Trends in Academic Publishing 2025

Although every year in the scholarly publishing ecosystem is a balancing act of innovation, optimization, and value creation, 2025 is shaping up to be particularly challenging as the pace and scale of change is accelerating more than we’ve ever seen before. There is increasing pressure to provide value to and to meet the incredibly diverse needs of the global research community while maintaining financial health for our own organizations, living our values, and continuing to protect the scholarly record. With AI, open access, integrity, and mistrust frequently dominating the conversation, we are in the midst of an unprecedented shift in both our industry and society as a whole. As always, the SSP community continues to focus on bringing together academics, funders, librarians, publishers, service providers, technologists, researchers and countless others with a communal interest and stake in disseminating scholarly information. We look to the 47th Annual Meeting as an opportunity to continue this tradition and welcome all colleagues and community stakeholders.

In her role as Associate Director, Publishing, at Wolters Kluwer Health, Jennifer Regala works with award-winning news magazine publications, including Oncology Times and Emergency Medicine News. Jennifer has worked in scholarly publishing for 20+ years, most recently as the Director of Publications/Executive Editor at the American Urological Association. Jennifer's personal motto is: "It's free to be nice and to comb your hair.."

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 three 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.

Simone Taylor is Chief, Publishing at the American Psychiatric Association. From a background in scientific research, Simone started her publishing career at Elsevier, and via the National Physical Laboratory, Wiley, and AIP Publishing, has developed considerable international experience in leading adaptive and transformational change. Simone has a passion for helping authors maintain an archivable record of their work in the scientific literature, and is a keen advocate for improving global accessibility to published works. She has served on cross-industry groups for implementing data citation principles and for standardizing data policy, and works to deliver more equitable outcomes in compensation and career advancement for marginalized groups in the workforce.