Making content accessible to everyone regardless of their abilities is a moral imperative, but it can also be a perennial challenge for some organizations. Regulatory demands for accessible content are forcing publishers and institutions to rapidly adapt. WIth expectations changing and requirements expanding, content providers are using a variety of tools, including AI tools, to support accessibility applications. This session will explore how the community is responding and what tools are proving most useful.
Thursday September 17, 2026 9:30am - 10:45am EDT Online
Since the advent of digital research distribution, we have been challenged to capture and quantify the new ways to measure impact. From measuring downloads to capturing the variety of ways that resaerchers can partcipate in reearch projects, our methods of assessment have constantly been evolving. This session will explore the changes and the needs for adatpations in how we track contributions, usage, and other metrics.
Thursday September 17, 2026 9:30am - 10:45am EDT Online
Persistent identifiers, or PIDs, are foundational to open research and research integrity. In this session, we’ll hear the latest on PIDs for scholarly communications, including a new identifier for channel identification, project identification, the US National PID Strategy, and more.
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:00am - 12:15pm EDT Online
Copyright is a fundamental pillar of content distribution, whether the content is open access or subscription-based. Technology companies are pushing the boundaries of fair use as they train their AI models on published works. Significant legal challenges are open and pending across the world as publishers and authors react. Regulators and policy makers are scambling to define the guardrails of what is copyrightable and set other legal ground rules. Licenses must now define what is allowable and what is not in a world in which seemingly everyone is using AI tools. This session will explore the issues and how our community might adapt to this changing environment.
Thursday September 17, 2026 1:45pm - 3:00pm EDT Online
For every type of content, there is an equally important metadata structure to describe, discover, and exchange that content. Maintaining these models over time is a critical part of the standards process—and AI is now driving some of the most significant changes yet. This session will explore what updates are needed to the basic metadata models that make research content findable, accessible, and reusable, as adoption of AI technologies reshapes how that content is described, discovered, and used.
Thursday September 17, 2026 1:45pm - 3:00pm EDT Online
