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Good morning. It's good to see so many smiling faces today on the last day. Just to kind of get us started today, I want to again recognize and Thank our wonderful sponsors. Let's give them around of applause for all of their support. They're a big part of why this meeting is so, so fantastic. So really appreciate that today is the last day to get in that exhibit hall.
Talk to some of our exhibitors. I'm sure they have something they would love to not ship back to their offices. So be sure to visit them. I also want to give a quick shout out to our virtual attendees this morning. They've been silently watching along with us in many cases during the week. So I just want to sort of Thank them for being a part of this meeting as well.
One last housekeeping reminder. There is a voting activity at the end of this session. If you've not been before, if you have not already downloaded the app, now is a great time to do it. We'll be very quick voting at the end, so you'll want to have that queued up and ready to go. And I know the moderators are going to talk a little bit more about that as well. So I'd like to introduce our moderators for the preview session this morning.
Erin Foley and Latoya Flagler. Good morning, everybody. Happy Friday. We're almost to the end, but not quite yet. So it's great to see some familiar faces throughout the week this week. And for those of you who I don't know yet. My name is Erin Foley and I'm the senior publisher solutions manager at copyright clearance center.
And it's my very great pleasure to be up here today with my colleague Latoya Fletcher, who's the editorial engagement manager at ax. And what an incredible two days we've had so far. We kicked off the show on Tuesday with some engaging industry breakout sessions. Hopefully you went to some of those. We followed that up by a thought provoking keynote by Dr. Elizabeth bick on image manipulation, which seems to be a big topic this week.
Yesterday we had a great plenary on the evolving knowledge ecosystem. Many informative educational sessions. I wish I could clone myself to make them all, but sadly I could only make a few. And that was really aligned with our theme of trust, transformation and transparency. And along with that, of course we've had some amazing networking opportunities.
So hopefully you've been taking advantage of that at breaks, breakfasts, lunches and of course, cocktail hour naturally. But today. I'm really looking forward to some more educational sessions, the get involved luncheon. If you haven't gotten involved in SSP, please do come to that at noon. And the poster session, the Oxford style debate on AI and yet more networking.
But before we get to all of that, I hope you guys are caffeinated this morning because we are off to a dynamic start with a series of lightning talks on the new noteworthy and innovative items coming out from some of our close colleagues. So each speaker is going to have five minutes to present their item and we'll all have a chance to vote at the end. So as Melanie said, please do download the app and Latoya is going to give some instructions at the end.
So don't feel like you don't know what you're doing because I don't either. Now, having had a sneak peek at some of these presentations, I can tell you that it's going to be a tough decision. So I hope you listen closely and I'm going to pass it off to Latoya to start introducing our first speaker. And as a reminder, this one is being live streamed for our virtual attendees.
So for those of you who are virtually remote, if you have any issues or questions, please drop it in the chat and one of us will address your issues. Latoya, to you. Thank you so much, Erin. It's a pleasure to introduce our first speaker, Ryan walther, senior director of client services at aeris systems, speaking about eliminating limitations in the production workflow.
Welcome, Ryan. Super Brett. All right. Well, since Latoya introduced me, I think I'll skip that part since we have five minutes. And the large part of this presentation is lightning. Presentation is how to move your production system into a new model and a new, faster model that works well.
So let me just give you a little bit about air systems, who we are, what we do. In essence, our mission is to help disseminate human knowledge on a global scale, using our flexible and innovative workflow solutions, primarily editorial manager and production manager. So we have about 9,000 publications on our platform currently. We have many millions of users registered across the globe.
And as an added piece of information, we were acquired by Elsevier in 2018. And you go the next slide. So the purpose of the product I'm going to present today is to innovate and provide an alternative to traditional article production. So traditional article production kind of shuffles workflows between multiple stakeholders, copy editors, authors, production editors, vendors everywhere around where there's unstructured set of content, where docs, PDFS that are going back and forth and eventually pulling together into one production system.
This has a couple of limitations, right? There's possible disrupted workflows, there's limited workflow visibility, limited status visibility. There can be increased costs both for more in-house staff, for more vendors, for more external costs. And there's risks to quality control when you have this much disaggregated work trying to come together in one stream.
Uh, on top of that, in most cases for traditional publication article publication workflows. Metadata is not one of the primary things that's getting pulled in anymore. It is. It's there. But the initial workflow is not machine readable. It's not machine accessible. And that's something our new product is trying to address.
Uh, so the liquid manuscript feature works within a production manager platform. So liquid manuscript includes an entire suite of production workflow tools designed to eliminate most of the limitations of kind of traditional article publication model. Liquid transforms can unstructured static content. So word PDF, those are the easiest ones to kind of point to and transforms it into structured dynamic data by coming, by having the ability to create things as XML first.
Once your paper is accepted and it goes right into production, it can be built right into an XML workflow where all the other work takes place inside the XML and it gives essentially an alternative to some of these more disparate and scattered processes. So I think I'm still on the same slide, am I? Yeah, we'll stay there. Liquid provides a seamless, centralized workflow. In just one system, you go to different places to check statuses.
It gives control back to the experts where they can directly interface with the XML, which is both very flexible and dynamic. It saves time and money by removing the need for intermediaries, by removing the need for a certain amount of vendors, and it improves content quality by primarily making it machine readable and machine accessible. It also creates a kind of enhanced user experience for production teams, for authors, for editors, for anyone involved, especially in the copyediting and the post-production and the proofing processes.
So let me there we go. I'm running the right slide. I probably should have ordered some glasses. There we go. So the liquid tool set has multiple pieces to it in addition to the dynamic content editing interface. We're also introducing two new tools in the liquid manuscript suite. One is an auto XML text conversion and the other is an auto set of auto pagination tools so publishers can select which tools in the liquid suite they want to use to enhance their current workflow.
Or they can take advantage of all three of these primary tools to create a complete end to end production system. An end to end production solution. Time is ticking. Time is ticking. Let's see if we'll get to some more of the more important ones. Those are the three primaries.
There's the end to end slide. But let's go to the liquid. Manuscripts suite. So I want to give a little more detail into what each of these tools delivers. Used together. First of all, they're all used together with our production manager system and liquid benefits from and streamlines all stages of downstream workflow end to end.
So it's not just from production to publication, but it's from production to publication and beyond because it's so structured. You can use it for multiple purposes, even past an initial push out to wherever you're hosting platform is. So you've got a single stream production process that can be consistent throughout the entire workflow.
There we go. Now the content editing interface gives us a very easy to use. Did I skip the conversion tool? Let me go back. There we go. That's the right spot. The automatic external conversion tool transforms. As I said earlier, the unstructured content right into structured XML using industry compliant Aries jets, which is transformable into other versions of Jets.
The conversion is triggered by a production task inside production manager. The transmittal of that XML can extract metadata and push that metadata into the XML right from the editorial manager system. And it will operate in an integration with data conversion laboratories. That's how the text conversion in XML works, and I think that's my time.
So thank you. I will be happy to explain the rest of it if you come over to the booth later. Thank you, everybody. So thank you so much, Ryan. Next up, we have Sharon Ahmad, executive publisher at Cambridge University press. She will be presenting on disrupting the traditional journal publication to better reflect the research life cycle.
Thank you, Sharon. It's possible to see a bigger version of my slides without the. Notes bit, please. No you can't even take the notes bit away because I really can't see the slides.
OK, well, I'll do my best. Well, good morning, everyone. So if you were in the plenary session yesterday morning, you might have heard a bit about the atomization of a research article. Thank you very much. That's perfect. We're breaking it down into its component parts.
And that's a very nice segue into what I want to tell you about today, which is the research directions program of journals from Cambridge University Press. So the traditional journal doesn't really reflect the research life cycle. It can appear quite linear, but as we know, it's much more convoluted than that. So it came to University press.
We wanted to take the next step by launching a program of journals that is led by questions and hypotheses that define a field. And researchers then respond in real time as they're doing the work, which shows the evolution of the research. So what do we mean by that? So each research directions journal tackles the fundamental questions in its field and publishes results, analysis and impact reviews that relate to the questions so researchers can then contribute to the different stages of the process by submitting results as they get them, or by analyzing the findings of other researchers.
And then we publish review articles or impact articles that bring the work together and show how the questions are being answered, providing both context and impact and all the published work. And by that I mean the results, analysis and impact reviews are peer reviewed, indexed, citable and open access. We also have a community based site for early research output. Another other non peer reviewed literature that reflects what we think is the kind of informal conversation that happens around research that also really helps to shape and complement it.
And all of the outputs, both peer reviewed and non peer reviewed, will be linked together on our site, giving visibility to the entire research journey as it progresses. So if we break it down, as we say in research directions, it all starts with a question or a hypothesis that is set by the journal editors with input from people in the research community. And each journal will set the questions that define its field.
So some of the questions that are being asked are, can you grow a building? How do we prevent the next pandemic? How can we modernize agriculture? And then instead of submitting a fully formed research paper, authors submit incremental results and analysis that then contribute towards answering the question. And if you think of these short papers as pieces of a puzzle, when you put them together, they form a picture that then addresses that research question.
So as I mentioned, authors can also share early research output on our community space, which is called Cambridge open engage, and these include preprints data sets, posters and abstracts. And then on our site we will link those. We'll make those connections between the different short articles and showing how they all link together. And in this way, researchers around the world in different disciplines will work together and find the answers to the questions speeding up delivery, but also fostering collaboration and the sharing of knowledge.
And finally, an impact paper will summarize what has been published in response to the question and describe how it can benefit society. And I just wanted to give you an example of what we call our connections map. So on the left, you can see one of the research questions, and if you click on it or hover over it, you can see what the question is and who the authors are.
At the top is a piece of community content, and on the right is a result. And you can see how we've linked those together. And of course, as time goes on, we'll be getting more and more things to put on this connection map and we'll show how they all link together. So we have launched five titles in the series so far, and these are biotechnology design one health quantum technologies, bioelectronics and cyber-physical systems.
What's coming next for our program? Well, interestingly, we have just secured sponsorship of one of the questions in the journal, and this was not something that we had actually expected, but we've welcomed it. And we've had interest from other institutions and even a funder who are interested in sponsoring a question. And we're working really closely with each of these groups just to make sure that their values align with those of the press and with research directions.
We're going to be launching three titles next year in depression, sleep, psychology and mind closure and transitions. And we're out in the communities looking for those groups who are really willing to innovate and experiment in how they publish their work. And we have a short term goal of launching 12 research directions titles by 2025. And Thank you for your attention.
Thank you, Sharon. Next, we have Chuck Hemingway, publisher solutions director at copyright clearance center, speaking about API based solutions for increased funding, awareness and adoption of a. You very much. It's my head throwing a glare.
I know. These these lights are very bright. Thanks for the time and Thanks to SSP for asking s.s.c. to be part of this panel. A very brilliant. Uh, folks and great products. What I wanted to do was bring you up to speed on some of the latest developments across our rightslink platform, specifically around informing authors of funding support, which I was happy to see was a recurring theme in a lot of the panels that were held this week.
Everybody now seems to be getting their hands around the fact that exposing support for publication somewhere in the submission process is probably not good enough and authors are going to need to have information telegraphed way upstream so that they can take advantage of their resources. So how we got here, we have a group of about 40 publishers on our rightslink platform.
By extension, they serve probably about 900 society partners. So we take in a lot of input from those channels to understand what's working, what's not in the manuscript workflow, especially as it pertains to agreement management and author experience. These are obviously some of the hottest topics for everyone in the room and no surprise, it's a very big area of focus for us.
No why did someone change my font? Was that you? Erin foley? Oh, that's cute. I'm sorry. That's that's. That's that's a very lovely font. OK, so for those of you who are not, you know, like technology focused, what is an api?
They've been around for decades. They were thought up in the 40s. They've been in use since the 60s and 70s. But basically they're a little piece of software that allows two disparate systems to communicate securely and. All of the best interactions in the space in the ecosystem rely heavily on apis, systems, talking to systems without, you know, without intervention from humans.
That's how the whole thing works, right? Our platform is no exception. We have a excellent list of partners that are integrated all through the life cycle of the manuscript. Some upstream, some downstream in many cases is two way conversations going back and forth via API to make sure that data is moving around and exposing itself at the right point in the manuscript lifecycle.
And it's important to understand that. Apis in many cases are almost viewed as the property of vendors. Right? publishers tend to sit back and wait for vendors to come forward and make best use of apis, and often they do. These excellent vendors are taking advantage of new methods that we've just announced, and they're going to be doing some Black belt level development on their platforms, which you'll all take advantage of.
But you as publishers can start to think about doing your own development. Because even though manuscript lifecycle is a fairly linear process. Telegraphing information about funding support doesn't have to be so we can break with the common thinking that it's step one through step ten, and we can now begin to populate manuscript and funding matching in other places where it makes sense.
So in short, how it works is through a brief API call. We can take a little bit of information about the manuscript, the author, the institution, some basic data. We can map that back to existing agreements that have funding available. It could be one agreement, could be two, could be three. In many cases, manuscripts match multiple sources of funding. And this will be the basic use case that those vendors will attack.
But you, the publisher on our platform, can use these APIs at no cost. They're freshly minted. There's several new methods, but if you have a preprint server, if you have an author welcome center, if you're a society or an Association publisher and you have a member center, these are all places where you can begin to expose support for publication.
And we would urge you to think hard about. Where are our authors circulating? Where would this information, be valuable? And don't wait for the vendors to come in and save you. Think about how you can telegraph. Before submission and expose this data and we would be happy to support you in that endeavor. So if you'd like to learn more, please stop by and see us or get in touch with your team and will help you.
Take the first steps in the process. Thanks very much. Next up, we have Heather staines, director of community engagement and a Sr. Consultant at Delta. Think she will be presenting on developing benchmarks and understanding your current state before building your future strategy.
Thank you and thanks, Latoya. I'm Heather Stephens, as Latoya said, and I'm going to be talking today about our benchmarking work. First a bit about Delta. Thank for anyone who hasn't heard of us. We're a strategy and analytics consultancy focusing on scholarly and society markets, working with publishers, associations, service providers, startups, really anyone whose business touches our industry.
We're also owners of the data and analytics tool. And here's a quick snapshot of our core team. Diversity, equity and inclusion or have become priorities for organizations as they strive increasingly to be sensitive to the needs of their community and provide solutions on topics of primary importance to their constituents. But to understand where your organization should be in your makeup and efforts, you must start by benchmarking your current state.
So you can make smart changes and then be prepared to measure the impact of those changes. One of Delta thinks scholarly publisher clients recently decided to do just that. Pursue a project with us to understand and benchmark the underlying demographic makeup of their authors and other contributors to their portfolio, namely their reviewers and boards. As a starting point to implement processes and procedures that ensure that they were always working towards a diverse, equitable and inclusive community.
They brought in Delta think to help them accomplish their goal. So the project itself involved Delta think investigating the various methodologies that could be used to identify gender and race, ethnicity and in collaboration with the client deciding the best methods to use. We then helped to gather and prepare the data and perform the actual data analysis.
We designed and developed reports and data visualizations based on the output. And then we use the data to inform goals for future implementation of best practices, organizational policies and practices and policies for reporting and sharing that data. We work with them every step of the way. For methodology.
We had a number of options. But let me start by saying that collecting opt in data from your community is the most accurate way to go, period. This should be the method of choice for the long term, but it's very slow and accumulating enough data to be statistically significant can take many years. What the client needed was a real short term solution. So that they could get a jump start, to have a baseline to provide the foundation that they needed to start setting goals and measure the impact of the change.
Sorry, I shouldn't have done karaoke last night. After researching the options, Delta think and the client chose name soar. This is a commercial software tool established more than 10 years ago, broadly cited and used by others in the industry to estimate likely gender and ethnicity based on patterns in the names.
Names are also utilizes an international outlook and bases its classification algorithms on global data sets, not just us data sets or narrower sets. This is a huge plus when you're dealing with a global community, as we all know, we are. You deploy our methodology. We then worked with the client to generate the activity lists for all their contributors, in this case authors, reviewers, board members and editors.
We gathered, consolidated, normalized and cleaned the data, which is not an insignificant task if you know, if you work with data. We then deduped a half a million records getting down to 200,000 unique records, taking out authors with multiple papers, reviewers with multiple reviews. Et cetera. We applied the software to identify likely gender, ethnicity.
This took numerous iterations because we needed to come to agreement on parameters that would work for the client. Don't think then performed all the analysis and ultimately produced final anonymized results which could then be used to develop narrative reports as well as data visualizations. These would show a variety of comparisons to internal as well as external grouping and trends over time.
And there's very one thing that's very important to note that none of this data was ever traced back to individuals. It was only used in the aggregate to show baseline and trends. So for the results, here's some basic. I'm on the wrong slide. That happened.
Oh, these are the I'm sorry, this is an older slide set, so I've been on the wrong side the whole time. I apologize. We're missing a couple of slides. So for the results, here are some basic samples. The type of data. This shows gender makeup across an entire portfolio broken down by corresponding authors, reviewers, board members, editors and editors in chief, showing the trends for each group over time.
And here on this slide, which I expected to be a separate slide. So got to be prepared. Here's a sample for ethnicity. Again for the entire portfolio broken down by the same groups and showing the trends over time. Now back to this slide and for more results, you have the ability to develop all sorts of visualizations and narratives around the data, which we, of course, assist you with.
You can use it to compare journal to journal discipline, to discipline across the entirety of the portfolio or across geographic regions. Et cetera. And through this you can identify your areas of strength and weakness and develop data informed decisions and strategies to improve and then track and trend the impact of that change. You can also use these types of methodology or assessment for other constituencies your membership, your committee leadership and your meeting participants and so on.
And lastly, you now have the data to report to your community on the makeup of that very community and the impact of change going forward to provide transparency and accountability around your efforts. And that's it. To read the full case study, you can use this QR code or you can link to the Delta think website or contact us at Delta.
Think.com or of course, find me. Thank you very much. Thank you, Heather. Next up, we have Zoe wakai. She's the community development manager at humanities Commons. She will be speaking about a Federated open Commons infrastructure future. Welcome, Zoe.
Hi, everyone. As has been said, my name is Zoe and I'm the community development manager with humanities commons, which is a community centered social and professional network for people working in the humanities with expansion into other disciplines underway. So today I'm going to be talking about the other very trendy technologies.
So not I, but the fediverse and activitypub, which is the protocol that enables it. But first I want to start with some context. Many years now, it's been clear that our current scholarly communication infrastructure does not serve an open and equitable knowledge ecosystem. Platform ization and enclosure, as well as competition and extractive market practices, have created high barriers to participation and impeded the ability of researchers and educators to positively impact the world around them.
In parallel, similar forces have shaped and distorted networks of exchange on the web, most evident in the evolution of social networks into advertising and surveillance machines and the recent Twitter acquisition demonstrating the risk of having too much power in too few hands. However, it has not always been this way, and it doesn't have to be this way.
In response to a lot of these trends, there's a growing move towards decentralization and Federation as both a philosophy and a technical approach to better distribute power and foster a different kind of online ecosystem, which we in the scholarly communication space can learn from. So humanities Commons developed initially as a response to the challenges specific to scholarly communication, providing an alternative pathway for scholars to interact and share their work, driven by an open ethos and supported by Open technologies.
Our system offers users the ability to create and maintain their digital presence with a profile sites, community and collaborative spaces and an open access repository that issues dois. We also offer member sites where members of a society or institution or other organization can interact with each other in their own space and also with the wider community. As we've considered the future of our work, we've been thinking about how to build something that's values aligned with our organization and the vision of the future of knowledge creation that we share with many others in our domain.
And we also have to think about how to scale that in a sustainable way to the fediverse. If you've been following the recent issues at Twitter, this term may be familiar to you. It's often talked about in relation to the move many people have made across to mastodon, but if you're not familiar with it, the fediverse refers to an expanding ecosystem of interconnected social media sites that allow users to interact with each other regardless of which of these sites they're using.
That means that people can tailor and better control their experience of social media and be less reliant on the monoculture of the tech Giants. Advocates say that this has the potential to rewire the entire social fabric of the internet, which is pretty cool if you ask me. So we have decided to undertake a pretty major rebuild of our platform and create a Federated open Commons infrastructure.
This involves moving from our current setup, which is a customized Wordpress multi-site instance to a network of multiple instances that interact with each other via the activitypub protocol, which is the technology that allows social spaces to become interoperable. It essentially allows messages, posts and notifications to be passed between systems, much like email is passed between systems, regardless of whether you're using Gmail or Outlook.
Exception to this move for us right now is that our repository will remain decentralized, but we're open to figuring out how that will work down the line. So this individual instances on the Commons network to have their own community space that is operated entirely independently, but still benefits from the extended network effect of having many of these instances connected.
So an institutional group could launch their own Commons with or without our support and be a part of that network. They also get to decide what customizations they want to make. They could set their own primary language, which features they want to have enabled. They can have their own policies, moderation practices, things like that. And for us as well, this will make managing the network a lot more sustainable because it is distributed.
And we also think that organizations will be more confident joining the network because they retain control over their data and decision making. So we're the model of the Commons provides solutions to the problems of closed academic systems. The Federated Federated approach offers a new dynamic for social interaction, governance and growth. And together they promise a fundamental change to who participates in the creation and dissemination of knowledge, how they're able to do so, and where the power in those relationships lies.
We're also excited to see what other innovations emerge as activitypub catches on further. And we'd love to see more actors in the scholarly communication space thinking about how this might impact their work and how it might support them to do this connecting collaborative work that we all think is very important and how we might connect into the larger constellation of the fediverse.
If you're interested in this, my details are on this slide here, as well as some readings that I recommend. You can also support our development by becoming a sustaining member and have some flyers at the table at the front with more information on that. And if you think might be interested in your own common site, you can get in on the ground floor of these changes and we would love to have people involved so we make sure that it's working for you and that we're designing it for you and your needs.
Thank you very much. OK, so we're halfway through. Please hold on. Next up, we have Kevin Mitchell. He is the CEO of audio information group, and he will be presenting on how the convenience of audio can drive higher engagement for your publication. Welcome, Kevin.
Hi, everybody. Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak with you today. As Latoya said, my name is Kevin Mitchell with audio information group and very excited to share some information about our service with you. So to provide some context, a problem that a lot of your audience members face.
They know the importance of staying informed in their area of expertise. The good news is they often know the sources that they need to keep track of where there's a disconnect. However, they don't always have time to read these materials, especially when it's competing with their highest priority activities, things like seeing patients conducting research, servicing clients.
Obviously, from your perspective as the content sources, the researchers, publishers, that results in lower engagement, which can jeopardize retention and growth of the audience, that can translate into lower value for sponsors and advertisers. And over time, we've seen that that leads to an aging and declining of the audience. And now we're starting to see a lot of members of the audience pivot to other sources that they know are less substantive but are more convenient, basically allowing them to make use of the time that they have with the best of what's available.
Our our view is that if we can solve the problem that the audience has, that's going to reverberate through the rest of the system ecosystem, creating the opposite, more desirable result. And so what we're doing is partnering with the tech sources, converting them to a timely word for word, human narrated, smartphone enabled audio format. And what that does is it now allows the audience to consume that exact same information.
Oftentimes the highest value, certainly most substantive form of the content without forgoing those premium work activities. Triple a says that on average, Americans spend about 293 hours per year driving. So if all we're able to do is tap into a very small segment of that time, it represents a massive influx of additional capacity to consume your content at a dramatically reduced opportunity cost. By the way, as well as pressure mounts to go open source time is only going to continue to be more and more of a limiting factor.
And so a great way to fortify the value behind your paywalls with an audio edition of your publication. Obviously, making the content much more accessible as well. To be clear, what we're describing is not a podcast. It's most analogous to an audio book in the sense that we're taking an existing text source and converting it to audio. The main distinction here is that we're typically dealing with sources that change on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly basis, whereas a traditional audiobook, great Gatsby is the same book as it was 50 years ago.
Podcasts are also supplemental to the text versus a more convenient means of consuming the text, which is more in alignment with the issue that the audience actually faces. It's not that they need more content. In fact, a lot of people already complain about information overload, particularly when they're consuming for purpose versus entertainment. The real issue is that they don't have time to consume the sources that they deem as valuable.
Some statistics about the specific segment of digital audio that I'm talking about text converted to spoken word audio. It's the fastest growing segment in all of publishing. It's already eclipsed ebooks and market size at $5.4 billion last year. In the next five years, by 2028, it's actually expected to reach 19.7 billion. And what really resonates with our existing clients is that year over year, people are still increasing the amount of time that they consume content in this medium, which is, in our view, like discovering fire.
They still have excess capacity. I don't know when the last time was people had excess capacity to read anything. I'm a very unique, innovative element of the way that we provide our service. We have a part of a patented process. We engage students in the area of specialty to perform the narrations. This has a very positive impact on the quality, timeliness and the branding of the audio edition as a baseline.
They know how to pronounce and navigate the technical jargon, which is very important. They're also comprehending the material that they're reading. So cues like voice inflection, changes in tone, word emphasis, those are critical to helping the audience, the listeners to comprehend the material as well. What really our existing clients really love about this is we're literally paying the next generation of their audience to read their content, which is something that's really nice.
It kind of creates a pipeline to new members of subscribers, as the case may be. Another very important element of the service when you think about audio. Really, the value proposition is convenience. In order to actually deliver that, though, you not only need to put the content in audio, you need to also deliver it in a manner that's optimized for multitasking consumption.
And so what that means is app versus website. When we think back 15, 20 years ago, the transition from copy to digital text, the dilemma for a lot of individual sources was do I put my content on this larger platform, gain access to a larger audience, but then lose my direct relationship with the audience. Over time, that is sometimes proved to be detrimental without realizing it. That same fight is being fought in digital audio right now, and we think it's a fight worth fighting, particularly for the specialized content that you provide to your audience.
And so to arm you in that regard, we provide you with a custom branded version of our proprietary mobile app. Hi functioning, very intuitive. And clients will use that to not only extend the reach of their publications us, but also put on their app other sources that they're currently creating. So webinars, certainly podcasts, conference presentations, educational programming, sponsored content.
And so in that way It's like having a custom branded audible app, except you maintain that direct relationship with the audience, monetize the content yourself and keep all the data. In closing, a couple of representative clients lexisnexis, the Journal of bone and joint surgery, American Bar Association. Immediately following this session, we'll actually be doing a demo of the app and our booth.
That's 1915 in booth. 312 it'll be an interactive demo, downloading a live app and going through it. So I'd love to see everybody. Thanks Thank you, Kevin. Next, we have jignesh Bhatt. He is the founder and CEO of molecular connections, speaking about a one stop shop for all relevant content for society publishers members.
Take it away. I hope you can hear me and see me. With Kevin, the altitude is different, so. Uh, Thank you very much for having me here. Thank you, Erin. Thank you, Latoya. You did a phenomenal job getting all these things organized. I'm going to present to you our search one stop shop for relevant content in orthopedics surgery.
And I think what Kevin gave a talk is great segue to my talk because content formats are also increasing. There's too much content out there and an orthopedic member. How can he get everything in one place with some very intelligent search and with some very intelligent ontology? Behind it is what ortho search is all about. It's a product jointly developed by the British Society for orthopedic surgery and molecular connections.
They have many journals. The high impact factor journal is the bone and joint surgery journal in UK and molecular connections is a data science company based out of Bangalore. So I don't think I have to stress too much on the problem statement. I think we all know what it is. Let me go to the next slide and talk about what we have done in our research.
So can we have? Yeah, it is. We have collated for what is relevant for orthopedics. About 180 journals. Three preprint servers. Content from three preprint servers. 50 plus conference abstracts. 5,000 plus videos. And we'll take some audios, too, later on.
And 300 plus standards. So totally, almost about 400,000 content. And as you know, there are journals, which are interdisciplinary. So for example, pylos in the last 10 years published, let's say, about 300,000 articles. We have a relevancy checker, a machine learning based relevancy checker, which sifted through all of that, and about 20,000 articles were relevant for orthopedics.
So we took that out. So there are about 15 interdisciplinary journals also included in autosearch we have. A very, very robust ontology made by orthopedics in consultation with the editorial board at the bone and joint surgery. So it has about 20,000 terms. The way the orthopedics think it has been enriched and it gets updated on a daily basis.
So the ontology is at the back end of this product. It is SEO compliant. So today you search on Google, say knee pain in playing football and you will get ortho search as the second or the third hit. It is fair compliant. So you are the content is findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable and it gets everything into one portal.
So podcasts, videos, journal articles, standards and I'll show you. Once you have this, how powerful the search is. But just before that next slide, please. Let me just. OK so here is a search on pubmed, which will tell you that because they have not mapped synonyms very well, the hairline fracture and stress fracture gives a very, very different result. The pair in auto search.
This is the front end of auto search. And you will see a hairline fracture or stress fracture gives you more or less the same results because at the back end, they are mapped to each other. You will see on the left hand side the way the orthopedics think. So I want to see hairline fracture in only elbows or I want to see only in knee and I want to see only in so that the facets come out.
You will also see on the top it is you can flip by articles, you can flip by podcasts, you can flip by audio. Hopefully, and standards and so forth. You will also get the altmetric score of each article. You get the site scores. So the idea is that an orthopedic gets the relevant result accurately, but also does not go out of your website. This is another slide, which gives you an and kind of an idea of what we can do with ortho, with because of the power of the ontology.
So you will see the keywords mentioned there. And the same keywords can also go to any of your publishing platform so that the search and discovery on your publishing platform, be it a type on or Silverchair or highwire, will improve substantially because it kind of enriches your article. this is it is also enables natural language search. So the portal will identify, for example here you see it says.
Ankle sprain due to football and it will identify that ankle sprain is the terminology which has a kind of a disease nomenclature and football is a normal general play word and you can just put that and it'll show you the ankle sprain results. It say for example, another example is your acute compartment syndrome by Duckworth. It will say Duckworth is an author and acute compartment syndrome is the disease.
It will identify that. The these are the quick benefits of search. This is my last slide. So on the fly content collections, you can generate various content. You can also do real time indexing, accurate recommendation custom alerts for members, enhance member engagement, enhance site traffic. We were when we launched, we were thinking of 10,000 users.
By first year, we got 29,000 users in the first year and our engagement on the website went up by 30% Before she pushes me off, I'll leave, but Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, jignesh. Next, we have Othman autolib, chief growth officer at Mercier, presenting on integrity checks in the power of machine learning to improve trust in science.
Welcome. Thank you, Latoya. And you just saw in the making what Erin has been putting in all of our in all the speakers minds. If you go over, she will come and get you. So I'm the one that made the mistake yesterday as well to start the keynote intro with the joke. And every time after that people came up and spoke to me.
They expected me to be funny and they were severely disappointed. So I had to try to do what any researcher does. When you're under the pressure of trying to deliver and you needed to find content very quickly. I went to chatgpt and I typed in. Tell me a publishing joke. And unfortunately, the return that I got three times was error could not return results.
And I'm like, this room has really done their job where we haven't been able to train these models on any of our publishing data. It's amazing. And that takes me into the presentation that I have today. So research integrity is really built on the basis of what's out in the market today with machine learning. AI and the combination of being able to flag these types of fraudulent behavior or the potential for fraudulent behavior through patterns that aid editors, that aid research integrity officers, that aid conference organizers to be able to find and identify within the papers what's happening and what could potentially be going wrong.
And so some of the pressures that we have, as in the publishing ecosystem that we see, is really the need to publish more and a need to avoid those retractions, meaning that you're publishing something of high quality that does not have these fraudulent activities found within it. And then you need to publish it faster. And so these are the pressures that all of you are under. And yet the barriers to be able to achieve these pressures are the multiple vendors that you may potentially be building relationships with that try to identify very specific needs.
So OK, I need a paper mill detection, I need an AI text detection, I need the ability to do preflight checks. I need an ability to do submission checks or formatting checks. And you know, the list goes on and on and there's individual vendors that you start to contract with, and then you start to find yourself in a 5 to 10 to 15 types of relationships and invoices and roadmaps to be able to just attack the problem of research integrity at scale.
Then there's also times where you're just not even able to get vendors to do this. And so you're doing it manually. You're actually going through checks, checklists of saying, OK, what submission checks can we go through on that? Or you're doing investigations of research integrity or potential fraudulent behavior manually because you don't have systems to aid you in some of the initial in some of the initial flags.
And then you're doing this on legacy workflows. So what Mauricio has found as a, a, a point of. You know, focus and investment now is if we try to scale and help you scale your workflows and your systems and your infrastructure, there's still this fear that no matter how many submissions come through, no matter how much I, I scale my submission processes, I'm worried that they might not be at the highest quality.
I'm worried that I might need to do retractions. I'm worried that I might need to have the reputational risk. And we've seen kind of the constant news outputs on what's happening in science. What are the controversies? What are the worrying amounts of fraudulent behavior in research and the scams that, you know, these organized and I think I've heard this in many places, organized crime units that are the paper Mills that all of us have been speaking about this is something that's now become commonplace, unfortunately.
And so what we've done from our solution is really take the best in the market and start to integrate them. And Chuck explained this perfectly through an API. So we've created oneAPI that actually is the mother of all APIs that brings in through strategic partnerships with the best in class technologies out there that are doing these checks. And we're doing this on the authors side, and then we're also embedding it into workflows or having it as a standalone dashboard that publishers can feed their submissions through and get results instantaneously.
You can choose to do this within a workflow which then allows you to to, to send through to production, or you can do it as a standalone to help you send to editors to take investigative action and so on and so forth. And so this is just a look at what the dashboard looks like. These are preflight checks that then we merged with integrity checks. And so it's oneAPI that gets called through different points in a workflow and you can use it as a standalone or you can use it within the embedded workflow.
Our our philosophy is if it's harder to use than Facebook or Netflix or Instagram, then we haven't done our job right. So really can see with the UI, we try to simplify as much as possible and give you the level of exposure and experience that you have in your daily lives. And and these are dashboards that now allow you to look across your entire portfolio.
And so say, you know, saying it means nothing. So what we're doing is actually just saying, why don't you try it for free? We're giving out a trial period of 50 submissions for a few weeks where you just try it risk free. Aaron's going to tackle me off the stage so you can speak to us in order to eliminate your retractions, you know, reduce the risk that across your portfolio, the systemic integrity issues that are hitting the revenue and all of the manual quality checks.
So try it out for free. You can come speak to us at the booth 107. And Thank you so much. Have a great day. So next we have I don't know why men have to move the mic. Next, we have Rodney elder, executive vice president, North America at virtu sales presenting on leveraging tools and technology.
For sharing scholarly content. Welcome, Rodney. It is very bright up here. And Thanks for this opportunity to tell you a little bit more about Virgin sails. This is our first SSP event, although we've worked with scholarly publishers for a very long time. But we will focus more on the University Press market.
But more and more clients are using our tools in the scholarly area. So how did we. What is what have I come to talk about? Biblio suite is basically a publishing ecosystem. And what I mean by that is it's a central place where you can store all of your product formats and view contracts, contractual information. When we started developing biblio, it was really at the request of specific customers who were originally developing their own systems.
But as they went through the stress of managing publishing systems plus managing their own publishing content, they realized they didn't want to be in this space anymore. And so many companies that have traditionally built their own in-house systems are now coming to us and saying, look, we can't support this anymore. The infrastructure, the cost is way too high. So what we've done is we have continued to develop pieces of the puzzle.
We work with many clients in the scholarly and educational space. We also do other publishers as well. We actually had a project for Disney go live on Tuesday this week where all of their publishing program is going through biblio. They're managing everything, but for a lot of these, some of our clients are only two users and some of them are 2,500 users.
But if you could imagine looking at a single place and being able to see all of your publishing content and anything to do with any content that you own and see contract data, cost data, everything associated to it, that's really what we're talking about today. I'm not sure if it's possible to keep the slides up on the screen a little bit longer. Thanks all right, so what are we trying to achieve?
We are essentially trying to make publishers more productive so that they can focus on their content. You know, there's nothing worse than when you go to someone and you say how much of your. Your job title, what is it that you do every day? Well, I spend half my day trying to chase down people to find information or a key data from this system to that system. And is that your real job?
No, it's not. It's just something you have to do. So what we're really trying to do is to achieve efficiencies. What is what is biblio sweet cover. It's from your concept. I'm thinking about a new article. I'm thinking about a new project, and I'm thinking about a new acquisition of a journal. Then what it's about is building up a cost estimate for drinks.
How much would we actually make on this? Looking at the content, building up the assets and that content, you know, like we've heard about starts with maybe text and it goes to audio, then it goes to video. But again, that's going out into the real world. But you also need a central place to store all that and to be able to manage it. And when you update one piece of information, you want it to flow through seamlessly.
We've then got contacts. So things like you've got an author, they're a they're a peer reviewer on one project, they're a author on another project. And so you want to be able to track them in all of their work and things that they're doing with you. We've then got contracts, so you want to store a contract against that content. What can you do with it?
Are there any restrictions? You know, this is going to be important for down the line post publication when someone comes to buy a permission. So they say, oh, we'd love to use, you know, page 25 of this product, but you've got a graph on there that you can't sell. So you need to know what you can and can't do with all that content. So it's managing the entire process.
So you've got your contracts, you've got production panels, how much does it cost to produce changing paper? So we ingest all the supply scales to see what's going to cost marketing. We distribute that information out as well. So we're sending it out in onyx and XML and any other formats to support websites, third parties, retailers, your distributors.
We then go through, we're then getting some bright sales come in. So we then sell this content. Perhaps it's translation, perhaps it's for permission sale. All of that is linked to that original acquisition process in the contract. So you don't have to go to the basement to find that information.
You can access it and process it immediately. Then we've then got royalties. So then how much do we need to pay for people and sales that are coming in? Different Royalty rights, perhaps in audio is different to your e-book, is different to your print, et cetera. We manage all of that. And then we're providing our reporting.
OK, next slide. So how are we solving this problem is previously it was really an end to end solution. What we're providing now is slithers of the software. So if you've got a specific problem and I've spoken to a few people here where they said, I've got a problem with just royalties or I've got a problem with just managing my editorial workflow and my acquisitions.
So instead of having to take everything, we can actually now provide you with small pieces, tactical implementations to help you solve your problems that you need that you don't have a solution for. So what does it mean? BJ Penn State had 69% year on year increase in their outputs. They started with 11 journals for people, and now there are 88 journals and for people.
Fordham University Press a really great workflow. There is, instead of being able to or key data in, put it into Word forms. And things like that, you know, they were able to automate it. So it's been a really good journey. And if you've got any questions, you can grab me in the hall. Thanks it's Rodney. Last but certainly not least, we have Florian Kirchner, managing director in North America at publisher Inc, and Brian Trombley, CEO of irisa content solutions, speaking about transforming scholarly publishing.
Welcome, Florian and Brian. Yeah Thank you. Hello, everyone. So I'm Florian from ECS publisher, and this is Brian with arisa content solutions. XML is XML at the heart of this. It's pretty scary because I could barely spell.
Well, we have a solution for that. It's called x editor. It's an intuitive online XML editor. You can add it in a word like interface, but the benefit is you get schema valid XML out of it. Schema valid XML. What schemas do you. Well out of the box. Basically every default schema, what's out there.
So for scholarly publishing, the chats family makes the most sense. But we also create custom schemas for clients if they ask for it. Maybe let me give you an example for our recent client amp. We use chats, publishing for conference papers, chats, bits for books, and also for standards. Hey, that's pretty cool. So why xml?
What's the benefit? What do you do with it? Well, we heard before it's machine readable, so it enables for automation and that's what we do. We use the XML to run it through integrated production services and generate various output formats and various publication channels integrated. So your system integrates with other processes and tools. Of course, we have a default API and I just realized three slides please further.
Oh oh, that's awesome. Maybe I need to do it. There so that's exciting too. Looks like it feels like word, but you get schema valid XML out of it. Next and then we use it. Run it through InDesign server antenna house formatter to produce various output formats.
And last but not least. We integrated, for example, with AMP access integration through an API to get taxonomy back. Also, our platform is highly configurable. We have a low code, no code approach, so no lengthy implementation projects only configuration. Yeah.
Well, that's the benefit of being in the cloud. Now you can access your content from everywhere and everyone. Thanks to certified availability, accessibility and our mobile app. So to summarize, going to cloud means access from anywhere, everywhere on any device. Exactly and another cool feature for collaboration is our integrated workflow engine. We have a graphical BPM editor.
We can model whatever workflow the clients want to work with. Therefore, enforce best practice workflows and yeah, accelerate. Well, that's pretty cool. Why don't you all come and see us at booth? What? 2 to 3? I think so. Last slide. All right.
Thank you. Well, Thank you so much to all of our speakers, especially for staying on time. These shoes are not made for tackling. So I appreciate all of you. Yeah so a huge Thanks to all of our speakers today. And I'm going to turn it over to Latoya to tell you how to do the thing that I definitely don't know how to do.
Thank you, Erin. So at this point, we're going to open the voting to all attendees, both in person and virtual. We'll have just a few minutes for everyone to complete the voting. And here's how it will work. Please open the whova app, hit polls from the home page and cast your vote. Let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you. And as you can see, we can see the results coming in live. Don't let that sway you. A last minute pitch.
In the future, we're going to have Heather do a musical number so there's not this awkward silence. Thank you. Just give them like another tens and go for it.
Yeah OK, that's fine. OK can we please have the Thank you slide back up on the screen?
OK Thank you very much. So before we announce the winner and I'm hoping Tracy's going to flag us down and tell us who it was. Um, I just really wanted to say from both Latoya and myself, please join us in thanking all of the sponsors that have generated that have donated so generously to put on this wonderful show this week. And of course, the SSP volunteers and staff for putting together this such a wonderful program.
We wouldn't be here without you. And then finally, one more round of applause for our speakers today, please. Thank you. Without further ado, I want to announce the well extended congratulations to SSPS People's Choice Award for Best Innovation to Marissa.
I think the bigger. Congratulations you didn't. It was good. OK Thank you. Thank you all so much. Thank you to all of our speakers. Enjoy the rest of the conference.
Just a couple of quick announcements. Can you all hear me? All right. So we have a break now. Back in the exhibit hall. It is a great chance to go buy some SSP or scarlet Kitchen merchandise or sign up for the 5K. Definitely hop in there. There'll be some beverages for you.
A little word about lunch. We have two lunch options. We have lunch in the exhibit hall or you can attend the get involved luncheon. In either case, your lunch, your box lunch will be in the exhibit hall. If you have a special dietary request, there will be a table set up and you need to go to that table and request your lunch by name, your name, not the lunches name.
But if you're going to the get involved lunch and you still need to pick it up in the exhibit hall and then head across the foyer to a 105, 106. If you're not familiar with the get involved luncheon, it's an opportunity to learn how to get involved. By volunteering with SSP. You learn what all of the committees do, what type of volunteer opportunities we have. So I highly encourage you to go check that out as well.
So yeah, onto the break and then another round of educational sessions. Thank you. I
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Good morning. It's good to see so many smiling faces today on the last day. Just to kind of get us started today, I want to again recognize and Thank our wonderful sponsors. Let's give them around of applause for all of their support. They're a big part of why this meeting is so, so fantastic. So really appreciate that today is the last day to get in that exhibit hall.
Talk to some of our exhibitors. I'm sure they have something they would love to not ship back to their offices. So be sure to visit them. I also want to give a quick shout out to our virtual attendees this morning. They've been silently watching along with us in many cases during the week. So I just want to sort of Thank them for being a part of this meeting as well.
One last housekeeping reminder. There is a voting activity at the end of this session. If you've not been before, if you have not already downloaded the app, now is a great time to do it. We'll be very quick voting at the end, so you'll want to have that queued up and ready to go. And I know the moderators are going to talk a little bit more about that as well. So I'd like to introduce our moderators for the preview session this morning.
Erin Foley and Latoya Flagler. Good morning, everybody. Happy Friday. We're almost to the end, but not quite yet. So it's great to see some familiar faces throughout the week this week. And for those of you who I don't know yet. My name is Erin Foley and I'm the senior publisher solutions manager at copyright clearance center.
And it's my very great pleasure to be up here today with my colleague Latoya Fletcher, who's the editorial engagement manager at ax. And what an incredible two days we've had so far. We kicked off the show on Tuesday with some engaging industry breakout sessions. Hopefully you went to some of those. We followed that up by a thought provoking keynote by Dr. Elizabeth bick on image manipulation, which seems to be a big topic this week.
Yesterday we had a great plenary on the evolving knowledge ecosystem. Many informative educational sessions. I wish I could clone myself to make them all, but sadly I could only make a few. And that was really aligned with our theme of trust, transformation and transparency. And along with that, of course we've had some amazing networking opportunities.
So hopefully you've been taking advantage of that at breaks, breakfasts, lunches and of course, cocktail hour naturally. But today. I'm really looking forward to some more educational sessions, the get involved luncheon. If you haven't gotten involved in SSP, please do come to that at noon. And the poster session, the Oxford style debate on AI and yet more networking.
But before we get to all of that, I hope you guys are caffeinated this morning because we are off to a dynamic start with a series of lightning talks on the new noteworthy and innovative items coming out from some of our close colleagues. So each speaker is going to have five minutes to present their item and we'll all have a chance to vote at the end. So as Melanie said, please do download the app and Latoya is going to give some instructions at the end.
So don't feel like you don't know what you're doing because I don't either. Now, having had a sneak peek at some of these presentations, I can tell you that it's going to be a tough decision. So I hope you listen closely and I'm going to pass it off to Latoya to start introducing our first speaker. And as a reminder, this one is being live streamed for our virtual attendees.
So for those of you who are virtually remote, if you have any issues or questions, please drop it in the chat and one of us will address your issues. Latoya, to you. Thank you so much, Erin. It's a pleasure to introduce our first speaker, Ryan walther, senior director of client services at aeris systems, speaking about eliminating limitations in the production workflow.
Welcome, Ryan. Super Brett. All right. Well, since Latoya introduced me, I think I'll skip that part since we have five minutes. And the large part of this presentation is lightning. Presentation is how to move your production system into a new model and a new, faster model that works well.
So let me just give you a little bit about air systems, who we are, what we do. In essence, our mission is to help disseminate human knowledge on a global scale, using our flexible and innovative workflow solutions, primarily editorial manager and production manager. So we have about 9,000 publications on our platform currently. We have many millions of users registered across the globe.
And as an added piece of information, we were acquired by Elsevier in 2018. And you go the next slide. So the purpose of the product I'm going to present today is to innovate and provide an alternative to traditional article production. So traditional article production kind of shuffles workflows between multiple stakeholders, copy editors, authors, production editors, vendors everywhere around where there's unstructured set of content, where docs, PDFS that are going back and forth and eventually pulling together into one production system.
This has a couple of limitations, right? There's possible disrupted workflows, there's limited workflow visibility, limited status visibility. There can be increased costs both for more in-house staff, for more vendors, for more external costs. And there's risks to quality control when you have this much disaggregated work trying to come together in one stream.
Uh, on top of that, in most cases for traditional publication article publication workflows. Metadata is not one of the primary things that's getting pulled in anymore. It is. It's there. But the initial workflow is not machine readable. It's not machine accessible. And that's something our new product is trying to address.
Uh, so the liquid manuscript feature works within a production manager platform. So liquid manuscript includes an entire suite of production workflow tools designed to eliminate most of the limitations of kind of traditional article publication model. Liquid transforms can unstructured static content. So word PDF, those are the easiest ones to kind of point to and transforms it into structured dynamic data by coming, by having the ability to create things as XML first.
Once your paper is accepted and it goes right into production, it can be built right into an XML workflow where all the other work takes place inside the XML and it gives essentially an alternative to some of these more disparate and scattered processes. So I think I'm still on the same slide, am I? Yeah, we'll stay there. Liquid provides a seamless, centralized workflow. In just one system, you go to different places to check statuses.
It gives control back to the experts where they can directly interface with the XML, which is both very flexible and dynamic. It saves time and money by removing the need for intermediaries, by removing the need for a certain amount of vendors, and it improves content quality by primarily making it machine readable and machine accessible. It also creates a kind of enhanced user experience for production teams, for authors, for editors, for anyone involved, especially in the copyediting and the post-production and the proofing processes.
So let me there we go. I'm running the right slide. I probably should have ordered some glasses. There we go. So the liquid tool set has multiple pieces to it in addition to the dynamic content editing interface. We're also introducing two new tools in the liquid manuscript suite. One is an auto XML text conversion and the other is an auto set of auto pagination tools so publishers can select which tools in the liquid suite they want to use to enhance their current workflow.
Or they can take advantage of all three of these primary tools to create a complete end to end production system. An end to end production solution. Time is ticking. Time is ticking. Let's see if we'll get to some more of the more important ones. Those are the three primaries.
There's the end to end slide. But let's go to the liquid. Manuscripts suite. So I want to give a little more detail into what each of these tools delivers. Used together. First of all, they're all used together with our production manager system and liquid benefits from and streamlines all stages of downstream workflow end to end.
So it's not just from production to publication, but it's from production to publication and beyond because it's so structured. You can use it for multiple purposes, even past an initial push out to wherever you're hosting platform is. So you've got a single stream production process that can be consistent throughout the entire workflow.
There we go. Now the content editing interface gives us a very easy to use. Did I skip the conversion tool? Let me go back. There we go. That's the right spot. The automatic external conversion tool transforms. As I said earlier, the unstructured content right into structured XML using industry compliant Aries jets, which is transformable into other versions of Jets.
The conversion is triggered by a production task inside production manager. The transmittal of that XML can extract metadata and push that metadata into the XML right from the editorial manager system. And it will operate in an integration with data conversion laboratories. That's how the text conversion in XML works, and I think that's my time.
So thank you. I will be happy to explain the rest of it if you come over to the booth later. Thank you, everybody. So thank you so much, Ryan. Next up, we have Sharon Ahmad, executive publisher at Cambridge University press. She will be presenting on disrupting the traditional journal publication to better reflect the research life cycle.
Thank you, Sharon. It's possible to see a bigger version of my slides without the. Notes bit, please. No you can't even take the notes bit away because I really can't see the slides.
OK, well, I'll do my best. Well, good morning, everyone. So if you were in the plenary session yesterday morning, you might have heard a bit about the atomization of a research article. Thank you very much. That's perfect. We're breaking it down into its component parts.
And that's a very nice segue into what I want to tell you about today, which is the research directions program of journals from Cambridge University Press. So the traditional journal doesn't really reflect the research life cycle. It can appear quite linear, but as we know, it's much more convoluted than that. So it came to University press.
We wanted to take the next step by launching a program of journals that is led by questions and hypotheses that define a field. And researchers then respond in real time as they're doing the work, which shows the evolution of the research. So what do we mean by that? So each research directions journal tackles the fundamental questions in its field and publishes results, analysis and impact reviews that relate to the questions so researchers can then contribute to the different stages of the process by submitting results as they get them, or by analyzing the findings of other researchers.
And then we publish review articles or impact articles that bring the work together and show how the questions are being answered, providing both context and impact and all the published work. And by that I mean the results, analysis and impact reviews are peer reviewed, indexed, citable and open access. We also have a community based site for early research output. Another other non peer reviewed literature that reflects what we think is the kind of informal conversation that happens around research that also really helps to shape and complement it.
And all of the outputs, both peer reviewed and non peer reviewed, will be linked together on our site, giving visibility to the entire research journey as it progresses. So if we break it down, as we say in research directions, it all starts with a question or a hypothesis that is set by the journal editors with input from people in the research community. And each journal will set the questions that define its field.
So some of the questions that are being asked are, can you grow a building? How do we prevent the next pandemic? How can we modernize agriculture? And then instead of submitting a fully formed research paper, authors submit incremental results and analysis that then contribute towards answering the question. And if you think of these short papers as pieces of a puzzle, when you put them together, they form a picture that then addresses that research question.
So as I mentioned, authors can also share early research output on our community space, which is called Cambridge open engage, and these include preprints data sets, posters and abstracts. And then on our site we will link those. We'll make those connections between the different short articles and showing how they all link together. And in this way, researchers around the world in different disciplines will work together and find the answers to the questions speeding up delivery, but also fostering collaboration and the sharing of knowledge.
And finally, an impact paper will summarize what has been published in response to the question and describe how it can benefit society. And I just wanted to give you an example of what we call our connections map. So on the left, you can see one of the research questions, and if you click on it or hover over it, you can see what the question is and who the authors are.
At the top is a piece of community content, and on the right is a result. And you can see how we've linked those together. And of course, as time goes on, we'll be getting more and more things to put on this connection map and we'll show how they all link together. So we have launched five titles in the series so far, and these are biotechnology design one health quantum technologies, bioelectronics and cyber-physical systems.
What's coming next for our program? Well, interestingly, we have just secured sponsorship of one of the questions in the journal, and this was not something that we had actually expected, but we've welcomed it. And we've had interest from other institutions and even a funder who are interested in sponsoring a question. And we're working really closely with each of these groups just to make sure that their values align with those of the press and with research directions.
We're going to be launching three titles next year in depression, sleep, psychology and mind closure and transitions. And we're out in the communities looking for those groups who are really willing to innovate and experiment in how they publish their work. And we have a short term goal of launching 12 research directions titles by 2025. And Thank you for your attention.
Thank you, Sharon. Next, we have Chuck Hemingway, publisher solutions director at copyright clearance center, speaking about API based solutions for increased funding, awareness and adoption of a. You very much. It's my head throwing a glare.
I know. These these lights are very bright. Thanks for the time and Thanks to SSP for asking s.s.c. to be part of this panel. A very brilliant. Uh, folks and great products. What I wanted to do was bring you up to speed on some of the latest developments across our rightslink platform, specifically around informing authors of funding support, which I was happy to see was a recurring theme in a lot of the panels that were held this week.
Everybody now seems to be getting their hands around the fact that exposing support for publication somewhere in the submission process is probably not good enough and authors are going to need to have information telegraphed way upstream so that they can take advantage of their resources. So how we got here, we have a group of about 40 publishers on our rightslink platform.
By extension, they serve probably about 900 society partners. So we take in a lot of input from those channels to understand what's working, what's not in the manuscript workflow, especially as it pertains to agreement management and author experience. These are obviously some of the hottest topics for everyone in the room and no surprise, it's a very big area of focus for us.
No why did someone change my font? Was that you? Erin foley? Oh, that's cute. I'm sorry. That's that's. That's that's a very lovely font. OK, so for those of you who are not, you know, like technology focused, what is an api?
They've been around for decades. They were thought up in the 40s. They've been in use since the 60s and 70s. But basically they're a little piece of software that allows two disparate systems to communicate securely and. All of the best interactions in the space in the ecosystem rely heavily on apis, systems, talking to systems without, you know, without intervention from humans.
That's how the whole thing works, right? Our platform is no exception. We have a excellent list of partners that are integrated all through the life cycle of the manuscript. Some upstream, some downstream in many cases is two way conversations going back and forth via API to make sure that data is moving around and exposing itself at the right point in the manuscript lifecycle.
And it's important to understand that. Apis in many cases are almost viewed as the property of vendors. Right? publishers tend to sit back and wait for vendors to come forward and make best use of apis, and often they do. These excellent vendors are taking advantage of new methods that we've just announced, and they're going to be doing some Black belt level development on their platforms, which you'll all take advantage of.
But you as publishers can start to think about doing your own development. Because even though manuscript lifecycle is a fairly linear process. Telegraphing information about funding support doesn't have to be so we can break with the common thinking that it's step one through step ten, and we can now begin to populate manuscript and funding matching in other places where it makes sense.
So in short, how it works is through a brief API call. We can take a little bit of information about the manuscript, the author, the institution, some basic data. We can map that back to existing agreements that have funding available. It could be one agreement, could be two, could be three. In many cases, manuscripts match multiple sources of funding. And this will be the basic use case that those vendors will attack.
But you, the publisher on our platform, can use these APIs at no cost. They're freshly minted. There's several new methods, but if you have a preprint server, if you have an author welcome center, if you're a society or an Association publisher and you have a member center, these are all places where you can begin to expose support for publication.
And we would urge you to think hard about. Where are our authors circulating? Where would this information, be valuable? And don't wait for the vendors to come in and save you. Think about how you can telegraph. Before submission and expose this data and we would be happy to support you in that endeavor. So if you'd like to learn more, please stop by and see us or get in touch with your team and will help you.
Take the first steps in the process. Thanks very much. Next up, we have Heather staines, director of community engagement and a Sr. Consultant at Delta. Think she will be presenting on developing benchmarks and understanding your current state before building your future strategy.
Thank you and thanks, Latoya. I'm Heather Stephens, as Latoya said, and I'm going to be talking today about our benchmarking work. First a bit about Delta. Thank for anyone who hasn't heard of us. We're a strategy and analytics consultancy focusing on scholarly and society markets, working with publishers, associations, service providers, startups, really anyone whose business touches our industry.
We're also owners of the data and analytics tool. And here's a quick snapshot of our core team. Diversity, equity and inclusion or have become priorities for organizations as they strive increasingly to be sensitive to the needs of their community and provide solutions on topics of primary importance to their constituents. But to understand where your organization should be in your makeup and efforts, you must start by benchmarking your current state.
So you can make smart changes and then be prepared to measure the impact of those changes. One of Delta thinks scholarly publisher clients recently decided to do just that. Pursue a project with us to understand and benchmark the underlying demographic makeup of their authors and other contributors to their portfolio, namely their reviewers and boards. As a starting point to implement processes and procedures that ensure that they were always working towards a diverse, equitable and inclusive community.
They brought in Delta think to help them accomplish their goal. So the project itself involved Delta think investigating the various methodologies that could be used to identify gender and race, ethnicity and in collaboration with the client deciding the best methods to use. We then helped to gather and prepare the data and perform the actual data analysis.
We designed and developed reports and data visualizations based on the output. And then we use the data to inform goals for future implementation of best practices, organizational policies and practices and policies for reporting and sharing that data. We work with them every step of the way. For methodology.
We had a number of options. But let me start by saying that collecting opt in data from your community is the most accurate way to go, period. This should be the method of choice for the long term, but it's very slow and accumulating enough data to be statistically significant can take many years. What the client needed was a real short term solution. So that they could get a jump start, to have a baseline to provide the foundation that they needed to start setting goals and measure the impact of the change.
Sorry, I shouldn't have done karaoke last night. After researching the options, Delta think and the client chose name soar. This is a commercial software tool established more than 10 years ago, broadly cited and used by others in the industry to estimate likely gender and ethnicity based on patterns in the names.
Names are also utilizes an international outlook and bases its classification algorithms on global data sets, not just us data sets or narrower sets. This is a huge plus when you're dealing with a global community, as we all know, we are. You deploy our methodology. We then worked with the client to generate the activity lists for all their contributors, in this case authors, reviewers, board members and editors.
We gathered, consolidated, normalized and cleaned the data, which is not an insignificant task if you know, if you work with data. We then deduped a half a million records getting down to 200,000 unique records, taking out authors with multiple papers, reviewers with multiple reviews. Et cetera. We applied the software to identify likely gender, ethnicity.
This took numerous iterations because we needed to come to agreement on parameters that would work for the client. Don't think then performed all the analysis and ultimately produced final anonymized results which could then be used to develop narrative reports as well as data visualizations. These would show a variety of comparisons to internal as well as external grouping and trends over time.
And there's very one thing that's very important to note that none of this data was ever traced back to individuals. It was only used in the aggregate to show baseline and trends. So for the results, here's some basic. I'm on the wrong slide. That happened.
Oh, these are the I'm sorry, this is an older slide set, so I've been on the wrong side the whole time. I apologize. We're missing a couple of slides. So for the results, here are some basic samples. The type of data. This shows gender makeup across an entire portfolio broken down by corresponding authors, reviewers, board members, editors and editors in chief, showing the trends for each group over time.
And here on this slide, which I expected to be a separate slide. So got to be prepared. Here's a sample for ethnicity. Again for the entire portfolio broken down by the same groups and showing the trends over time. Now back to this slide and for more results, you have the ability to develop all sorts of visualizations and narratives around the data, which we, of course, assist you with.
You can use it to compare journal to journal discipline, to discipline across the entirety of the portfolio or across geographic regions. Et cetera. And through this you can identify your areas of strength and weakness and develop data informed decisions and strategies to improve and then track and trend the impact of that change. You can also use these types of methodology or assessment for other constituencies your membership, your committee leadership and your meeting participants and so on.
And lastly, you now have the data to report to your community on the makeup of that very community and the impact of change going forward to provide transparency and accountability around your efforts. And that's it. To read the full case study, you can use this QR code or you can link to the Delta think website or contact us at Delta.
Think.com or of course, find me. Thank you very much. Thank you, Heather. Next up, we have Zoe wakai. She's the community development manager at humanities Commons. She will be speaking about a Federated open Commons infrastructure future. Welcome, Zoe.
Hi, everyone. As has been said, my name is Zoe and I'm the community development manager with humanities commons, which is a community centered social and professional network for people working in the humanities with expansion into other disciplines underway. So today I'm going to be talking about the other very trendy technologies.
So not I, but the fediverse and activitypub, which is the protocol that enables it. But first I want to start with some context. Many years now, it's been clear that our current scholarly communication infrastructure does not serve an open and equitable knowledge ecosystem. Platform ization and enclosure, as well as competition and extractive market practices, have created high barriers to participation and impeded the ability of researchers and educators to positively impact the world around them.
In parallel, similar forces have shaped and distorted networks of exchange on the web, most evident in the evolution of social networks into advertising and surveillance machines and the recent Twitter acquisition demonstrating the risk of having too much power in too few hands. However, it has not always been this way, and it doesn't have to be this way.
In response to a lot of these trends, there's a growing move towards decentralization and Federation as both a philosophy and a technical approach to better distribute power and foster a different kind of online ecosystem, which we in the scholarly communication space can learn from. So humanities Commons developed initially as a response to the challenges specific to scholarly communication, providing an alternative pathway for scholars to interact and share their work, driven by an open ethos and supported by Open technologies.
Our system offers users the ability to create and maintain their digital presence with a profile sites, community and collaborative spaces and an open access repository that issues dois. We also offer member sites where members of a society or institution or other organization can interact with each other in their own space and also with the wider community. As we've considered the future of our work, we've been thinking about how to build something that's values aligned with our organization and the vision of the future of knowledge creation that we share with many others in our domain.
And we also have to think about how to scale that in a sustainable way to the fediverse. If you've been following the recent issues at Twitter, this term may be familiar to you. It's often talked about in relation to the move many people have made across to mastodon, but if you're not familiar with it, the fediverse refers to an expanding ecosystem of interconnected social media sites that allow users to interact with each other regardless of which of these sites they're using.
That means that people can tailor and better control their experience of social media and be less reliant on the monoculture of the tech Giants. Advocates say that this has the potential to rewire the entire social fabric of the internet, which is pretty cool if you ask me. So we have decided to undertake a pretty major rebuild of our platform and create a Federated open Commons infrastructure.
This involves moving from our current setup, which is a customized Wordpress multi-site instance to a network of multiple instances that interact with each other via the activitypub protocol, which is the technology that allows social spaces to become interoperable. It essentially allows messages, posts and notifications to be passed between systems, much like email is passed between systems, regardless of whether you're using Gmail or Outlook.
Exception to this move for us right now is that our repository will remain decentralized, but we're open to figuring out how that will work down the line. So this individual instances on the Commons network to have their own community space that is operated entirely independently, but still benefits from the extended network effect of having many of these instances connected.
So an institutional group could launch their own Commons with or without our support and be a part of that network. They also get to decide what customizations they want to make. They could set their own primary language, which features they want to have enabled. They can have their own policies, moderation practices, things like that. And for us as well, this will make managing the network a lot more sustainable because it is distributed.
And we also think that organizations will be more confident joining the network because they retain control over their data and decision making. So we're the model of the Commons provides solutions to the problems of closed academic systems. The Federated Federated approach offers a new dynamic for social interaction, governance and growth. And together they promise a fundamental change to who participates in the creation and dissemination of knowledge, how they're able to do so, and where the power in those relationships lies.
We're also excited to see what other innovations emerge as activitypub catches on further. And we'd love to see more actors in the scholarly communication space thinking about how this might impact their work and how it might support them to do this connecting collaborative work that we all think is very important and how we might connect into the larger constellation of the fediverse.
If you're interested in this, my details are on this slide here, as well as some readings that I recommend. You can also support our development by becoming a sustaining member and have some flyers at the table at the front with more information on that. And if you think might be interested in your own common site, you can get in on the ground floor of these changes and we would love to have people involved so we make sure that it's working for you and that we're designing it for you and your needs.
Thank you very much. OK, so we're halfway through. Please hold on. Next up, we have Kevin Mitchell. He is the CEO of audio information group, and he will be presenting on how the convenience of audio can drive higher engagement for your publication. Welcome, Kevin.
Hi, everybody. Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak with you today. As Latoya said, my name is Kevin Mitchell with audio information group and very excited to share some information about our service with you. So to provide some context, a problem that a lot of your audience members face.
They know the importance of staying informed in their area of expertise. The good news is they often know the sources that they need to keep track of where there's a disconnect. However, they don't always have time to read these materials, especially when it's competing with their highest priority activities, things like seeing patients conducting research, servicing clients.
Obviously, from your perspective as the content sources, the researchers, publishers, that results in lower engagement, which can jeopardize retention and growth of the audience, that can translate into lower value for sponsors and advertisers. And over time, we've seen that that leads to an aging and declining of the audience. And now we're starting to see a lot of members of the audience pivot to other sources that they know are less substantive but are more convenient, basically allowing them to make use of the time that they have with the best of what's available.
Our our view is that if we can solve the problem that the audience has, that's going to reverberate through the rest of the system ecosystem, creating the opposite, more desirable result. And so what we're doing is partnering with the tech sources, converting them to a timely word for word, human narrated, smartphone enabled audio format. And what that does is it now allows the audience to consume that exact same information.
Oftentimes the highest value, certainly most substantive form of the content without forgoing those premium work activities. Triple a says that on average, Americans spend about 293 hours per year driving. So if all we're able to do is tap into a very small segment of that time, it represents a massive influx of additional capacity to consume your content at a dramatically reduced opportunity cost. By the way, as well as pressure mounts to go open source time is only going to continue to be more and more of a limiting factor.
And so a great way to fortify the value behind your paywalls with an audio edition of your publication. Obviously, making the content much more accessible as well. To be clear, what we're describing is not a podcast. It's most analogous to an audio book in the sense that we're taking an existing text source and converting it to audio. The main distinction here is that we're typically dealing with sources that change on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly basis, whereas a traditional audiobook, great Gatsby is the same book as it was 50 years ago.
Podcasts are also supplemental to the text versus a more convenient means of consuming the text, which is more in alignment with the issue that the audience actually faces. It's not that they need more content. In fact, a lot of people already complain about information overload, particularly when they're consuming for purpose versus entertainment. The real issue is that they don't have time to consume the sources that they deem as valuable.
Some statistics about the specific segment of digital audio that I'm talking about text converted to spoken word audio. It's the fastest growing segment in all of publishing. It's already eclipsed ebooks and market size at $5.4 billion last year. In the next five years, by 2028, it's actually expected to reach 19.7 billion. And what really resonates with our existing clients is that year over year, people are still increasing the amount of time that they consume content in this medium, which is, in our view, like discovering fire.
They still have excess capacity. I don't know when the last time was people had excess capacity to read anything. I'm a very unique, innovative element of the way that we provide our service. We have a part of a patented process. We engage students in the area of specialty to perform the narrations. This has a very positive impact on the quality, timeliness and the branding of the audio edition as a baseline.
They know how to pronounce and navigate the technical jargon, which is very important. They're also comprehending the material that they're reading. So cues like voice inflection, changes in tone, word emphasis, those are critical to helping the audience, the listeners to comprehend the material as well. What really our existing clients really love about this is we're literally paying the next generation of their audience to read their content, which is something that's really nice.
It kind of creates a pipeline to new members of subscribers, as the case may be. Another very important element of the service when you think about audio. Really, the value proposition is convenience. In order to actually deliver that, though, you not only need to put the content in audio, you need to also deliver it in a manner that's optimized for multitasking consumption.
And so what that means is app versus website. When we think back 15, 20 years ago, the transition from copy to digital text, the dilemma for a lot of individual sources was do I put my content on this larger platform, gain access to a larger audience, but then lose my direct relationship with the audience. Over time, that is sometimes proved to be detrimental without realizing it. That same fight is being fought in digital audio right now, and we think it's a fight worth fighting, particularly for the specialized content that you provide to your audience.
And so to arm you in that regard, we provide you with a custom branded version of our proprietary mobile app. Hi functioning, very intuitive. And clients will use that to not only extend the reach of their publications us, but also put on their app other sources that they're currently creating. So webinars, certainly podcasts, conference presentations, educational programming, sponsored content.
And so in that way It's like having a custom branded audible app, except you maintain that direct relationship with the audience, monetize the content yourself and keep all the data. In closing, a couple of representative clients lexisnexis, the Journal of bone and joint surgery, American Bar Association. Immediately following this session, we'll actually be doing a demo of the app and our booth.
That's 1915 in booth. 312 it'll be an interactive demo, downloading a live app and going through it. So I'd love to see everybody. Thanks Thank you, Kevin. Next, we have jignesh Bhatt. He is the founder and CEO of molecular connections, speaking about a one stop shop for all relevant content for society publishers members.
Take it away. I hope you can hear me and see me. With Kevin, the altitude is different, so. Uh, Thank you very much for having me here. Thank you, Erin. Thank you, Latoya. You did a phenomenal job getting all these things organized. I'm going to present to you our search one stop shop for relevant content in orthopedics surgery.
And I think what Kevin gave a talk is great segue to my talk because content formats are also increasing. There's too much content out there and an orthopedic member. How can he get everything in one place with some very intelligent search and with some very intelligent ontology? Behind it is what ortho search is all about. It's a product jointly developed by the British Society for orthopedic surgery and molecular connections.
They have many journals. The high impact factor journal is the bone and joint surgery journal in UK and molecular connections is a data science company based out of Bangalore. So I don't think I have to stress too much on the problem statement. I think we all know what it is. Let me go to the next slide and talk about what we have done in our research.
So can we have? Yeah, it is. We have collated for what is relevant for orthopedics. About 180 journals. Three preprint servers. Content from three preprint servers. 50 plus conference abstracts. 5,000 plus videos. And we'll take some audios, too, later on.
And 300 plus standards. So totally, almost about 400,000 content. And as you know, there are journals, which are interdisciplinary. So for example, pylos in the last 10 years published, let's say, about 300,000 articles. We have a relevancy checker, a machine learning based relevancy checker, which sifted through all of that, and about 20,000 articles were relevant for orthopedics.
So we took that out. So there are about 15 interdisciplinary journals also included in autosearch we have. A very, very robust ontology made by orthopedics in consultation with the editorial board at the bone and joint surgery. So it has about 20,000 terms. The way the orthopedics think it has been enriched and it gets updated on a daily basis.
So the ontology is at the back end of this product. It is SEO compliant. So today you search on Google, say knee pain in playing football and you will get ortho search as the second or the third hit. It is fair compliant. So you are the content is findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable and it gets everything into one portal.
So podcasts, videos, journal articles, standards and I'll show you. Once you have this, how powerful the search is. But just before that next slide, please. Let me just. OK so here is a search on pubmed, which will tell you that because they have not mapped synonyms very well, the hairline fracture and stress fracture gives a very, very different result. The pair in auto search.
This is the front end of auto search. And you will see a hairline fracture or stress fracture gives you more or less the same results because at the back end, they are mapped to each other. You will see on the left hand side the way the orthopedics think. So I want to see hairline fracture in only elbows or I want to see only in knee and I want to see only in so that the facets come out.
You will also see on the top it is you can flip by articles, you can flip by podcasts, you can flip by audio. Hopefully, and standards and so forth. You will also get the altmetric score of each article. You get the site scores. So the idea is that an orthopedic gets the relevant result accurately, but also does not go out of your website. This is another slide, which gives you an and kind of an idea of what we can do with ortho, with because of the power of the ontology.
So you will see the keywords mentioned there. And the same keywords can also go to any of your publishing platform so that the search and discovery on your publishing platform, be it a type on or Silverchair or highwire, will improve substantially because it kind of enriches your article. this is it is also enables natural language search. So the portal will identify, for example here you see it says.
Ankle sprain due to football and it will identify that ankle sprain is the terminology which has a kind of a disease nomenclature and football is a normal general play word and you can just put that and it'll show you the ankle sprain results. It say for example, another example is your acute compartment syndrome by Duckworth. It will say Duckworth is an author and acute compartment syndrome is the disease.
It will identify that. The these are the quick benefits of search. This is my last slide. So on the fly content collections, you can generate various content. You can also do real time indexing, accurate recommendation custom alerts for members, enhance member engagement, enhance site traffic. We were when we launched, we were thinking of 10,000 users.
By first year, we got 29,000 users in the first year and our engagement on the website went up by 30% Before she pushes me off, I'll leave, but Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, jignesh. Next, we have Othman autolib, chief growth officer at Mercier, presenting on integrity checks in the power of machine learning to improve trust in science.
Welcome. Thank you, Latoya. And you just saw in the making what Erin has been putting in all of our in all the speakers minds. If you go over, she will come and get you. So I'm the one that made the mistake yesterday as well to start the keynote intro with the joke. And every time after that people came up and spoke to me.
They expected me to be funny and they were severely disappointed. So I had to try to do what any researcher does. When you're under the pressure of trying to deliver and you needed to find content very quickly. I went to chatgpt and I typed in. Tell me a publishing joke. And unfortunately, the return that I got three times was error could not return results.
And I'm like, this room has really done their job where we haven't been able to train these models on any of our publishing data. It's amazing. And that takes me into the presentation that I have today. So research integrity is really built on the basis of what's out in the market today with machine learning. AI and the combination of being able to flag these types of fraudulent behavior or the potential for fraudulent behavior through patterns that aid editors, that aid research integrity officers, that aid conference organizers to be able to find and identify within the papers what's happening and what could potentially be going wrong.
And so some of the pressures that we have, as in the publishing ecosystem that we see, is really the need to publish more and a need to avoid those retractions, meaning that you're publishing something of high quality that does not have these fraudulent activities found within it. And then you need to publish it faster. And so these are the pressures that all of you are under. And yet the barriers to be able to achieve these pressures are the multiple vendors that you may potentially be building relationships with that try to identify very specific needs.
So OK, I need a paper mill detection, I need an AI text detection, I need the ability to do preflight checks. I need an ability to do submission checks or formatting checks. And you know, the list goes on and on and there's individual vendors that you start to contract with, and then you start to find yourself in a 5 to 10 to 15 types of relationships and invoices and roadmaps to be able to just attack the problem of research integrity at scale.
Then there's also times where you're just not even able to get vendors to do this. And so you're doing it manually. You're actually going through checks, checklists of saying, OK, what submission checks can we go through on that? Or you're doing investigations of research integrity or potential fraudulent behavior manually because you don't have systems to aid you in some of the initial in some of the initial flags.
And then you're doing this on legacy workflows. So what Mauricio has found as a, a, a point of. You know, focus and investment now is if we try to scale and help you scale your workflows and your systems and your infrastructure, there's still this fear that no matter how many submissions come through, no matter how much I, I scale my submission processes, I'm worried that they might not be at the highest quality.
I'm worried that I might need to do retractions. I'm worried that I might need to have the reputational risk. And we've seen kind of the constant news outputs on what's happening in science. What are the controversies? What are the worrying amounts of fraudulent behavior in research and the scams that, you know, these organized and I think I've heard this in many places, organized crime units that are the paper Mills that all of us have been speaking about this is something that's now become commonplace, unfortunately.
And so what we've done from our solution is really take the best in the market and start to integrate them. And Chuck explained this perfectly through an API. So we've created oneAPI that actually is the mother of all APIs that brings in through strategic partnerships with the best in class technologies out there that are doing these checks. And we're doing this on the authors side, and then we're also embedding it into workflows or having it as a standalone dashboard that publishers can feed their submissions through and get results instantaneously.
You can choose to do this within a workflow which then allows you to to, to send through to production, or you can do it as a standalone to help you send to editors to take investigative action and so on and so forth. And so this is just a look at what the dashboard looks like. These are preflight checks that then we merged with integrity checks. And so it's oneAPI that gets called through different points in a workflow and you can use it as a standalone or you can use it within the embedded workflow.
Our our philosophy is if it's harder to use than Facebook or Netflix or Instagram, then we haven't done our job right. So really can see with the UI, we try to simplify as much as possible and give you the level of exposure and experience that you have in your daily lives. And and these are dashboards that now allow you to look across your entire portfolio.
And so say, you know, saying it means nothing. So what we're doing is actually just saying, why don't you try it for free? We're giving out a trial period of 50 submissions for a few weeks where you just try it risk free. Aaron's going to tackle me off the stage so you can speak to us in order to eliminate your retractions, you know, reduce the risk that across your portfolio, the systemic integrity issues that are hitting the revenue and all of the manual quality checks.
So try it out for free. You can come speak to us at the booth 107. And Thank you so much. Have a great day. So next we have I don't know why men have to move the mic. Next, we have Rodney elder, executive vice president, North America at virtu sales presenting on leveraging tools and technology.
For sharing scholarly content. Welcome, Rodney. It is very bright up here. And Thanks for this opportunity to tell you a little bit more about Virgin sails. This is our first SSP event, although we've worked with scholarly publishers for a very long time. But we will focus more on the University Press market.
But more and more clients are using our tools in the scholarly area. So how did we. What is what have I come to talk about? Biblio suite is basically a publishing ecosystem. And what I mean by that is it's a central place where you can store all of your product formats and view contracts, contractual information. When we started developing biblio, it was really at the request of specific customers who were originally developing their own systems.
But as they went through the stress of managing publishing systems plus managing their own publishing content, they realized they didn't want to be in this space anymore. And so many companies that have traditionally built their own in-house systems are now coming to us and saying, look, we can't support this anymore. The infrastructure, the cost is way too high. So what we've done is we have continued to develop pieces of the puzzle.
We work with many clients in the scholarly and educational space. We also do other publishers as well. We actually had a project for Disney go live on Tuesday this week where all of their publishing program is going through biblio. They're managing everything, but for a lot of these, some of our clients are only two users and some of them are 2,500 users.
But if you could imagine looking at a single place and being able to see all of your publishing content and anything to do with any content that you own and see contract data, cost data, everything associated to it, that's really what we're talking about today. I'm not sure if it's possible to keep the slides up on the screen a little bit longer. Thanks all right, so what are we trying to achieve?
We are essentially trying to make publishers more productive so that they can focus on their content. You know, there's nothing worse than when you go to someone and you say how much of your. Your job title, what is it that you do every day? Well, I spend half my day trying to chase down people to find information or a key data from this system to that system. And is that your real job?
No, it's not. It's just something you have to do. So what we're really trying to do is to achieve efficiencies. What is what is biblio sweet cover. It's from your concept. I'm thinking about a new article. I'm thinking about a new project, and I'm thinking about a new acquisition of a journal. Then what it's about is building up a cost estimate for drinks.
How much would we actually make on this? Looking at the content, building up the assets and that content, you know, like we've heard about starts with maybe text and it goes to audio, then it goes to video. But again, that's going out into the real world. But you also need a central place to store all that and to be able to manage it. And when you update one piece of information, you want it to flow through seamlessly.
We've then got contacts. So things like you've got an author, they're a they're a peer reviewer on one project, they're a author on another project. And so you want to be able to track them in all of their work and things that they're doing with you. We've then got contracts, so you want to store a contract against that content. What can you do with it?
Are there any restrictions? You know, this is going to be important for down the line post publication when someone comes to buy a permission. So they say, oh, we'd love to use, you know, page 25 of this product, but you've got a graph on there that you can't sell. So you need to know what you can and can't do with all that content. So it's managing the entire process.
So you've got your contracts, you've got production panels, how much does it cost to produce changing paper? So we ingest all the supply scales to see what's going to cost marketing. We distribute that information out as well. So we're sending it out in onyx and XML and any other formats to support websites, third parties, retailers, your distributors.
We then go through, we're then getting some bright sales come in. So we then sell this content. Perhaps it's translation, perhaps it's for permission sale. All of that is linked to that original acquisition process in the contract. So you don't have to go to the basement to find that information.
You can access it and process it immediately. Then we've then got royalties. So then how much do we need to pay for people and sales that are coming in? Different Royalty rights, perhaps in audio is different to your e-book, is different to your print, et cetera. We manage all of that. And then we're providing our reporting.
OK, next slide. So how are we solving this problem is previously it was really an end to end solution. What we're providing now is slithers of the software. So if you've got a specific problem and I've spoken to a few people here where they said, I've got a problem with just royalties or I've got a problem with just managing my editorial workflow and my acquisitions.
So instead of having to take everything, we can actually now provide you with small pieces, tactical implementations to help you solve your problems that you need that you don't have a solution for. So what does it mean? BJ Penn State had 69% year on year increase in their outputs. They started with 11 journals for people, and now there are 88 journals and for people.
Fordham University Press a really great workflow. There is, instead of being able to or key data in, put it into Word forms. And things like that, you know, they were able to automate it. So it's been a really good journey. And if you've got any questions, you can grab me in the hall. Thanks it's Rodney. Last but certainly not least, we have Florian Kirchner, managing director in North America at publisher Inc, and Brian Trombley, CEO of irisa content solutions, speaking about transforming scholarly publishing.
Welcome, Florian and Brian. Yeah Thank you. Hello, everyone. So I'm Florian from ECS publisher, and this is Brian with arisa content solutions. XML is XML at the heart of this. It's pretty scary because I could barely spell.
Well, we have a solution for that. It's called x editor. It's an intuitive online XML editor. You can add it in a word like interface, but the benefit is you get schema valid XML out of it. Schema valid XML. What schemas do you. Well out of the box. Basically every default schema, what's out there.
So for scholarly publishing, the chats family makes the most sense. But we also create custom schemas for clients if they ask for it. Maybe let me give you an example for our recent client amp. We use chats, publishing for conference papers, chats, bits for books, and also for standards. Hey, that's pretty cool. So why xml?
What's the benefit? What do you do with it? Well, we heard before it's machine readable, so it enables for automation and that's what we do. We use the XML to run it through integrated production services and generate various output formats and various publication channels integrated. So your system integrates with other processes and tools. Of course, we have a default API and I just realized three slides please further.
Oh oh, that's awesome. Maybe I need to do it. There so that's exciting too. Looks like it feels like word, but you get schema valid XML out of it. Next and then we use it. Run it through InDesign server antenna house formatter to produce various output formats.
And last but not least. We integrated, for example, with AMP access integration through an API to get taxonomy back. Also, our platform is highly configurable. We have a low code, no code approach, so no lengthy implementation projects only configuration. Yeah.
Well, that's the benefit of being in the cloud. Now you can access your content from everywhere and everyone. Thanks to certified availability, accessibility and our mobile app. So to summarize, going to cloud means access from anywhere, everywhere on any device. Exactly and another cool feature for collaboration is our integrated workflow engine. We have a graphical BPM editor.
We can model whatever workflow the clients want to work with. Therefore, enforce best practice workflows and yeah, accelerate. Well, that's pretty cool. Why don't you all come and see us at booth? What? 2 to 3? I think so. Last slide. All right.
Thank you. Well, Thank you so much to all of our speakers, especially for staying on time. These shoes are not made for tackling. So I appreciate all of you. Yeah so a huge Thanks to all of our speakers today. And I'm going to turn it over to Latoya to tell you how to do the thing that I definitely don't know how to do.
Thank you, Erin. So at this point, we're going to open the voting to all attendees, both in person and virtual. We'll have just a few minutes for everyone to complete the voting. And here's how it will work. Please open the whova app, hit polls from the home page and cast your vote. Let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you. And as you can see, we can see the results coming in live. Don't let that sway you. A last minute pitch.
In the future, we're going to have Heather do a musical number so there's not this awkward silence. Thank you. Just give them like another tens and go for it.
Yeah OK, that's fine. OK can we please have the Thank you slide back up on the screen?
OK Thank you very much. So before we announce the winner and I'm hoping Tracy's going to flag us down and tell us who it was. Um, I just really wanted to say from both Latoya and myself, please join us in thanking all of the sponsors that have generated that have donated so generously to put on this wonderful show this week. And of course, the SSP volunteers and staff for putting together this such a wonderful program.
We wouldn't be here without you. And then finally, one more round of applause for our speakers today, please. Thank you. Without further ado, I want to announce the well extended congratulations to SSPS People's Choice Award for Best Innovation to Marissa.
I think the bigger. Congratulations you didn't. It was good. OK Thank you. Thank you all so much. Thank you to all of our speakers. Enjoy the rest of the conference.
Just a couple of quick announcements. Can you all hear me? All right. So we have a break now. Back in the exhibit hall. It is a great chance to go buy some SSP or scarlet Kitchen merchandise or sign up for the 5K. Definitely hop in there. There'll be some beverages for you.
A little word about lunch. We have two lunch options. We have lunch in the exhibit hall or you can attend the get involved luncheon. In either case, your lunch, your box lunch will be in the exhibit hall. If you have a special dietary request, there will be a table set up and you need to go to that table and request your lunch by name, your name, not the lunches name.
But if you're going to the get involved lunch and you still need to pick it up in the exhibit hall and then head across the foyer to a 105, 106. If you're not familiar with the get involved luncheon, it's an opportunity to learn how to get involved. By volunteering with SSP. You learn what all of the committees do, what type of volunteer opportunities we have. So I highly encourage you to go check that out as well.
So yeah, onto the break and then another round of educational sessions. Thank you. I
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