It takes a village: Safeguarding quality in scholarly communication

Clara Ginther studied Catholic Theology at the University of Graz. She then continued her scientific work abroad in Germany, England and Ireland for several years, after which she began working in the library in 2014. She is currently Head of the library at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna. Meanwhile, she continued her scientific work mainly in the fields of theology, complex systems theory and information and library science. Her main interests lie in scholarly communication and the effect complexity has on it as well as on librarianship, focussing especially on knowledge transfer.

Dr. Clemens Schwarzinger is an Associate University Professor and Deputy Head of the Institute for Chemical Technology of Organic Materials at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. He is also Editor in Chief of the 'International Journal of Polymer Analysis and Characterisation' and a peer reviewer for over 20 journals.

Marco Giudici began his research career at Università degli Studi di Milano with a PhD in Biochemical Sciences focused on the study of metabolic and inflammatory pathway regulation by nuclear receptors. He then moved to Sweden, as a member of Marie Skłodowska Curie International Training Network, to work at Karolinska Institutet and KTH. He is the Editor-in-Chief for Experimental and Molecular Pathology.

Sarah Jenkins is the Director for Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics at Elsevier.  Sarah and her team promote research integrity through policies, best practices, and education, support Elsevier’s Publishing Teams and Editors to investigate and resolve ethics cases and work with experts across Elsevier to build tools and develop processes to detect unethical practices during the manuscript submission and peer-review process.

Sarah began her publishing career at Elsevier working with editors and learned societies in health and medical sciences.  Sarah later joined the Physical Sciences group as a Publishing Director where she focused on open access and open science through initiatives that promoted the deposition of code and software, and established links between original research articles and data journals.

Dr. Wim Meester holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, he changed from being an active researcher to research administration by joining the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) as Program Manager for Chemical Sciences.
In 2006, Wim joined Elsevier as a Publisher for the Animal Science, Forensic Science and Legal Medicine journal portfolios. Since 2010, Wim has been working for Scopus, the largest multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.

Wim is the Head of Product Management for Scopus in the Research Applications & Platform group. In this role, he is responsible for the content selection policy and content strategy for the Scopus database.

Susanne Luger studied Classical and Provincial Roman Archaeology at the University of Innsbruck. During her last year there, she attended the programme Library and Information Studies. She has been working at the library of the Johannes Kepler University Linz since 2012 where, in 2018, she became part of the team license management and scholarly services focussing mainly on open access, including approval management within the agreements, managing the publication fund as well as the repository ePUB. In addition, she has been responsible for the library of the newly founded medical faculty between 2018 and 2021.

Anja Saatweber has been in the information industry for more than 25 years with several years of experience with companies like LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters. In Account Management she was responsible for customers all over Europe and internationally. Anja joined Elsevier in 2014 as a Customer Consultant for academic and government stakeholders responsible in the regions of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Amongst others, her role involves working closely with the research community to address their needs and challenges. Organizing author seminars and trainings for Scopus includes some of these activities.