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Trends in Academic Publishing 2025

Trends in Academic Publishing 2025
Patrick Shafe will be joined on stage by Simone Taylor, Chief of Publishing at the American Psychiatric Association, and Jennifer Regala, Associate Director at Wolters Kluwer Health, to explore key trends impacting academic publishing. The panel will examine findings from Deanta's 2025 Trends in Academic Publishing Survey, with special focus on the technological evolution taking place in the industry over the past two years. The discussion will highlight how this period represents a crucial inflection point for publishers, examining the acceleration of AI adoption, digital transformation, and emerging business models that are fundamentally changing how academic content is created, distributed, and consumed.
Publication Date
May 2025

47th Annual Meeting (2025)

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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.

Jennifer Regala

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Wolters Kluwer Health

Patrick Shafe

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Commercial Director, Deanta Global

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

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Chief, Publishing, American Psychiatric Association

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.