The first year of a new Congress, coupled with a new presidential administration, is an opportunity for advocacy, and ideally for progress. This discussion will provide an update on the policy landscape for STM priorities in both the White House and the 119th Congress.

This panel, convened at the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s annual meeting in Baltimore, features a mix of STM professionals and publisher-adjacent specialists with expertise in government affairs, public policy, and science advocacy.

Panelists:

Karinna Gerhardt, Manager, Emerging Technology and Competitiveness, Federation of American Scientists

Dr. Darla P. Henderson, Chief Publishing, Open Science, & Research Integrity Officer, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

Tony Hobbs, Associate Vice President, Platinum Advisors

Moderator:

Tom Ciavarella, Head of Public Affairs, North America, Frontiers

The swearing-in of a new Congress and inauguration of a new president gives STM publishers an opportunity to re-engage with key policymakers and committee staff on important policy issues, including copyright, artificial intelligence, and public access to federally funded content, the latter of which (via the Nelson Memo) is set to be fully realized at the end of 2025.

In this session we’ll provide important context on whether the STM publishing community will face either a welcoming or a hostile policy environment. We'll focus the conversation on how to keep lawmakers' and staff members’ attention on issues of consequence to our community.

Panel:

Sara Rouhi, Director of Open Science and Publishing Innovation at AIP Publishing

Lori Ann M. Schultz, Senior Associate Vice President, Research Administration, University of Texas

Meagan Phelan, Communications Director, Science Family of Journals

Moderators:

Tom Ciavarella, Head of Public Affairs, Frontiers

Steven D. Smith, Publisher, AIP Publishing

This variation on the “STM Goes to Washington” series, held at the Charleston Conference for librarians, provides an update on legislative priorities of the moment, including the status of federal agencies' public access plans; research integrity and security; and the many competing and evolving bills on AI.

And given that the conference is a week after the Nov 5 presidential election -- and that the White House, House, and Senate might all change their majorities -- we'll focus the conversation on how to keep lawmakers' attention on issues of consequence to the library community.

Panel:

Darla Henderson, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), Director, FASEB Open Science and Research Integrity

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Professor

Miriam Quintal, Lewis-Burke Associates, Managing Principal

Moderator:

Tom Ciavarella, Head of Public Affairs and Advocacy for North America, Frontiers

As a follow-up to 2023’s "STM Goes to Washington" session in Portland, this year's panel, at the Society for Scholarly Publishing annual meeting in Boston, will provide an update on and explanation of STM priorities of the moment, including NASA's Year of Open Science, the status of federal agencies' public access plans, the Biden Administration's Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence, and the US Copyright Office's evolving policies on AI -- and yes, how these topics might play out in the November presidential election.

Panel:

Roy S. Kaufman, Managing Director, Business Development, Copyright Clearance Center

Kaia Motter, Head of Academic Affairs, US, Springer Nature

Miriam Quintal, Managing Principal, Lewis-Burke Associates

Moderator:

Tom Ciavarella, Head of Public Affairs and Advocacy for North America, Frontiers

COVID-19, the OSTP Nelson Memo, the Cancer Moonshot, and more—in the past three years, STM publishing and government decision-making have significantly overlapped. But how these decisions are reached—and how scholarly publishers try to influence these decisions, both before and after implementation—is an opaque process.

Convened at the Society for Scholarly Publishing annual meeting in Portland, OR, this session brings together representatives from scholarly publishing's government relations and public affairs teams. We'll review the possibilities, realities, and limits of advocacy work; the key individuals, agencies, and committees of the US federal government that oversee the sciences, arts, and humanities; and the policy positions and legislation affecting publishers, authors, and researchers in these spaces.

Panel:

Alison Denby, Vice President, Journals, Oxford University Press

Laura Patton, Head of Government Affairs, US, Springer Nature

Miriam Quintal, Managing Principal, Lewis-Burke Associates

David Weinreich, Director of Policy and Government Affairs, Americas, International Association of STM Publishers, @dewmath

Moderator:

Tom Ciavarella, Head of Public Affairs and Advocacy for North America, Frontiers