I gave a talk at the publisherspeak event yesterday here in London.
I wrote a somewhat tongue in cheek post at the beginning of the year about what might be true about scholarly publishing (https://world.hey.com/ian.mulvany/what-things-might-be-true-about-scholarly-publishing-11d227f3), and I've been wanting to put a more constructive view together about what I think is really important. The invitation to give this talk as a good opportunity to start to do this.
As a keynote it was aimed to be fairly high level, and I really enjoyed the process of putting it together. I got a lot of good feedback on the talk.
I used this tool from Simon Willison - https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/6/annotated-presentations/ to upload the images from the talk and to create an annotated outline of the talk, and you can read that here - https://mulvany.net/talks/2025-05-publisherspeak-keynote-london/annotated_talk.html. You can download the slides directly here - https://mulvany.net/talks/2025-05-publisherspeak-keynote-london/2025-05-london-publisherspeak.pdf.
The key recommendations I make are:
- Publish data.
- Take identity far more seriously than we have before.
- Integrate with ORCID Trust Markers.
In the talk I go into some of the thinking about trust and identity from the recent STM report. At the event I met someone from a major publisher who has already built a proof of concept of how to evaluate scaled trust based on role, it was really cool to see, I hope they get the green light to continue to work on that and to share more widely.
Following on from the thoughts in this lecture, I have a number of other ideas that I am hoping to find time to explore later in the year.
I wrote a somewhat tongue in cheek post at the beginning of the year about what might be true about scholarly publishing (https://world.hey.com/ian.mulvany/what-things-might-be-true-about-scholarly-publishing-11d227f3), and I've been wanting to put a more constructive view together about what I think is really important. The invitation to give this talk as a good opportunity to start to do this.
As a keynote it was aimed to be fairly high level, and I really enjoyed the process of putting it together. I got a lot of good feedback on the talk.
I used this tool from Simon Willison - https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/6/annotated-presentations/ to upload the images from the talk and to create an annotated outline of the talk, and you can read that here - https://mulvany.net/talks/2025-05-publisherspeak-keynote-london/annotated_talk.html. You can download the slides directly here - https://mulvany.net/talks/2025-05-publisherspeak-keynote-london/2025-05-london-publisherspeak.pdf.
The key recommendations I make are:
- Publish data.
- Take identity far more seriously than we have before.
- Integrate with ORCID Trust Markers.
In the talk I go into some of the thinking about trust and identity from the recent STM report. At the event I met someone from a major publisher who has already built a proof of concept of how to evaluate scaled trust based on role, it was really cool to see, I hope they get the green light to continue to work on that and to share more widely.
Following on from the thoughts in this lecture, I have a number of other ideas that I am hoping to find time to explore later in the year.