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45th Annual Meeting (2023)

"Transformation, Trust, and Transparency" The pace of change in our industry continues unabated, with seismic shifts in areas such as the dissemination of research, business models, and the nature of the workplace. And yet, while pressure for change has become the new normal, fundamental change has proved more elusive. We invite you to join us in highlighting the Trust and Transparency issues that underlie many of the challenges we face and exploring what it takes to create more meaningful Transformation in scholarly publishing.

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2023 Business Meeting and Awards Plenary

58:13

2023 | Jun 01, Randy Townsend, Miranda Walker, Melanie Dolechek

Join us as SSP President Miranda Walker recognizes the many dedicated volunteers that contribute to the success of SSP and reports on the activities and progress of the society. Winners of the Appreciation Award, Emerging Leader Award, and Distinguished Service Award will be announced and celebrated for their service and leadership. Fellowship winners will be recognized, and Generations Fund donors will be acknowledged for their support.
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2023 Previews Session: New and Noteworthy Product Presentations

01:40:53

2023 | Jun 02

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, Cambridge University Press & Assessment, Copyright Clearance Center, Delta Think, Humanities Commons/MSU, Modio Information Group, Molecular Connections Pvt. Ltd., Morressier, Virtusales, Xpublisher
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Bad Faith: How the Industry Needs to Build Trust with Under-Represented Groups

01:00:09

2023 | Jun 01, Simon Holt, Erika Valenti, Nancy Roberts, Rebecca Moakes

This will be a panel discussion exploring the gap between what publishers say about DEIA and the lived experience of content users. While progress is being made, our platforms and content are often delivered in ways that don't support a diversity of readers, and there is still work to be done on how we present and curate knowledge about Indigenous/First Nation peoples and culture. We will explore how platforms often lack basic accessibility features, how those with disabilities or neurodiversity struggle to access content in a way that suits them, and how we might better collect, curate and archive Indigenous knowledge and practices. The panel will discuss the issues and give an overview of what publishers could do to build trust with and better serve these communities.
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Business Not As Usual: Learnings from Digital Transformation

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2023 | Jun 01, Lori Carlin, Patti Kurtz, Rhys Jackson, Paul Gee

What's another session at SSP on how the industry needs to innovate, evolve the business model, and hire digital natives? It's another session telling us what we already know. Instead, this session will cover a range of topics and give you real, achievable strategies for how to truly make digital transformation happen. Topics will include: Changing culture: How to operate like a commercial business, Your measurement framework and getting stakeholder buy-in, Overcoming your fears of data and analytics, How to scale: when to onboard new tech/tools, when to partner with an external expert, and how to upskill your internal team — and yes, with limited resources, Taking inspiration from outside of this industry, particularly when it comes to product development and user experience
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Charleston Trendspotting: Forecasting the Future of Trust and Transparency

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2023 | Jun 01, 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!
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Continuing the OA Transformation: Bringing Funders into the Conversation

01:05:47

2023 | Jun 02, Jessica Tucker, Jason Price, Chris Pym, Ashley Farley

With the publication of the OSTP Nelson memo, the drive towards free public access to federally funded research continues. But questions remain around the forms this will take, the specific requirements each agency will place on their researchers, and most importantly, how any such initiatives will be funded. Our panel for this educational session will discuss the development of a successful funder-supported approach to open access and equip attendees with tools to help further bring funders into the discussion around open access to research outputs.
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Double Trouble: Inappropriate Image Duplications in Biomedical Publications

01:18:39

2023 | May 31, Lori Carlin, Miranda Walker, Elisabeth Bik

Science builds upon science. Even after peer review and publication, science papers could still contain images or other data of concern. If not addressed, papers containing incorrect or even falsified data could lead to wasted time and money spent by other researchers trying to reproduce those results. Several high-profile science misconduct cases have been described, but many more cases remain undetected. Elisabeth Bik is an image forensics detective who left her paid job in the industry to search for and report biomedical articles that contain errors or data of concern. She has done a systematic scan of 20,000 papers in 40 journals and found that about 4% of these contained inappropriately duplicated images. In her talk, she will present her work and show several types of inappropriately duplicated images and other examples of research misconduct. In addition, she will show how to report scientific papers of concern and how journals and institutions handle such allegations.
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Early Career Professionals Panel Discussion

55:46

2023 | Jun 01, Keondra Bailey, Emily Hazzard, Andy Lofthus, Maria Stanton

Early career professionals, individuals in their first ten years in the industry, bring much-needed fresh perspectives, skills, and new approaches that can help us shape and achieve a vibrant future. Join the SSP Early Career Subcommittee members for a lively conversation with early career professionals. Our panel will discuss expectations for an organization's approach to professional development, career progression, and mentoring. Our panel will also share organizational culture recommendations to fully engage early career professionals. We will hear the viewpoints of individuals who have successfully grown their careers: one who has developed their career within an organization and another who moved organizations to support their career growth. We'll also hear the perspective of someone just starting their career.
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Improving Research Workflows with Metadata

01:09:19

2023 | Jun 02, Anna Jester, Ginny Hendricks, Rob O'Donnell, Alice Meadows, Ana Heredia

Scholarly information is fragmented, workflows are inefficient, and trust in research has been eroding in recent years. There are a number of reasons for this: too much time is being spent on administrative tasks; content discoverability, including access rights, is not optimized; researchers aren't getting the recognition they deserve and their publishers want; and there's a lack of the transparency needed to (re)build trust in research. In addition, publishers, in particular, need better information to improve strategic decision-making. Recent reports from Australia and the UK have shown that widespread adoption of persistent identifiers (PIDs) and their associated metadata could save tens of thousands of researcher hours and tens of millions of dollars for each of those two countries. In this session, you will hear from a broad range of stakeholders about how publishers, libraries, and other stakeholders can contribute to and benefit from improved scholarly workflows.
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Inclusive Guidelines for Scholarly Publishing: Recent Style Guidelines for Wording and Imaging

01:14:05

2023 | Jun 02, Sabrina Ashwell, Emily Ayubi, Annette Flanagin, Patricia Baskin

Language and images used in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) have become increasingly important in scholarly publishing. Recently, several major style guides have been developed, including the Coalition for Diversity in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) Toolkit: Guidelines on Inclusive Language and Images in Scholarly Communication; the American Medical Association's AMA Manual of Style Guidance on Inclusive Language for Reporting Race and Ethnicity; the American Chemical Society (ACS) Inclusivity Style Guide; and the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. This session brings together representatives of these organizations to discuss the principles for creating inclusive communication guidelines, methods for development of the style guides, major recommendations, and plans for updating as language and societal norms change. The aims are to point scholarly publishers to these and other resources to embrace and advance equity and inclusion in scholarly publications and to set industry standards for inclusive writing habits in research and publishing.
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Leveraging Your Publishing Programs to Support New eLearning Products

50:57

2023 | Jun 01, Andrea Eastman-Mullins, Martin Davies, Rebecca D. Rinehart, Paul Gee, Heather Goodell

As trusted discipline-specific homes of high-quality content, scholarly associations and societies are well-positioned to support educational initiatives for professional development or academic use. Developing an eLearning product can create a new revenue source for associations facing stressed budgets due to changing meeting attendance and open access. Systems and workflows that support traditional publishing may not equip associations to launch a program. Obstacles including SSO, systems integration, selecting the right Learning Management System, curating learning content, ongoing maintenance, and designing a model to see a financial return can seem daunting. It is worth the effort, however, considering the value in member benefits, retention, and the increased impact of the content. In this panel, we will share how associations are innovating to overcome these obstacles and launch new programs to support eLearning. Associations and consultants working in this area will share lessons learned through specific projects in engineering, medicine, and business.
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Licensing Privacy: What Librarians Want

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2023 | Jun 02, Cody Hanson, Athena Hoeppner, Amanda Ferrante, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

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.
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Locally Sourced, Locally Owned: Independent Society Journal Publishing to Seed Trust and Transformation

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2023 | Jun 01, Jennifer Regala, Arthur Boston, Maxine Aldred, Brian Cody, Adam Hyde, Robert Harington

The world of journal publishing is grappling with a sustainability crisis, and much like Big Agriculture's farming methods, corporate publisher practices are testing consumers' trust. Concerns have been mounting about for-profit publishers extracting resources from the academy, especially in light of the Open Access movement, as increasing publishing fees threaten a "pay-to-play" future. At the same time, some corporate publishers have removed guaranteed revenues from society contracts, seeking profits without assuming risk. These factors could lead to further inequities in publishing and funding droughts. What steps are needed to course correct? Similar to the locally sourced/owned farming movement, some argue moving to academy-led publishing models could result in more sustainable business practices. This panel will dig into: How more independent society publishing could promote efficient practices and funnel resources into the academy, Pros, and cons of corporate publishing economies of scale, and Organizational and technical opportunities and challenges when publishing in-house.
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Maximizing Data Sharing Policy Impact through Implementation, Compliance, and Support Workflows

01:06:01

2023 | Jun 01, Tim Vines, Rebecca Grant, Ginny Herbert, Graham Smith

The data-sharing landscape has transformed significantly over the past five years. As demands for research transparency and efficiency continue to rise, data-sharing policies have become increasingly common with funders and journals alike. The 2022 Nelson Memorandum's data-sharing requirements promise to further accelerate the uptake of these policies, as funded researchers aim to comply with requirements and publishers respond to the evolving needs of the research community. This interactive session will touch on the process of moving journals from weaker data-sharing policies to more stringent ones, the internal training and support needed at the publisher level to embed data policies and enable assessment of author compliance, the impact, and challenges of fully Open Data policies; the limitations of journal data sharing policies and the extent to which they support the sharing of reusable data; and how technological innovations can support stronger data sharing policies.
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Metadata the Musical!: The Tale of the Ant and the Grasshopper (A performance for the ages)

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2023 | Jun 01, Ana Heredia, Marjorie M. K. Hlava, Heather Kotula, Heather Staines, John Camarano

Music and lyrics help us to teach and learn. What better way to highlight the significance of metadata than to transform songs from classics to pop to Broadway musicals into witty highlights on the value of metadata, PIDs, and standards? Borrowing a rough plot from the fable of the ant and the grasshopper, our creative cast will not only entertain you but will raise awareness of key issues that metadata can or should solve, like author name disambiguation, consistent taxonomies for language and persistent identifiers. Our determined ant researcher will restore order to the chaos of research output through her re-discovery of ancient "hoo-man" information science. This mini-musical, brought to you by a cast including researchers, vendors, publishers, and librarians, will be followed by an expert roundtable that will connect our drama back to metadata challenges that, when solved, will make the world a better place for humanity (and insects)!. A recording of this session is not available.
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Moderated Debate on Trust in Scholarly Publishing: Artificial Intelligence will Fatally Undermine the Integrity of Scholarly Publishing

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2023 | Jun 02, Jessica Miles, Rick Anderson, Tim Vines

Moderated by Rick Anderson, this Oxford-style debate will see two teams debating a resolution related to trust in scholarly publishing, 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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Research Integrity #TRANSPARENCY Stories of Learning from Overcoming Mass Retractions, Systematic Manipulation and Research Misconduct

58:50

2023 | Jun 01, Mike Streeter, Luigi Longobardi, Hannah Smith, Yael Fitzpatrick

With research output rapidly growing and the increased pressure to publish more and do it faster, no publisher or society has been spared when it comes to research integrity and publishing ethics problems. While it is tempting to hide these challenges in the shadows, we propose an open discussion of what's gone wrong, what we did to overcome and learn, and how we can do better going forward. By sharing our stories and collective experiences, we can better support industry-wide efforts with a broader community of practice across publishers, societies, authors, and editors.
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STM goes to Washington: How Scholarly Publishers Can (or Can't) Influence Policy

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2023 | Jun 01, Miriam Quintal, David Weinreich, Laura Patton, Alison Denby

COVID-19, the OSTP Nelson Memo, the Cancer Moonshot, and more—in the past three years, STM publishing and government decision-making have significantly overlapped. But how these decisions are reached—and how scholarly publishers try to influence these decisions, both before and after implementation—is an opaque process. This session brings together representatives from scholarly publishing's government relations and public affairs teams. We'll review the possibilities, realities, and limits of advocacy work; the key individuals, agencies, and committees of the US federal government that oversee the sciences, arts, and humanities; and the policy positions and legislation affecting publishers, authors, and researchers in these spaces.
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Solving for OA/UX: The Powerful Potential in Improving User Experience (UX)

01:00:33

2023 | Jun 01, Willa Liburd Tavernier, David Haber, Jamie Carmichael, Jason Price

The global infrastructure enabling Open Access and Open Science has come a long way over the past two decades to improve the user experience for authors, publishers, funders, and institutions. Yet isn't there more we, as publishers, can do for our users? Accelerating the adoption of OA through a variety of business models has led to growing complexity in stakeholder relationships and user expectations. We are learning that when the community shares an understanding of common challenges and embraces best practices, particularly consistent use of persistent identifiers, UX improves for authors and institutions, and customer satisfaction grows. In this interactive session, an author will interview three panelists to reflect on successful collaborations that streamline OA processes, remove unnecessary work for the researchers, and enable cross-stakeholder transparency. Attendees will leave the session with ideas to achieve a more unified user journey to satisfy the needs of authors, institutions, and funders.
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Sustainability, Open Science and Scholarly Communications

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2023 | Jun 01, Clarice Martel, Chirag Jay Patel, Daley White

The United Nations has identified 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as targets to aim for when tackling the most pressing issues facing our world. Among the many recent crises, COVID-19's grip on the globe particularly underscores how science and research must be central to the conversations that address emerging and deep systemic problems alike. The problems that underlie the SDGs demand the attention of the scholarly communication community, higher education, and academic research. However, our conversations can no longer just be "academic"—they must be one with a much higher social consciousness attached to it. This session will address ways that the scientific community can drive change and wider societal outreach through open science policies and by embracing SDGs as a key topic in research impact, mission, and practice. It will also explore the changes that the scientific community can be in addition to those that it makes.
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Sustainable and Equitable Scholarly Publishing: A New Vision for Open Access Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences

01:02:13

2023 | Jun 01, Sarah McKee, Beth Fuget, John Lenahan, Holly Mercer

Open Access monograph initiatives in the humanities and social sciences have shown great promise, demonstrating significant usage around the world. At the same time, creating a scalable funding model that prioritizes equity and bibliodiversity remains a formidable challenge. A group of university press directors, academic librarians, and not-for-profit partners have worked together on an initiative to produce a large-scale shift in monograph publishing. In a proposed new model, libraries could license new university press ebooks at an affordable cost; three years after publication, each title would be released openly to the world, increasing equity of access to valuable scholarly content. Our shared goal: a sustainable and equitable Open Access model that will meet the needs of authors, readers, libraries, and university presses. In this session, the presenter will share their perspectives on the Open Access landscape and lead a conversation eliciting feedback on the challenges and opportunities of this new model.
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The Evolving Knowledge Ecosystem

01:01:14

2023 | Jun 01, Roger Schonfeld, Gregg Gordon, Amy Brand, Julia Kostova, Nandita Quaderi

In this plenary panel session, hear from industry leaders as they talk about the societal and economic pressures driving our industry today and what they tell us about the future. Roger Schoenfeld (ITHAKA S+R) will moderate a candid discussion that addresses some of the most exciting opportunities and the greatest challenges shaping the present and future of scholarly communication. The session will engage with the ways leading companies are addressing these issues and changes and what your organization might want to consider as you plan for the future of your programs.
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The Introverted Leader: Career Development and Networking Advice for the Quiet Among Us

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2023 | Jun 01, Will Schweitzer, Karen Stoll Farrell, Mithu Lucraft, Julie Nash

"While extroverts tend to be more seen and heard, research shows that at least one-third of the people we know are introverts. These members of our teams are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion, and who favor working on their own over working in teams. Many amazing advancements in society, the arts, literature, and technology are thanks to introverts like self-described introverts Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, and Bill Gates. In this session, we discuss how introverts can advocate for themselves in the workplace, making their career aspirations and contributions heard and valued. We hear from self-described introverts who have tips for others on how to navigate the workplace and make the most of networking opportunities. Finally, we hear from managers who have been successful in blending personality types on their teams, making sure all team members are heard and valued."
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The Role of Trust in Publishing for Sustainable Development

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2023 | Jun 02, Rebecca Kirk, Sara Gorman, Nicola Jones, Chirag Jay Patel

Science continues to dominate headline news, yet one of the hottest topics of debate alongside that is misinformation and fake news—because there's just so much information out there and a strong need to be able to use evidence to drive action. The world's global challenges provide the ripest ground for this—for example, the COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the clearest modern examples of how conspiracy theories, lies, and disinformation can be deadly. How do we know what we can trust? And how do we combat misinformation to ensure research can and continues to have a positive impact on bridging the gap between science and action in tackling global, social, and economic issues? Panelists will share their thoughts and experience on the roles of research and publishing integrity in combatting misinformation and advocating for evidence-based interventions to address the challenges that the SDGs set out to tackle.
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Unpacking OA Usage Reporting What Do Stakeholders Want?

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2023 | Jun 01, Jill Emery, Christina Drummond, Tim Lloyd

Open Access usage reporting is becoming ever more complex. Growing content syndication means that usage is occurring at scale across multiple platforms. While it's clear how this usage can be reported via COUNTER to libraries, it's less clear what other stakeholders are looking for, such as funders, editors, and authors. How granular should reporting be? Is there a role for geo-locating usage to help in organizational affiliation? What's the importance of human vs machine interfaces? And is all usage created equal, and does that matter? This session brings together four different perspectives: an OA publisher, an institutional funder, an open repository, and a vendor. We'll walk through what's known and then start to unpack the questions for which we don't yet have answers. Our goal is to inform our community understanding of the challenges ahead of us and, hopefully, start to lay the groundwork for future standards in this area.
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Vertical Integration of the Vibe

01:10:06

2023 | Jun 02, Bonnie Gruber, Adrianna Borgia, Jennifer Regala, Casey Seideman, Robert Siemens

This is the story of The Journal of Urology, a peer-reviewed journal, and its Editorial Board. We've worked together to grow the foundational values of a team and publication that stand for more than chasing impact. We are committed to engagement, DEI, involving early career researchers, transparency, and instilling a vibe of belonging. The vibe needed to be a vertical integration, starting at the beginning of our processes all the way to the end, with full buy-in of our editors, authors, reviewers, readers, and community. Learn from our Editorial Board members, who lead demanding research groups and practices, yet prioritize this mission, and scholarly publishing community members willing to share their time and passion to help make us better. In the words our Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Robert Siemens, often borrows from Jerry Reed's "East Bound and Down": "We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there."
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What Does Accessibility Mean To Our Community? The View from Campus Disability and Accessibility Services

01:01:49

2023 | Jun 02, Kaela Parks, Alex Jordan, Jennifer Lucas, Nicola Poser

Publishers are paying increased attention to making digital content accessible. In order to do so successfully, we need to hear from diverse stakeholders, including those not often heard from in our ecosystem, about what is needed, what works, what doesn't, and new or emerging tools and technologies that publishers should be aware of. We will hear from Portland Community College Accessible Education & Disability Resources staff and faculty to engage in a dialogue about these topics. In this session, we will discuss the dynamics of providing accessible education and the practical aspects of providing resources for students, helping to set priorities for publishers as we work to truly address this challenge rather than "checking the box." Portland Community College is recognized as a leader in this area, and this session is intended for a range of SSP attendees who will benefit from the perspectives of the panelists.
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Where are my Authors? Marketing, Analytics and Data for an Open Research Future

01:29:28

2023 | Jun 01, Mithu Lucraft, Natasha White, Matt Giampoala, Sara Girard

In an increasingly author-centric future where decisions of where to publish are driven by funder requirements and availability of APC funding, the need to differentiate is more critical than ever for publishers. But reaching authors with the right message requires good author data, sophisticated technologies, and the right mix of channels to get to authors with the right message at the right stage of their authoring journey. This session will laser in on how publishers are adapting Marketing to meet author needs, considering data and technology, channels, and best practice. The session should help the audience understand the relevance and impact of Marketing in this changing environment and what the likely next steps should be for publishers in the coming year.
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Working Together to Preserve the Integrity of the Scholarly Record in a Transparent and Trustworthy Way

01:04:36

2023 | Jun 02, Nandita Quaderi, Cheol-Heui Yun, Patrick Franzen, Amanda Bartell, Hylke Koers

With the proliferation of scholarly content, how do researchers know what to trust? There isn't a single source of truth, and many in the community are looking for support and answers. But there's no single solution, and it's down to us as a community to work together to solve this problem. This session brings together different parts of the community to discuss how their organizations are working together to tackle this challenge and ask the audience to highlight any remaining problems that we need to solve together. We'll hear about Crossref's role in collecting and openly disseminating metadata that can be used as "trust signals," STM," support for publishers to preserve scholarly integrity, Web of Science using the rigorous selection as a foundation for trustworthy datasets & metrics, COPE's work bringing together publishers and institutions, and the Korean Council of Science Editors (KCSE)' work with journal editorial boards.