What is UKSG?
UKSG is a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee. Our vision is to use our breadth of knowledge and influence to facilitate an efficient information chain, a better information experience for scholars, and a world where all members of the scholarly and professional information supply chain understand each other.
Our mission is to connect the information community and encourage the
exchange of ideas on scholarly communication. We are the only
organisation spanning the wide range of interests and activities across
the scholarly information community of librarians, publishers,
intermediaries and technology vendors.
What do we do?
In a dynamic environment, UKSG works to:
- facilitate community integration, networking, discussion and exchange of ideas
- improve members' knowledge of the scholarly information sector and support skills development
- stimulate research and collaborative initiatives, encourage innovation and promote standards for good practice
- disseminate news, information and publications, and raise awareness of services that support the scholarly information sector.
How do we do it?
What's the point?
With a membership of 500 organisations, a third of them based outside the UK, UKSG engages a broad cross-section of people concerned with the publication, distribution and use of scholarly and professional information. Members pay an annual corporate subscription which offers everyone in their organisation a range of valuable benefits, including subscriptions to our publications and discounts for our events.
How do I become a member?
Membership of UKSG is open to any organisation or individual. Membership is by calendar year (January - December); the annual membership fee for 2010 is £95.00 + VAT. To apply for membership, please fill
in this form - but first check whether your organisation is already a member.
What does 'UKSG' stand for?
Originally, UKSG stood for the United Kingdom Serials Group. Now that our geographic appeal has grown beyond the UK, and our scope has broadened to include e-books, e-learning and other e-resources as well as serials and e-journals, we have stopped expanding the acronym and we simply call ourselves UKSG.
Who runs UKSG?
UKSG is led by a main committee of 18 members who work full time in a variety of capacities within the scholarly and professional information community. The Committee comprises:
- three Honorary Officers (Chair, Treasurer and Secretary)
- nine elected members
- four co-opted members
- the Editor(s) of Serials in an ex officio capacity.
Committee members are elected by the membership at the Group's AGM and meet regularly to determine general policy and to discuss operational issues. Any member can nominate themselves, or another member, to become a Committee member.
Subcommittees with responsibilities for Education, Marketing, Publishing and the Annual Conference report to the UKSG Committee.
The Group's journal, Serials, is supported by an international Editorial Board.
The UKSG employs a full-time Business Manager and two part-time Administrators, and contracts the services of a part-time marketing associate.
For more information about the UKSG, please contact us.
UK Serials Association trading as United Kingdom Serials Group
A company registered in England and limited by guarantee
Company Number: 4145775 Registered Charity Number: 1093946
Registered office: Bowman & Hillier Building, The Old Brewery,
Priory Lane, Burford, Oxon OX18 4SG
