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CSE goes to Washington: A new Congress, a new administration, and new opportunities for advocacy
January 31, 2025
11:00 am - 12:30 pm ET
This webinar is 90 minutes.
The swearing-in of a new Congress and inauguration of a new president gives STM publishers an opportunity to re-engage with key policymakers and committee staff on important policy issues, including copyright, artificial intelligence, and public access to federally funded content, the latter of which (via the Nelson Memo) is set to be fully realized at the end of 2025.
In this session we’ll provide important context on whether the STM publishing community will face either a welcoming or a hostile policy environment. We'll focus the conversation on how to keep lawmakers' and staff members’ attention on issues of consequence to our community.
The panel will feature speakers who are publisher-employed or research-adjacent and specialize in government affairs and advocacy.
The crux of the session will be to shed as much light as possible on the workings of the United States federal government and to encourage the audience to get involved in the legislative and advocacy processes.
Speakers
Tom Ciavarella leads government relations in the US and Canada for Frontiers, a Gold Open Access publisher based in Switzerland. He works to shape science and technology policy that results in greater public access to scholarly content. Tom is formerly manager of Publisher Relations for the Web of Science Group (part of Clarivate) and runs a consultancy that works with startups and STM publishers. He lives in Chicago.
Sara Rouhi is the Director of Open Science and Publishing Innovation at AIP Publishing. Driving AIPP’s open science strategy, she focuses on developing new publishing models and sustainable business strategies to accelerate AIPP’s mission to advance pragmatic, researcher-focused open science.
Rouhi joins AIP Publishing from Public Library of Science (PLOS) where she held business development and publishing development leadership roles. Her work centers at the nexus of new business models, open science/access, and equity. She’s a vocal advocate for pragmatic, sustainable, community-driven open science strategies.
She has a track record of leading agile, award winning teams at PLOS and Digital Science and received numerous awards and recognition for her work in scholarly publishing. She’s based outside of Washington DC, is an avid long-form improviser in the DC comedy scene, and rants on all things #scholcomm, politics, and comedy on Bluesky @RouhiRoo.bsky.social.
Lori Ann M. Schultz has worked in research administration for 30 years. Her career spans the lifecycle of research enterprise operations. She works on evidence-based policies, marshalling research data in the service of the institution and the faculty who do research, and using data to forecast and plan strategies for a resilient future for research.
Lori has conducted presentations and training on research, data, and technology topics at the AAU, APLU, NCURA, SRAI, FDP, COGR, and Educause. Lori is on the Board of Directors of ORCID and NCURA.
Lori has many years of experience in research, software development, non-profit board leadership, and data management and analysis. She has a particular passion for using data to improve the working lives of the researchers who help us understand the world.
Meagan Phelan directs and innovates efforts to ensure studies from the six Science family journals earn broad, accurate news coverage in top global media, including as media landscape evolves and becomes more saturated. She develops strategies to help authors earn visibility beyond single studies, and also beyond traditional media. She also advises global authors on navigating interactions with reporters, including to reach beyond echo chambers.
Meagan's role includes crafting reactive and proactive media responses for Science family journal editorial team and editor-in-chief re: policies or individual papers; organizing strategic press briefings on new scientific finds.; and editing weekly scientific press packages – on scientific topics in the physical, biomedical and life sciences.
Christopher S. Marcum is an open science advocate and science policy wonk. As Assistant Director for Open Science and Data Policy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, he spearheaded transformative efforts leading to the 2022 Public Access Memo, the 2023 Scientific Integrity Framework, and the Year of Open Science. He currently serves as a Senior Statistician and Senior Scientist in the Office of Management and Budget. Prior to joining the Executive Office of the President, Dr. Marcum was a staff scientist at the National Institutes of Health. A life course sociologist by training, he is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, elected by his peers for his contributions to research on aging, mentorship, and policy work.
Moderators: Steven D. Smith and Christopher S. Marcum
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