UKSG 44th Annual Conference and Exhibition: Online

More details on individual speakers can found the under Breakout Session Group A tab. 

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This lightening session will outline our experiences of implementing a progressive data sharing policy across a number of Earth Science journals at Taylor & Francis. Including the impact on our systems and feedback from other stakeholders involved. Such policies place significant new responsibilities on individual researchers, including how and where they preserve their data. This session will therefore be of particular interest to those involved in supporting authors to follow new data sharing requirements. It will also give a fascinating insight into how different parts of the scholarly communications community are working together to drive the data sharing agenda

Wider access to academic research is recognised as a benefit of open access but what does that mean for the public? With an increasingly educated population, more people want access to reliable information.
In 2019, the library research support teams at the University of the West of England and University of Bristol, delivered a public engagement event at a local public library. This aimed to showcase the tools available to access academic research outputs and provide guidance on how to appraise the information found.
This talk will explore the feedback received and next steps in response to Covid 19.

 

In 2005, Brougham Castle Bridge in Cumbria, UK, suffered significant storm flood damage and partially collapsed. Cumbria County Council paid a UK structural design firm £1.15 million to conduct repairs, and in 2019 the paper of its renovation was published. Unfortunately, academics who wish to write about real-world impact will find systemic barriers to themselves publishing in a journal that prominently features practitioners, leading them to often do so ‘off-the-books’. What is the future post-UKRI ‘Pathways to Impact’? This talk identifies the challenges that practice-oriented journals face in a metric-driven research environment.

 

Visit our lightning speakers in an interactive poster session, where they will be available to talk more in depth and answer your questions.

Take the opportunity to visit our online interactive exhibition, speak to direct to our exhibitors.  

Join our breakout speakers for a live question and answer session

The UUK-Jisc Content Negotiation Strategy Group - a new approach to UK academic sector negotiations with journal publishers - Liam Earney, Jisc 

In early 2020 Universities UK and Jisc established a new high level negotiation strategy group to oversee UK universities negotiations with major publishers. This presentation will provide an update on the context for the group and its objectives. It will then provide an overview of the progress that has been made in negotiations with publishers in 2020, before looking to the priorities for the group in 2021 and beyond.

OA publishing and the financial sustainability challenge - reflections based on the experience at The University of Manchester - Colette Fagan, University of Manchester

Society finances are often thought to rest on a three-legged stool, where publishing is complemented by event and membership income. Publishing revenues have been under pressure for years. In partner-published societies, the inclusion of journals in big deals means shrinking revenue and a loss of transparency, while at the same time independent society publishers have struggled to sell single subscriptions in a market where the majority of funds are directed at big deals. Society approaches to OA, however, are driven by the needs and preferences of their members and therefore many societies are embracing OA and aiming to transition away from subscription revenues. In practice this has meant independent society publishers implementing new models, working with consortia as well as agents and introducing entirely new workflows and metadata to manage deals, in a very short space of time. By contrast partner-published societies have been swept along by their partners, usually with a further loss of visibility and control over their own titles.

 
Then 2020 arrived, bringing with it a global pandemic, and the other two legs of the society stool became as unstable as publishing revenues. Societies were unable to deliver their usual events, and thus lost the new members who would usually sign up for those events. In the UK the government pressed ahead with a hard Brexit but delayed decisions until the last possible moment, leaving societies, like everyone else, to scramble for a response. The question must be asked: How might societies and institutions better work together to properly support the scholars who rely on both sides?

In a continually developing marketplace, an array of challenges are being addressed by publishers to meet the needs of the research community and increasing requirements of funders.  Pressures and needs related to the COVID health crisis only exacerbated these.

Publishers are offering a range of sustainable business models to support Open Science and Open Access publishing. These options maintain research quality, integrity and author choice. They also assist researchers in making data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable) and support initiatives to make research more available through public libraries. This session will explore how scholarly publishers add essential value to and continue to safeguard quality, which is critical in a time of global pandemic and ‘fake science’.

 

Lorraine Estelle will host a live Q&A session with plenary speakers:

•  Colette Fagan, The University of Manchester
•  Liam Earney, Jisc
•  Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Mellins-Cohen Consulting
•  Ian Moss, STM

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Take the opportunity to visit our online interactive exhibition, browse around and speak directly to our exhibitors.  

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All Group A Speakers will be available on demand from 9am on 12th April.  Please see below for more details of individual presentations and topics.  

(Do note: a live question and answer session will be available with breakout speakers between 12:00 - 14:00 or 16:00 - 17:00 on the UKSG Stand in the expo - individual timings are listed by each breakout session below)

• A model approach - Salford's frameworks for assessing transformative read and publish deals  - Wendy Taylor & Helen Monagle, University of Salford 

Our break out session will build on the UKSG Insights article “The view from Salford: perspectives on scholarly communications from a research-informed university” (http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.511). Published in May 2020, this opinion piece received a significant amount of interest online and has had nearly 1500 views and downloads.

We will demonstrate the analysis model developed by Salford to evaluate transformative agreements and our framework for engaging with researchers. Financial outlay must contribute towards our goal of an open, equitable, sustainable and scholar led research environment and serve the needs of Salford, both in research terms and value for money. This interactive session will also provide other institutions the opportunity to share their experiences of assessing transformative agreements.

The session will be co delivered by Wendy Taylor (Scholarly Communications Librarian) and Helen Monagle (Electronic Resources Manager) who will discuss how our agile Collections and Research teams are working together to share knowledge and expertise and how our size and structure enables us to work flexibly and creatively.

 

• Evaluation and Collaboration: Moving to a new decision-making approach in the transitional deals landscape - Sarah Roughley Barake & Kathryn Halfpenny, University of Liverpool 

Transitional deals have changed the way academic libraries manage their subscription and open access processes, budgets, communications, as well as how they make decisions on big deals. At the University of Liverpool, the Open Access and Subscriptions teams are working in a new way to manage all aspects of transitional deals.

Our presentation will share our approach to evaluating deals, including an outline of a set of principles that has been developed to guide our evaluation and decision-making processes. We will also share how we communicate about deals internally to the library and externally to researchers, and how we manage them financially between two traditionally separate budgets as “read” fees decrease and “publish” fees increase. The presentation will include template examples of documentation developed in-house to support newly developed processes as we transition to this new and collaborative way of working.

 

• Working with transformative agreements at the Bibsam Consortium  - Anders Granström, The Bibsam Consortium

This presentation revolves around the Bibsam Consortiums work in improving the transformative agreements.  It will cover the topics of author journeys, administration och agreements, Open access uptake, and future price models.

Join the above speakers for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Monday at 12:05pm BST

Publication by publication, university libraries are pivotal to making open access (OA) happen. They are hubs of expertise within their institutions, managing repositories and gold OA funds and offering untiring advocacy and training. However, libraries are service providers. Their researcher clients may not be as immersed in the web of OA options and policy and tools, but librarians have to serve their scholarly communications enterprise, not vice versa. OA cannot flourish as a crusade just of libraries.

This paper uses UKRI’s 2020 policy consultation as a lens to examine the relationship between library and research communities in a Russell Group university choosing between future OA trajectories. The choice to take a researcher-led approach revealed the current reality of OA in the institution. Few academic authors can avoid OA altogether now, but many still limit their attention to overcoming local obstacles to publishing specific outputs. How to distil legitimate and coherent feedback when researcher voices diverge, or manifest surface-level or one-sided engagement with a tangle of intricate challenges? What agency should opinions of library staff exert in this process? Should our institution lead or follow, and who decides?

Join Tony for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Monday at 12:15pm BST

Breakout 3A:  Learning from eTextbooks: looking back and thinking forwards - David Clover

The COVID19 pandemic accelerated the move of many aspects of library provision online across the UK (and elsewhere). Libraries already offered a high proportion of resources in digital formats and both took advantage of free access to ebooks, as well as investing in increased digital content through a variety of packages and solutions. In this session I will reflect on large scale eTextbook provision (based on my experience at two institutions which have run this type of scheme) with consideration to issues of integration within learning and teaching, analytics, changing models of pricing and provision and emerging issues.

Breakout 3B:  Etextbooks: coordinating a university-wide approach with no additional budget - Phil Jones

A case study is presented of efforts to coordinate a university-wide approach to etextbooks including library guidance for academics, a tool for keeping track of etextbooks in use across the university and some examples of best practise. These include working with procurement, academic support unit managers and other key stakeholders to ensure that a joined-up approach is taken, etextbook value for money is properly assessed and alternatives to etextbook provision are given due consideration.

Join the above speakers for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Monday at 12:25pm BST

In 2019 the University of Leicester library developed a new leisure reading collection. It was important to collection was representative of the incredible range of diverse voices of students, staff and the local population. In order to include more works by underrepresented voices, the library launched the ‘Represent’ campaign and asked users to recommend titles from underrepresented voices for the library to purchase and add to their collections. The ‘Represent’ campaign has since developed to work with student volunteers to look at diversity within subject reading lists as well as creating opportunities to discuss issues around representation more broadly. 

Join Heena for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Monday at 12:35pm BST
 

Lancaster University is a global university with an innovative approach to digital transformation. At the heart of the discussions in early 2020 were what it meant to be a truly global research intensive university while maintaining the campus experience that Lancaster is know for. Allied to this, the Library, following the recruitment of a new Library Director, was in the process of creating a new library vision to support the university in its endeavours to ensure it worked as partner not just service provider. Then the pandemic hit.

Led by Professor Simon Guy, Pro-Vice-Chancellor Global and by Andrew Barker, Library Director, this session will present a portrait of our ambitions for the future of the Lancaster University and its library post-pandemic, how we ensure that we have a transformative impact in the communities in which we operate while being a truly global research intensive university .

Join Andrew for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Monday at 4.00pm BST

This presentation will reflect on how we managed library services at the University of York during the covid-19 pandemic. It will focus on not just the practical physical reopening, but also how we engaged with our university community, senior stakeholders and continued to ensure our own staff wellbeing was front and centre of how we worked. It will include how we positioned the library to be the beacon at the centre of the University.

Finally, it will consider where we might go next and what opportunities the pandemic gives us to position ourselves for a more positive future.

Join Michelle for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Monday at 12:55pm BST

Throughout 2020 instructors had to redesign courses to fit online as well as in-person environments. Libraries are a central hub for resources and support in this endeavour. Using real-world examples, this talk examines one area where this partnership is essential: teaching using historical documents. An activity that often happens in the classroom and archive is particularly challenging to move online, but digitised primary source collections offer the opportunity to include archival documents in newly formatted classes and assignments. We will see how traditional humanities scholarship and innovative pedagogical approaches can come together through integrating digitised primary sources into undergraduate teaching.

Join Ben for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Monday at 13:05pm BST

Resource discovery has become redundant for some students. Over the last 20 years or so, universities have made considerable investments in library centric discovery services. Nevertheless, for some students, especially undergraduates, discovery has become largely irrelevant. They simply log on to their learning management system to find ready prepared links to the print and electronic resources they need for their course or module. This is typically because the learning system is linked to a library managed reading/resource list solution. Certainly, this is the case in the UK and is becoming more common in the US and elsewhere. Ken's presentation will describe and analyse this important trend towards the better curation of, and engagement with, content.

Join Ken for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Monday at 1:15pm BST

In the absence of funds for 'gold' open access, publishers may allow universities to share the author's accepted manuscript on a 'green' basis, with or without an embargo. The former means the work can be openly accessed typically after a period of 12-24 months. Such time gives publishers opportunity to build revenue, but creates inequalities. Firstly, there is a division between those who can afford a fee or can access a library subscription to benefit from the research and those who cannot; but there is also a divide between universities that have funds to pay publishing charges and less research-intensive institutions that have no such fund.

This case study considers journal articles published by Edge Hill University in 2019. Originally a teacher training college, the University received taught degree-awarding powers its university title in 2006, followed by Research Degree Awarding Powers in 2008. A key finding is that embargoes mean certain kinds of research articles can be 'locked down' for longer. For instance, educational research articles were found to be held back from public access for more than twice the time when compared with health research. This divide is driven by disseminating research through publishers which make extensive use of embargoes.

As a result, the consumers of Edge Hill's education research (e.g. schools, teachers) may need to wait longer to use it. This can potentially affect their ability to use research to innovate, enhance practice, or respond to societal challenges.

Join Liam for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Monday at 1:25pm BST

It is no unknown statement to say that the coronavirus pandemic has and continues to impact many - mentally, physically, emotionally and economically. The research community has not been immune to this crisis. Beyond the impact on research output, the sector has and continues to see the sharp end of what is predicted to be a long term economic and financial change for universities and other higher education establishments. Yet while we continue to think on the ‘what can we do right now to help,’ we also need to reframe that focus to look at ‘how can we help going forward’ with a long term view of the new challenges that the research community will face.

However, beyond a general collective understanding that university budgets are likely to be significantly affected, the impact of reduced budgets on the research enterprise is not as easily seen. Drawing on findings from research commissioned by Springer Nature and conducted by Roger Schonfeld from Ithaka S+R, Rob Johnson from Research Consulting and Jason Owen-Smith this session will address issues such as:
- Impacts on how research is conducted
- the knock-on implications and uneven impact this could have on researchers
- ability to attract the funding for critical research programs.
- And how the landscape of research disciplines could and may change
Aimed at all across the research enterprise workflow, the goal of this session is to be interactive using an evidence base to discuss appropriate next steps forwards and recommendations for stakeholders within the research enterprise.

Join the above speakers for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Monday at 1:35pm BST

We will present a cross industry perspective on the current state of digital accessibility, and why it is vital for commercial goals and inclusivity objectives alike. Publishers need to move beyond a view of accessibility compliance as "nice to have," to a place where it is an industry standard cornerstone of all content creation and platform development. Conformance with basic web accessibility standards can no longer be a secondary consideration, as governments are acting to ensure that directives are transposed into national law. We have seen this with the UN SDG 4, The Americans with Disabilities Act and EU Web Accessibility Directive. Luckily, accessible publishing is not only achievable, but affordable -- with advanced technical systems and formats, such as EPUB. It has never been easier to embed accessibility standards into business-as-usual content products and workflows. This session will explore the current state of content accessibility and what steps publishers and technology providers are taking to fully embrace a truly inclusive and accessible content for all.

Join Lettie for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Monday at 4:40pm BST

In June 2020, cOAlition S commissioned a study to gain insights into the OA publishing landscape of journals and platforms that are free to readers and authors. A group of 10 organizations conducted the study in 2020. The research aggregated data from various activities including an online survey that gathered around 1600 exploitable responses from journal editors across the globe, a quantitative analysis of data from a range of bibliographical databases and a qualitative analysis based on literature review, interviews and focus groups. The proposed presentation will present and discuss the results of the study.

Join the above speakers for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Monday at 3:50pm BST

During this session you will hear from four passionate activists and Employee Resource Group leaders, who have had experience in starting up grassroots organisations in their respective communities – at Elsevier, Wiley and Taylor & Francis. The goal of this session is to inspire and educate the audience on the opportunities & challenges faced by ERG leaders, highlighting the importance of ERGs and what your role – whether you are an individual contributor, manager or a senior leader – can be in supporting ERGs. The topics we will cover will be:

• • The Why & importance of ERGs
  • The Business Impact of ERGs (within Organisation and Cross-Industry)
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the journeys – Intersectionality & Managing Stakeholder Support
  • Local & Global Approach to Grassroots Organisations – Tradeoffs & Considerations
  • Future of our Groups
  • Your Role in the ERG Movement

Join the above speakers for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Monday at 12:45pm BST

With the advent of responsible metrics approaches such as DORA, and their endorsement by funders such as cOAlitions S and the Wellcome Trust, there is a significant anti-journal metric backlash. Alternative ways of assessing journals are being proposed, such as TOP Factor and the Quality Open Access Market, but are yet to gain traction. This talk will explore the many ways we can evaluate a journal; whether journal citation metrics are always a bad thing; and how we might move towards a fairer assessment of the relative strengths and weaknesses of journals.

Join Elizabeth for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Monday at 4:10pm BST

The success or failure of the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model of open access will be decided by librarian customers. To gauge the level of support for, and understanding of, S2O among librarians, the Subscribe to Open Community of Practice (S2O CoP), undertook a survey of librarians. The S2O CoP is an unrestricted assembly of publishers, librarians, funders, agents and academics that share an interest in defining the model and exploring its value.

This session will report on the results of the survey, providing the views of librarians.

Join the above speakers for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Monday at 4.20pm BST

Imposed by the Danish Ministry of Higher Education & Science, 100% of research outputs in Denmark should be publicly available starting from 2025. Like many others, University of Copenhagen (UCPH) is subject to a national OA strategy as well as Plan S becoming a reality. These changes impact millions of researchers, and all institutions, publishers, and funders worldwide have to take action to, on the one hand, drive change towards OA and Open Science, and on the other hand, comply with the increasingly enforced policies.

At UCPH, less than 40% of research outputs are published OA today. In addition, UCPH already spends around 2 M€ per year in APCs ─ a cost that the university cannot afford to increase. The situation is faced with numerous challenges with increasing complexities of different policies from different funders, different research assessment frameworks, different publisher business models as a response, and a great deal of fragmentation due to the lack of collaboration between the stakeholders. UCPH and the Royal Danish Library have therefore partnered with Chronos Hub, a platform and service provider for streamlining publication processes.

In this talk, we’ll share our experiences of solving these challenges from an institutional perspective. How did we bridge the communication between institutions, publishers, and funders, to unburden both administrators and the individual researchers? What are the effects? What have we learned? And what are the remaining challenges?

The presentation will be held jointly by University of Copenhagen and Chronos Hub.

Join the above speakers for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Monday at 4:30pm BST

More details on individual speakers can found the under Breakout Session Group B

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When it comes to implementing multi-lateral OA publication-level arrangements, funders, research institutions and academic publishers are faced with a myriad of systems, portals, processes and (commercial) service providers. This has impact on the realisation of policies and agreements, progress in developing new business models, and from a researcher perspective this landscape is at best confusing and at worst impenetrable.

OA Switchboard, the central information exchange hub, is a global and industry-wide initiative, where funders, institutions and publishers work together to achieve transparency (authoritative data), inter-operability and cost-control through essential infrastructure (open source) and API's), standards and back office services.


 

Over 30,000 open access academic books are now cataloged in the Directory of Open Access Books. This is, however, a subset of the titles becoming available thanks to increased funding, in both the US and Europe. Many are of extremely high quality and from well-known as well as innovative new publishers. Because library vendors struggle with the business model, there are obstacles for libraries in trying to acquire these titles. This session will explore the changing landscape of OA ebooks and describe successful strategies adopted by libraries to add them to collections, support their publishing, discovery, and use. Many libraries are interested in supporting open access, but they are challenged by both budgetary issues and workflow exceptions. This session will provide a manageable and pragmatic way forward for academic libraries of all sizes. The speakers will share how their institutions are supporting open access book publication while also adding valuable new resources for their campus communities -- free of the familiar use restrictions that are so frustrating to librarians when working with ebooks.

Lancaster University’s Research Intelligence service launched in early 2019, and has gone from strength to strength, allowing opportunity to collect a staff award along the way. Joanne will detail the organic approach that was taken towards service design, how engagement from the research community was cultivated and relationships built and managed. She will share how this translated into bibliometric services, the analyses and reports that currently serve researchers at Lancaster University, and how the service will pro-actively plan for the future.

 

Take the opportunity to visit our online interactive exhibition, speak to direct to our exhibitors.  

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Visit our lightning speakers in an interactive poster session, where they will be available to talk more in depth and answer your questions.

Scientific research fulfillment as a humanity global enterprise requires an inclusive and equitable communication infrastructure capable to deal with geographic, cultural, multilingual and thematic diversity. SciELO Network of 17 nationally operated collections of selected Open Access peer reviewed journals represents a major effort towards an inclusive global flow of scientific information. In 2021, it indexes, publishes and interoperates over 1200 journals which communicate pure and basic research covering most of the disciplines with a high coverage of local, national and regional topics and target audiences. This presentation will share SciELO advances, challenges, barriers, and lessons learned on the globalization of research communication.

Within the topic, it mainly introduces how CMAPH responded to the pandemic in a Time of Global Challenge. CMAPH as the most numerous, influential, and authoritative medical journal publication in China have established a series of policies toward to pandemic and Open Access in 2020. We have implemented “manuscript fast-track flow” policy, established a COVID-19 Academic Research Communication Platform with Chinese and English version, and all articles published in the platform applied open access policy. By doing all these attempts, CMAPH is going to maintain its strategy on priority publication, academic quality, and to be more involved in global activities and collaboration. In the topic, we also intend to discuss the challenges to Chinese Sci-tech Periodical, and how OA publishing developed in CMAPH.



 

Colleen Campbell will host a live Q&A session with plenary speakers:

•  Abel Packer, SciELO
• Yang Pan, Chinese Medical Association Publishing House 
• Frederick Ato Armah, University of Cape Coast

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Join us in the UKSG Lounge for the Tuesday social to network and catch up with old friends and new (5pm til 6pm) - see you there!

All Group B Speakers will be available on demand from 9am on 13th April.  Please see below for more details of individual presentations and topics.

(Do note: a live question and answer session will be available with breakout speakers between 12:00 - 14:00 or 16:00 - 17:00 on the UKSG Stand in the expo - individual timings are listed by each breakout session below)

How transitional is the Wiley–Jisc Agreement? This talk will explore the role of transitional agreements in facilitating and accelerating a transition to open access for UK research.
Bringing together data from the first year of the Jisc–Wiley read and publish agreement with examples of transitioning journals, making changes to workflows, and publishing infrastructure in moving us towards an open sustainable research environment. This session will explore examples of the current impact and take up, discuss what this looks like in practical terms for stakeholders and review advantages and opportunities as we move to a fully OA world.

Join the above speakers for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Tuesday at 12:05pm BST

This panel discussion will look at how organizations have been adapting their working practices and policies in the last year. Speakers will share experiences and lessons learned on topics such as remote working, flexible working, balancing staff preferences with organizational needs, and space planning. Delegates are encouraged to send questions in advance that the panel can address as part of the pre-recorded session; speakers will also be available for live Q&A during the conference.

Join the above speakers for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Tuesday at 4:30pm BST

We outline the work of a university press, with assistance from the COPIM Project (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs), in launching an innovative revenue model to fund open access monographs at a traditional publisher. Building on library journal subscription models like OLH and on Knowledge Unlatched's approach to monograph funding, we present a new, sustainable OA publishing model that gives members exclusive access to a highly-regarded backlist, with the revenue then used to make the frontlist openly accessible. The model can be emulated by other scholarly presses who wish to take advantage of the opportunities that open access publishing affords.

Join Martin for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Tuesday at 12:25pm BST

Where to begin with digital accessibility? It may seem overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. We aim to equip you with the knowledge and tools to assess where you are with accessibility as well as a brief overview of the current legal landscape. We will then go over approaches you can take to improve your organisation’s digital accessibility and resources to build your own skills and education, allowing you to take the demystification of digital accessibility into your own hands.

Join the above speakers for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Tuesday at 12:35pm BST

This discussion will focus on ways in which libraries and vendors alike can support research in an open infrastructure. The presenter will look at researcher needs to conduct and share their work, while considering how the library – on its part – can best collect, preserve, disseminate and manage the research. Attention will be paid to open collaboration platforms in support of open science. And, the presenter will discuss how open source solutions as well may best support evolving needs for innovation in library workflows and the delivery of new services to users in support of research, teaching and learning.

Join the speakers for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Tuesday at 3:50pm BST

With the JISC initiative to standardise metadata supply with Plan M and the potential inclusion of metadata standards and guidance in the upcoming SUPC Framework Agreement, it is clear that there is a drive towards improving the quality of metadata. But what does this mean practically for Libraries? With fewer resources and the changed nature of the workplace following Covid 19, how can libraries maximise the benefits brought about by Plan M and improve their workflows and metadata standards?

Join Charlene for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Tuesday at 12:55pm BST

After a successful pilot using the Open Journals System (OJS) Liverpool John Moores University launched its open journals service, managed by Library Services. From small beginnings the service is growing and expanding into the sphere of academic journals. With the increasing pressure to publish and make work open access what role can a university open journals service play in supporting that goal?

This presentation will share my experience of setting up and managing an open journals service and how this has developed over time. It will talk about the practicalities of running such a service as well as highlight the positives and share lessons learned.

Join Cath for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Tuesday at 1:05pm BST

The landscape is evolving rapidly for open access books. In 2020 continued effort took place to transition to open in order to create sustainable and meaningful change. As part of this work, two open access toolkits were developed -- one by the OAPEN Foundation and one by Jisc -- to offer practical support and guidance to the community. The OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit aims to help authors better understand OA for books, increase trust in OA book publishing, provide reliable and easy-to-find answers to questions from authors. The Jisc open access toolkit aims to support New University Presses and library-led publishing. The toolkit includes advice and guidance on all aspects of the publications workflow.
The two toolkits are free-to-access and include articles, each written by an international group of experts. They have been developed in parallel in order to complement each other and to give relevant information and consistent information to their communities. These two toolkits offer individuals and organisations with practical guides, tools, expert information and answers to many questions - enabling their communities to thrive.

This session will give a presentation of the two toolkits and also touches upon the lessons we have learned since the launch of the toolkits, challenges we faced along the way, their impact and future plans.

Join the above speakers for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Tuesday at 1:15pm BST

Open Access books are becoming an increasingly significant part of the Open Research landscape. Drawing on perspectives from a range of stakeholders, this session explores both the challenges and the opportunities for OA books - including discoverability, data, cataloguing, funding, and more. Delving into the future of Open Access books, we will be offering some ideas and discussion about what the future holds for OA books. And, with a focus on OA scholarly research monographs, this session will cover the (recent) past, present, and future for this exciting, and fast-moving Open Access format.

Join the above speakers for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Tuesday at 1:25pm BST

A critical component in the development of sustainable funding models for OA is the ability to communicate impact in ways that are meaningful to a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders, including institutional partners, funders, and authors. While traditional paywall publishers can take advantage of industry standard COUNTER reports to communicate usage to subscribing libraries, no similar standard exists for OA content. Instead, many organizations are stuck with proxy metrics like sessions and page views that struggle to discriminate between robotic access and genuine engagement.

This session presents the results of an innovative project that builds on existing COUNTER metrics to develop more flexible reporting. Reporting goals include surfacing 3rd party engagement with OA content, the use of graphical report formats to improve accessibility, the ability to assemble custom data dashboards, and configurations that support the variant needs of diverse stakeholders. We’ll be sharing our understanding of who the stakeholders are, their differing needs for analytics, feedback on the reports shared, and lessons learned and areas for future research in this evolving area.

Join the above speakers for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Tuesday at 4:00pm BST

The move towards a fully OA environment has moved from a theoretical conversation, to one with a deadline that those of us across Europe in particular saw at the beginning of 2021. Being faced with that deadline, the conversations about a sustainable delivery of OA have had to move from those theoretical one’s focuses on challenges, opportunities and areas of development from the macro industry perspective, and now focus on the practical implications and the impact that these changes have and will continue to have on the workflows of those who are implementing the move to OA.

This session will therefore seek to focus on the details and explore what a transformative deal, one route of moving us towards a fully sustainable and engaged OA environment, looks like from the user workflow point of view. It will examine author workflow, with viewpoints from a publishing, librarian and solutions perspective. It will address topics such as author uptake and what can be done to support and increase this, work through case study examples of implementation and sustainable engagement going forward— addressing such questions as “can we standardize transformative publishing deals?”

The goal is to make the panel interactive by asking questions of the audience as well as the panellists; therefore, getting multiple perspectives on a topic. The aim would be for participants to develop a clearer idea of the implications of transitioning to a fully OA environment, explore how to operationalize this, and see example models explored from the perspective of different stakeholder groups.

Join the above speakers for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Tuesday at 1:45pm BST

Leading vendors, such as Gale and ProQuest have been increasing their output in the provision of digital primary sources for years and this is an area of increasing strategic importance for them. The advantages to them are obvious, but what does this strategy mean for libraries?

For libraries with UDCs, typical strategy has long been to focus on the ‘unique’ aspect of our unique and distinctive collections. With the growth in digital primary sources however, we now need to consider the connection of such primary sources with the broader, vendor led sources on offer to us.
 

Based on the experience at Maynooth University, this paper will consider the changing market and the challenges and opportunities it brings for libraries and our users. And there are clear opportunities, but it may require a cognitive shift in how we, as curators regard our special collections. Where we have shown a focus on the ‘unique’ aspect of our unique and distinctive collections, will we now need to consider the connection of such primary sources with the broader, vendor led corpus on offer to us. If so, how will be bring cognate material together, and what does this mean for our institutional collection ‘footprint’.

Join Hugh for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Tuesday at 12:45pm BST

Jisc’s members in the research community believe that digital archival collections (‘DACs’) are vital tools for research, deserving of parity with books and journals in the institution. Publishers spend much time and effort creating and distributing such DACs. Between the two, librarians value such collections but must acquire the best content they can and serve their scholars with limited budgets and competing demands.

Paola Marchionni and Stephen Brooks will present findings from a number of recent research activities, including surveys and roundtable discussions, to highlight some of the issues Jisc members have found around the development and acquisition of DACs and present some of the initiatives Jisc has put in place to address these.

Join the above speakers for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Tuesday at 1:35pm BST

Minding the gap: divining OA opportunities through data - Helen Dobson, Jisc, Sara Rouhi, PLOS, Heidi Becker, Dimensions

In 2015 Jisc outlined the importance of funder metadata to support compliance checks and strengthen our negotiation position. This information is now a core requirement to supporting and evidencing a transition to OA but obtaining funder metadata remains a challenge. In this presentation representatives from three stakeholder groups will explain their experiences of addressing this data gap. This panel discussion will provide an update on sector progress since 2015 and how these developments can be applied more widely to resolve this ongoing issue within the next 5 years.

Metadata creation and distribution during the pandemic - Concetta La Spada

This year has been a tough one for the entire world, and in particular for the library community. Things have changed a lot on how services are managed and supplied. The Cambridge University Press has strived to work at its best for their customers and partners. This also in regard of metadata supply and distribution. This talk will show what it has been happening during this past year in terms of metadata creation, supply and distribution at the Cambridge University Press. We will show, new resources and how the Press adapted itself to the outside’s world changes.

Join the above speakers for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Tuesday at 4:10pm BST

Ill-advised sharing on social media often harms more than just the sharer. In obliterating the distinction between private and public experience, social media has not only removed barriers that once protected individuals from the consequences of expressing themselves in self-destructive ways, it has also removed barriers that used to protect society from the spread of destructive ideas. But social media also allows for the rapid and extensive dissemination of good and sometimes life-saving information, while providing a platform for individuals to influence family and friends by modelling responsible behaviour.

Here, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ll analyse social media’s always complex and ever-evolving cost-benefit calculus.

Join Adam for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Tuesday at 16:20pm BST

Following sharp increases at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, academic ebooks are now commonly 300% - 2000% more expensive than hardcopy alternatives, with licences often restricted to single-use only. COVID-19 has shone a spotlight on the dysfunctional ebook market. Several publishers require libraries to subscribe to the publisher’s ebook packages via their, or a 3rd party’s, platform. Such packages offer questionable value, impact negatively on academic freedoms and jeopardize sustainable access to resources. We discuss the #ebooksos campaign, the library profession’s role in countering these issues and the long-term consequences if they are not addressed.

Join the above speakers for a live Q&A on the UKSG booth on Tuesday at 12:15pm BST

ACS Publications recently completed a series of technical enhancements and changes to its integrated Open Access management workflow to improve the user experience for authors and administrators.

This presentation covers the key elements of the advancements made to the process in detail, from submission to approval, and from acceptance to publication, exploring the efforts to enable institutional affiliation standardization and the major changes to the Journal Publishing Agreement for ACS’s OA Read + Publish agreements.   This session will also provide a useful overview of the OA token management process for colleagues considering exploring a Read + Publish agreement with ACS.
 

This presentation will provide insight to IEEE's customer commitment in these challenging times as well as new directions in Open Access publishing and institutional partnerships.

Comprehensive information about the work process between MA Group AG and international publishers on the Russian market. Representatives of Russian company and partner of MA Group AG in Russia, which is 100K20, will talk about the difficulties of entering the foreign market and ways to solve them, what are the pitfalls and how overcome them. He will show schematically how the sales system of international publishers’ resources works in Russia, and present the packages of services that are offered to publishers within the joint work.

Oxford University Press is preparing for a major step in our online offering this year. This presentation explores the move of our major research books collections to the Oxford Academic platform, currently the home of our journals. With this move, Oxford Academic will become the home of academic research from OUP.

Where are all the robots? A brief survey of robotics: current and future.

Introducing Research Methods Primary Sources

An overview of the relaunched Library Hub Cataloguing service, its benefits, utitlites, and how to access the service.

Brief overview of Annual Reviews, including progress with Subscribe to Open (S2O)

Overview of CONNECT, a free Identity Management Service for the industry that's designed to reduce anonymous site traffic and make users more inclined to engage with publishers and societies, for a stronger and more valuable scholarly community.

Bloomsbury publishes a suite of digital resources including Drama Online, Bloomsbury Fashion Central, Human Kinetics Library and Screen Studies which are remarkable for their diversity of content types. Encyclopedias and book chapters are combined with play texts, image collections, video, audio and interactive tools to form immersive subject-based resources. This range of content types presents challenges for ensuring accessibility compliance beyond those required for standard eBook or journal platforms. I will outline the recent work we have done to ensure our platforms are accessible to all kinds of users, and the challenges we have identified in our future roadmap.

Join us for a short presentation about the development of the Higher Education from Cambridge University Press (HE) Website, an update about useful features and functionality developed since launch in August 2020, development of Cambridge Spiral our offline reading app, the steps we’re taking to ensure content is accessible to all, and how we’re planning to develop the website in months to come.

This is a brief presentation of user reactions via surveys, case study, and usage patterns to the integration of book and reference content with journal and other serial content on ScienceDirect in the form of Topic Pages.

In this video we will present EBSCO Academy, our one-stop learning portal in EBSCO Connect.
It is designed to help our customers increase their knowledge about EBSCO’s products and services.
EBSCO Academy gives you access to:
• eLearning paths - register for an EBSCO Connect account and design your own curriculum, personalized for you.
• Instructor-led courses - join our Customer Training team as they walk you through learning more about our products and services with live and on-demand courses.
• Recorded videos - engage on your own time and at your own speed with our short instructional videos.
 

Chris Houghton from Gale, A Cengage Company will be showing how Gale have developed Gale Digital Scholar Lab to meet the needs of teachers who want to bring archives and digital analysis into their classrooms.

Open Access/Open Science has become integral to the Karger strategy as we help stakeholders with their OA ambitions and strive toward a sustainable OA transition. But the industry’s transformation to more openness faces obstacles. We examine some of these challenging hurdles - and some potential solutions

Academic libraries are facing tough choices. You’re not only required to do more with less – less budget, time and resources – you’re also managing the constantly changing demands of faculty, students and researchers in a very uncertain environment. As the necessity for online resources soars in support of remote learning, academic libraries are under pressure. That’s why many are finding renewed value in multi-format, multi-disciplinary subscriptions.

Find out how you can work with ProQuest to maximize your budget and drive better research, teaching and learning outcomes, even while facing an uncertain future.
 

SAGE Publishing sponsorship presentation: an overview of how we can help and can offer our library partners during these strange times, as well as what makes us different as a publisher.

The dissemination of, and access to research has never been more vital. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen significant growth in the submission and readership of content.

As a responsible publisher, we continue to adapt and accelerate our publishing output to ensure the latest research, evidence and data is as discoverable as possible. 

This poster session explores what this looked like in the UK, and within a global context.

At Taylor & Francis, we want an open and equitable research communications ecosystem which protects, amplifies, and democratizes trusted knowledge. We believe open research is the most efficient and impactful way to advance research and share knowledge that enriches lives. In order to achieve this vision, we are challenging thinking about publishing and exploring how it might work differently. In this presentation we present two recently launched initiatives that really shift the boundaries of book publishing: Open Books Data Sharing Policy and Open Plus Books.

Discover how learning analytics can predict and boost outcomes through early intervention and improved learning behaviour.

Digital transformation is expensive and pressure to demonstrate a return on investment is higher than ever. Through case studies and research we demonstrate how universities are leveraging the learning data from their digital programmes to add value through a) student intervention strategies and b) effective learning behaviour.

We explore:-
- how engagement with digital course materials can impact on student success
- the value provided by eBook analytics in providing specific diagnostics on students’ performance
- how these diagnostics can drive effective learning behaviour

Following on from the UKSG webinar, The importance and use of digital primary sources in teaching and research, an overview of the Wiley Digital Archive programme and platform.

A brief over view of how the British Library and the On Demand service have worked throughout the Covid pandemic and a glimpse at the Library's future plans and an opportunity for more collaborative work.

Take a final opportunity to visit the online interactive exhibition, speak to directly to our exhibitors.  Exhibitors will be here to answer your questions following Wednesday's programme of presentations.