New Directions in Data and Scholarly Publishing

Duration: 54 mins
Publication Date: 2022 | September

About the session

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.

Collection

New Directions (2022)

Speakers

Senior Analyst, Ithaka S+R
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.
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.
Executive Director, OA eBook Data Usage Trust