The Future of Scholarly Publishing: Three Trends to Be Ready For

The SSP webinar program delivers a series of highly informative, thought-provoking webinars designed to challenge and stimulate discussion. Covering timely topics and offered regularly throughout the year, our one-hour webinars are available for viewing 180 days after the live broadcast.

Ann Gabriel leads Elsevier’s Global Strategic Networks team, which engages with key stakeholders across the research enterprise to establish strategic collaborations and use data analytics to address societal challenges in the areas of sustainability, diversity & inclusion and open science. Prior to her current role, she held a variety of positions at the forefront of scholarly communication – most recently as Elsevier’s Publishing Director for journals in Computer Science and Engineering, as well as electronic product development for Elsevier’s ScienceDirect platform.

Elizabeth Scarpelli has been part of the higher education and scholarly publishing industry for the last 35 years. She is currently founding director and acquiring editor of the University of Cincinnati Press and Cincinnati Library Publishing Services and sits on the board of Library Publisher Coalition and Midwest Independent Publishers Association. In her current role, Liz has expanded her publishing experience by adding journals, open access, and open educational resources to the types of content she publishes. She believes that open access non-fiction works can mirror real-time scholarly dialog with the right platform and by writing the narrative with open access in mind from the start. Open access improves the written narrative, reader understanding, and discoverability of information while shrinking the distance between authors and their audiences.

As Deanta Commercial Director, Patrick’s role is centred on understanding how the Academic Publishing market is evolving in a world of continual technological innovation. This research led directly to the Trends in Academic Publishing survey and white paper, which Patrick has written, overseen, and presented to an international audience over the past two years. This research, and the roundtables that Deanta host on the back of them, feed directly into Deanta’s go-to-market strategy and product development. Patrick has a wealth of experience working with global clients across the technology and service sectors.

Shirley Decker-Lucke is Director of Content, at SSRN, Elsevier's preprint server. She has leads innovative cross-departmental initiatives that ensure Elsevier is understanding and meeting our customer needs. She is responsible for ensuring the SSRN platform supports content and researcher needs for the dissemination of early stage research (preprints). Throughout her career she has focused on merging content and technology in innovative ways that serves the research and those who rely upon it. Before this role she was Publishing Director at Elsevier.