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Join us for the 2021 UKSG November Conference - "Open Scholarship 2021: the good, the bad and the ugly". This year's event will take place online over two consecutive half days. Wednesday 17th November: 9.30am GMT to approx. 12pm and Thursday 18th November: 1.30pm GMT to 5pm.

When

November 17 2021 - 09:30
to
November 18 2021 - 17:00

Where

Online
United Kingdom

About the Event

 

 

Summary

The shift away from paywalls and towards open access continues to fundamentally change every area of our sector with new roles, new business models and new power centres. Or is ‘the power’ in scholarship still centred in the same overall hands?  Can everyone be a winner in this new world, or do some groups face continued – worse – challenges in the drive to make scholarship open?

This event brings together voices from across our sector to take a holistic view of open scholarship, showing the flipsides and squeezed middles. Almost ten years on from the Finch Report, we continue to be in a time of transition. We’ve travelled far, but the road is no less bumpy - and what happens to those who fall behind?

Registration

The conference welcomes members and non-members of UKSG alike - Please note that advance registration is required. 

Registration is available here, and will be valid for both sessions on the 17th and 18th November. 

Fees (both days):

  • Member - £ 45.00 + £ 9.00 VAT
  • Non-Member - £ 55.00 + £ 11.00 VAT

(A list of members can be found here)

If you are unable to attend -   We will send you a link to a recording after the event. 

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Accessibility

UKSG wants to provide the best possible experience for all our delegates, making presentations as accessible and inclusive as possible.

Our intention where possible is to strongly encourage our speakers to provide auto generated closed captioning for both live and recorded events as well as to make sure their slides as easy as possible for all people to read. In addition, we can provide auto generated transcripts post event for each of the recorded sessions.

If you have particular accessibility needs or questions about this event, we welcome you to contact events@uksg.org

 

Programme

Time
Programme and Speakers
Programme
Speakers

09:30

Welcome and Introduction

* Please note all times are GMT

Joanna Ball
Managing Director DOAJ

Joanna Ball is Managing Director for DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. Before joining DOAJ in 2022, her career was based in academic libraries in the UK and Denmark, most recently as Head of Roskilde University Library, part of the Royal Danish Library. She is currently Chair of UKSG.

09:40

Libraries in flux: surviving and thriving in the transition to open?

Patrick Danowski
Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Patrick Danowski is the manager of IST Austria Library, member of the board of the Austrian Library Association and a division chair of IFLA. Earlier he worked at CERN as Emerging Technologies Librarian and in the Berlin state library.He has a degree in computer science and library and information science.

The fields of interest are Research Data, Open Access, infrastructure and new technologies.

10:10

Beyond journals: infrastructure and monographs in an open access world - part 1

Lucy Barnes
COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs)

Lucy Barnes is Editor and Outreach Coordinator at Open Book Publishers, a leading independent Open Access book publisher. She also works on outreach for the COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) project and for the ScholarLed consortium. She coordinates the Open Access Books Network (oabooksnetwork.org) in collaboration with OAPEN, OPERAS, ScholarLed and Sparc Europe, and she is on the Editorial Advisory Board for the OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit. She is also (slowly but surely) completing a PhD on nineteenth-century theatrical adaptations of novels and poetry. You can find her on Twitter @alittleroad.

Joe Deville
Lancaster University

Joe Deville is a sociologist and Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University. He is currently jointly leading a work package on the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project, funded by UKRI/Arcadia Fund. He is also a co-founder of Mattering Press and ScholarLed and is particularly interested in the politics of Open Access infrastructures.

10:45

Break

11:00

Beyond journals: infrastructure and monographs in an open access world - part two

Alexandra Freeman
University of Cambridge

Dr Alex Freeman had a career making science documentaries before returning to academia in 2016. Here she became concerned at the effects of the current scientific publishing model on researchers' work, careers and culture and developed an alternative.

11:30

Funding our way to open: research funders as drivers of change

Pre-recorded session due to time difference

Ashley Farley
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

12:00

Summary of the day & Close

Time
Programme and Speakers
Programme
Speakers

13:30

Introduction & Welcome from the Chair

Joanna Ball
Managing Director DOAJ

Joanna Ball is Managing Director for DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. Before joining DOAJ in 2022, her career was based in academic libraries in the UK and Denmark, most recently as Head of Roskilde University Library, part of the Royal Danish Library. She is currently Chair of UKSG.

13:35

Libraries in flux: surviving and thriving in the transition to open?

Chris Banks
Imperial College London

Chris has nearly 39 years’ experience working in Libraries, including over 20 at the British Library in a variety of curatorial, management and strategic roles, and over 16at University Library Director level. She joined Imperial College in September 2013 as Director of Library Services.
Chris's areas of expertise include strategy, open science and scholarly communications, organisational change, public engagement, space, and her original discipline, music.
Chris is a member of the Jisc UUK Content Negotiations Strategy Group, she chairs the Jisc UUK Content Expert Group, she is an elected Board member of Research Libraries UK (RLUK), and a member of the SCONUL Content Strategy Group.

14:05

The transition to open research in Africa: views from Kenya and Sudan

Arnold Mwanzu
Aga Khan University / EIFL's Country Licensing Coordinator of Kenya

Arnold is the Regional Librarian, East Africa at The Aga Khan University where he is in charge of all the AKU campus libraries in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. He holds a master’s in Information Science from Kenyatta University, A master’s in organizational development from USIU-A and a certification in Lib@web Programme from University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is currently completing a PhD in Information Science at Moi University. He is the Executive Secretary of the Kenya Library & Information Science Consortium; the Country & Licencing coordinator for EIFL; a Standing Committee
member of the IFLA Environment Sustainability and Libraries Section; and an IFLA/OCLC Fellow from the Jay Jordan fellowship in Columbus, Ohio. His research interests are in Open Access, Library automation, Knowledge management, Evidence Based practice and Green libraries. He has authored eight (8) journal articles in peer reviewed journals and two book chapters. Arnold was priviledged to attend the 40th UKSG conference in Harrogate in 2017.

14:35

Break

14:45

The squeezed middle: views from society presses on the transition to open research

Tasha Mellins-Cohen
Executive Director COUNTER

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.

David Crotty
Clarke & Esposito

David Crotty is a Senior Consultant at Clarke & Esposito, a management consulting firm focused on strategic issues related to professional and academic publishing and information services. Previously, David was the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press and before that the Executive Editor for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. He has served on the Board of Directors for the STM, SSP, and CHORUS, as well as the AAP-PSP Executive Council. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech. David also serves as the Executive Editor of the Scholarly Kitchen blog.

Jessica Vivian
Taylor & Francis

Jessica is the Publishing Director for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences journals programme at Routledge, Taylor & Francis. She has many years of experience working closely with learned societies and associations on developing their publication portfolios. She is particularly interested in a sustainable and equitable transition to open for the arts and humanities and social sciences.

Sally Hardy
Regional Studies Association

Sally Hardy began her career at the Economic and Social Research Council and moved from there to the Regional Studies Association where she has been CEO for over 30 years. She has developed the organisation from a small, UK focused organisation into a global Association with an international footprint. Sally has become an advocate on publishing issues for the learned society sector speaking regularly at national conferences and events. She has advocated on different aspects of Open Access – for journals as well as for monographs and also around copy right reform and educational exceptions. She speaks on publishing practice and particularly on how to grow impact from publishing activity and on issues of learned society strategy

15:35

Break

15:45

The research perspective: how important really is OA to academics?

Matteo Fumagalli
Queen Mary University of London

Matteo Fumagalli is a biomedical engineer by training. He completed his PhD at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and then undertook postdoctoral research positions at University of California – Berkeley funded by EMBO, and at UCL funded by HFSP. He then joined Imperial College London and recently moved to Queen Mary University of London as Senior Lecturer in Genetics. Matteo’s research integrates statistics, computer science and genetics to understand how much evolution has shaped disease susceptibility. He is an advocate of open-source software, open-access science and member of the managing board of Peer Community In Evolutionary Biology.

 

Nadia Soliman
Imperial College London

Nadia has just completed her PhD at Imperial College London. She focused on developing methods to improve the feasibility, efficiency and accuracy of preclinical systematic reviews while addressing neurobiological questions of interest to improve the predictive validity of animal research, the use of machine technologies and employment of crowd science to ensure that research conduct is rigorous, open, and transparent. She is the UK Reproducibility Network’s Local Network Lead and Badges and Preprint Editor at BMJ Open Science. She also has an interest in sharing her military experiences and knowledge of leadership development to engender a more positive research culture.

 

Florian Mussgnug
University College London

Florian Mussgnug is Professor of Comparative Literature and Vice Dean International in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University College London. He is also Professor of Literary Criticism at the University of Rome III. His publications include "Human Reproduction and Parental Responsibility" (2021); "Rethinking the Animal-Human Relation" (2019); "The Good Place: Comparative Perspectives on Utopia" (2014); "The Eloquence of Ghosts: Giorgio Manganelli and the Afterlife of the Avant-Garde" (2010, winner of the 2012 Edinburgh Gadda Prize). He has held visiting and honorary positions at the Universities of Rome Sapienza, Siena, Oxford and Cagliari, and at the British School at Rome.

16:45

Summary and Close

Registration

September 01 2021 - 00:00 - November 16 2021 - 17:00

£ 45.00 + £ 9.00 VAT

Member

£ 55.00 + £ 11.00 VAT

Non-Member

NB:  UKSG reserves the right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its reasonable control without being obliged to refund monies.

Contact

How to Book

Registration is available here, and will be valid for both sessions on the 17th and 18th November. 

General queries - events@uksg.org 

Please take a look at our code of conduct 

Cancellations

The closing date for cancellations is Friday 22nd October, after which date cancellations will not be eligible for a refund.  Cancellation should be sent into writing to events@uksg.org.  All registrants will be sent a link to a recording after the event.

The UKSG code of conduct can be found here and UKSG terms and conditions here

NB: UKSG reserves the right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its reasonable control without being obliged to refund monies.

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