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