The Scholarly Kitchen: What’s Next for Scholarly Publishing: Navigating Key Issues and Future Scenarios
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Keep the conversation going! Building on the session from the Frankfurt Book Fair, Chefs will expand the conversation on what’s next for scholarly publishing. Dive deeper into the key issues shaping our industry—from open access and AI to infrastructure and policy. Scholarly Kitchen Chefs will explore a range of scenarios, assessing the potential impacts on publishers, researchers, institutions, and the broader knowledge ecosystem.
Join us for a forward-looking discussion designed to equip you with practical insights for navigating uncertainty in scholarly publishing.
Moderator:
Phill Jones
Co-founder, MoreBrains
Phill is a co-founder with responsibility for digital and technology at MoreBrains Consulting Cooperative, where he acts as a principal consultant for a range of clients in open science infrastructure, scholarly publishing, and digital product innovation. He’s a member of the Learned Publishing Editorial Board, a council member for the European Association of Science Editors (EASE), a member of the African Journals Partnership Programme (AJPP), a judge for the Karger Vesalius Awards for innovation in medical publishing, and a member of the advisory board for the Researcher to Reader conference. Previously, Phill was the CTO at Emerald Publishing. Before that, he held a series of roles at Digital Science, including Director of Publishing Innovation and a senior role in the consultancy division. He was also the first Editorial Director at Journal of Visualized Experiments. In a former life, Phill was a cross-disciplinary researcher at Imperial College, London, UK Atomic Energy Authority, and Harvard Medical school. His career spanned plasma physics, biomedical engineering and neuroscience.
Speakers:
Todd Carpenter
Executive Director of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
Todd Carpenter currently serves as Executive Director of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), a non-profit association that develops and maintains standards for the creation, persistent management, and effective interchange of information. In this role, he works with organizations across the publishing, library and software provider communities, building coalitions to improve efficiency in systems to deliver content to users. Prior to joining NISO, Todd was Director of Business Development at BioOne. He also held management positions at The Johns Hopkins University Press, the Energy Intelligence Group, and the Haworth Press. He has served on the Boards of several industry and community organizations, including FORCE11, the Baltimore County Public Library, the Book Industry Study Group and the Society for Scholarly Publishing. He contributes regularly as a Chef on the Scholarly Kitchen and is author of dozens of papers on library and publishing systems. He is presently writing a book on our everyday interactions with metadata. Todd is a graduate of Syracuse University and holds a masters degree in business from the Johns Hopkins University.
Lisa Hinchliffe
Professor/Coordinator for Research and Teaching Professional Development in the University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe is Professor/Coordinator for Research and Teaching Professional Development in the University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the University’s School of Information Sciences, European Union Center, and Center for Global Studies. She is currently the Chair of the ORCID Board and a Chef in The Scholarly Kitchen.
Roger Schonfeld
Managing Director, JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services
Roger C. Schonfeld is the managing director for JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services. Launched in 2025, JSTOR Stewardship is a service through which libraries can manage, preserve, and provide access to their archives and special collections, with transformative opportunities to accelerate their collections processing productivity and to increase their collections’ usage and impact. Roger is also responsible for ITHAKA’s overall organizational strategy.
Hong Zhou
AI Innovation Leader
Hong is a product and AI innovation leader in scholarly publishing and former Senior Director of AI Product & Innovation at Wiley, where he set AI vision and strategy, drive the roadmap, and delivered award-winning services that automate research and publishing workflows. He helped define Wiley’s AI ethics principles, drove innovation for the Wiley Research Exchange platform and Atypon experience platform, and led creation of Wiley’s first AI-driven papermill detection tool—now a leading integrity solution. A former head of AI R&D, he built collaborations with top labs worldwide and earned multiple AI awards, including an honorable mention for the 2024 APE Award for Innovation. He holds a PhD in 3D Modeling with AI (Aberystwyth) and an MBA in Digital Transformation (Oxford). His personal research passion is supporting publishers’ success in their transition to Open Science and helping global researchers know more, do more, and achieve more in the era of digital transformation. Hong is widely published on computer science and AI topics and presents regularly at prominent industry events. He also serves as a COPE Advisor, Scholarly Kitchen Chef, Co-Chair of ALPSP’s AI Special Interest Group, member of STM’s Future Lab, and Distinguished Expert at China’s National Key Laboratory of Knowledge Mining for Medical Journals.
Sponsors
Access Innovations
Silverchair
Digital Science
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