CONNECTING THE KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITY

2010 UKSG Conference: breakout sessions


Where possible, we have obtained presentation slides from the briefing session speakers at the 33rd UKSG Annual Conference. These are posted below, along with links to reviews of the sessions on UKSG’s LiveSerials blog. Slides and reports of the conference’s plenary sessions can be found here.

Group A: Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th April 2010


Link resolvers and the KBART project

Sarah Pearson, University of Birmingham 


Making e-books easy (or trying to): establishing acquisitions procedures at the University of Surrey

Kate Price, University of Surrey


E-books for FE – a digital library for FE colleges

Anna Vernon, JISC Collections

  • view slides
    (coming soon)


Communicating licensing terms – breaking the implementation impasse

Mark Bide, EDItEUR


Working with subscription agents – 2010 and beyond

Claire Grace, Beverley Delaney, The Open University


Article-level metrics at the Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Peter Binfield, the Public Library of Science


Society journal publishing in the 21st century

Ian Russell, ALPSP


Threats and opportunities from the semantic web

Richard Padley, Semantico


Is the party really over now? perceptions of the Big Deal, one year on

Jill Taylor-Roe, Newcastle University


The JISC Usage Statistics Portal

Ross Macintyre, The University of Manchester


Librarians’ attitudes to digital preservation: what does our survey reveal?

Colin Meddings, Oxford University Press

  • view slides
    (PowerPoint show)


Maximising use of library resources at the University of Huddersfield

Sue White, Graham Stone, University of Huddersfield


A library for the 21st century: is e-only finally a possibility?

Monica Crump, Neil O’Brien, NUI Galway


Telling Tales: a guided tour of the JISC Digitisation Programme

Ben Showers, JISC

  • view slides
    (coming soon)

Group B: Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th April 2010


A beginner’s guide to authentication

Simon Inger, Simon Inger Consulting


“Just in case” vs “Just in time”: e-book purchasing models

Steve Sharp, University of Leeds and Sarah Thompson, University of York


SHEDL: the Scottish Higher Education Digital Library

Liz Stevenson, University of Edinburgh and Tony Kidd, University of Glasgow


Collaborative e-journals project in the NHS East of England

Lyn Edmonds, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Carolyn Alderson, JISC Collections


Anti-acquisitions librarians in the era of economic downsizing

Dana Walker, University of Georgia Libraries and Jill Emery, University of Texas Libraries


Peaceful coexistence? Library-delivered e-textbooks and traditional student purchases: preliminary findings from a JISC Collections study

Paul Harwood, JISC Collections


Economics of information supply – is free information good enough?

Tom Roper, South Thames College


E-book readers in a mobile-friendly library

Alison Brock, the Open University


Real challenges in a virtual world

Philippa Sheail, Scottish Digital Library Consortium



The Linking ISSN: new data for new functions

François-Xavier Pelegrin, ISSN International Centre


“A picture is worth a thousand words”: using visualisation techniques to get to grips with your user data

James Culling, DataSalon Ltd


Europeana: vision or madness?

Jill Cousins, EDL Foundation

  • view slides
    (coming soon)


The UKSG Usage Factor project: a progress report

Richard Gedye, Oxford University Press