PAM Industry Partners Roundtable

Constantly Evolving Business Models and Publishing Initiatives

Volume 53, Issue 2 —— Spring 2026
Sandy Avila and Chris Doty

The time-constrained and relatively generic description of the PAM Industry Partners Roundtable at the 2026 Information Science Summit and Special Libraries Conference can be found at the conference website. [ https://www.asist.org/iss-slc26/iss-slc26-accepted-presentations/ ]

Since the submission deadline, the co-moderators have been lining up representatives from AIP Publishing, APS, and IOP Publishing to discuss the Purpose-Led Publishing (PLP) [ https://www.purposeledpublishing.org/ ] coalition. Topics will include the history of how the coalition came together and its goals, its interactions with major funding agencies (NIH, NSF, etc.), lessons learned from the peer review assistant trial [ https://www.purposeledpublishing.org/post/peer-review-assistant-trial ], which evolved into Alchemist Review [ https://www.hum.works/review ], and how publishers decide to engage with large-scale projects, such as IOP’s partnership with Elsevier on LeapSpace [ https://www.elsevier.com/products/leapspace/introducing-research-grade-ai ].

If you have additional PLP topics (or non-PLP topics) you’d like to see covered, please reach out to Sandy or Chris. They are also seeking input on the session’s format. Do people want a standard format for this type of session – 30-40 minutes of presentations, followed by 20-30 minutes of open discussion and audience Q&A – or something more interactive?