Plenary: Recombinant Scholarly Publishing: Challenges, Trends, and Emerging Strategies

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SPEAKERS: Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Professor and Coordinator, Information Literacy Services Affiliate Professor, School of Information Sciences and Center for Global Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Roger C Schonfeld Vice President Organizational Strategy and Libraries, Scholarly Communication, and Museums Ithaka S+R REPORTER: Peter J Olson JAMA Network If you’re a member of CSE, you may be familiar with The Scholarly Kitchen,1 the official blog of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, which has established itself as a rich repository of information and an open forum for dynamic discourse that promotes collaborative, educational encounters among scholarly publishing professionals. Among the Scholarly Kitchen’s many designated “chefs” (i.e., regular writers) are Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe and Roger Schonfeld, both of whom possess a uniquely comprehensive, global perspective spanning the fields of scholarly publishing, scientific research, communication, academic libraries, and higher education. As joint plenary speakers at the 2022 CSE Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, Hinchliffe and Schonfeld shared their insights and observations about several recent trends and trajectories they’ve identified in the scholarly publishing industry. Hinchliffe began the tandem talk by framing it within the concept of future thinking—the goal of which is not necessarily to predict the future, but rather to engage in strategic dialogue and raise informed, enterprising questions that will serve to sculpt the world in which we eventually live. Doing so, she said, illuminates the policies and strategies that factor into a desirable future, with the caveat that a desirable future for one party may be unappealing to another. In […]