From: Benjamin Maverick Turley <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 20:58:05 +0000

*The Place of Manuscript Management Systems in a Consolidating Marketplace*



*Virtual Half-Day Workshop*


*November 16, 2018 11:00 am - 3:00 pm EDT*





Meet the presenters:



*Keith Collier, **Managing Director, Publisher Services Web of Science
Group*, *Clarivate  *



*Alison O'Connell*, *Community Development Manager*, *Collaborative
Knowledge Foundation*



*Gregory J. Gordon*, *Managing Director of SSRN & SVP Content Lifecycle
Management*, *Elsevier*



Strategic changes in the marketplace-such as Clarivate's acquisions of
Publons and Kopernio, and Elsevier's acquisions of Mendeley, SSRN, Aries
Press, and bepress-are creating seamless workflows for researchers. Others,
like the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation, are developing an open source
system with tools that empower researchers and strive to end dependencies
on big publishing companies. Some see these initiatives as smart and
decisive opportunities to expand tools that support researchers. Others are
more skeptical, believing it could create an environment from which
researchers will be unable to escape and smaller publishers will perish.



Join NFAIS on Friday, November 16, 2018 for an in-depth discussion of these
growing opportunities and how the competitive landscape is projected to
evolve in the coming years.



Moderated by Roger Schonfeld, Director of Ithaka S+R Libraries and
Scholarly Communications Program, this workshop brings together three
"change agents" who are creating new opportunities in the scholarship
communication industry.  These change agents will discuss the strategy of
what these acquisitions mean and what their desired outcomes will be. Next,
our panelists will face industry thought-leaders David Worlock and Lisa
Hinchliffe, as well as our virtual audience, as we ask the hard questions
and debate the pros and cons of these initiatives and their potential
impact on the future of scholarly communications.



For more information, please visit:
https://www.nfais.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=550016&orgId=nfais&recurringId=0