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.

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