Hosted by Against the Grain (ATG) and the Charleston Conference, the ATG 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. These trends and their impacts will be of interest to anyone in the library and publishing field. This session will identify a number of PESTLE trends (political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental) ahead of time by asking for community input. Examples of these trends could be the decline in enrollment for higher education, government regulations around data and privacy, paper shortages caused by supply chain issues, etc. We will then work through what the possible outcomes and effects on our industry could be, forecasting best and worst-case scenarios for outcomes of these trends on various timelines and identifying how they will impact the scholarly communications industry. What are the trends, issues, and external pressures that we should be focused on in the near future? How can we collaboratively evaluate possible solutions and strategies for these issues? What steps can we take to meet these challenges together? Join us for a lively discussion and interactive session focused on the future of our industry and the changes affecting all of us. || Learning Level: Strategic || Speakers: Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe; Leah Hinds

The Trendspotting Initiative is a community-engaged process for cooperatively and collaboratively exploring social, policy, economic, technological, and educational trends and forecasting the impacts of these trends on scholarly communication, publishing, and academic libraries. This session will engage participants in a "Futures Wheel" dialogue to explore the potential implications of policies and events on trust and transparency in scholarly communications and work through what the possible outcomes and 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!

Librarians are increasingly concerned about the ways in which users of library-licensed resources are being tracked by the third-party providers of these resources. Librarians question if they can, in any meaningful way, offer users assurance of privacy when using library-licensed resources given the current state of user tracking. For librarians, this is deeply troubling given our long-standing commitment to user privacy and confidentiality: "We protect each library user's right to privacy and confidentiality with respect to information sought or received and resources consulted, borrowed, acquired or transmitted" (ALA Code of Ethics). The Licensing Privacy project, funded by the Mellon Foundation, has developed a set of resources to help librarians understand these issues and to support librarians and providers working together to better align platform and publisher practices with library values of privacy, confidentiality and respect for user control over their own data.

Considered by some as major disruptors to the publishing ecosystem at their launch, research collaboration networks have been embraced by the scientific community but eschewed by many publishers. As funders' Open Access policies and author preferences have led to an increase in CC-BY licensed content, publishers are forging partnerships with research collaboration networks to gain a better understanding of how syndicated content is being consumed. One such content syndication pilot between ResearchGate and Rockefeller University Press (RUP) entered its first phase in late 2021 when RUP joined publishers Hindawi, Springer Nature, and Wiley making their content available directly on the ResearchGate platform. In this session, viewers are invited to look at content syndication partnerships in depth, gain a better understanding of the technical details, and consider how the scientific community can benefit from content syndication. || Learning Level: Mixed-Learning || Speakers: Rory Williams; Susan King; Luke Barrett; Ijad Madisch; Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

The increased focus on privacy and restrictions on cookie usage is having a definite effect on what can or can't be done with academic content. Publishers want to see how their content is used. Libraries want to track usage but also to respect user privacy. What we want for our own content may not be the same as what we demand from other people's content. Many organizations that provide recommendations, for example, use third-party cookies. These third-party cookies are being forbidden, and publishers should be aware of the implications. For example, a vendor may currently collect data on society members and use that data to provide targeted pharma-related adverts. With all this in mind, can we implement tools for auditing our site performance without infringing privacy regulations? While site audits have been widespread for e-commerce sites for years, it is desirable to audit the recommendation and discovery capability of an academic site. Can we identify the metrics of success for recommendations for our users without infringing privacy? How can we effectively measure site engagement when the customers don't purchase anything? Topics covered will include the use (and misuse) of APIs to enhance and measure the site's effectiveness. || Learning Level: Foundational || Speakers: Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe; Chirag Jay Patel; Tim Lloyd; Amanda Ferrante

As a community, we are undoubtedly moving into a more "open" future — open access, open data, open peer review, etc. But "open" doesn't automatically mean "equal." A panel of Chefs will conclude this year's meeting with a look at the path we're on — is it fair to all, and can everyone participate? Are APCs the evolutionary endpoint or a step along the way? What does the ongoing market consolidation mean for different stakeholders? Are we increasing the inequities between the Global North and South? Will the increasing intrusion of geopolitics into the research world make this all moot? Bring your questions for a lively discussion. || Speakers: Robert Harington; Lettie Conrad; Angela Cochran; David Crotty; Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

Safeguarding research integrity is a topic of increasing concern and attention within scholarly publishing. The headlines often feature the sleuths working outside publishing companies, but what about those who work within our organizations? How do publishers organize their research integrity operations, and how do they staff them? What is the scope of the work across the publishing workflow? What skills are needed and what career pathways exist in this area of expertise? Join us as Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Chef in The Scholarly Kitchen, explores these questions and more with distinguished panelists who will share their perspectives and experiences concerning the pivotal role of research integrity operations within scholarly publishing companies.