UKSG Forum 2023 - “Everything everywhere all at once”: keeping up with our users information needs in the age of open scholarship and TikTok

Kirsty Lingstadt is Director of Library, Archives and Learning Services at the University of York. Her focus is on digital for learning, teaching and research with a specific focus on online collections; digital making, scholarship and preservation. Previously she has worked at senior level at the University of Edinburgh as well as at Historic Environment Scotland and local government.

Dr Beth Montague-Hellen started off academic life as a Molecular Biologist studying at Manchester University. The next 14 years were spent as a bioinformatician, accruing an MSc and a Phd on the way.

Following this, Beth decided that supporting others to do excellent research was far more rewarding than actually doing the research and so moved into Libraries and Research Support. Beth takes an as open-as-possible, EDI focused approach to research support and is a big advocate for green OA alongside a completely transparent research cycle including radically open data and software sharing.

Jan has worked in scholarly-and edudcational publishing for nearly twenty years. He started out as a bookseller in Germany, then moved into academic publishing, holding a variety of roles internationally at Nature Publishing, SAGE Publishing, and Cambridge University among others, with a focus on business development and production. He is passionate about scholarly publishing’s move towards Open Access and a more equitable, knowledgeable world.

Rob Johnson is the Managing Director of Research Consulting, a mission-driven business which works to improve the effectiveness and impact of research and scholarly communication. He began his career with KPMG, the international professional services firm, before working in a senior research management role at the University of Nottingham. Since founding Research Consulting in 2013 he has led more than 150 projects in the field of scholarly communication and research. He is a UKSG Trustee, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and holds an MSc in Higher Education Management from Loughborough University.

Dr Emily Linnemann is Executive Director of UACES (University Association of Contemporary European Studies). She has worked at UACES since 2010, and as Executive Director since 2015. UACES publishes 2 journals in collaboration with Wiley: JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies and Contemporary European Politics. Until 2023, UACES also published an in-house open-access journal, Journal of Contemporary European Research. Dr Linnemann takes a lead role in decision-making about UACES’s publishing activities and works closely with UACES’s trustees on editor recruitment, journal marketing and strategic development.

Dr Jess Jones is the Publisher, Scientific Editor of the Cambridge Prisms, a new series of open access journals published by Cambridge University Press that prioritise diversity and representation in authorship. Dr Jones has worked in academic publishing for almost 10 years and during this time has launched/relaunched over 20 open access academic journals. Coming from a career in academia in the area of determining electronic properties of solid-state materials, Jess is passionate for promoting representative publishing across different research fields

Dr Monica Moniz started at the Press in 2015 and, since, launched four new STM open access journals and managed several life science journals. She is now Programme Manager and Publisher of a new series of open access, STM journals at the press called Research Directions. This portfolio is comprised of 8 innovative, question-ked open access journals that include topics as varied as Bioelectronics and One Health. Having previously been a microbiologist, Monica is keen to experiment on how science journals can better reflect how research is conducted.

Matt Kibble is Director of Product Management for Gale’s academic databases, with responsibility for Gale Research Complete, the OneFile suite of aggregated periodical databases, specialist resources in Literature and Business Studies, and for areas such as Discovery and Usage. He has been working in this field for more than 20 years, primarily in specialist Arts and Humanities resources: prior to Gale, he helped set up and manage the Bloomsbury Digital Resources division, and before that managed Arts and Literature databases and historical archives at ProQuest.

Mark is an Assistant Head Librarian at Cardiff Met – with the focal points of scholarly communications and research support in his remit. He didn't really know what it all meant when he first started in the role originally (don't tell anyone) but now he (very much) does understand (phew!). He is passionate about all aspects of open research, thinks a lot about (and does the work) to support research lifecycles and loves a bit of data wrangling - alongside a healthy interest in shiny new library things. Mark has been working for (nearly!) 20 years in academic libraries.

Tobe Amadi joined the Open University (OU) in 2014. As a Digital Services Development Officer, his responsibilities include ensuring digital systems and procedures are compliant with user experience (UX) best practices and current legislation, including GDPR and the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018. Tobe currently leads the accessibility workstream at the OU, where their vision is to embed accessibility in three ways: compliance, education, and culture.

His accreditations include an accessible certificate from WebAim, an Agile Project Management Practitioner from APMG International, a fellowship with Advance HE, a B.A. in Digital Media Design, and is currently completing a MSc in Technology Management.

Maggie is the Research & Open Scholarship Librarian at the University of Sussex and her focus is supporting the design and delivery of Library services to support research and open scholarship; aiming to embed the principles of Open Research and Scholarship in practice, and culture across the University. She is responsible for the development and delivery of a programme of research skills training for doctoral researchers and research staff and managing the Sussex Research Hive and Hive Scholars.

Eilish has worked in academic libraries in Belfast, Bradford and Bangkok and is passionate about the open library movement.