HighWire Press at SSP 48th Annual Meeting 2026

Venue: Gaylord Pacific Resort & Convention Center, San Diego (Chula Vista), CA
 
We are looking forward to returning to the SSP Annual Meeting in 2026. This event remains a vital forum for the scholarly publishing community to discuss the future of our industry, and we are eager to reconnect with our peers and partners in San Diego.
 
You can find the HighWire and MPS team at Booth No. 100. Stop by to meet our experts and discuss how we are helping publishers modernize their operations through:

• DigiCorePro: Our end-to-end submission and editorial management system.
• Hosting Solutions: Scalable, reliable hosting for journals, books, and case reports.
• AJE White Label Services: Integrating world-class author services directly into your workflow.
• Rubriq: AI-powered manuscript assessment and language quality tools.

Industry Breakout Session

 
 
Title: Shift Quality Left: How Improving Manuscripts Before Peer Review Reduces Strain Across the System
 
Date & Time: Wednesday, May 27 | 12:00 PM
 
Presenter: Laura Stemmle, PhD, Product Director
 
The publishing industry invests significant resources in correcting quality issues during peer review and production. However, many of these challenges, ranging from language and structure to metadata quality, originate at the point of submission.
 
In this session, Laura Stemmle presents an emerging workflow model designed to address these issues upstream. We will explore:

• Automated Assessment: How manuscripts can be automatically triaged for language quality and AI-powered editing before peer review even begins.
• Cascading Benefits: How investing in quality at the start leads to cleaner papers for reviewers, reduced remediation time for editors, and lower production costs.
• Single-Source Architecture: How moving to an XML-at-submission model and a collaborative digital editor eliminates handoff errors.
• Modular Integration: How an API-driven platform allows publishers to plug in the quality and integrity tools they need without disrupting existing workflows.

Visit us at Booth No. 100. Whether you want to discuss manuscript quality, explore DigiCorePro, or learn more about our Hosting capabilities, we’d love to see you there.