Welcome to the 2019 HighWire Publishers Meeting - Washington D.C.

Check-In at the registration table to get a copy of a printed agenda and your badge – AAAS Foyer

John Sack will navigate the meeting agenda and provide you with additional information about our main sessions, the meeting rooms that will be using at AAAS, and a brief description of our exciting social events scheduled for our meeting.

Dan will personally welcome all of you to the meeting and provide you with an overview of what HighWire has achieved since the last time we got together in Washington, DC.

Many societies with a suite of related journals are now offering transfers of declined papers. But what approaches lead to the authors most often accepting those offers, vs. taking their papers elsewhere?

Join Maisha Miles as she speaks about the ASM Transfer Process: A Perpetual Pilot and Daniel Evanko will walk us through Manuscript transfers at the AACR, process, and results.

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We will review the road map for the HighWire Intelligent Platform and discuss concepts being explored for delivery.

Starting around 1999, content in ASPET’s journals that were published from 1997 onward was made freely accessible 12 months after publication. In 2018, the Society examined the financial impact of having 22 years of free content and rethought its access policy.

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Join Blythe Alexander as she speaks on the evolution of a journal e-Table of Contents.
Blythe will provide an overview of how SFN journal’s simple eTOC changed to an enriched eTOC and the positive effect on readership in the journal.

Historically, ASM’s marketing efforts focused almost exclusively on supporting institutional sales products. Increased competition for submissions, coupled with ASM’s commitment to open access, necessitated a new strategy to market services to authors, understanding that serving their needs and making the ASM publishing experience great is key to a successful program.

Moving from Alerts to Engagement, key metrics to explore in the new system.

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An in-depth review of the alerts redesign and partner integrations.

Discover more about several HighWire partners. Each participant will give an overview of their offering and how they benefit HighWire publishers. You’ll have a chance to ask questions in this session and follow up with additional questions at our Partners Pub reception later during the day as you get to enjoy your favorite adult beverage. (SAME AS SESSION 16C)

In this session, John Inglis and Richard Sever will be providing us with updates for bioRxiv and also talking about the launch of their new server medRxiv: the preprint server for health sciences.

Join Sebastian Kohlmeier (Sr. Technical Program Manager) as he introduces and provides a detailed overview of the AI (artificial intelligence) capabilities of Semantic Scholar, a free and non-profit academic search and discovery engine developed by the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Learn about Semantic Scholar’s publisher partnership program and the associated benefits for publishers and the scientific research community.

If you missed the Partner Showcase breakout sessions today but you would still like to learn more about our Partners, then don’t go home just yet.

Join us during the Partners Pub from 5:05 pm to 6:05 pm. We invite you to grab some drinks and visit all partners to learn more about their business and the benefits that they can provide to you. While you chat with our partners, don’t forget to drop your tickets in each one of the partner’s raffle bowl. This year our exhibiting partners have entered the raffle and will be offering great prizes to all participants.

You will not want to miss this fun activity. Winners must be present and will be announced towards the end of the Exhibit time around 5:50 pm.

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How has thinking on the response to Plan S evolved during 2019? Four societies will speak about their current thinking and direction. We’ll also ask the attendees to informally add in their own directions.

In 2016, ECS launched Free the Science, a bold, business-model changing initiative to make the society’s research freely available to all readers, while remaining free for authors to publish. Because of this initiative, ECS is uniquely positioned to handle open access regardless of changes in funder requirements and other disruptions to the publishing industry. This session will explore the tactics taken since the launch of Free the Science, including ECS’s read-and-publish model, ECS Plus, and provide insight to how society publishers can take advantage of multiple tactics to progress their open access publishing.

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Come hear Matt from Springer Publishing and Oliver the Scolaris Product Manager talk about how they worked together to get Springer’s books, journals and reference works all hosted on a single HighWire site for access by a variety of different types of users.

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Please join Product Manager Eric Hall for a review of recent Vizor developments, a walk-through of innovative use cases, and a preview of short and long-term roadmap priorities. As always, users are encouraged to bring their own uses cases or analytics questions for group discussion.

An overview of HighWire’s self-service offerings and planned improvements, followed by an open discussion of further self-service opportunities.

Discover more about several HighWire partners. Each participant will give an overview of their offering and how they benefit HighWire publishers. You’ll have a chance to ask questions in this session and follow up with additional questions at our Partners Pub reception later during the day as you get to enjoy your favorite adult beverage. (SAME AS SESSION 9B)

For quite a few years, artificial intelligence seemed like just another buzzy term with vague implications on the publishing industry. But now, publishers are putting it into action. Through a range of applications, AI and natural language processing are being used to streamline workflows, produce higher-quality content, and improve the author experience. Greater automation also frees up valuable time to focus on critical efforts requiring human analysis and subject matter expertise. Atul Goel of Cenveo will describe current uses and future applications of AI and NLP in scholarly publishing and how they’re combining to make research and publications more timely, relevant and useful.

Our role in publications is to ensure scientific quality but to also allow that content to be accessed in ways users can access quickly and efficiently. AACC’s multimedia approach may have a small staff but has been able to make a large impact using a variety of resources.

Dan will top off the Publisher’s Meeting with a quick interactive audience session for you to share your learning experiences from our 2-day meeting with the rest of your peers at the meeting.

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