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Gengyan Tang is a PhD candidate at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. His research primarily examines paper mills in China as an issue in the sociology of science, focusing on how they are embedded in China’s higher education system, for example, by operating through networks of personal relationships. He also studies how...

Barbara Kline Pope is executive director of Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP), one of the nation’s largest university presses, annually publishing 120 new books and 115 journals across the life, health, and social sciences, public health, and humanities. At JHUP, she is also responsible for Project MUSE, an innovative aggregation of 100,000 books and 800...

Witold Kozakiewicz, MSc, is Director of the Information and Library Centre at the Medical University of Lodz and President-elect of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries for the 2027–2028 term. He also serves as Vice-President of the Executive Board of the Conference of Directors of Academic Libraries of Polish Schools and Chair of...

Jonathan Woahn is the Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer at Cashmere, where he helps publishers and AI companies build the infrastructure needed for trusted, licensed use of premium content. His work focuses on the practical challenges of AI retrieval—identity, rights, provenance, attribution, and compensation—and how to design systems that allow AI innovation and sustainable publishing...

Ting Yue is a Professor at the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSLC), and leads the Open Access Journal Index(OAJ) selection team. Her research focuses on scientometrics and research evaluation. She has led over 20 decision-support projects commissioned by NSFC, MOST, and CAS. She has also authored a monograph and over 20 peer-reviewed publications.

Dr. Julia Kostova is the Vice President for Academic Partnerships for the Americas at Taylor & Francis. She oversees partnership strategy, institutional and community engagement, and advocacy, collaborating with research communities, institutions, libraries, funders and other stakeholders to create and disseminate transformative, cutting-edge research. Dr. Kostova brings nearly 20 years of experience in the publishing...

Aicha Hanna is a Publisher at Springer Nature, working within the Open Access journals group out of Heidelberg, Germany. Aicha started her publishing career at Springer Nature in 2021 as a Publishing Assistant, supporting a portfolio of hybrid Springer journals in Biomedicine, before managing a portfolio of Cell Biology journals from the same portfolio. Since...

Martha Sedgwick is a senior publishing executive at Sage Publishing, where she leads innovation and growth initiatives across the Research and Learning business, with a particular focus on Open Access publishing, research communication, and the future of scholarly publishing. She has extensive experience spanning editorial strategy, journal publishing, product management, commercial development, and organizational transformation....

Matt Chan joined the American Chemical Society in 2022 and is the Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and Product, ACS Publications. Matt is accountable for diversifying revenue streams through innovative products, synergistic acquisitions, and strategic partnerships. He is also responsible for brand strategy, market research, marketing operations, global events, and marketing programs to engage...