Improving Research Workflows with Metadata

Scholarly information is fragmented, workflows are inefficient, and trust in research has been eroding in recent years. There are a number of reasons for this: too much time is being spent on administrative tasks; content discoverability, including access rights, is not optimized; researchers aren't getting the recognition they deserve and their publishers want; and there's a lack of the transparency needed to (re)build trust in research. In addition, publishers, in particular, need better information to improve strategic decision-making. Recent reports from Australia and the UK have shown that widespread adoption of persistent identifiers (PIDs) and their associated metadata could save tens of thousands of researcher hours and tens of millions of dollars for each of those two countries. In this session, you will hear from a broad range of stakeholders about how publishers, libraries, and other stakeholders can contribute to and benefit from improved scholarly workflows.

Publication Date

2023 | Jun 02

45th Annual Meeting (2023)

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"Transformation, Trust, and Transparency" The pace of change in our industry continues unabated, with seismic shifts in areas such as the dissemination of research, business models, and the nature of the workplace. And yet, while pressure for change has become the new normal, fundamental change has proved more elusive. We invite you to join us in highlighting the Trust and Transparency issues that underlie many of the challenges we face and exploring what it takes to create more meaningful Transformation in scholarly publishing.

Alice Meadows

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Director of Community Engagement, National Information Standards Organization

Alice Meadows is responsible for engaging with and developing the NISO community, including communicating the value of our projects, events, and programs. She is an active member of the SSP community, including contributing to The Scholarly Kitchen blog and serving on the Kitchen Cabinet, and passionate about peer review -- she is one of the founders of Peer Review Week -- and about diversity and inclusion, acting as one of the SSP representatives on the C4DISC initiative, and a member of the SSP D&I Task Force.

Ana Heredia

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Scholarly Communications Independent Consultant, Independent Consultant

Anna Jester

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Vice President of Sales & Marketing, eJournal Press

Anna Jester is Vice President of Sales & Marketing at eJournalPress. Working for a software company providing highly customizable manuscript submission and peer review, production tracking, and billing systems leads to many fascinating conversations, generally including multiple acronyms or terms like Read & Publish. Anna enjoys dialogue about functionality and workflows, providing demonstrations and presentations, and attending industry meetings. She volunteers as a member of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Membership Committee and the NISO Peer Review Terminology Working Group, is a Past President of the Council of Science Editors (CSE) and serves on the Science Editor Editorial Board.

Ginny Hendricks

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Rob O'Donnell

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Director of Publishing Technologies, Rockefeller University Press