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© 2025 The Author(s). Learned Publishing published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of ALPSP.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.
Author(s): Kohrs FE, Kazezian V, Bagley RK, Boisgontier MP, Brod S, Carneiro CFD, Casas MI, Chakrabarti D, Colbran RJ, Debat H, Delshad V, Drude NI, Edmunds SC, Fischer F, Franzen DL, Gatto L, Gazda MA, Gjoneska B, Glatz T, Haase S, Hair K, Harrison HL, Havemann J, Hillemann F, Holding AN, Ilangovan V, Keles A, Kutlin A, Lino-de-Oliveira C, McDowell GS, Mi H, Neumann A, Nust D, Outa N, Puebla I, Rahmatali-Khazaee A, Roberts RG, Rohmann JL, Salholz-Hillel M, Sanchez-Lopez R, Schniedermann A, Schulz R, Trovo BM, Vincent AE, Weissgerber TL
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Learned Publishing
Year: 2026
Volume: 39
Issue: 1
Print publication date: 01/01/2026
Online publication date: 14/11/2025
Acceptance date: 10/10/2025
Date deposited: 02/12/2025
ISSN (print): 0953-1513
ISSN (electronic): 1741-4857
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.2028
DOI: 10.1002/leap.2028
Data Access Statement: Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.
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