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management of APCs by libraries is essential, especially considering the impending Plan S Transformative deals.
Iglesias, Cadmore Media: Again, the platform shouldn’t be the star of the show. We should listen to what readers actually want, which seems fairly straightforward: they want to find content quickly and they do not care about fancy features. Librarians want to know what value
they get for their money, and they want efficient setup mechanisms. It seems that our energy is better spent on interoperability and standardisation of processes between platforms, through organisations like NISO, and more co-operation between all the different players. I’d argue that the role of scholarly publishers in today’s misinformation wars is so critical that we should all be focused on re-building trust in the system.
What should platform providers be working towards next?
Herbert, 67 Bricks: Change is constant in the sector, no one knows what is coming next… so a publisher’s job is to be ‘match ready’. Phase 1 of preparing for the data age
required publishers to replicate content online and vendor platform providers were able to do this competently. We are now entering Phase 2 of digital
transformation, where customers demand data-driven information products and seamless online experiences as standard. It is now essential that publishers have control of their customer data and digital roadmap, so that they can start adopting the new technologies and approaches that will offer the agility and flexibility to adapt and innovate. We don’t have a publishing ‘crystal ball’ but it is our job to prepare our clients for a future that is alien to the one they grew up in – where machines soon create, analyse and consume more content than humans – and make sure they have the technologies, approaches and mindset to thrive in the new era. The latter, in particular, is a huge task.
Marmanis, Copyright Clearance Center: The ultimate goal should be an expedient publication process that results in high- quality research output. Developments related to AI are always stealing the headlines, but there are many other things that must be done to achieve the stated goal. For example, support for transactions in multiple currencies, customisation by
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research area or geographic region, strong analytics capabilities (not necessarily AI-enabled) and so on.
Soulière, Frontiers: Interoperability, flexibility and integration. There should be an increased focus on open access and open science options to provide the broadest possible benefits for researchers and readers. This can be expedited by partnering with other providers developing specific publishing tools. In recent years, most providers have
worked on one particular aspect of open science for their platform. The next steps should be functional
integrations and operations to identify and fill any gaps within existing platforms. There are many amazing solutions out there, but they need to
“Open research involves publishing the results of research as they become available”
be added to publishing platforms in an intelligent way.
Shull, Cambridge University Press: Providers should continue to think broadly about the scholarly communications ecosystem and interoperability to save the researcher time. Metadata that clearly reflects the status of and links between works, as well as AI and community-driven features to guide discovery, are likely on all
Violaine Iglesias, Cadmore Media
publishers’ horizons in some form. Journals are increasingly encouraging or mandating authors to publish data and cite it appropriately. We have been thinking about requirements for how to appropriately capture, describe, tag and present data to make data FAIR.
Bazargan, River Valley Technologies: Platform providers should be looking to encourage more journals to be set up easily and conveniently, and all research data to be shared.
One pain point that is still prevalent is
the cost and long timelines for transferring journals and other content to new platforms. In reality this process should be pain free and inexpensive, assuming data have been maintained using open standards. Legacy content should be easy to
transfer to a new system, ensuring publishers are never locked into existing platforms. Needless to say, all platforms need to be Plan S compliant.
Iglesias, Cadmore Media: Publishing platforms need to focus on how users really want to interact with content. At Cadmore, we look into all the ways people discover and watch video. Why hasn’t video taken off in scholarly communications when it has taken over the world? Mostly because “serious” video is impossible to find and even more impossible to watch. So, we are tackling this problem by applying scholarly publishing best practices to enable discoverability, and by making it as efficient to watch a video as it is to consume text. The technology is complex, but the goal is simple. Ri
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