuals reviewing new research, diversify the reviewer pool, improve research quality and clarity, bring new voices to the peer review process, and ensure that research dissemination methodologies are fit for purpose in an increasingly digital, global ecosystem. This one-hour panel will consist of three presentations followed by an open discussion period.
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Sharing and Publishing Research Data: Challenges & Opportunities

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2023 | October, Jon Gurstelle, Kiera McNeice, Juliane Schneider, Lauren Cadwallader

Making underlying research data openly available is a prevailing expectation of many institutions and funders, accelerated by new guidelines from OSTP and others. We can expect the demand for data publishing to only increase over time, but is the scholarly communications community prepared to respond? What are the impacts of data-sharing mandates on researchers? Do these impacts vary across fields of study? What new data types and formats are coming out of the latest research? This panel will explore the challenges and opportunities in research data sharing, indexing, publishing, and archiving from the perspectives of data librarians, publishers, editors, and researchers. An esteemed group of speakers will give us a sense of what research data publishing will look like in the next decade.
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Tech Topics that ChatGPT Thinks You Should Know About

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2023 | October, Tim Lloyd, Andrea Hoffman, Paul Gee

While current tech news is dominated by the advent of Chat GPT, and AI’s many implications (both known and unknown), there are other emergent trends the scholarly publishing industry would do well to note – believe it or not! This session will be a sampler of three topics, presented by three speakers with unique perspectives on each: 1) changing reader consumption habits, namely the shift from .pdf to full-text and its causes, implications, and opportunities; 2) evolving dynamics around access controls and credentials; and 3) why curated content and sophisticated search are more important than ever.
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The Impact of Externalities: Rethinking Funding, Research Projects, and the Global Body of Knowledge

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2023 | October, Rachel Pietersma, Ben Goodrich, Ginny Herbert, Susana Ramirez

As the knowledge ecosystem becomes increasingly global, conversations around diversity, equity, and inclusion in the research lifecycle within the scholarly communication community are broadening from focusing on topics such as biases in peer review and citations to considering how entrenched inequities and geopolitical considerations impact the broader context in which research occurs and shape the fabric of what we consider to be scholarly inquiry. This one-hour panel will focus on the externalities that affect knowledge production, from the factors that determine the kinds of research questions that receive funding and the individuals who can pursue research projects to definitions of “science” and what we consider to be knowledge. The session aims to challenge participants’ assumptions about objectivity in research and promote conversations about the global body of knowledge.