Collaborating With Early Career Researchers to Enhance the Future of Scholarly Publication: A Guide for Publishers

ABSTRACT The scholarly publishing system is adapting to many changes, including open access and open data mandates, artificial intelligence, and other new technologies. Members of the research and publishing communities are working to establish a more equitable, fair, and rigorous system that serves researchers' evolving needs. Early career researchers (ECRs) are drivers of change, and publishers may wonder why and how they should involve ECRs in shaping the future of scholarly publishing. We held a virtual unconference to explore this issue with publishers and ECRs who were working to improve publishing. Some participants sought to improve peer reviewer or editor performance, whereas others sought to improve the publishing system itself through iterative or transformative change. Strategies for collaborating with ECRs to shape the future of scholarly publishing included peer review programmes, editorial programmes, ECR‐led journals, ECR boards and committee representatives, and other ECR‐initiated activities. ECRs particularly wanted to see three things improved: (1) Sharing research outputs other than publications, (2) addressing technological limitations to create systems that meet the research community's needs and facilitate knowledge advancement, and (3) fostering diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. We offer tips for publishers on how to collaborate with ECRs to enhance scholarly publishing, appeal to and learn from younger researchers, and better meet researchers' needs.

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Learned Publishing
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2025-11-14
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https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.2028
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ABSTRACT The scholarly publishing system is adapting to many changes, including open access and open data mandates, artificial intelligence, and other new technologies. Members of the research and publishing communities are working to establish a more equitable, fair, and rigorous system that serves researchers' evolving needs. Early career researchers (ECRs) are drivers of change, and publishers may wonder why and how they should involve ECRs in shaping the future of scholarly publishing. We held a virtual unconference to explore this issue with publishers and ECRs who were working to improve publishing. Some participants sought to improve peer reviewer or editor performance, whereas others sought to improve the publishing system itself through iterative or transformative change. Strategies for collaborating with ECRs to shape the future of scholarly publishing included peer review programmes, editorial programmes, ECR‐led journals, ECR boards and committee representatives, and other ECR‐initiated activities. ECRs particularly wanted to see three things improved: (1) Sharing research outputs other than publications, (2) addressing technological limitations to create systems that meet the research community's needs and facilitate knowledge advancement, and (3) fostering diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. We offer tips for publishers on how to collaborate with ECRs to enhance scholarly publishing, appeal to and learn from younger researchers, and better meet researchers' needs.

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The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) (IT), Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust (GB), BioMed Central (United Kingdom) (GB), University of Ottawa (CA), Art Institute of Chicago (US), Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MK), School of the Art Institute of Chicago (US), Maseno University (KE), Vanderbilt University (US), American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (US), Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (DE), Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HK), The Ohio State University at Lima (US), Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) (DE), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE), Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (BR), Perspectives Charter School (US), Independent Dance (GB), Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (SE), Intelligent Light (United States) (US), German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DE), de Duve Institute (BE), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (DE), Marine Research Centre (MV), Springer Nature (United Kingdom) (GB), Public Library of Science (GB), Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE), DataCite (DE), National Agricultural Technology Institute (AR), University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences (IR), Access 2 Perspectives, Université du Québec (CA), University of York (GB), Université de Montréal (CA), University of Coimbra (PT), Technische Universität Dresden (DE), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE), Newcastle University (GB), University of Edinburgh (GB)
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