Speakers

Session 1:

Helen Cooke, SVP – Publisher Markets, Digital Science
Helen joined Digital Science in 2021 and now heads up the publisher team, bringing 20+ years of experience from the academic publishing industry.  She has worked previously in sales and marketing positions to bring e-resources to libraries worldwide. Helen headed up the Journals Sales team at SAGE Publishing also working at GeoScienceWorld and Blackwell Publishing. For 8 years she was one of the owner/directors at Burgundy Information Services, working with varied publisher clients such as SPIE, Mary Ann Liebert, Canadian Science Publishing and CUP.

Jon Treadway, Director, Great North Wood Consulting
Jon works as an independent consultant specialising in business modelling and analysis, organisational review, and strategic planning. He works with organisations in the research sector and the cultural and creative industries. His clients include The BMJ, Cambridge University, Cochrane, ORCID, OASPA, SPARC Europe, Digital Science, Dryad, and the American Physical Society. Jon was previously Chief Operating Officer for Digital Science. He previously worked as a Senior Analyst at Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and Macmillan Publishing and ran the largest arts funding programme in Europe for Arts Council England. Jon is a qualified accountant and change management practitioner. 

Leslie D. McIntosh, PhD
Leslie D. McIntosh, PhD is VP of Research Integrity at Digital Science and leads FoSci, an initiative using forensic scientometrics to detect manipulation and strengthen trust in research. An academic-turned-entrepreneur, she founded Ripeta in 2017 to improve research integrity, which is now a key part of Digital Science. She has advised global governments, institutions, and organizations. Her work was the most-read RetractionWatch post of 2022. In 2023, her influential ideas on achieving equity in research were highlighted in the Guardian and Science.

Laura Wilson, Head of Research Integrity & Ethics, Taylor & Francis
Laura joined the publishing world in 2010, and has served as a council member on the Committee on Publication Ethics, as well as the Early Career Publisher member on the STM board. Laura is currently a member of the ALPSP policy and STM Membership committees.

Dr Jennifer Wright, Head of Publication Ethics & Research Integrity, Cambridge University Press
Dr. Jennifer Wright is the Head of Publication Ethics and Research Integrity at Cambridge University Press. She is also an elected COPE Council member and a registered advisor for the UK Research Integrity Office. Jennifer was previously an academic in the field of forest ecology and climate change (PhD University of Edinburgh, post-doc Oregon State University), and holds an MBA from Cranfield University”

Doug Melville, Technical Product Manager, Sage
Following a data career in public, private and third sector organisations in Scotland and Australia, Doug works closely with Data Science at Sage, managing the development of intelligence products to assist Research Integrity. Whilst new to publishing, having been at Sage for a little under two years, Doug has experience of working in Universities, and has a particular interest in risk modelling and early detection of anomalous behaviour from his time in Aviation Safety.

Session 2:

Ann Campbell, Technical Solutions Manager, Digital Science
As a Systems and Data Manager with deep expertise in Research & Innovation, Ann specialises in leveraging data to enhance research visibility, integrity, and impact. At Digital Science, she provides strategic insights and guided analysis using tools like Dimensions and Altmetric, helping funders, publishers, and academic institutions uncover trends and make data-driven decisions.

Her work focuses on data advocacy – integrating data across systems to support open research, research evaluation, and global sustainability goals, particularly the UN SDG agenda. With a background in implementing research and innovation systems, she has led process transformations that improve data reporting, compliance, and institutional rankings. Passionate about fostering a data-literate culture, she advocates for data-driven storytelling and breaking down silos to enable more effective decision-making across academia and scholarly publishing.

Katie Davison, Insights Analyst, Emerald Publishing
Squiggly career both outside of and within Emerald Publishing. I work in Data and Insight and involved in Emerald’s Open Lab, a team dedicated to helping our customers navigate the complexities of open access. Delighted to work in the critical thinking space of the research ecosystem, contributing to strategies and innovative approaches to address some of the challenges impacting academic research.

Mike Taylor, Head of Data Insights, Digital Science
Mike is Head of Data Insights at Digital Science, where he works with publishers and research enterprises to understand the impact of their journals and research.

Mike is an innovator in scholarly metrics and social impact. Prior to the development of altmetrics, he was working to understand how researchers were using emerging social media networks and other platforms to exchange information. Mike has conducted much research and has published papers and presentations on altmetrics and other forms of impact. He is working towards a PhD with Mike Thelwall at Wolverhampton University on Open Access publishing and social impact.

He has been involved in many open initiatives during his career, most notably contributing to the architecture of the Orcid repository and API prior to its launch during his time at Elsevier Labs.

Mike is the co-founder of ElevenOne Theatre and an active director, producer, writer and actor.

Session 3:

Lou Peck, CEO & Founder, The International Bunch
With 20+ years in the research ecosystem and 25 years of marketing expertise, Lou Peck specializes in strategy, training, and research, driving innovation through her leadership at The International Bunch. Her career includes impactful roles at the British Standards Institution, ProQuest, EBL Ebook Library, Kudos, Wiley and the Royal Society of Chemistry, where she has consistently empowered organizations to thrive. Since 2016, Lou has been a consultant providing critical insights and support for marketing teams across the research ecosystem. Lou lives in South Wales, UK, with her family and small ‘zoo’.

Jitske de Vries, Head of Marketing, The Company of Biologists
Jitske heads up the marketing team at The Company of Biologists, a not-for-profit publishing organisation. With a background in Business Communications, she has previously held sales and marketing roles, including for Elsevier and the European Association of Urology.

Rowena Gordon, Senior Managing Editor, British Ecological Society
Rowena manages the strategic development of two journals at the British Ecological Society. She specialises in communications and global equity in ecology. She has a Masters in ecology from Queen Mary University of London and has been working in publishing since 2017.

Daisy Veysey, Social Media Manager, eLife
Daisy is the Social Media Manager for the open-access journal eLife, where she is responsible for the strategy and management of the journal’s ever-increasing accounts. With a background in science communication, education, and public engagement, she takes on various other digital content and community engagement roles to support the organisation’s mission of improving research communication and culture.

Marion Schnelle, Social Media Manager, De Gruyter Brill
Marion oversees De Gruyter Brill’s social media strategy, running the publisher’s corporate accounts and steering nearly 100 editorial and imprint accounts post-merger. She has recently driven the company’s move from X to Bluesky. She holds a degree in English and Philosophy from the University of Leeds and previously worked on the Berlin Film Festival’s social media and in communications in the arts and higher education.

Sarah Greaves, Director and Publishing Consultant, Sarah Greaves STEM Consulting
Sarah has over 20 years of experience within STM editorial and publishing. After an academic career she worked at Nature Publishing Group for over 15 years in both editorial and publishing roles, launching Nature Communications and Scientific Reports before spending two years at Hindawi.  Sarah focuses on creating innovative new products and services aimed at solving key researcher pain points whilst ensuring the academic scientist remains at the heart of any publishing decision. 

Sarah is now a publishing consultant, non-executive director of the Royal Society of Chemistry & The Biochemical Society.

Session 4:

Jo Wixon, Director – External Analysis, Wiley
After exchanging an academic career for research publishing 20+ years ago, Jo has run journals, grown subject portfolios, built society partnerships, and led on portfolio strategy. Her team identify opportunities and risks in market trends, and policy, business model and technology developments to drive evidence-based strategic decision-making. Jo is also a HESI SDG Publishers Compact Fellow, and contributes to sustainability work at STM, ALPSP and EASE. For ALPSP, she is a Director, Vice-Chair of the Membership & Marketing Committee, and Co-Chairs the SDGs & Publishing SIG.

Nicholas Bailey, Senior Product Manager, Digital Science
Nicholas Bailey is an AI Researcher, Data Scientist and Senior Product Manager. In the past 3 years his efforts have been centred around research integrity, open science and scientometrics. He is the product manager for Dimensions Author Check, a state-of-the art tool for performing due diligence on published researchers. He is an expert in the way machines can learn and use language and, alongside his work with Digital Science, he researches deep learning at City St George’s, University of London. Nicholas regularly appears at conferences as an engaging speaker on technical topics and provides mentoring for early-career technologists. He lives with his wife and two children in Cambridge, UK.

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Research Transformation: navigating change together

4th – 5th March

Sydney, Australia

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Programme

Session 1

9:40 – 9:50 am
Welcome & Introduction
Speaker: Helen Cooke, SVP Sales – Publisher Markets, Digital Science

9:50 – 10:20 am
Keynote 1: Scene Setting: Reflections on the Publishing Landscape
Speaker: Jon Treadway, Director, Great North Wood Consulting

*** 10:20 – 10:40 am: 20 MINUTE BREAK ***

10:40 – 11:20 am
Panel 1: Strengthening Research Integrity
Speakers:
– Leslie McIntosh, Vice President of Research Integrity, Digital Science
– Laura Wilson, Head of Research Integrity & Ethics, Taylor & Francis
– Jennifer Wright, Head of Publication Ethics & Research Integrity, Cambridge University Press
– Doug Melville, Technical Product Manager, Sage

*** 11:20 – 11:40 am: 20 MINUTE BREAK ***

Session 2

11:40 – 12:00 pm
Emerald Publishing: Dimensions GBQ Case Study
Speakers:
– Ann Campbell, Technical Solutions Manager, Digital Science
– Katie Davison, Insights Analyst, Emerald Publishing

*** 12:00 – 1:00 pm: 60 MINUTE LUNCH BREAK ***

Session 3:

1:00 – 1:10 pm
Lighting Talk 1: Benchmarking for Publishing Success
Speaker: Mike Taylor, Head of Data Insights, Digital Science


1:10 – 1:50 pm
Panel 2: Adapting to a New Social Media Landscape
Speakers:
– Lou Peck, CEO & Founder, The International Bunch
– Jitske de Vries, Head of Marketing, The Company of Biologists
– Rowena Gordon, Senior Managing Editor, British Ecological Society
– Daisy Veysey, Social Media Manager, eLife
– Marion Schnelle, Social Media Manager, De Gruyter Brill

*** 1:50 – 2:10pm: 20 MINUTE BREAK ***

2:10 – 2:20 pm
Lighting Talk 2: Consolidation in the Market – What it Means for Publishers
Speakers: Sarah Greaves, Director and Publishing Consultant, Sarah Greaves STEM Consulting

2:20 – 2:50 pm
Quiz:
Hosted by: Helen Cooke, SVP Sales – Publisher Markets, Digital Science

*** 2:50 – 3:10pm: 20 MINUTE BREAK ***

Session 4:

3:10 – 3:40 pm
Keynote 2: How Publishers Can Elevate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Speaker: Jo Wixon, Director – External Analysis, Wiley


3:40 – 3:50 pm
Lighting Talk 3: Spotlight on Dimensions Author Check
Speaker: Nicholas Bailey, Senior Product Manager, Digital Science


3:50 – 4:00 pm
Wrap up & Thank You:
Speaker: Helen Cooke, SVP Sales – Publisher Markets, Digital Science

*** DAY CONCLUDES ***

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The Digital Science team is getting ready to head off to San Francisco for the annual Science Foo Camp. This is a remarkable gathering of scientists, thinkers, technologists, creators and communicators, who come together over three days in mid-July.

‘Sci Foo’, as it’s affectionately known, is unlike any other science conference. Hosted by ‘X’ (formerly “Google X”), it is an ‘unconference’ with no fixed agenda, and is co-organized by Google, O’Reilly Media, Digital Science and Nature.

Since the first event in 2006, Sci Foo has aimed to do things differently – 18 years later it retains that original spirit and continues to attract some of the most prolific players on the world stage. Indeed, the British astrophysicist Lord Martin Rees has called Sci Foo the ‘Woodstock of the Mind’.

Forging an environment of openness and collaboration, attendees are encouraged to connect and share ideas with those around them. The schedule includes the always popular lightning talks but discourages keynotes and corporate overviews – and is dominated by unconference sessions that are proposed and organised by the attendees themselves. This format allows for unparalleled diversity of disciplines and thinking, with a rich seam of discussion, debate and insights running through the event. Conversations are encouraged to continue over mealtimes and into the evening.

As one of the organizers, Digital Science is especially excited for Sci Foo 2023. With around 250 attendees, we have also provided travel support to a number of early-career scientists from South Africa, Ecuador, Brunei and other countries and we are looking forward to the energy they will bring to what promises to be a fantastic Sci Foo.

We would also like to thank our co-organizers including  Tim O’Reilly and Marsee Henon from O’Reilly Media; Raiya Kind and Laurie Wu from Google; Magdalena Skipper of Springer Nature; and Sci Foo veteran Cat Allman, as well as the many volunteers from across all these organisations – it would not be possible without them. 

If you want to know more about Sci Foo 2023 including who’s there and what’s trending, please look out for online chat about the event via the official hashtag #SciFoo and discussion on Twitter and LinkedIn from the Digital Science team.

About the Author

Amarjit Myers, Head of Strategic Events | Digital Science

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Speakers

Part 1: Dimensions Roadmap / The Big Switch Panel

Scott Delman, Director of Publications, Association for Computing Machinery
Over the past 30 years, I’ve served in a variety of senior editorial and managerial roles at large scholarly publishers and societies, including Kluwer Academic Publishers, Springer, and most recently the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In my current role as ACM’s Director of Publications, I am responsible for developing and implementing ACM’s overall publications strategy, overseeing editorial operations, institutional sales and licensing activities, and ACM’s Open Access strategy. My passion for scholarly publication and for driving positive change in the industry has led me to become active in the governance of several leading technology-driven non-profit organizations, including Crossref, arXiv, Portico, and CHORUS.

Sarah Greaves, STEM Consulting Limited
Sarah has over 20 years of experience within STM editorial and publishing. After an academic career she worked at Nature Publishing Group for over 15 years in both editorial and publishing roles, launching Nature Communications and Scientific Reports before spending two years at Hindawi.  Sarah focuses on creating innovative new products and services aimed at solving key researcher pain points whilst ensuring the academic scientist remains at the heart of any publishing decision.  Sarah is now a publishing consultant, non-executive director of the Royal Society of Chemistry & The Biochemical Society and volunteer for numerous science outreach programmes.

Amye Kenall, VP of Product, Data & Analytics Hub, Digital Science
Amye joined Digital Science as VP of Product in 2023 and brings with her 20 years of experience in the STM industry. In the past she has held various positions across all aspects of the publishing process. Amye has worked on projects, working groups and authored publications related to open access, open data and reproducible research. She leads the Data & Analytics products at Digital Science, including Dimensions, Altmetric and others, in vision, strategy and execution. Amye works with research communities to support initiatives that help drive open science and make published research fairer and more reproducible. She served as Treasurer for the FORCE11 community for 5 years and has been extensively involved in organisations such as the Research Data Alliance. She also gives regular industry talks and workshops on behalf of the company, covering topics such as disruptive publishing technologies, preprints and open science. Before coming to Digital Science, Amye held various positions in the STM industry, including at Research Square, Springer Nature, and Taylor & Francis.

Alison Mitchell, Chief of Staff, Digital Science
Alison Mitchell is Chief of Staff at Digital Science, responsible for the strategy, thought leadership, business intelligence and CSR functions. Before joining Digital Science Alison was Chief Journals Officer at Springer Nature, responsible for over 3,000 journals including the Nature, Springer, BMC and Palgrave Macmillan imprints. She has served as an editor (on Nature and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology), a publisher (for both in-house and externally edited journals) and, before that, was a researcher with a PhD from Imperial College, London. 

Lucy Robinson, Senior Director of Research, SAGE
Lucy is Senior Director of Research at Sage where she has enjoyed a 25 year academic journals publishing career. She is currently a key member of Sage’s team negotiating Transformative Open Access Agreements and evolving our OA transition strategies. Prior to this she worked on journal purchase acquisitions during a period of significant list growth at Sage.

Tyler Ruse, Publisher Solutions, Digital Science
Tyler joined Digital Science in 2017 and spends most of his time helping publishers get business value out of various data-focused products. Tyler currently lives and works in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Matt Wascavage, Director of Publications, ACSESS
Matt Wascavage is the Publications Director for the Alliance of Crop, Soil and Environmental Science Societies (ACSESS). He oversees the 13 journals, book library, and magazines published on behalf of the ASA, CSSA and SSSA. From 2012 to 2018, Matt served as a Director at the American Physical Society (APS) where he was responsible for forming and managing the international subscriptions, licensing, and sales team. Prior to APS, Matt spent 12 years with the National Geographic Society in Washington, DC.

Session 2: Figshare / The Data Evolution Panel

Lauren Cadwallader, Open Research Manager, PLOS
Lauren Cadwallader is Open Research Manager at the Public Library of Science (PLOS), working to advance the adoption of open science practices – particularly data and code sharing – in the research communities that publish with PLOS. Prior to working at PLOS, Lauren worked in the Office of Scholarly Communications at Cambridge University Library in roles related to Open Access, Open Research training and Research Data Management.

Christna Chap, Head of Editorial Development, Karger Publishers
Christna Chap is Head of Editorial Development at Karger Publishers where she is responsible for the strategic development of the portfolio of academic journals and books. As part of her role, she led the implementation of a research data policy across all Karger journals. Prior to joining Karger, she worked in various editorial roles at the open access publishers PLOS and BioMed Central. Christna studied Biotechnology at the ENSTBB in Bordeaux and completed a PhD in Molecular Biology at the Max Delbrück Center (MDC) in Berlin.

Daniel Evanko, Senior Director, Journal Operations, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Daniel oversees the editorial operations of the society’s ten research journals, manages the development and implementation of new technology solutions, and spearheads the journals’ efforts to improve the transparency and reproducibility of the research they publish. Prior to joining AACR in 2016 he was the Chief Editor of Nature Methods and later the Head of Editorial Services at Springer Nature.

Mark Hahnel, CEO, Figshare
Mark Hahnel is the CEO and founder of Figshare, which he created whilst completing his PhD in stem cell biology at Imperial College London. Figshare currently provides research data infrastructure for institutions, publishers and funders globally. He is passionate about open science and the potential it has to revolutionize the research community. For the last eight years, Mark has been leading the development of research data infrastructure, with the core aim of reusable and interoperable academic data. Mark sits on the board of DataCite and the advisory board for Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

Erika Pastrana, Springer Nature
Dr Erika Pastrana is Editorial Director for the Nature Research Journals and oversees the health and applied portfolio. As part of her role, she has been developing Springer Nature’s editorial policy for code sharing, peer review and publication and participates in the implementation of SN’s Open Science Roadmap which includes initiatives to support data, code and protocol sharing. Erika obtained her PhD in Molecular biology and neuroscience and worked as a researcher at Columbia University prior to becoming an editor in 2010.

Part 3: Dimensions Research Integrity (DRI) / Research Integrity Challenge

Nicholas Bailey, Product Manager, Digital Science
Nicholas Bailey is an experienced AI and machine learning developer and is the Technical Product Manager for Dimensions Research Integrity. He is an expert in the way machines can learn and use language and, alongside his work with Digital Science, he researches deep learning at City University of London. As an engaging speaker on technical topics, Nicholas regularly appears at conferences and provides mentoring for early-career technologists. He lives with his wife and two children in Cambridge, UK.  

Julia McDonnell, Publishing Director- Owned and Product, Oxford University Press
Julia’s primary responsibilities are to identify, evaluate, and implement ideas for product development relating to Journals, and to develop and increase the impact of OUP’s owned portfolio. She joined OUP in 2009 as a member of the Editorial team working on Science and Medicine journals. She has worked in both OUP’s New York (USA) and Oxford (UK) offices and is currently UK based. Julia holds a bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford.

Robyn Mugridge, Head of Publishing Partnerships, Frontiers
Robyn joined Frontiers in 2018, having previously worked for several other international publishers including Springer Nature and the NIHR Journals Library. In 2019 she established the Publishing Partnerships program at Frontiers, where her work now focuses on strategic collaborations with societies. Robyn joined the ALPSP Education Committee in 2021 and in 2023, she was appointed interim Co-Chair of the Committee. In her spare time, she enjoys writing her publishing blog www.MugsPubs.com and speaking publicly at publishing events.

Simon Porter, VP Research Futures, Digital Science
Simon Porter has forged a career transforming university practices in how data about research is used, both from administrative and eResearch perspectives. As well as making key contributions to research information visualization, he is well known for his advocacy of Research Profiling Systems and their capability to create new opportunities for researchers. Simon came to Digital Science from the University of Melbourne, where he worked for 15 years in roles spanning the Library, Research Administration, and Information Technology.

Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Director, Science Policy and Scholarship, Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
In this role, Cynthia advances the Association’s mission of enduring and equitable access to information, information stewardship, and publishing through strategic partnerships with higher education colleagues and through various advocacy initiatives. Prior to joining ARL, Cynthia worked in research libraries building and leading computational research services. She is the co-founder of Ripeta. 

Part 4: Altmetric / Author as Customer Panel

Senol Akay, Assistant Director Data & Analytics, American Chemical Society
Before joining the digital strategy team at ACS, Senol held a senior digital marketer position at an international marketing firm, where he crafted e-marketing strategies for global enterprises.

Senol’s educational journey began with a B.S. in Chemistry obtained in Istanbul, Turkey. He subsequently immigrated to the United States to pursue advanced studies in Chemistry, achieving an M.S. in Bioanalytical Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Georgia State University. Additionally, he holds an M.S. in Data and Analytics from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

In 2009, upon completing his doctoral studies, Senol leveraged his analytical and data processing prowess as an e-commerce director, leading commerce and digital marketing strategies for multiple e-commerce websites. Following a period of refining his digital strategy skills, he seamlessly merged his research background and professional expertise in his present role at ACS.

Rachel Borchadt, Scholarly Communications Librarian, American University
Rachel is the Scholarly Communications Librarian at American University, where she oversees open access and research metrics needs on campus. In addition to this role, Rachel’s research interests center on the use of diverse research metrics in research evaluation to increase the equity in evaluation processes. She serves as the Dimensions and Altmetric support person on campus, and uses both products to better showcase research impact at the individual, school, and campus levels.

James Butcher, Clarke & Esposito and Journalology
James Butcher spent over 20 years working at two of the most influential scientific publishers: first as Executive Editor at The Lancet and then as Vice President of the Nature journals. He is now Practice Lead for Europe at Clarke and Esposito, the strategy consultancy. James also writes a weekly newsletter, Journalology, which helps editors and publishers create impactful journals.

Natalia Madjarevic, VP Business Operations, Data & Analytics, Digital Science
Natalia Madjarevic joined Digital Science in 2014 and was originally part of the Altmetric team, heading up Client Services and spending a lot of time getting to know customers. In her current role, she works across a number of Digital Science products including Altmetric and Dimensions. Earlier in her career, Natalia worked in a range of academic libraries including LSE and with a focus on research support, and her first library job was at The Guardian.

Ros Pyne, Global Director, Research & Open Access, Bloomsbury Publishing
Ros Pyne is Global Director, Research and Open Access at Bloomsbury. She has worked in open access policy and strategy roles since 2013 and has a particular interest in bringing OA to long-form scholarship and to the humanities. Ros sits on the advisory boards for the OAPEN OA Books Toolkit and the Mellon-funded Book Analytics Project and is co-author of several papers on open access books.

Mike Taylor, Head of Data Insights, Digital Science
Mike is Head of Data Insights at Digital Science where he works with publishers and research enterprises to understand the impact of their journals and research.

Mike is an innovator in scholarly metrics and social impact. Prior to the development of altmetrics, he was working to understand how researchers were using emerging social media networks and other platforms to exchange information. Mike has conducted much research and has published papers and presentations on altmetrics and other forms of impact. He is working towards a PhD with Mike Thelwall at Wolverhampton University on Open Access publishing and social impact.

Mike has been involved in many open initiatives during his career, most notably contributing to the architecture of the Orcid repository and API prior to its launch during his time at Elsevier Labs.

Mike is the co-founder of ElevenOne Theatre and an active director, producer, writer and actor.

Helen Cooke, Managing Director, Publisher Sales, Digital Science
Helen joined Digital Science in 2021 and now heads up the publisher team, bringing 20+ years of experience from the academic publishing industry.  She has worked previously in sales and marketing positions to bring e-resources to libraries worldwide. Helen headed up the Journals Sales team at SAGE Publishing also working at GeoScienceWorld and Blackwell Publishing. For 8 years she was one of the owner/directors at Burgundy Information Services, working with varied publisher clients such as SPIE, Mary Ann Liebert, Canadian Science Publishing and CUP.

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Programme

Session 1: Dimensions / The Big Switch Panel (70 mins)

9:00 – 9:15 am ET / 2: 00-2:15 pm BST:
Welcome & Introduction
Speaker: Alison Mitchell, Chief of Staff, Digital Science

9:15 – 9:30 am ET / 2: 15 – 2:30 pm BST:
Dimensions Roadmap
Speaker: Amye Kenall, VP of Product, Data & Analytics Hub, Digital Science


9:30 – 10:10 am ET / 2:30 – 3:10 pm BST:
The Big Switch Panel: A conversation around the migration of titles to Open Access and the risks, tools and measures of success.
Speakers:
– Scott Delman, Director of Publications, Association for Computing Machinery
– Sarah Greaves, STEM Consulting Limited
– Lucy Robinson, Senior Director of Research, SAGE
– Tyler Ruse, Publisher Solutions, Digital Science
– Matt Wascavage, Director of Publications, ACSESS

*** 10:10 – 10:30 am ET /3:10 – 3:30 pm BST: 20 MINUTE BREAK ***

Session 2: Figshare / The Data Evolution Panel (55 mins)

10:30 – 10:45 am ET / 3:30 – 3:45 pm BST:
Figshare Roadmap
Speaker: Mark Hahnel, CEO, Figshare

10:45 – 11:25 am ET / 3:45 – 4:25 pm BST:
The Data Evolution Panel: With the backdrop of mandates around data, we explore the needed changes, opportunities for publishers and the effect on science.
Speakers:
– Dr Lauren Cadwallader, Open Research Manager, PLOS
– Christna Chap, Head of Editorial Development, Karger Publishers
– Daniel Evanko, Senior Director, Journal Operations & Systems Publishing Division, AACR
– Mark Hahnel, CEO, Figshare
– Dr Erika Pastrana, Springer Nature

*** 11:25 – 11:45 am ET /4:25 – 4:45 pm BST: 20 MINUTE BREAK ***

Session 3: Dimensions Research Integrity (DRI) / Research Integrity Challenge (55 mins)

11:45 – 12:00 pm ET / 4:45 – 5:00 pm BST:
Dimensions Research Integrity (DRI) Roadmap
Speaker: Nicholas Bailey, Product Manager, Digital Science
  

12:00 – 12:40 pm ET / 5:00 – 5:40 pm BST:
Research Integrity Challenge: Imagine if we could magically improve editorial workflows and align with research integrity issues – what would that look like?
Speakers:
– Nicholas Bailey, Product Manager, Digital Science
– Julia McDonnell, Publishing Director- Owned and Product, Oxford University Press
– Robyn Mugridge, Head of Publishing Partnerships, Frontiers Publishing Partnerships
– Simon Porter, VP Research Futures, Digital Science
– Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Director, Science Policy and Scholarship, Association of Research Libraries (ARL)

*** 12:40 – 1:00pm ET / 5:40 – 6:00pm BST: 20 MINUTE BREAK ***

Session 4: Altmetric / Author as Customer Panel (60 mins)

1:00 – 1:15 pm ET /6:00 – 6:15pm BST:
Altmetric Roadmap
Speaker: Natalia Madjarevic, VP Business Ops, D&A Hub, Digital Science


1:15– 1:55 pm ET / 6:15 – 6:55 pm BST:
Author as Customer: A discussion around the metrics that are important to authors, how they affect publisher goals and the impact on research overall.
Speakers:
– Senol Akay, Assistant Director Data & Analytics, American Chemical Society
– Rachel Borchadt, Scholarly Communications Librarian, American University
– James Butcher, Clarke & Esposito and Journalology
– Ros Pyne, Global Director, Research & Open Access, Bloomsbury Publishing
– Mike Taylor, Head of Data Insights, Digital Science



1:55 – 2:00 pm ET / 6:55 – 7:00 pm BST:
Wrap up & Thank You:
Speaker: Helen Cooke, Managing Director, Publisher Sales, Digital Science

*** DAY CONCLUDES ***

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Please remember to follow our Code of Conduct when participating in the chat.

What if I can’t attend live on the day?

All sessions that are broadcast on Crowdcast will be available as a recording afterwards. Simply register for the event and you will be able to use the link in your confirmation to access the recording.  We will also post all videos on the Digital Science YouTube channel. 

I still have questions

Please get in touch by contacting the organisers at events@digital-science.com

Code of Conduct

Please take a moment to read our Code of Conduct for this event.

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CODE OF CONDUCT FOR DIGITAL SCIENCE PUBLISHER DAY 2023

Our Code of Conduct outlines our expectations for all attendees (including organisers, participants, guest speakers and experts) of the online Digital Science Publisher Day 2023 in relation to all event activity. This code also details steps for reporting unacceptable behaviour. Organisers will enforce this code throughout the programme. We expect cooperation from all participants to help ensure a safe environment for everyone taking part.

The event organisers are committed to providing a harassment-free environment for everyone regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, ability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion or work experience. 

What we ask of you

We will not accept the following behaviours at the Digital Science Publisher Day 2023:

• Violence or threats of violence toward another person
• Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm
• Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neurotype, physical appearance, body, age, race, ethnicity, nationality, language or religion. Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment
• Deliberate misgendering or use of ‘dead’ or rejected names
• Conversations or presentations that involve racism, ableism, misogyny, misogynoir, transphobia, transmisogyny, transmisogynoir, homophobia, biphobia, classism, fatphobia, body shaming or colourism
• Deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, taking pictures or recording without permission
• Sustained disruption of talks or other events
• Inappropriate social contact, such as requesting or assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
• Deliberate “outing” of any aspect of a person’s identity without their consent except as necessary to protect other members or other vulnerable people from intentional abuse
• Sharing non-harassing private communication without permission 
  

Consequences of unacceptable behaviour

Bad behaviour from any attendees will not be tolerated. Anyone asked to stop unacceptable behaviour is expected to comply immediately. Violation of these guidelines can result in you being asked to leave the online space, either temporarily or for the duration of the event, or being banned from participation in spaces, or future Digital Science events and activities in perpetuity. 

Reporting

If you believe you’re experiencing unacceptable behaviour as outlined above, please email our events team at events@digital-science.com.

After receiving a concise description of your situation, your comments will be reviewed and next steps determined. Other colleagues or outside specialists (such as legal counsel) will be consulted as needed to appropriately address each situation.

Please also report to us if you observe a potentially dangerous situation, someone in distress or violations of these guidelines, even if the situation is not happening to you. 

Questions

For all feedback and questions regarding this Code of Conduct, please email Sabia Morrison at s.morrison@digital-science.com

Licence and attribution

This set of guidelines is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence.  These guidelines have been adapted with modifications from Mozilla’s Community Participation Guidelines (CC-BY-SA Mozilla) and the AfroTech Fest code of conduct (https://www.afrotechfest.co.uk/coc/)

We highly recommend you also visit our FAQs for Attendees to find out more about how the day will run. 

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We’re really excited to announce that #FuturePub is BACK! We’ll be at the Royal Institution (the Ri to its friends) on May the 4th (be with you) for everything you know and love and SO MUCH MORE.

Join us for food, drinks, lightning talks from cutting-edge innovators in research tech, networking with a bunch of like-minded people, and even explore the historic building that is hosting us.

Hosted by Digital Science, the evenings are designed to be fun and informal – we aim to give opportunities to those working on new ideas and innovations a chance to present and get feedback on their ideas. There’s also free food!

We’ve hosted over a dozen #FuturePubs in the past and have been described as “a staple of the London science tech/publishing scene”.

In case you’re wondering how it all works, here’s a breakdown of how the night will look:

• Doors will open at 6:00 pm when you can grab some food, a drink, and meet fellow attendees. You can also explore the historic home of science communication and innovation with a walk through the Faraday Museum at the Ri.
• At around 6:30 pm there will be some quick-fire lightning talks covering a range of new and exciting developments in research technology. These will fit into an hour, to keep the evening fast-paced and fun!
• The rest of the evening is then open for discussions and conversations over drinks and any remaining food – we expect a great mixture of attendees from the research, publishing and start-up communities.
• From about 9:00 pm those who would like to continue conversations can start to wander over to the King’s Head pub down the road where we’ve reserved a space.

We’ll have a great selection of speakers lined up and will be announcing the first two shortly, with further announcements as we approach the event. Register now to be the first to hear the speaker announcements as they go out!   

We also still have a couple of speaking slots left, so if you’d like to speak at this event (or one in the future), please register your interest via this form.

And if you just want to turn up and enjoy the event, sign up here! Tickets are FREE, but limited, so grab yours NOW. We can’t wait to see you at #FuturePub!

WHEN: Thursday, May the 4th, 2023 from 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm (BST) 

WHERE: The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle St, London W1S 4BS

Doors open at 6:00 pm and the talks will kick off at 6:30 pm. Space at the venue is limited, so please register for your free tickets now to reserve your place!

Speaker Update!

We’re excited to announce the following speakers for #FuturePub 2023!

• Ivy Cavendish, Founder of TooWrite; Head of Writing Solutions at Springer Nature
• Andrew Preston, Co-founder of Cassyni
• Elliott Lumb, Founder of PeerRef
• Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Director of Open Research Solutions, PLOS

Find out more about our speakers at the EventBrite registration page.

About the Author

Suze Kundu is Director of Researcher and Community Engagement at Digital Science.

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