UKSG Usage Data for Decision Making online seminar 2023

Klara is the Journals and E-Resources Librarian at the Royal College of Art. She has responsibility for managing and developing the RCA's online collection of journals and databases, as well as maintaining the current and archived print journal collections. She also contributes to the work of a number of committees across the library sector.

Having worked in academic libraries for almost 30 years, I have had a change in direction and now work for Browns Books who are a leading supplier of monographs and e-books to all types of educational establishments in the UK and beyond. My role as Regional Area Manager for London still enables me to interact with libraries ensuring that Browns gives the best possible service to its customers.

Librarian with +20 years experience. Worked both in the private sector (pharmaceutical company) as well as academic library. Mainly been working with e-resources and the different systems connected to this. The last 8 years focus on usage statistics and how this can help the library in e-resource management.

Tasha Mellins-Cohen joined the scholarly publishing industry in 2001. She has held roles within learned societies and commercial publishers across operations, technology, editorial and executive functions. In 2020 she launched Mellins-Cohen Consulting in response to requests for help in developing and implementing learned society-appropriate OA business models. From 2022 she took over the running of COUNTER, the global standard for usage metrics, alongside her consulting work.

Erin Rowley is the Head of Science & Engineering Library Services at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) and serves as the Engineering Librarian as well as the Collections Coordinator for the sciences and engineering. She holds an MLS from the University at Buffalo and a BA degree in Communication from the State University of New York at Geneseo. Her research interests include grey literature in engineering, the importance of information literacy and technical communication in the engineering education curriculum, and collection development in science and engineering disciplines.

Amanda McCormick is a member of the Science and Engineering Library Services team at the University at Buffalo (NY, US), where she serves as the Natural Sciences Librarian. Her research focuses on collection development in academic libraries and the profession of librarianship. She holds an MLS and a JD from the University at Buffalo, as well as a BS degree in Biology from Hobart and William Smith Colleges

As vice president of published content, John collaborates with publishers and libraries to develop products and programs that support their organizational needs and missions. He works with the more than 2,000 publishers partnered with ITHAKA to make their content available on the JSTOR platform. He also works closely with libraries to develop growth strategies for the journals and books programs to ensure we meet their research, teaching, and preservation needs.

Prior to this role, John led our global Outreach team working with libraries and consortia in 170 countries. He also played a pivotal role in launching and growing both library and publisher participation in the Books at JSTOR program. John has over 20 years of experience in the library community. He worked with SoftLine Information to bring ethnic newspapers online and spent ten years at ProQuest in a variety of roles collaborating with publishers and the library communities.

 

Paul Cavanagh is Senior Librarian, Resource Acquisitions at University of Nottingham Libraries, with responsibility for purchasing and providing access to resources in print and electronic formats including books, journals, scans and digitisations and other materials. Paul has extensive experience of content and collection management and subject librarianship within HE and FE libraries.

Paul's recent focus has been on managing transitional Read and Publish agreements with colleagues from UoN Libraries' Research Support team. His professional interests include evidence based decision making in acquisitions, copyright guidance and improving access to resources and accessible formats for users.

Julie Baldwin has been working in Libraries for the last 10 years, firstly in Customer Services roles and then moving into Research Support after she'd qualified from Sheffield with her MA in Librarianship in 2017. She is currently a Research Librarian within the University of Nottingham Libraries' Research Support Team. Within the team, her particular focuses include open access, research data management and copyright.

Emma Nolin is the head of Information Resources and Scholarly Publishing at Malmö University Library and has been at Malmö university since 2018. Operations in this department are among other things, print and electronic scholarly information recourses, Open access and scholarly publishing.

Anja van Hoek has recently joined the organisation

Her previous role was as a Program Manager Online Resources at Brill, where she is overseeing Brill’s online publishing program. A major part of her role is the coordination of the various aspects - relating to Brill’s online publishing program - between publishing, sales and marketing. Working closely with the Data and Platform Teams within Brill’s Operation department she plays an important role in monitoring usage data.

Aron Lindhagen has worked at academic libraries since 2006, and has been at Malmö University since 2017. His work focuses on research support, strategic publishing, open access and research data.

Andrew has been Acquisitions and Content Services Manager at Imperial College London since May 2020. This is a strategic role which looks after acquisitions, metadata and document delivery across seven Imperial College Libraries, identifying and implementing new technologies and innovations, and advising the Library leadership team on sector developments.

Andrew represents Imperial College at a sector level on a number of national groups and networks including Jisc's Learning Content expert group, and SUPC's framework and contract management groups. His particular interests are around collection development, library-supplier relations, and how libraries can do more holistically to support Universities' duty of care.

Bethany Logan is the Research & Open Scholarship Senior Manager at the University of Sussex. She has worked in academic library roles since 2006 and currently leads the design and delivery of Library services to support research and open scholarship, embedding principles Open Research and Scholarship in policy, practice, and culture across the University.

Laura Wong is product manager for two COUNTER-based usage statistics services (JUSP and IRUS) and works within the Jisc licensing intelligence and analytics team. Laura has worked at Jisc for 8 years and previously worked in academic libraries in e-resource roles.

Jenny Jordan joined Jisc in April 2023 and is Senior Service owner for the JUSP and IRUS usage based statistics services. She previously worked at Edge Hill University in the Library and Learning Resource Centre and in IT Services.