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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Co-Founder, MoreBrains Cooperative

Alice is a co-founder of the MoreBrains Cooperative, a consulting organization that specializes in — and supports the values of — open research. Her career has spanned both scholarly publishing (at Blackwell Publishing and then Wiley) and research infrastructures — first as Director of Community Engagement & Support of ORCID, and then in a similar role at NISO (National Information Standards Organization). Alice is actively involved in the scholarly communications community, including as President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) in 2021-22 and as a regular contributor to their Scholarly Kitchen blog. She is passionate about the need for a robust and open global research infrastructure (with a particular interest in metadata and workflows) and about improving diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility - in scholarly communications and in society at large.

Ana Heredia

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Scholarly Communications Independent Consultant, Independent Consultant

Anna Jester

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Sales & Marketing, eJournalPress, part of Wiley Partner Solutions

I frequently find myself discussing manuscript submission and peer review, production tracking, and billing/OA payment systems, as well as gastronomic pursuits, Salukis, and travel. Find me if you are looking for dialogue about functionality and workflows, want a demonstration or presentation relating to the previously mentioned topics, or will be attending scholarly publishing industry meetings. I volunteer on the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Membership Committee, on the Science Editor Editorial Board, and am a Past President of the Council of Science Editors (CSE). I previously served on the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE) Annual Meeting Planning Committee and the NISO Working Group for Peer Review Terminology. My favorite standard is currently ANSI/NISO Z39.106-2023. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8543-0311 SSP Professional Profile: https://www.sspnet.org/careers/professional-profiles/anna-jester/

Ginny Hendricks

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Rob O'Donnell

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Director of Publishing Technologies, Rockefeller University Press