New Directions in Data and Scholarly Publishing

Just as new directions in leadership have changed the way organizations have thought about their activities, cultures, and policies, new directions in data have done the same. While many organizations have used data to track the success of usage, sales, and other activities, this panel will outline some actionable ways to blend quantitative and qualitative data to foster innovation. In this session, our panelists will discuss the ways organizations can use internal data to improve workflows and staff experience, how we can use data to better inform the impact of our outputs and activities, and how data can help us understand our stakeholders’ decision-making process and motivations.

Publication Date

2022 | September

New Directions 2022 | Creating the New Possible

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SSP’s 2022 New Directions Seminar gathered experts in the field to review the latest developments and innovations in our industry and discuss how we can collectively take the best of what we’ve learned over the past few years into the future. Featured presentations highlighted the advancement of new ideas, technologies, and collaborations that are currently shaping the future of academic publishing, including new directions in open access; new agreements and collaborations that could change the course of research and research funding; ethics in peer review; new technologies in scholarly publishing and the importance of adapting to a data-driven future; and much more. Topics were presented by a diverse and passionate group of speakers from academia, scholarly publishers, librarians, and industry service providers.

Christina Drummond

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Executive Director, OA eBook Data Usage Trust

Dylan Ruediger

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Senior Analyst, Ithaka S+R

Lillian Wang Selonick

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Assistant Managing Editor, PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academies of Science

Lillian Wang Selonick is an assistant managing editor at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In addition to leading a team of five editorial coordinators who oversee peer review from submission to acceptance, she leads the Corrections team, which handles all post-publication update requests. She loves solving messy problems and reimagining workflows to be more efficient, equitable, and ethical. Previously, she has worked for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Geophysical Union. She holds a BA in Classics from the University of Chicago. She is a 2022 SSP Early Career Fellow.

Rebecca McLeod

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Managing Director, Harvard Data Science Review

Rebecca McLeod is the Managing Director for the Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR,) the open access platform of the Harvard Data Science Initiative. In this role, she oversees all business, publishing and program operations of HDSR including business development, production and editorial activities, and marketing. Rebecca has decades of experience in scholarly communications having worked in marketing, editorial development, operations, and relationship management roles for both nonprofit and commercial organizations including ThRebecca is very active in the scholarly communications industry having chaired and served on multiple committees for the Association of University Presses, the Professional and Scholarly Division of the American Publishers’ Association and the Society for Scholarly Publishing. She is a founding member of the Boston Women Information Network, a former member of the Board of Directors for the Society of Scholarly Publishing, and currently serves on the Steering Committee for the Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) and the Board of Directors for the National Information Standards Organization (NISO).e MIT Press, Aries Systems, and Copyright Clearance Center.