New Directions in Publisher Collaborations and Access to Content

The complexities of operating in today’s scholarly communication marketplace requires finding new ways to work together to achieve more than each of us can do alone. Publishers are banding together to deliver content, achieve and maintain sustainability, and meet mission-driven objectives. This session brings together publishers finding new paths through synergy in their disciplines and alignment of their models to serve audiences in ways not possible before.

Publication Date

2022 | Sep 21

New Directions 2022 | Creating the New Possible

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Allison Belan

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Director for Strategic Innovation and Services, Duke University Press

Allison C Belan is the Associate Director for Digital Strategy and Publishing Systems at Duke University Press. Allison works to align all aspects of the Press’s digital publishing strategy and operations to build a digital presence that connects scholars and thinkers to Duke University Press’s publications and that speeds our scholarship to the world. She leads the Scholarly Publishing Collective, a collaboration between non-profit journal publishers that is managed by Duke University Press.

Andrea Lopez

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Director of Sales, Partnerships, and Initiatives, Annual Reviews

is the Director of Sales, Partnerships & Initiatives at Annual Reviews where she is responsible for the sales and distribution of Annual Reviews journals. She has over 25 years of experience in academic publishing sales. She joined Annual Reviews in 1999 to manage the then new site license program and has enjoyed partnering with librarians and sales agents worldwide to build the program. Most recently she has been

Heather Staines

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Senior Consultant, Delta Think

Heather Staines is Senior Consultant at Delta Think and Director of Community Engagement for the OA Data Analytics Tool. She currently holds the record for human with the highest number of annotations. She is a frequent speaker and participant at industry events including the COUNTER Board of Directors, the Charleston Library Conference, the STM Futurelab, Society for Scholarly Publishing, Council of Science Editors. She has a Ph.D. in Military and Diplomatic History from Yale University.

Ralph Youngen

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Senior Director, Digital Strategy and Business Integration, American Chemical Society

Ralph Youngen is Senior Director, Digital Strategy at the American Chemical Society where he oversees the content delivery, peer review, and identity management platforms for ACS Publications. Ralph holds key leadership roles in several industry initiatives aimed at supporting the needs of the scholarly research community. He was past Co-Chair of the joint STM and NISO RA21 initiative and now serves as a member of the governance committee for SeamlessAccess, its operational successor. Ralph is one of the founders of GetFTR, serves on STM’s Standards and Technology Executive Committee, and is chair of the STM Solutions Access Cluster.