The Scholarly Kitchen: What’s Next for Scholarly Publishing: Navigating Key Issues and Future Scenarios

The SSP webinar program delivers a series of highly informative, thought-provoking webinars designed to challenge and stimulate discussion. Covering timely topics and offered regularly throughout the year, our one-hour webinars are available for viewing 180 days after the live broadcast.

Hong is a product and AI innovation leader in scholarly publishing and former Senior Director of AI Product & Innovation at Wiley, where he set AI vision and strategy, drive the roadmap, and delivered award-winning services that automate research and publishing workflows. He helped define Wiley’s AI ethics principles, drove innovation for the Wiley Research Exchange platform and Atypon experience platform, and led creation of Wiley’s first AI-driven papermill detection tool—now a leading integrity solution. A former head of AI R&D, he built collaborations with top labs worldwide and earned multiple AI awards, including an honorable mention for the 2024 APE Award for Innovation. He holds a PhD in 3D Modeling with AI (Aberystwyth) and an MBA in Digital Transformation (Oxford). His personal research passion is supporting publishers’ success in their transition to Open Science and helping global researchers know more, do more, and achieve more in the era of digital transformation. Hong is widely published on computer science and AI topics and presents regularly at prominent industry events. He also serves as a COPE Advisor, Scholarly Kitchen Chef, Co-Chair of ALPSP’s AI Special Interest Group, member of STM’s Future Lab, and Distinguished Expert at China’s National Key Laboratory of Knowledge Mining for Medical Journals.

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe is Professor/Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction in the University Library and affiliate faculty in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As the 2010-11 ACRL President, she led the launch the ACRL Value of Academic Libraries Initiative. Lisa is currently Editor of Library Trends, a “chef” of The Scholarly Kitchen, and Chair of the IFLA Information Literacy Section. Other service includes positions in DLF, NISO, ARL, ALA, ILA, and LOEX. Lisa has consulted, presented, and published widely on the value of libraries, strategic planning, organizational innovation, emerging technologies, program evaluation, library assessment, privacy, inclusion and equity, information literacy, and teaching and learning.

Phill is a co-founder with responsibility for digital and technology at MoreBrains Consulting Cooperative, where he acts as a principal consultant for a range of clients in open science infrastructure, scholarly publishing, and digital product innovation. He’s a member of the Learned Publishing Editorial Board, a council member for the European Association of Science Editors (EASE), a member of the African Journals Partnership Programme (AJPP), a judge for the Karger Vesalius Awards for innovation in medical publishing, and a member of the advisory board for the Researcher to Reader conference. Previously, Phill was the CTO at Emerald Publishing. Before that, he held a series of roles at Digital Science, including Director of Publishing Innovation and a senior role in the consultancy division. He was also the first Editorial Director at Journal of Visualized Experiments. In a former life, Phill was a cross-disciplinary researcher at Imperial College, London, UK Atomic Energy Authority, and Harvard Medical school. His career spanned plasma physics, biomedical engineering and neuroscience.

Roger C. Schonfeld is the managing director for JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services. Launched in 2025, JSTOR Stewardship is a service through which libraries can manage, preserve, and provide access to their archives and special collections, with transformative opportunities to accelerate their collections processing productivity and to increase their collections’ usage and impact. Roger is also responsible for ITHAKA’s overall organizational strategy.

Todd Carpenter currently serves as Executive Director of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), a non-profit association that develops and maintains standards for the creation, persistent management, and effective interchange of information. Prior to joining NISO, Todd was Director of Business Development at BioOne, an online aggregation of biological science journals. He also held management positions at The Johns Hopkins University Press, the Energy Intelligence Group, and the Haworth Press. He serves on the boards of several industry and community organizations, including currently being Chair of FORCE11, a Director at the Book Industry Study Group, at the Baltimore County Public Library, and at the Free Ebook Foundation. Formerly, he served as Treasurer on the Board of SSP and was chair of several SSP Committees. He is editor of the book The Critical Component, Standards in the Information Community, has authored dozens of articles and also contributes regularly as a Chef on the Scholarly Kitchen. Todd is a graduate of Syracuse University and holds a masters degree in business from the Johns Hopkins University.