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UKSG - Introduction to E-Resources Online Seminar 2022
2022-06-23 09:00, 2022-06-23 00:00 - 2022-06-28 00:00 (Europe/London)

FREE UKSG webinar: Predatory Publishing – How to support researchers in identifying trusted journals and publishers for their research
2022-06-17 14:00
This webinar will help those who work with researchers offer straightforward advice to help them avoid publishing in places that they would want to avoid.
1. Lorraine will cover what predatory publishing is and why it is a problem. How the scams that predatory publishers use are becoming more sophisticated and difficult to detect.

2. Lorraine will walk the delegates through Think. Check. Submit. and show them how to use it as a tool to help librarians and researchers avoid predatory publishers.

3. Katherine will provide practical examples of how she has used the principles of Think. Check. Submit when helping researchers think about where to publish. She will provide examples of how lack of some due diligence has led to some difficulties with regards to invoices from predatory publishers, and how this can be avoided in the future.

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Transcript

The recording including transcript will be available shortly on the UKSG Webinar channel.

(Please note that webinars have software generated transcripts therefore are not 100% accurate. If you would like a copy of the transcript please feel free to contact samira@uksg.org).

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Q&A

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The UKSG 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition: Telford
2022-05-30 08:00 - 2022-06-01 13:15
The UKSG Annual Conference is a major event in the scholarly communications calendar which attracts delegates each year from around the world – librarians, publishers, content providers, consultants and intermediaries. The conference combines high-quality plenary presentations, lightning talks and breakout sessions with entertaining social events and trade exhibition. This year we are delivering Telford both in-person and digitally.

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Monday, May 30, 2022 – 15:00 BSTtoWednesday, June 1, 2022 – 18:15

Telford International CentreSt Quentin GateTelford, TF3 4JHUnited Kingdom

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About the Event

All of the conference presentations are now available open access – you need to register once and then access all of the content. Visit the page here.

Review of Conference in Photos

Don’t forget to check out the photographs from the conference – https://t.co/7oj6MSikgJ

Programme

The programme for the Conference is available below, please scroll down for the latest confirmed speakers. You can click here for a PDF version which will be available in print for delegates in Telford. Registered delegates can view the recordings here: https://cvent.me/Qq5zxQ

Sponsorship Opportunities

ContentOnline are managing our sponsorship opportunities again for Telford – please do contact them for the brochure and to discuss your requirements! Email: Chelsea Plunkett <chelsea@contentonline.com>, phone: +44 (0) 7867 411 221. You can download the brochure here.

Exhibition

The exhibition is open for general bookings, please visit https://uksg.jewelion.com/ or contact Karina at karina@khec.co.uk for more information. Regular T&Cs apply – they can be found at the jewelion link above). The Exhibitor Manual can be found here.

2022 John Merriman Award/Sponsored Places for Students and Early Career Professionals

Named in honour of John Merriman, in recognition of his work in founding both UKSG and NASIG, this prestigious award provides an invaluable opportunity for anyone keen to learn and share experiences from a very different angle.

One lucky UKSG member has the chance to attend the NASIG and UKSG conferences this year. The award is intended to cover conference registration, travel and accommodation costs. In 2022, the UKSG conference will take place in Telford, UK, from 30th May to 1st June. The NASIG conference will take place in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, from 5th to 9th June.

The award winner will be supported by the generous sponsorship of Taylor & Francis Group for the US trip and will in addition receive full financial support from UKSG to attend the UKSG conference.

More details on the 2022 winner can be found here

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All presentations have been recorded and available to watch on demand to registrants on the Underline.io platform.

2021 John Merriman joint NASIG/UKSG award

The UK award is again supported by the generous sponsorship of Taylor & Francis Group the winner will receive free registration at the 44th Annual UKSG and the 36th Annual NASIG.

Named in honour of John Merriman, in recognition of his work in founding both UKSG and NASIG, this prestigious award provides an invaluable opportunity for anyone keen to learn and share experiences from a different angle.

Bursaries for #UKSG2021

We are pleased to say that we have offered bursaries and scholarships to 35 individuals from across the sector and around the world, enabling them to attend UKSG2021 this year. Our thanks to AAAS, Adam Matthew Digital, Cell Press, Content Online, Cambridge University Press and Wiley for supporting our bursary programme. (Please remember to visit them in our virtual exhibition!)

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Day 1 – Monday 30 MayDay 2 – Tuesday 31 MayDay 3 – Wednesday 1 JuneGroup AGroup BGroup CGroup D

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08.00

Registrations Opens

Refreshments and exhibition viewing.

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08.15

Chair Yoga (optional)

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Kindly sponsored by Burgundy Information Services

10.00

Opening of the conference

10.30

Plenary Session 1

1. Advancing equity and openness in scholarship: A view from MIT – Chris Bourg, MIT

From launching Open CourseWare twenty years ago to passing one of the first faculty open access policies in the US in 2009, MIT has a long history of supporting and advancing openness in education and scholarship. In recent years, open advocates at MIT have increasingly incorporated a focus on equity in our efforts, based on a belief that equitable opportunity to contribute to scholarship is as important to the integrity and usefulness of scholarship as is open and equitable access to read and use scholarly products. In this talk, Chris Bourg, Director of Libraries at MIT, will talk about progress and potential for understanding, advancing, and sustaining open and equitable scholarship at MIT and through collective action with other institutions.

Chris Bourg

MIT

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Chris Bourg is the Director of Libraries at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and founding director of the Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship (CREOS).

Chris has extensive experience promoting equitable and open scholarship, and is an advocate for the role of libraries in promoting social justice and democracy. Chris co-chaired the MIT Ad Hoc Task Force on the Future of Libraries and the MIT Ad Hoc Task Force on Open Access to MIT’s Research, and is a member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science.

2. From open access to open science for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) – Rachel Bruce – UK Research and Innovation Strategy

Open science is a strategic priority for UKRI, the UK’s largest public research funder. Working in partnership across the research environment is essential to progress open science and to bring about more accessible, transparent and re-useable research. In this talk Rachel Bruce will describe the UKRI open research strategy and reflect on partnership with a range of stakeholders, including libraries and publishers

Rachel Bruce

UK Research and Innovation Strategy

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Rachel Bruce is Head of Open Research at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Rachel has worked in research policy and digital scholarship, including infrastructure development, across national organisations including the former Higher Education Funding Council, Jisc and the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). She has overseen national and international programmes, that develop digital infrastructure for information and scholarship that have resulted in long-term sustainable services. She is an expert in open science and has been an expert adviser to the European Commission and was the UK representative on the European Open Science Cloud Governance Board.

12.00

Lunch and Exhibition Viewing

13.30

Breakout Session – Group A

14.30

Breakout Session – Group B

15.30

Refreshments and exhibition viewing

16.00

Breakout session – Group C

17.00

Lightning Session 1

1. Wait! What? There’s lots of vital stuff missing from the scholarly record! – Toby Green, Coherent Digital

The scholarly record has always comprised *more* than books and journals – pamphlets, reports, working papers etc, i.e. the much-ignored and often-misunderstood ‘grey literature’. Curiously, digital makes it harder for the “more” to be included in today’s scholarly record and much is now missing. What makes this urgent is that Web 2.0 has unleashed a huge increase in born-digital grey stuff (all of the above but now also tweets, blog posts etc). In this lightning talk you’ll learn about the extent of the problem and a project that’s trying to address it.

Toby Green

Coherent Digital

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Toby, Publisher, Policy Commons and Co-Founder of Coherent Digital, has 35+ years experience in scholarly, policy and professional publishing. Previously, he held a variety of senior roles with OECD Publishing and Elsevier Science. Besides the formal stuff, Toby has wrestled with data publishing and is now trying to tame grey literature. He is a regular speaker at publishing and librarian events in Europe and North America. He serves as expert advisor to the Open Research Community. Previously, he was a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing Board and Chair of ALPSP. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9601-9130 https://twitter.com/tobyabgreen .

2. Influential Researcher: tackling researcher engagement with metrics through personalised action plans – James Barnett, University of Birmingham

At University of Birmingham, the Library Services Research Skills Team have been part of a successful ‘Influential Researcher’ programme, supporting academic researchers with gaining a sense of agency over the range of metrics, personal identifiers (PIDs) and online publication profiles that are intrinsic to research culture. This lightning talk explores the background of the ‘Influential Researcher’ programme, its development through the lens of responsible metrics, and highlights how running ‘Online Publication Profile’ workshops (where attendees are sent a personalised action plan prior to the session) give time-poor researchers a practical set of steps for curating their online identities.

James Barnett

University of Birmingham

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James Barnett has been a Research Skills Advisor for Library Services at the University of Birmingham since 2019, having previously worked as an Academic Liaison Librarian at Coventry University. In his role within the Research Skills Team, James provides the university’s research community with training and one-to-one support on topics such as Literature Searching, Reference Management, Open Research and Research Metrics.

3. Scholarship that’s built to last: Strategies for publishers, platform creators, and authors – Karen Hanson, Portico, ITHAKA

Enabled by the web-dominated digital era, many publishers are supporting enhanced forms of scholarly publication that include features such as embedded multimedia, interactive maps, annotations, non-linear navigation, and more. Decisions made about how to implement these features can have implications for the long-term sustainability and preservability of the publications. In a project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and led by NYU Libraries, our teams evaluated a variety of enhanced publications for preservability and developed a set of guidelines to be used by publishers, authors, and platform developers to improve the likelihood that these publications can be preserved.

Karen Hanson

Portico, ITHAKA

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Karen is the Senior Research Developer at Portico, a digital preservation archive for scholarly content. Her role is to identify current and emerging technology issues relevant to the service’s operations and mission, as well as discover, evaluate, develop, and implement tools to enhance the preservation service. Karen previously worked as the Knowledge Systems Librarian at NYU Health Sciences Libraries where she specialized in digital archives and research data management services, and as a Software Engineer for the Digital Research and Curation Center at Johns Hopkins University Libraries. She holds a Masters in Library and Information Science from Rutgers University.

19.00

Supper and quiz (optional)

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08.30

Registration

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08.30

Chair Yoga (optional)

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09.00

Plenary Session 2

1. The role of Universities in delivering inclusive regional growth through Knowledge Exchange – Hamish McAlpine, Oxentia

The role of universities in supporting regional regeneration and growth is increasingly well recognised. But how do universities navigate this complex landscape, and how does this activity align with their broader missions around teaching and research? Once known as the ‘third mission’ or ‘third leg of the stool’, I argue that Knowledge Exchange is now a critical and integral part of how universities deliver their mission and strategies. As both government policy and KE practice evolves, how can all parts of the university work together to deliver for their regions, and how might this benefit the university?

Hamish McAlpine

Oxentia

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Oxentia is Oxford’s global innovation consultancy. As Principal Consultant, Hamish works with Higher Education and government clients, delivering consultancy, strategy development and training on knowledge exchange and commercialisation (KEC) and innovation management. He has a particular interest in innovation ecosystems and the role of universities in driving inclusive regional growth.

Before joining Oxentia in 2021, Hamish was the Head of Data & Evidence at Research England, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). He was responsible for creating England’s first Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF), as well as managing £250m per annum of KE funding, and related policy areas. In his spare time, he upcycles bit of old aircraft into furniture

2. Universities put in their place – Sue Black

At one extreme a university may operate irrespective of the geographical location it inhabits whilst at the other, it may be the very life blood of its community. The Government’s current focus on the role of ‘place’, regional growth and the levelling up agenda, poses an interesting dilemma for some, but opportunity for others, to reconsider their function as an anchor institution within their community. We will explore this using examples from Lancaster University’s civic journey.

Sue Black

Lancaster University

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Professor Dame Sue Black is Pro Vice Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University. She is President elect of St. John’s College, Oxford and a cross bench peer as Baroness Black of Strome. She is President, Fellow and Trustee of the Royal Anthropological Institute which is the professional body for her discipline of Forensic Anthropology for which she was awarded and OBE in 2001 and a DBE in 2016. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, Royal Society of Edinburgh and Royal Society of Biology.

3. Compassionate leadership: the role of libraries in promoting social justice – Joshua Sendall, University of Nottingham

We continue to operate in an environment characterised by significant volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. A fractured global geopolitical settlement, profound environmental and climate pressures, the rapid driving forces of digital transformation, and significant social, economic and health inequalities. These pervasive challenges have been amplified through the seismic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. These are not partisan issues – they affect us all.

Josh will explore the positive role that libraries can play in responding to the challenges as compassionate leaders striving towards social justice.

Josh Sendall

University of Nottingham

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Josh joined University of Nottingham Libraries as Associate Director for Research in November 2021. He works within and beyond the institution to develop libraries’ role as a research service provider, partner, and pioneer. He leads collaborative and enterprising teams who enable open research environments which maximise the reach, impact, and integrity of research.

Prior to joining Nottingham, Josh held several roles at Lancaster University including Library Aide, Learning Zone Student Advisor, Information Assistant, Research Data Manager, and most recently, Research and Scholarly Communications Manager.

Josh promotes equality, diversity and inclusion leading to productive, healthy, and resilient cultures and communities.

10.30

Refreshments and exhibition viewing

11.00

Breakout Session – Group A

12.00

Lightning Talks – Session 2

1. What can we learn from the ESAC Market Watch? – Ádám Dér, Max Planck Digital Library

The ESAC Initiative is open and global community of practice of librarians who are sharing their experiences and expertise in the operational aspects of open access agreements. The ESAC community also develops community resources and guidelines to empower librarians as they move into the era of open access, including the ESAC Workflow Recommendations, ESAC Transformative Agreement Registry, and most recently, the ESAC Market Watch and the ESAC Reference Guide to Transformative Agreements. The presentation will introduce how the community can learn from a number of key trends in the demographics and distribution of scholarly journal publishing in transition, and use these to better understand their position in the scholarly publishing market and make strategic considerations regarding their interactions with publishers.

Adam Der

Max Planck Digital Library

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Adam Der is a member of the licence management team of the Max Planck Digital Library, where his main responsibilities are in publisher negotiations to advance the open access transition in scholarly publishing. In this role he is involved in a broad range of strategic activities, including data analyses and financial modelling. He is an expert advisor on data analytics and workflows in the ESAC Initiative, a global community of practice of libraries and consortia promoting efficiencies and standards around the negotiation and implementation of transformative and open access publishing agreements, and contributes to a variety of community and industry efforts such as the OA Switchboard. Prior to his role at MPDL, he served as Head of Development of the Hungarian EISZ Consortium.

2. OA the great and powerful? Exploring the link between Open Access publication and perceived output quality at a small public research university in Hampshire – University of Winchester

The REF 2021 Open Access mandate was established in recognition of the benefits of OA publication and in an effort to increase the proportion of UK-funded research that is openly accessible. The REF is, however, primarily an assessment of research quality, not availability. As researchers and academics selected their best outputs for REF submission, the possibility arose that an association would be implied between openness and quality. In order to find out whether this had happened at the University of Winchester, research-active staff were invited to complete a survey measuring the likelihood that they would choose Green and Gold OA for outputs that they perceived to be of particularly high quality. The results show that there may in fact be a perception amongst Winchester academics that Open Access is more appropriate for very good outputs than for those perceived to be mediocre. The implications of this are briefly discussed.

Jacqueline Barlow

University of Winchester

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Jacqueline Barlow has held the position of Open Access Officer at the University of Winchester since September 2017. She is the only dedicated Open Access specialist at the University, and is responsible for maintaining the institutional repository in addition to promoting Open Access and Open Research and ensuring compliance with the relevant policies.

3. Publishing through a pandemic: how has COVID affected how we discover, read, and publish research? – Mark Robinson, Taylor & Francis

COVID has impacted so many parts of our lives since early 2020. But what has been the effect on users’ journal content discovery, reading and publishing habits and what does that mean for both user experience and researcher-centric development in 2022 and beyond? How has user behaviour changed across the world and across disciplines, from the humanities and social sciences to science and medicine? In this session we’ll explore the trends and patterns seen by one global publisher and what this means for each step of the publishing workflow, from online search to reading to publishing your research.

Mark Robinson

Taylor & Francis

13.30

Panorama – building library data infrastructure through partnership with academic libraries.

In this short presentation Phill Hall will introduce how EBSCO are partnering with academic libraries to critique their engagement data using modern data tools.

Phill Hall

EBSCO

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Phill Hall has worked in the information industry for approximately 15 years, spanning areas of library content, library automation, digital preservation, research funding, research metrics, research reproducibility, learning management systems, and, more recently, library engagement analytics.

In his current role with EBSCO, Phill is Global Sales for Panorama library and campus analytics, drawing on his breadth of experience to assist libraries in uncovering a more comprehensive view of library engagement.

Tom Shaw

Lancaster University

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Thomas Shaw is Associate Director for Digital Innovation and Open Research at Lancaster University, and oversees the Library’s innovative use and development of digital technology, and its significant contribution to research through championing open research principles and practices. He has worked in libraries and information management since the late 1990s, with previous experience from the University of East London, University of Bristol and NHS Direct. He has interests in the transformational impact and value of digital for libraries, and in promoting openness in all areas of library and scholarship.

14.30

Breakout Session – Group B

15.30

Refreshments and exhibition viewing

16.30

Breakout Session – Group D

17.00

Lightning Talks Session 3

1. 10 things to look for in a licence – Ben Taplin Jisc

Licence agreements for online content can be bewildering and risky if you don’t have legal knowledge or training, but there are certain key elements that any good licence should include. This talk will help you find your way around licences by giving a rundown of the top ten clauses, where to find them, and what to do if they’re not there.

Ben Taplin

JIsc

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BEN TAPLIN is the Licensing Portfolio Specialist for Jisc, which procures and licenses digital content on behalf of higher education and research institutions in the UK. Ben is responsible for drafting, negotiating and managing all of Jisc’s publisher licences. He joined Jisc in 2008 after more than ten years working with serials and online subscriptions in university and museum libraries.

2. Amplify what is hidden, acknowledge what has been erased: addressing silences in primary source databases – Ellie Davey Corrigan, Adam Matthew Digital

Adam Matthew digitises archival collections, making these available for researchers worldwide. Adam Matthew acknowledges that archival records are not neutral and the same goes for primary source databases. Just as archives are critically evaluating archival silences and hidden voices and considering methodologies for improving access to diverse voices, so too is Adam Matthew. This lightening session outlines the ways in which Adam Matthew has appraised its editorial processes, analysing every step from content discovery to post publication support. It will describe efforts made to contextualise archival gaps and silences through commissioned content, and to amplify marginalised voices through enhanced metadata.

Eleanor Davey Corrigan

Adam Matthews

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Ros Pyne is Global Director, Research and Open Access at Bloomsbury Academic. She has worked in open access policy and strategy roles for over a decade and has a particular interest in bringing OA to long-form scholarship and to the humanities. Ros sits on the advisory boards for the OAPEN OA Books Toolkit and the Mellon-funded Book Analytics Dashboard Project and is co-author of several papers on open access books.

3. JASPER: preserving diamond Open Access journals – Alicia Wise, CLOCKSS

In scholarly publishing, there is a long-tail of small, open access, peer-reviewed journals. Many sadlyy are not archived in a long-term digital preservation scheme, and so something needs to be done to prevent these journals from vanishing from the internet. A team of organisations have come together to find a solution that will decrease the number of unarchived journals. This is project JASPER.The first phase (now ongoing) is a pilot to check if journals indexed in DOAJ will engage with archiving services when prompted to do so and with the offer of help. DOAJ acts as a conduit for the journals and a single point of contact for participating preservation services (initially CLOCKSS, Internet Archive, and PKP-PN). Preserved content then appears in the Keepers Registry.In phase two we will expand to support more journals and to involve more preservation services in hope that the content will be preserved by at least three services, in line with best practice.The lightning talk will focus on lessons learned and next steps.

Alicia Wise

CLOCKSS

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Alicia Wise is Executive Director of CLOCKSS, a community of research libraries and academic publishers working together to ensure the long-term preservation of the scholarly record. She has been active in increasing access to research information for 20 years in roles within our publishing community (e.g. with Elsevier, the Publishers Association, the Publishers Licensing Service) and also within the library community (e.g. Jisc, a range of universities). Her Ph.D. is in Anthropology and focussed on the Roman invasion of Scotland and resistance to this.

17.30

Exhibition Viewing

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09.00

Registration

Refreshments and exhibition viewing

09.30

Breakout Session – Group C

10.30

Refreshments

Refreshments and exhibition viewing

11.00

Breakout Session – Group D

12.00

Plenary Session 3

1. N8+ and collective collections: what’s the little idea? – Phil Sykes, University of Liverpool

Phil will talk about the development of the N8+ project, its potential to reset the power balance between universities and publishers worldwide, and the role it could play in the development of “collective collections”. He will argue, more broadly, that the best hope for progress in our work tends to come not from big ideas but from small, specific, concrete advances

Judith Fraenkel

Ex Libris

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Judith Fraenkel is Director of Product Management at Ex Libris focusing on Resource Sharing solutions. Since joining the company in 1999, Judith has filled various positions in the areas of technology, content management, and customer support. A key focus of her current role is leading efforts to integrate Controlled Digital Lending capabilities into Ex Libris’ products. She also leads strategy and programs that enhance the Diversity, Inclusion and Equity commitment of Ex Libris.

2. Looking to the future: CDL and library solutions – Judith Fraenkel, Ex-Libris

Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) is a developing practice which allows libraries to lend a digital copy of a physical resource in a “lend like print” manner. Ex Libris has a vision of integrating CDL capabilities within our products to help librarians serve their users in the most modern and adaptive way possible.

Ex Libris has already taken steps to support libraries by providing CDL capabilities within Alma Digital, with more planned in the fields of reserves management, general circulation, and resource sharing. Judith Fraenkel, Director of Product Management will take you through these plans, and more, in this session.

Phil Sykes

University of Liverpool

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Phil will deliver this presentation on the first day of his retirement. For the last eighteen years, he has been Director of Libraries, Museums and Galleries at the University of Liverpool. Most of his previous experience was at new universities – Leeds Polytechnic, Hatfield Polytechnic, Liverpool JMU, and the University of Huddersfield, where he managed a converged library and computing service. He was Chair of RLUK for two years and a member of the Finch group on Open Access. He was one of the founder members of the N8+ initiative and developed much of the methodology which underlies it.

17.30

Close of conference

Supporting academics in navigating the emerging landscape of open access book policies

The Open Access (OA) policy landscape is shifting – funder policies are beginning to include OA for books. This is uncharted territory for most publishers and academics, and those at the nexus of publishing OA books require support.

This interactive workshop will consider current developments in this area and provide an outline of the key findings of our work. We will invite feedback from attendees to inform understanding of the requirements and challenges faced by the academic community.

In order to provide this support, we have carried out research looking at academics’ opinions concerning publishing OA books and have identified key pain points experienced when dealing with OA book policies.

Karen Jackson

Jisc

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Karen has worked at Jisc since 2017 and having been involved with several products in the Open Research portfolio she now manages Sherpa Services, leading the development and evolution of these products and services. A qualified Library professional, she has a background in H.E. libraries, repository management, Open Access advocacy and service/product management.

Data and decolonising the curriculum

Some UK HEIs have begun to examine whether legacies of colonialism or other injustices are present in curricula. Imperial College has developed a novel computer-based method that combines our reading list management system, a journal database and the World Bank to evaluate the distribution of authors cited on reading lists by affiliated country income status. The results applied to modules over different time periods will be shared as well as our broader thoughts and experience of the implications, opportunities and limitations of quantitative data to support decolonisation, particularly in a STEM setting.

Robyn Price

Imperial College London

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Robyn Price is responsible for bibliometric analysis and education at Imperial. She has established a bibliometric service to deliver responsible metrics support to staff and students. She is interested in equity in scholarly communications and research, alternative metrics, grey literature and open access. Previously, Robyn worked in the editorial teams of open access and subscription journals.

From reverence to contempt: students’ evolving attitudes toward the media and the urgent need for instructional recalibration

The pandemic laid bare a trend many educators throughout the world had already noticed. The near reverence with which students used to regard serious newspapers had largely evaporated and, in some cases, been replaced with outright contempt. I taught scholarly research and writing at the start of our new millennium and, like most of my colleagues, I encouraged skepticism toward the media. We taught our students that even the most prestigious newspapers shouldn’t be taken for gospel and that all articles were susceptible to error and bias. Today, this kind of instruction is neither necessary nor helpful. For the most part, students are already skeptical of the media and, where they detect opinions in news sources different from their own, they are increasingly likely to dismiss everything in those sources as fundamentally unreliable. In this session, we will consider the main reasons students have lost faith in the media and explore non-naïve and responsible ways of building it back.

Adam Blackwell

Newsbank

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After many years at ProQuest, Adam recently moved to Newsbank. Before working in publishing, Adam taught literature and creative writing at the University of Utah, where he earned a PhD in English. He also has a BA in social anthropology and linguistics from Cambridge University (Caius).

Adam enjoys running, watching football, and making home movies. This year, for the first time in two decades (!), he wrote a play, which is part domestic drama and part ghost story.

From speed dating to long-term relationships: strategies for including support for Open Science Infrastructures into library budgets

During this session we will seek to explore how libraries can move towards a more strategic way of thinking about investing in Open Science Infrastructures moving away from short-term commitments to mid to longer term ones by referring to countries who have changed their funding strategies in favour of OS infrastructure. What strategies are being applied on both national and institutional levels, why and how? A panel discussion will hear from library consortial and national approaches as to why they changed their funding strategies to include OS infrastructure, which we hope will give others the confidence to do the same.

Vanessa Proudman

SCOSS/SPARC Europe

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Vanessa Proudman is Director of SPARC Europe, where she is working to make Open the default in Europe. Vanessa has 20 years of international experience working on Open Access, Open Science, Open Culture and Open Education with many leading universities worldwide from over 20 countries. Research and knowledge exchange are her vehicles to inform, connect and advocate for change in these areas: to increase international, national and regional policy-making and practice in Europe. Vanessa is also exploring how to concretely create – and above all sustain – a more equitable, inclusive and bibliodiverse open science ecosystem.

Agata Morka

SPARC Europe

Jean-Francois Lutz

Université de Lorraine

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Jean-Francois Lutz works at the Université de Lorraine libraries where he is head of research support services. He has a special interest in the question of open science infrastructure funding and works on this issue as a SCOSS board member on behalf of the French ministry of Higher Education and Research and as board member of the French National Open Science Fund.

Fabian Felder

Lib4RI (formerly Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries)

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Fabian Felder spent the last four and a half years working as an Open Access specialist at the Consortium of Swiss Academic libraries. The position was co-financed by swissuniversities to coordinate national efforts for Open Access solutions with publishers and other service providers. The national project SwissCOSS and the subsequent establishment of services included in SCOSS funding calls as consortium products is one of his proudest achievements. Since October 2021, he works as the group leader for E-Resources & IT Services at the Lib4RI.

Niels Stern

OAPEN Foundation

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Niels Stern is director of OAPEN. He began his career in scholarly book publishing in 2003. Co-founder of the OAPEN project in 2008. Head of Publishing at the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2011. Since 2014 independent expert for the European Commission on open science and e-infrastructures. In 2017 Head of Department for Licence Management at the Royal Danish Library and chief negotiator for the national licence consortium in Denmark.

Timo Vilén

FinELib

Laura Mesotten

KU Leuven

Does usage data matter in an open access world?’

People tend to think about COUNTER data as the information librarians use to evaluate subscription content. So, will there be any need for this usage data in an increasingly open access environment? This session discusses this question in the context of emerging community action business models and asks if usage statistics are relevant in evaluating the investment libraries are making in open access journal and book content. If usage statistics are relevant, whose usage? The usage by members of the institution or the usage made by people in the wider world? Finally, this session will discuss what COUNTER has been doing over the course of the last year to explore these questions, and how COUNTER reports could develop as a result.

Tasha Mellins-Cohen

Counter

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Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Executive Director at COUNTER Metrics and Founder of Mellins-Cohen Consulting, joined the scholarly publishing industry in 2001. She has held roles within learned societies and commercial publishers across operations, technology, editorial and executive functions, while donating time to key industry initiatives and bodies such as UKSG, ALPSP and STM. In 2020 she started consulting in response to requests for help in developing and implementing OA business models in not-for-profit groups. In 2022 she stepped up from volunteer to Director at COUNTER Metrics, the standard for usage metrics, alongside her consulting work.

Research Catalyst: situating the Archive and library staff at the centre of the research process

Challenges posed by COVID-19 have highlighted the importance of collaboration between libraries, archives, and academics. At Edge Hill University we have established ‘Research Catalyst’, a research group aiming to advance the productive and positive relationship between colleagues in Library and Learning Services (LSS) and the Department of History, English and Creative Writing, and positioning LSS as a co-lead in the research process with the potential of co-supervising or leading research projects. We have established a Memorandum of Understanding defining the purpose of our group and reflecting the complimentary agendas of librarians and academics. This talk introduces Research Catalyst and our ambitions for the future.

Anna Franca

Edge Hill University

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As Head of Collections and Archives at Edge Hill University, Anna França leads the team dedicated to managing and developing the library collections and University Archive. Prior to joining Edge Hill, she held roles at King’s College London and has almost 18 years’ experience in the academic library sector. Anna is interested in the role that libraries can play in supporting a sustainable transition towards a more open research landscape. She is active in a range of professional networks and groups and chairs the USKG Education and Events sub-committee.

Liam Bullingham

Edge Hill University

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Until recently, Liam managed research support in Library and Learning Services at Edge Hill University. At Essex, he leads the Academic and Research Services team in Library and Cultural Services; this includes academic liaison and information literacy team and also research services. He is a member of the LIS-Bibliometrics Committee and is a Trustee of UKSG..

Open systems and solutions for libraries – a new perspective

The presentation argues that we need a new perspective on ‘open’ in the light of changing technology and the needs of academic libraries. Perceptions differ about what constitutes ‘open’ in terms of the wide variety of systems and solutions deployed by libraries.

With the rise of cloud computing, software ‘platforms’ are on the rise. The value of a platform. as opposed to a software ‘product’ comes not only from its own features, but from its ability to connect to external solutions, data, and processes. To do this it needs to be ‘open’ in terms of data and the ability to integrate, via (typically open) application programming Interfaces (APIs), with other products which may be developed by customers or provided by other independent software vendors (ISVs). The result is that we see open source library system platforms such as Folio integrating with proprietary software solutions such as reading lists. Equally we see proprietary library system platforms making use of open source software and enabling third parties to integrate to add functionality and re-use data and services provides by the platform.

Ken Chad

Ken Chad Consulting Ltd

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Ken gained his Master’s degree from the Information Science Department at City University in London. He is also an alumnus of the Warwick University Business Innovation and Growth Programme. He worked as a librarian before spending over 20 years in the library technology business. He set up his consulting business in 2007 to help make libraries and archives more effective. He has presented widely in the UK and internationally. Ken has published a number of open access briefing papers on library technology issues and runs Higher Education Library Technology -an open and free community resource.

Transformative Agreements – what next?

We have been living with Transformative Agreements for a while and many publishers and institutions are now familiar with the way they work. But are they really transformative, and are they getting us to where we need to be? This session looks at a potential model of what comes next and how this may transition to a different way of pricing for journal content.

Danny Smith

Jisc

Gaynor Redvers-Mutton

Microbiology Society

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Gaynor is committed to develolping sustainable and fair routes enabling authors the choice of not for profit journals in which to publish their research.

Jeremy Upton

Director of Library & University Collections University of Edinburgh*

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Jeremy is the Director of Library and University Collections at the University of Edinburgh. A music graduate, he started his professional library career as a music librarian before moving into a technical services management. Jeremy joined the University of Edinburgh in April 2015.

As Director, Jeremy is responsible for ensuring the professional management of and access to the University’s Library and Museum collections, both physical and digital.

Jeremy has a long-standing interest in the procurement and licensing of content. He is currently a member of the Research Libraries UK Board and Chair of the Coimbra Group Heritage Working Group.

Open textbook publishing 101: A quick start to your university’s open textbook initiative.

This presentation will outline our experiences with launching an open textbook publishing initiative at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) in cooperation with the university press and reflect on the learning points of the ongoing project.The goal of this session is to support and encourage other university presses and libraries with small budgets to start their own open textbook pilots by sharing our lessons learned along the way and showing how rewarding and low-entry, albeit challenging, the process could be.We will substantiate our point with examples drawn from the experiences of our open textbook authors, ranging from involving students’ input to making use of the interactive features of a publishing platform. We would like to demonstrate that a successful and innovative open textbook publishing pilot can be both low-cost and high-value, with space to experiment and center around authors’ creative ideas, student needs, and open pedagogical practices.

Mira Buist-Zhuk

University of Groningen

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Mira Buist-Zhuk is an academic information specialist at the University of Groningen Library (Netherlands). She leads the Open Education pillar of the University’s Open Science programme and is actively engaged in building services and infrastructure to support teachers in the area of open educational resources, open textbook publishing, and related copyright issues. Mira gained her academic background and professional experience in the fields of International Relations, Political Science, and Communications. She takes an active interest in open education and open science developments and is driven by the values of access to education, social justice, and sustainable development.

Margreet Nieborg

University of Groningen

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Margreet Nieborg is project manager and publishing consultant at the University of Groningen Press (UGP). UGP is part of the University Library. Margreet is an educationalist and has led various projects within the University Library, including setting up a University Press in 2017. UGP is an example of a new university press which currently hosts journals, books and series. Margreet thinks that with the rise of new university presses new publishing models will rise and can, in a modest way, activily support open access.

Sharing the costs of transition from Closed to Open: the quest for a fair cost allocation model in Austria

Austria was one of the first countries to initiate and implement transformative agreements with publishers, its first agreement dating back to 2014. Since then, the Austrian Academic Library Consortium has concluded deals with all major publishers and increasingly with society and university presses as well. This session will explore the challenges encountered while searching for a fair and sustainable cost-sharing model in a world in transition to Open Access, where the costs for reading and publishing continue to coexist. We will present the first transformative cost-sharing model, rolled out for two major agreements (Wiley and Springer), and provide an honest account of our experience to date. We will also give an overview of the AT2OA Post Transition Study, which builds on the methodology developed by Schimmer et al., and how this has influenced our current approaches.

Rita Pinhasi

University of Vienna

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A graduate of UCL, Rita Pinhasi joined Vienna University Library in 2017, where she has been involved in the negotiations of various institutional and national Open Access publishing agreements, from data analysis through workflows to licensing. Previously she worked for regional and national consortia in Ireland, most recently as the manager of the IReL consortium, as well as a medical library in London.

Brigitte Kromp

University of Vienna

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Brigitte Kromp is the Head of the Austrian Central Library for Physics and the Department of Consortia Management at the Vienna University Library. She acts as an expert for Open Access within the framework of the Austrian Academic Consortium (KEMÖ ) and has been involved in the negotiation of consortium deals with Open Access components. She is a member of several international working groups dealing with acquisition issues and represents Austria in the High-Level Group on Big Deals at the European University Association.Brigitte holds a degree in mathematics and physics and completed a qualification in librarianship during her professional career.

Lothar Hoelbling

University of Vienna

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Lothar Hölbling studied history and numismatics at the University of Vienna. He also finished the Library and Information Studies formation at the Austrian National Library in Vienna. He subsequently worked in different positions as historian, archivist, librarian and data analyst in the private sector (Vienna, Hong Kong) and in the public sector (University of Vienna, Museum of Military History Vienna, New York University).From 2016 to 2020 Mr. Hölbling was employed as data analyst in the nationwide Austrian Open Access-Initiative AT2OA (Austrian Transition to Open Access). His main tasks were data acquisition, data processing and data analysis regarding the scientific publication output of all Austrian State Universities. Since 2021 Mr. Hölbling is employed in the follow-up project AT2OA² (Austrian Transition to Open Access Two) as data analyst and project manager.

Now we’ve heard it all! Engaging the community in shaping OA policy for books.

The Open Access Books Network (OABN) is a relatively new kid on the block, but it punches above its weight. Our most significant series so far was the Voices from the OA Books Community, devoted to exploring different aspects of policy for OA books.

During the heated discussions, what were the main areas of consensus and which topics emerged as especially controversial? Which aspects of OA policy for books perplexed the community and provoked more questions than answers? In this session we will hear from session leaders and participants as they paint a nuanced picture of a necessary but complex endeavour: how to directly engage the OA books community in developing policies that will materially affect its future.

Vanessa Proudman

SCOSS/SPARC Europe

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Vanessa Proudman is Director of SPARC Europe, where she is working to make Open the default in Europe. Vanessa has 20 years of international experience working on Open Access, Open Science, Open Culture and Open Education with many leading universities worldwide from over 20 countries. Research and knowledge exchange are her vehicles to inform, connect and advocate for change in these areas: to increase international, national and regional policy-making and practice in Europe. Vanessa is also exploring how to concretely create – and above all sustain – a more equitable, inclusive and bibliodiverse open science ecosystem.

Niels Stern

OAPEN Foundation

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Niels Stern is director of OAPEN. He began his career in scholarly book publishing in 2003. Co-founder of the OAPEN project in 2008. Head of Publishing at the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2011. Since 2014 independent expert for the European Commission on open science and e-infrastructures. In 2017 Head of Department for Licence Management at the Royal Danish Library and chief negotiator for the national licence consortium in Denmark.

Jeroen Sondervan

Utrecht University Library

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Jeroen Sondervan has been involved in open access and open science for the past fifteen years. From the publishing world (e.g. at Amsterdam University Press and Brill), he has gained initial experience with open access.

He is a member of the Knowledge Exchange Open Access Group, the Dutch library consortium OA working group and editor of the national platform openaccess.nl.

In 2015, Jeroen started working as an open access publishing consultant at the Utrecht University Library. In 2019, he joined Utrecht University as open access programme leader within the Open Science Programme. In this role, with the other themes of the Open Science Programme (recognition and rewards, public engagement, FAIR data/software and open education), he has driven and facilitated the culture change towards open science.

In Open Science NL, Jeroen fulfils the role of programme leader open scholarly communication. He will focus on open access, but will also broaden his scope to include open peer review, open research information and new ways of scholarly publishing.

Rupert Gatti

Trinity College, Cambridge & Open Book Publishers

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Dr Rupert Gatti is a Fellow in Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge and a co-founder and director of Open Book Publishers. He is one of the founders of the OABN, where he led the ‘voices’ session on distribution and metadata. Rupert is also one of the work package leads within the COPIM Project developing Thoth, an open metadata and distribution service for OA books.

Structuring Open Access Structures: Libraries partnering with non-profit publishers

The shift to a more equitable open access ecosystem requires collaborative work between values aligned stakeholders. Libraries and non-profit publishers often share similar missions, but existing structures on both sides can work to create barriers to collaboration. The system remains configured to work with paid subscriptions or perpetual licensing, alongside print procurement, which can work against implementing OA models. What are the major structural impediments for OA? How can smaller and non-profit presses cooperate with libraries to create OA positive structures? We will use the Jisc Open Access Community Framework, MIT Press’s D2O, and PLoS CAP models as case studies for change.

Agata Morka

SPARC Europe

Helen Dobson

Jisc

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Helen is a Licensing portfolio specialist for research content at Jisc. She leads a team working to deliver agreements that meet the requirements of UK universities, achieve savings and support the transition to open access. Helen’s background is in academic libraries and in previous roles she oversaw services providing Open Access and Research Data Management support and publishing advice.

Bridging universities with society: policy, strategy, and ind practice

The role and place of universities in society are shifting and various initiatives seem to bridge the gap between science and citizens. But the framework, knowledge and possible implementation of these new standards seem diverse and somehow not consistent enough to produce sustainable change. This breakout session aims to frame the field, layout strategic options and dwell into concrete cases.

The moderators are members of the LIBER “Citizen Science Working Group”. In this session, we will illustrate the interests, the thrill and the achievements working to improve the academic mission in order to better serve the society.

Bridging the gap: SDU Citizen Science Knowledge Center as facilitator between science as society (Anne Kathrine Overgaard)

Policy and strategy: International trends, guidelines and recommendations (Thomas Kaarsted)

Strategy and implementation: Supporting Citizen Science in the UCL Office for Open Science & Scholarship (Kirsty Wallis)

Thomas Kaarsted

University of Southern Denmark

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Thomas Kaarsted is Deputy Library Director and daily manager of SDU Citizen Science. Originally a historian and a master of public governance he has been working with publishing and communication before moving into Citizen Science and Open Science. He is a member of the LIBER Citizen Science Working Group.

Anne Kathrine Overgaard

University of Southern Denmark

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Anne Kathrine Overgaard is Head of External projects at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark. Together with Thomas Kaarsted she co-founded in 2017 the Citizen Science Network and in 2021 the Citizen Science Knowledge Centre at SDU. She is a committed Citizen Science advocate and has been project manager for a long range of Citizen Science projects especially within Health Sciences.

Kirsty Wallis

University College London

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Kirsty is currently Head of Research Liaison in UCL Library services where she also leads the day-to-day running of the Office for Open Science and Scholarship. This broad remit is built upon the LERU 8 Pillars of Open Science and brings together teams from across the institution around a common goal. This includes particular focus on creating a community around citizen science and developing an advocacy and support service. Kirsty is also a part-time PhD student, researching the evolution of research support services in Libraries and the effect of the shifting policy landscape.

Towards a model for assessing the value of transformative agreements for both “read” and “publish” institutions

Read and publish deals or Transformative Agreements, through which funders and institutions pay for knowledge dissemination rather than access, are a recent pathway toward a more open future. Yet we lack a framework for assessing the combined value of the open publishing and comprehensive read access that these deals provide. Perceived and actual value and price vary according to whether an institution is a major content producer (publish institution) or content consumer (read institution). To assess the value from these differing perspectives, we’ll use top-down data from Delta Think’s OA Data & Analytics Tool and bottom up data from Our Research’s Unsub.

Michael Levine-Clark

University of Denver

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Michael Levine-Clark is Dean of the University of Denver Libraries, where he has worked in various positions since 1999. He serves in leadership roles in multiple consortia and is the chair of the OCLC Americas Regional Council. As a member of many publisher and vendor library advisory boards, he provides guidance about library and higher education trends. For his work on e-books and demand-driven acquisition models, he received the 2015 Harrasowitz Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award. He is widely published and has been invited to speak on six continents about academic library collections and scholarly communication issues.

Heather Staines

Delta Think

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Heather Staines is Senior Consultant at Delta Think and Director of Community Engagement for the OA Data Analytics Tool. Her prior roles include Head of Partnerships for Knowledge Futures Group, Director of Business Development at Hypothesis, as well as positions at Proquest, SIPX, Springer SBM, and Greenwood Publishing Group/Praeger Publishers. She is a frequent participant at industry events including the COUNTER Board of Directors, Charleston Library Conference, STM Futurelab, Society for Scholarly Publishing, Council of Science Editors, NISO Transfer Standing Committee, and NASIG Digital Preservation Committee. She has a Ph.D. in Military and Diplomatic History from Yale University.

Jason Price

SCELC Library Consortium

John McDonald

Product Manager, Analytics EBSCO International, Inc

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John McDonald is the Director of Product Management for Analytics & Assessment at EBSCO Information Services. He leads the development of products that help libraries and librarians to better understand their users, their usage, and the value of their collections & services. Prior to EBSCO, John was AUL for Collections at the University of Southern California Libraries, the CIO & Library Director for the Claremont Colleges and Acquisitions Librarian at Caltech. In his free time he enjoys baseball, brewing beer, making fermented hot sauces, and entertaining his teenager and their very big & sweet dog.

How to evaluate AI tools – and how the library can help

There are two main aspects to the AI for academic publishing in use today: the algorithm, and the corpus. Somewhat surprisingly, most attention has been focused on algorithms, yet the corpus may be even more important, from the point of view of potential bias. There is already plenty of experience within the library at measuring the take-up and effect (and limitations) of digital tools. Using some real-life case studies, this presentation gives suggestions for assessing AI tools compared with current manual processes, and considers how use cases can help identify new ways of deploying of AI.

Michael Upshall

UNSILO, a Division of Cactus Communications

Tracking the open access book: what data do research institutions and libraries need in support of their strategies around open access books?

With momentum for Open Access (OA) books on the rise, there have been calls by various stakeholders to open up the library and develop OA book infrastructures to further support the transition to OA for books. One of the key infrastructures for OA books is the OAPEN Library that helps stakeholders tracking usage of OA books. During this session we will show how OAPEN can provide usage data for different stakeholders and seek to explore additional kinds of data that libraries may find useful to inform their OA book strategies and decision-making processes to support OA book publishing initiatives.

Tom Mosterd

DOAB & OAPEN, Open Access Books Network

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Tom Mosterd is the Community Manager for DOAB & OAPEN. His primary focus is on working with the growing library community on further improving and developing OAPEN and its services, connecting these with the needs of the library community. Next to this, Tom is one of three coordinators of the Open Access Books Network – an open network for anyone interested in open access books – organising events, creating resources, advocating for open access books and building a thriving community around open access books.

Niels Stern

OAPEN Foundation

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Niels Stern is director of OAPEN. He began his career in scholarly book publishing in 2003. Co-founder of the OAPEN project in 2008. Head of Publishing at the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2011. Since 2014 independent expert for the European Commission on open science and e-infrastructures. In 2017 Head of Department for Licence Management at the Royal Danish Library and chief negotiator for the national licence consortium in Denmark.

How do you make Library acquisitions truly ethical?

Contained within the University of Sheffield Comprehensive Content Strategy is an expression of ideals on which the Library should operate, notably a commitment to act ethically, sustainably and inclusively in the provision of content. This paper will explore the challenges of turning these ideals into practical action. It will ask what practically can be effected by librarians. Does this situation require a revolution? If not, can significant reform be achieved within existing power structures? Or are these notions fundamentally impossible, and academic libraries should resign themselves to an accommodation with commercialism and look for other values in their partnerships?

Peter Barr

University of Sheffield

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Peter Barr leads a team with responsibility for library acquisitions and collection management at the University of Sheffield. He was appointed to oversee the development of the Library’s Comprehensive Content strategy, part of which has now become the Collections Transformation Plan. His professional interest lies in these areas, particularly the role libraries can play in the transformation of scholarly publishing towards a more ethical, non-commercial and community owned future.

Brokering a National Data Agreement – Lessons Learnt and Future Opportunities

Jisc has led on a strategy (known as ‘Plan M’) to improve the efficiency of the library data ecosystem in the UK. This session will contextualise the objectives of the plan, give an update on progress, and look ahead to the opportunities that may be afforded if a more open bibliographic data ecosystem can be realised that empowers novel research, learning and teaching. A key part of the session will report on the outcome of a negotiation between Jisc and OCLC to facilitate a national WorldCat licence.

Neil Grindley

Jisck

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Neil is the Director of Discovery and Content Services at Jisc, an organization that empowers UK universities, colleges and skills providers to fully exploit the possibilities afforded by digital technologies. He has strategic responsibility for developing products and maintaining services that enable universities and colleges to acquire, create, manage, find and access resources for teaching, learning and research. Neil has managed and led national level initiatives focused on the digital humanities, digital preservation, and data infrastructure services for libraries.

Transforming decision-making in the library: The University of Nottingham perspective on Read and Publish agreements

This Breakout session explores the work of UoN Libraries’ Read & Publish Group (R&P Group) in reviewing and managing Transitional Agreements (TAs), balancing budgetary costs and providing access to resources whilst also maximising publishing opportunities for our researchers.

University of Nottingham Libraries are committed to supporting Plan S principles and adopting Transitional Agreements (or Transformative Agreements). There is an inherent tension between the Read and Publish aspects of TAs, and a new approach was required was to manage these very different and sometimes competing priorities in a challenging and competitive research and teaching environment.

Paul Cavanagh

University of Nottingham

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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

University of Nottingham

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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.

Joint Session

Edinburgh Diamond: launching a library-supported open access book hosting service – Rebecca Wojturska

With new policies and guidance around Open Access publishing for academic books, it’s more important than ever for libraries to engage with Open Access publishing to provide support for their academics and students. Edinburgh University Library is launching a book hosting service to support teaching and learning activities. The service is rebranding as “Edinburgh Diamond” and will be free of charge to staff and students, enabling them to publish textbooks, monographs and edited collections with full library support. During the presentation Rebecca will reflect on the timeline, successes and learning points of the project, and provide recommendations to attendees.

Taking OA to the Press(books) – Jill Emery, Portland State University

The presentation will feature how libraries can use the opensource Pressbooks software to develop library learning objects and open education resources to support teaching, learning, and research on your campus.

Comprehensive coverage of Elsevier Science Direct books for SHEDL partners – Alasdair MacDonald, Edinburgh University

Since 2019, the Metadata Team at Edinburgh University Library has produced back files and monthly update files to give comprehensive MARC record coverage for all SHEDL partner institutions for the widely used Elsevier Science Direct Freedom e-book collection. Alasdair MacDonald’s presentation looks at the workflow for creating files comprising ‘fit for purpose’ records for all published titles within a defined timescale.

Rebecca Wojturska

University of Edinburgh

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Rebecca Wojturska (she/her) is the Open Access Publishing Officer at the University of Edinburgh, functioning within Library and University Collections on the Scholarly Communications Team. She is responsible for managing Edinburgh Diamond: an open access hosting service which offers hosting, technical support, preservation, indexing, and publishing guidance to staff and students who wish to publish diamond open access books and journals. Rebecca is also the Statistician/Bibliometrician for the Journal of Information Literacy. In her spare time she loves nothing more than reading Gothic literature, watching horror films and crushing her enemies at board games.

Jill Emery

Portland State University

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Jill Emery is the Collection Development & Management Librarian at Portland State University Library and has over 20 years of academic library experience. She has held leadership positions in ALA ALCTS, ER&L, and NASIG. She serves on the Project COUNTER Executive Committee. Jill is a member of The Charleston Advisor editorial board and is the columnist of “Heard on the Net,” and is on the editorial board for Insights: the UKSG journal. Her co-authored book is: Techniques of Electronic Resource Management: TERMS and the Transition to Open.

Alasdair Macdonald

University of Edinburgh

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Alasdair MacDonald is Metadata Co-ordinator at Edinburgh University Library, a post he has held since 2014. He has worked as a librarian for over 23 years, specialising in metadata since 2000. He has a long standing interest in identifying creator and contributor entities across different platforms and catalogues. Alasdair is currently the Vice Chair of the Metadata and Discovery Group, Scotland and a member of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Governing Board. He has previously worked at the Bodleian Library and the National Library of Scotland

A new model for transformative agreements and its implementation by a small publisher: Enhancing a smooth transition to open access

A new transformative model is needed because conventional Read & Publish agreements do not best serve the needs of libraries and publishers in transforming budgets and revenues, respectively, from subscriptions to Open Access. Nina Schönfelder will present the “smooth transition model”, an advanced model, which is responsive to the progress in the transition. Anke de Looper & Marten Stavenga will present its implementation by a commercial publisher, highly specialized in linguistics. Their transformative agreement offers a gradual shift from subscription-based to publication-based charges for both publisher and libraries. The offer as well as the uptake by libraries will be discussed

Anke de Looper

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Anke de Looper is an acquisition editor and strategy officer e-content for John Benjamins Publishing Co., a privately-owned scholarly publisher with a strong focus on languages, linguistics, and related areas, publishing journals, book, and online resources.

Nina Schonfelder

Bielefeld University

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Nina Schönfelder holds a PhD in Economics and is an expert on open-access publishing. She has been working in various projects at the Bielefeld University Library: At the “National Contact Point Open Access OA2020-DE”, she developed financial and business models for open-access publishing. Currently, she develops an online-tool that shall help researchers to find the best open-access publishing venue for their manuscript within the project “open-access.network”.

Marten Stavenga

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Marten Stavenga is a Strategy Officer e-Content for John Benjamins Publishing Co., a privately-owned scholarly publisher with a strong focus on languages, linguistics, and related areas, publishing journals, book, and online resources.

Octopus: creating a new primary research record

Octopus is an innovative open platform where the scientific community can freely read, review, and register ideas and findings. Launching next month, it will enable researchers – of every seniority, institution, and location – to immediately establish a claim on their work and get fair credit for everything they do.The platform will closely integrate with existing research tools and systems, such as ORCID, but with incentives for good research practice, constructive peer review, and collaborative working, it is also designed to create a new culture of collaboration and recognition which improves access to research and rewards best practice in every aspect of the scientific process.This is an opportunity to learn more about the project and its aims, and to see an early demo of the platform prior to launch.

Lola Harre

Jisc

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I’m Jisc’s product manager for Octopus, an innovative research platform which aims to create a new primary research record for the scientific community.

I started my career in academic publishing, working with an international cohort of researchers to deliver projects ranging from archaeology monographs to digitised primary source collections.Since then, I’ve held various roles across Jisc focused on service development and sector insight, working closely with our university, college and public sector partners.

The ‘personal manifesto’: what does it mean to explore your style, preferences and needs?

Have you ever felt overwhelmed when starting a new job? Ever experienced imposter syndrome, or wondered how you can feel more confident and empowered professionally?In 2021 Thomas Shaw’s article ‘How to strive for success, happiness, fulfilment and impact: a personal manifesto’ was published in UKSG Insights. In this informal session, Tom will be interviewed by Andrew Barker to explore some of the key themes from the article. This includes reflecting on ourselves as holistic individuals with intersecting personal and professional identities, and exploring how this can help us get the best out of work for ourselves and our careers.This is an opportunity to learn more about the project and its aims, and to see an early demo of the platform prior to launch.

Tom Shaw

Lancaster University

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Thomas Shaw is Associate Director for Digital Innovation and Open Research at Lancaster University, and oversees the Library’s innovative use and development of digital technology, and its significant contribution to research through championing open research principles and practices. He has worked in libraries and information management since the late 1990s, with previous experience from the University of East London, University of Bristol and NHS Direct. He has interests in the transformational impact and value of digital for libraries, and in promoting openness in all areas of library and scholarship.

Innovation in OA agreements

This session will surface and showcase evolving best practices in OA agreements, particularly agreements between smaller independent publishers and libraries/consortia. This session will be chaired by Lorraine Estelle.

Alicia Wise

CLOCKSS

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Alicia Wise is Executive Director of CLOCKSS, a community of research libraries and academic publishers working together to ensure the long-term preservation of the scholarly record. She has been active in increasing access to research information for 20 years in roles within our publishing community (e.g. with Elsevier, the Publishers Association, the Publishers Licensing Service) and also within the library community (e.g. Jisc, a range of universities). Her Ph.D. is in Anthropology and focussed on the Roman invasion of Scotland and resistance to this.

How do you make Library acquisitions truly ethical?

Contained within the University of Sheffield Comprehensive Content Strategy is an expression of ideals on which the Library should operate, notably a commitment to act ethically, sustainably and inclusively in the provision of content. This paper will explore the challenges of turning these ideals into practical action. It will ask what practically can be effected by librarians. Does this situation require a revolution? If not, can significant reform be achieved within existing power structures? Or are these notions fundamentally impossible, and academic libraries should resign themselves to an accommodation with commercialism and look for other values in their partnerships?

Peter Barr

University of Sheffield

See Biography
Peter Barr leads a team with responsibility for library acquisitions and collection management at the University of Sheffield. He was appointed to oversee the development of the Library’s Comprehensive Content strategy, part of which has now become the Collections Transformation Plan. His professional interest lies in these areas, particularly the role libraries can play in the transformation of scholarly publishing towards a more ethical, non-commercial and community owned future.

Brokering a National Data Agreement – Lessons Learnt and Future Opportunities

Jisc has led on a strategy (known as ‘Plan M’) to improve the efficiency of the library data ecosystem in the UK. This session will contextualise the objectives of the plan, give an update on progress, and look ahead to the opportunities that may be afforded if a more open bibliographic data ecosystem can be realised that empowers novel research, learning and teaching. A key part of the session will report on the outcome of a negotiation between Jisc and OCLC to facilitate a national WorldCat licence.

Neil Grindley

Jisck

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Neil is the Director of Discovery and Content Services at Jisc, an organization that empowers UK universities, colleges and skills providers to fully exploit the possibilities afforded by digital technologies. He has strategic responsibility for developing products and maintaining services that enable universities and colleges to acquire, create, manage, find and access resources for teaching, learning and research. Neil has managed and led national level initiatives focused on the digital humanities, digital preservation, and data infrastructure services for libraries.

Transforming decision-making in the library: The University of Nottingham perspective on Read and Publish agreements

This Breakout session explores the work of UoN Libraries’ Read & Publish Group (R&P Group) in reviewing and managing Transitional Agreements (TAs), balancing budgetary costs and providing access to resources whilst also maximising publishing opportunities for our researchers.

University of Nottingham Libraries are committed to supporting Plan S principles and adopting Transitional Agreements (or Transformative Agreements). There is an inherent tension between the Read and Publish aspects of TAs, and a new approach was required was to manage these very different and sometimes competing priorities in a challenging and competitive research and teaching environment.

Paul Cavanagh

University of Nottingham

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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

University of Nottingham

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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.

Joint Session

Edinburgh Diamond: launching a library-supported open access book hosting service – Rebecca Wojturska

With new policies and guidance around Open Access publishing for academic books, it’s more important than ever for libraries to engage with Open Access publishing to provide support for their academics and students. Edinburgh University Library is launching a book hosting service to support teaching and learning activities. The service is rebranding as “Edinburgh Diamond” and will be free of charge to staff and students, enabling them to publish textbooks, monographs and edited collections with full library support. During the presentation Rebecca will reflect on the timeline, successes and learning points of the project, and provide recommendations to attendees.

Taking OA to the Press(books) – Jill Emery, Portland State University

The presentation will feature how libraries can use the opensource Pressbooks software to develop library learning objects and open education resources to support teaching, learning, and research on your campus.

Comprehensive coverage of Elsevier Science Direct books for SHEDL partners – Alasdair MacDonald, Edinburgh University

Since 2019, the Metadata Team at Edinburgh University Library has produced back files and monthly update files to give comprehensive MARC record coverage for all SHEDL partner institutions for the widely used Elsevier Science Direct Freedom e-book collection. Alasdair MacDonald’s presentation looks at the workflow for creating files comprising ‘fit for purpose’ records for all published titles within a defined timescale.

Rebecca Wojturska

University of Edinburgh

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Rebecca Wojturska (she/her) is the Open Access Publishing Officer at the University of Edinburgh, functioning within Library and University Collections on the Scholarly Communications Team. She is responsible for managing Edinburgh Diamond: an open access hosting service which offers hosting, technical support, preservation, indexing, and publishing guidance to staff and students who wish to publish diamond open access books and journals. Rebecca is also the Statistician/Bibliometrician for the Journal of Information Literacy. In her spare time she loves nothing more than reading Gothic literature, watching horror films and crushing her enemies at board games.

Jill Emery

Portland State University

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Jill Emery is the Collection Development & Management Librarian at Portland State University Library and has over 20 years of academic library experience. She has held leadership positions in ALA ALCTS, ER&L, and NASIG. She serves on the Project COUNTER Executive Committee. Jill is a member of The Charleston Advisor editorial board and is the columnist of “Heard on the Net,” and is on the editorial board for Insights: the UKSG journal. Her co-authored book is: Techniques of Electronic Resource Management: TERMS and the Transition to Open.

Alasdair Macdonald

University of Edinburgh

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Alasdair MacDonald is Metadata Co-ordinator at Edinburgh University Library, a post he has held since 2014. He has worked as a librarian for over 23 years, specialising in metadata since 2000. He has a long standing interest in identifying creator and contributor entities across different platforms and catalogues. Alasdair is currently the Vice Chair of the Metadata and Discovery Group, Scotland and a member of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Governing Board. He has previously worked at the Bodleian Library and the National Library of Scotland

A new model for transformative agreements and its implementation by a small publisher: Enhancing a smooth transition to open access

A new transformative model is needed because conventional Read & Publish agreements do not best serve the needs of libraries and publishers in transforming budgets and revenues, respectively, from subscriptions to Open Access. Nina Schönfelder will present the “smooth transition model”, an advanced model, which is responsive to the progress in the transition. Anke de Looper & Marten Stavenga will present its implementation by a commercial publisher, highly specialized in linguistics. Their transformative agreement offers a gradual shift from subscription-based to publication-based charges for both publisher and libraries. The offer as well as the uptake by libraries will be discussed

Anke de Looper

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Anke de Looper is an acquisition editor and strategy officer e-content for John Benjamins Publishing Co., a privately-owned scholarly publisher with a strong focus on languages, linguistics, and related areas, publishing journals, book, and online resources.

Nina Schonfelder

Bielefeld University

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Nina Schönfelder holds a PhD in Economics and is an expert on open-access publishing. She has been working in various projects at the Bielefeld University Library: At the “National Contact Point Open Access OA2020-DE”, she developed financial and business models for open-access publishing. Currently, she develops an online-tool that shall help researchers to find the best open-access publishing venue for their manuscript within the project “open-access.network”.

Marten Stavenga

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Marten Stavenga is a Strategy Officer e-Content for John Benjamins Publishing Co., a privately-owned scholarly publisher with a strong focus on languages, linguistics, and related areas, publishing journals, book, and online resources.

Octopus: creating a new primary research record

Octopus is an innovative open platform where the scientific community can freely read, review, and register ideas and findings. Launching next month, it will enable researchers – of every seniority, institution, and location – to immediately establish a claim on their work and get fair credit for everything they do.The platform will closely integrate with existing research tools and systems, such as ORCID, but with incentives for good research practice, constructive peer review, and collaborative working, it is also designed to create a new culture of collaboration and recognition which improves access to research and rewards best practice in every aspect of the scientific process.This is an opportunity to learn more about the project and its aims, and to see an early demo of the platform prior to launch.

Lola Harre

Jisc

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I’m Jisc’s product manager for Octopus, an innovative research platform which aims to create a new primary research record for the scientific community.

I started my career in academic publishing, working with an international cohort of researchers to deliver projects ranging from archaeology monographs to digitised primary source collections.Since then, I’ve held various roles across Jisc focused on service development and sector insight, working closely with our university, college and public sector partners.

The ‘personal manifesto’: what does it mean to explore your style, preferences and needs?

Have you ever felt overwhelmed when starting a new job? Ever experienced imposter syndrome, or wondered how you can feel more confident and empowered professionally?In 2021 Thomas Shaw’s article ‘How to strive for success, happiness, fulfilment and impact: a personal manifesto’ was published in UKSG Insights. In this informal session, Tom will be interviewed by Andrew Barker to explore some of the key themes from the article. This includes reflecting on ourselves as holistic individuals with intersecting personal and professional identities, and exploring how this can help us get the best out of work for ourselves and our careers.This is an opportunity to learn more about the project and its aims, and to see an early demo of the platform prior to launch.

Tom Shaw

Lancaster University

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Thomas Shaw is Associate Director for Digital Innovation and Open Research at Lancaster University, and oversees the Library’s innovative use and development of digital technology, and its significant contribution to research through championing open research principles and practices. He has worked in libraries and information management since the late 1990s, with previous experience from the University of East London, University of Bristol and NHS Direct. He has interests in the transformational impact and value of digital for libraries, and in promoting openness in all areas of library and scholarship.

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FREE UKSG webinar - Library funding for Open Access at KU Leuven
2022-05-16 13:00
At KU Leuven we believe that it is essential to apply library budgets to foster a greater diversity in the market of academic publishing. With this purpose in mind we have founded the KU Leuven Fund for Fair Open Access, which is exclusively devoted to stimulating the development of non-profit and community-led publishers, infrastructures and initiatives. During this presentation I will share some insights about the operation of such a fund, the type of open scholarship infrastructures and OA programmes we support, and explain our decision to cease financing article processing charges, even in a Fair OA business model.

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FREE UKSG webinar - Plan M: the road ahead
2022-04-26 14:00
Following the launch of the National Metadata Agreement between Jisc and OCLC in February 2022, this webinar will talk about current developments related to Plan M, as well as the roadmap for 2022/23 and beyond, as the current project draws to a close. The strategy for the next phase of Jisc’s work on establishing the NBK/Library Hub as core national infrastructure of a more efficient bibliographic metadata supply model will be discussed, and attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and find out how they can get involved in providing sector insights to Jisc’s Library Hub team, that will help inform future developments.

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UKSG Licensing Skills for Librarians Online Seminar 2022
2022-03-29 00:00 - 2022-03-30 00:00

Free UKSG Further Education Webinar Series - The role of the library in enabling blended learning
2022-03-11 13:00
The role of the library in enabling blended learning

In this session Scott Hayden will share how a team of students turned Learning Technologists and Facilitators helped develop an under-used LRC and adjoining spaces into a space that helps all Full Time learners engage in registered and timetabled Flipped and Blended Learning sessions every week throughout the year.

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Free UKSG Further Education Webinar Series - The role of the library in enabling blended learning
2022-03-11 00:00

Publication to press: building trust in research communication
2022-02-09 10:00
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Publication to press: building trust in research communication
2022-02-09 00:00

Free UKSG Further Education Webinar Series - Reporting for better budget allocation and improved user experience
2022-01-28 11:00
Reporting for better budget allocation and improved user experience

The digital revolution has changed the relationship between libraries/librarians and end-users. Many libraries have had to strengthen their digital presence to survive, especially over the last 12 months. Part of making libraries accessible and effective is to install tools that allow them to demonstrate and monitor the library’s impact on its users.

In this talk, Cristina Ruiz de Asua, academic librarian at Nescot College, will be discussing the importance of reporting and the key metrics you need to look out for, whether it is to identify bottlenecks, improve services or better allocate budgets. Cristina will also talk about the improvements on user experience she’s carried on during the pandemic, including the implementation of OpenAthens single sign-on.

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Free UKSG Further Education Webinar Series - Reporting for better budget allocation and improved user experience
2022-01-28 00:00

Research dissemination seminar 2021 - to be updated
2021-12-08 10:00, 2021-12-08 00:00

UKSG Further Education 2021 Webinar Series - Save the date
2021-11-30 11:00, 2021-11-30 00:00

UKSG November Conference - Open Scholarship 2021: the good, the bad and the ugly
2021-11-17 09:00 - 17:15
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.

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?

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

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UKSG Usage Data for Decision Making online seminar 2021
2021-10-19 00:00

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2021-10-19 00:00

FREE UKSG webinar - Making Open Access Book Funding Work Fairly: Central European University Press and Opening the Future
2021-10-13 13:00
Open access monograph publishing needs to be sustainable not just for publishers, but also for libraries. CEU Press’ collective library funding programme ‘Opening the Future’ was designed to be low-cost and simple, slotting into acquisitions budgets and existing library purchasing workflows. Several months into launch, we assess how this has fared and discuss how we can scale without increasing the administrative and decision-making burden already on collections and scholarly communications teams, who are already picking through a tangle of transformative agreements, pay-to-publish deals, author affiliations, and legacy subscriptions. The session will be set in context of the recent UKRI monograph policy announcement.

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UKSG Licensing Skills Online Seminar 2021
2021-09-21 00:00 - 2021-09-22 00:00

FREE UKSG webinar - Federated authentication for library resources: can it be trusted?
2021-07-14 14:00
Library users are increasingly authenticating to online resources from off campus. Access control via campus IP recognition remains but publishers and service providers are increasingly investing in federated single sign on technologies such as SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language). Can libraries trust a platform that asks users to sign in with their personal institutional credentials? This webinar will explain how federated authentication works, will discuss the benefits for libraries and service providers and address the apparent conflict between offering personalisation whilst still preserving user privacy.

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UKSG - Introduction to E-Resources Online Seminar 2021
2021-07-06 09:00, 2021-07-06 00:00 - 2021-07-09 00:00

FREE UKSG webinar - Back to the Future: Lessons learned from the Jisc OA Textbook project
2021-06-17 13:00
With eTextbooks high on library and publisher agendas and the controversy over costs and access raging, OA textbooks could be a solution. What are the considerations for initiating, and sustaining an open access textbook directly linked to teaching at one institution, but open to all? The 2014-2018 Jisc Institution as eTextbook Publisher project funded OA textbook pilots and created a toolkit. Liverpool published 2 titles, in a partnership with the Library and Liverpool University Press. In this webinar we will revisit the project and look forward, considering resource and expertise requirements for a sustainable OA textbook model.

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UKSG 44th Annual Conference and Exhibition: Online
2021-04-12 09:00 - 2021-04-14 14:00
Please note that all of the recordings of the conference are now openly available Scroll down for the link. The UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition 2021 will be held online for the first time. The event is a major event in the scholarly communications calendar which attracts a large number of delegates each year from around the world – librarians, publishers, content providers, consultants and intermediaries. The conference combines high-quality plenary presentations, lightning talks and breakout sessions with virtual social events and a major online trade exhibition.

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Monday, April 12, 2021 – 09:00 BSTtoWednesday, April 14, 2021 – 14:00 BST

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About the Event

Delegate Registration

Bookings for the conference have now closed.

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Programme

Scroll down the page for the full programme. Our conference was hosted by Underline.io and all recordings are now openly available here: https://underline.io/events/53/reception

Our exhibitors and sponsors are hosting their own events during the exhibit hours – please see the list of activities here.

Exhibition

The Exhibition is now open for bookings – please see here for details! A complete exhibitor list is available here

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2021 John Merriman joint NASIG/UKSG award

The UK award is again supported by the generous sponsorship of Taylor & Francis Group the winner will receive free registration at the 44th Annual UKSG and the 36th Annual NASIG.

Named in honour of John Merriman, in recognition of his work in founding both UKSG and NASIG, this prestigious award provides an invaluable opportunity for anyone keen to learn and share experiences from a different angle.

Bursaries for #UKSG2021

We are pleased to say that we have offered bursaries and scholarships to 35 individuals from across the sector and around the world, enabling them to attend UKSG2021 this year. Our thanks to AAAS, Adam Matthew Digital, Cell Press, Content Online, Cambridge University Press and Wiley for supporting our bursary programme. (Please remember to visit them in our virtual exhibition!)

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Our thanks to these Key Sponsors for their additional support for UKSG and the conference this year:

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Programme

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09.00

Breakout Sessions: Group A

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

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09.30

Chair Yoga with Poppy

Kindly Sponsored by AIP Publishing

11.15

Opening of the conference

Andrew Barker

Lancaster University

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Andrew Barker has been Director of Library Services & Learning Development at Lancaster University since September 2019. Prior to that he held a number of senior roles within diverse university libraries, including the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University. Andrew was Chair of UKSG between 2018 and 2022, and has been Vice-Chair of SCONUL since December 2021.

11.30

Lightning Talk Group A – Advancing open data: implementing an Open and FAIR data sharing policy

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

Matt Cannon

Associate Director Biochemical Society/Portland Press Ltd

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Gaynor is committed to develolping sustainable and fair routes enabling authors the choice of not for profit journals in which to publish their research.

11.38

Lightning Talk Group A – Engaging the public in academic research – what has open access done for the wider community?

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.

Jane Belger

University of the West of England

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Jane Belger has been Research and Open access librarian at the University of the West of England since 2014, having previously held a number of customer service roles. Her focus as part of the Library research support team is providing training on open access and data management for research staff and students as well as managing open access publishing payments and the UKRI block grant.

11.46

Lightning Talk Group A – Castles, airports and indexes: impact beyond impact factor

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.

Ben Ramster

ICE Publishing

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Ben Ramster is Journals Manager at ICE Publishing, of society and UK charity the Institution of Civil Engineers. He has >15 years of experience working in journals editorial teams, first at Elsevier (life science) and then for a medical communications agency working with the pharmaceutical industry. He has seen ICE Publishing grow from 13 peer-reviewed titles to today’s 35, and has organised seminars for ALPSP on both Author Care and Open Access.

12.00

Poster Sessions

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

12.00

Exhibition opens

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

12.00

Breakout Sessions Live Q&A: Group A (part one)

Join our breakout speakers for a live question and answer session

14.00

Plenary 1.1 OA publishing and the financial sustainability challenge / UUK-Jisc Content Negotiation Strategy Group –

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

Colette Fagan

University of Manchester

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Professor Colette Fagan, FAcSS, Vice-President for Research, is responsible for leading and implementing The University of Manchester’s research and doctoral training strategy. She is incoming chair of the Russell Group’s PVC-Research Group, and serves on the editorial board of The Conversation the N8 research partnership Senior Executive Group and the UUK/JISC Content Negotiating Strategy Group. She co-authored the British Academy’s 2016 report Crossing Paths: Interdisciplinary institutions, careers, education and applications. Colette’s research and policy impact focus is employment, working conditions and job quality; including gender inequalities and international comparative analysis. She is an elected Fellow of the UK’s Academy of Social Sciences in recognition of her research standing.

Liam Earney

Jisc

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Liam Earney is the Executive Director of Digital resources at Jisc since August 2019. He is responsible for Jisc’s licensing, open research, content & discovery services for further and higher education and research. This includes services such as Jisc Collections, Chest, Library hub, JUSP and SHERPA which collectively save UK universities and colleges over £100 million per annum.Liam is also the executive leadership team lead overseeing Jisc’s strategy to support members’ research and innovation activity.

Previously Director of licensing at Jisc, with a responsibility for the units undertaking the licensing and negotiation of agreements for digital content and software on behalf of UK universities and further education colleges. Overseeing the evolution of Jisc’s approach to the negotiation of open access agreements, in particular how Jisc could best support the sector achieve its aims around pure gold, hybrid and green open access.

14.20

Plenary 1.2 – Societies and the three-legged stool

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?

Tasha Mellins-Cohen

Mellins-Cohen Consulting

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Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Executive Director at COUNTER Metrics and Founder of Mellins-Cohen Consulting, joined the scholarly publishing industry in 2001. She has held roles within learned societies and commercial publishers across operations, technology, editorial and executive functions, while donating time to key industry initiatives and bodies such as UKSG, ALPSP and STM. In 2020 she started consulting in response to requests for help in developing and implementing OA business models in not-for-profit groups. In 2022 she stepped up from volunteer to Director at COUNTER Metrics, the standard for usage metrics, alongside her consulting work.

14.45

Plenary 1.3 – Innovating to meet research community needs in an ever-changing, uncertain environment

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’.

Ian Moss

STM

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Ian Moss is CEO of STM, the global trade association for scholarly publishing that represents more than 140 members, including all the major commercial publishers, learned societies and university presses.  STM’s members are responsible for around two thirds of all published papers from the world of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.

Ian was formally Director of Public Affairs at the BPI, the British Recorded Music Industry.  Before this, Ian spent twelve years in the UK Government and was a Senior Civil Servant in the Ministry of Justice as Director of Criminal Justice Strategy following roles as Head of Strategy in the Department for Work and Pensions, Principal Private Secretary at the Cabinet Office, Head of Technology and Innovation at HM Treasury and Head of Broadcasting Regulation at the Office of Telecommunications.   His full biography can be found here (link to: https://www.stm-assoc.org/about-stm/whos-who-at-stm/).

15.10

Plenary Session 1: Live Q&A

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

15.45

Breakout Sessions Live Q&A: Group A (part two)

Join our breakout speakers for a live question and answer session

16.00

Exhibition

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

17.00

Social Activity: Quiz night

Join your peers for some conference social fun! Our legendary quiz night has gone online so grab a drink and a snack and join our quiz host Mark Hester to test your trivia knowledge. Please register your attendance here

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Programme

Speakers

09.00

Breakout Sessions: Group B

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

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09.30

Chair Yoga with Poppy

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11.30

Lightning Talk Group B – OA Switchboard: a mission-driven practical solution, that thrives on collaboration

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.

Yvonne Campfens

Stichting OA Switchboard

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Yvonne Campfens holds a MSc Econometrics degree from University of Amsterdam, and has worked in academic publishing and related service sectors for 30 years (Elsevier, Swets Subscription Services, Bohn Stafleu van Loghum/Springer Media, Springer Nature). She was involved in collaborative and workflow solutions like ASA model licenses (1999), ALPSP Learned Journal Collection (2004) and TRANSFER Code of Practice (2009). In 2018, she started her own consultancy business, and has been involved with OA Switchboard since 2019. In 2020 she was appointed Executive Director of Stichting (‘foundation’) OA Switchboard.

11.41

Lightning Talk Group B – Open Access Books: How to Find, Acquire, and Use Them

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.

Charles Watkinson

University of Michigan Library

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Charles Watkinson is Associate University Librarian for Publishing at the University of Michigan Library and Director of University of Michigan Press. He previously worked at Purdue University and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. UMP is a leading publisher of OA books, which it presents through its open-source platform, Fulcrum. Find out more at fulcrum.org/michigan

11.49

Lightning Talk Group B – Charismetrics: winning researcher hearts and minds with the Research Intelligence service at Lancaster University

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.

Joanne Fitzpatrick

University of Lancaster

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Joanne is Research Data Manager at Lancaster University, UK, where she contributes to both the Research Data and Research Intelligence Services. She has delivered the Research Intelligence Service, which focuses on bibliometric analysis and researcher training, since its beginnings in 2019 and has recently re-launched Data Conversations, a pioneering Lancaster University programme of researcher training, in an online format. She graduated with an MSc Information Science from Northumbria University in 2019 and won Lancaster University’s International Impact Award 2020 for her work with world rankings.

12.00

Exhibition

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

12.00

Breakout Sessions Live Q&A: Group B (part one)

Join our breakout speakers for a live question and answer session

12.00

Poster Sessions

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

14.00

Plenary Session 2.1 – For an inclusive global flow of scientific information

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.

Abel Packer

Director SciELO Program

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Abel Packer co-founded the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) in 1998, a Brazilian research infrastructure program and international cooperation program committed to the advancement of scientific research and communication through the Open Access indexing and publication of a network of selected collection of quality peer-reviewed journals operating in 17 countries. Currently he is Director of SciELO. He is also Project Coordinator at the Foundation of the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) and former Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences (BIREME/PAHO/WHO). Abel has a MLS with extensive experience in information science, librarianship, information technology, and information management.

14.24

Plenary 2.2 – In a Time of Global Challenge Open Access Policy in CMAPH

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.

Yang Pan

Chinese Medical Association Publishing House

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Yang Pan is the Director of Marketing & Public Relation Department of CMAPH, and the Managing Director of the CMA Journal《Maternal-Fetal Medicine》. She started as the editor of Chinese Edition of BMJ in CMAPH since 2001, and devoted to the publishing industry for nearly 20 years. With rich experience, she had completed a series of funded programs of China Association for Science and Technology（CAST）, such as” Brand Building of Chinese Sci-Tech Periodicals”, ”International Influence Promotion Project”. During the COVID-19 pandemic, as the committee member, she took part in building up the “COVID-19 Academic Research Communication Platform” and publishing the special issue of COVID-19 in Chinese Medical Journal. Moreover, she has supported CAST to initiate Chinese Science Journals to join the COVID-19 database which is built by WHO, further Conducts Active International Cooperation

14.50

Plenary 2.3 – The evolving scholarly publishing process in Africa

Frederick Ato Armah

University of Cape Coast

15.15

Plenary Session 2: Live Q&A

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

Colleen Campbell

Max Planck Digital Library

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Ros Pyne is Global Director, Research and Open Access at Bloomsbury Academic. She has worked in open access policy and strategy roles for over a decade and has a particular interest in bringing OA to long-form scholarship and to the humanities. Ros sits on the advisory boards for the OAPEN OA Books Toolkit and the Mellon-funded Book Analytics Dashboard Project and is co-author of several papers on open access books.

Colleen Campbell is strategic advisor for external engagement at the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL). There she coordinates two open access initiatives: the Open Access 2020 Initiative, a global alliance of research organizations and their libraries that are repurposing their investments in subscriptions to support open access publishing, and the ESAC Initiative, a library community of practice building capacities around transformative and open access publishing agreements. She is a member of the LIBER Open Access Working Group and serves on the Managing Board of EIFL, a not-for-profit organization that works with libraries to enable access to knowledge in developing and transition economy countries.

15.45

Breakout Sessions Live Q&A: Group B (part two)

Join our breakout speakers for a live question and answer session

16.00

Exhibition

17.00

Social Activity: Tuesday social

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!

Time

Programme

Speakers

10.00

Introduction to Day 3

10.00

Publishing Open Access

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.

Rhonda Lands

ACS Publications

10.10

IEEE Update for UKSG

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.

Judy Brady

IEEE

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Judy H. Brady is the IEEE Area Manager for Europe with primary responsibility for IEEE’s Institutional customers. Judy has been with IEEE for more than 25 years and in the marketing and public relations field for more than 35 years working primarily for not-for-profit companies and in the STM area. In her time with IEEE Judy has been responsible for the marketing of education and training resources, IEEE books, and since 1997, IEEE’s online collections with an ever-increasing emphasis on open access publishing. She holds a BA in Journalism and Communications from Rutgers University, NJ, USA.

10.20

Case “Sales in Russia”

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.

Matthias Aicher

MA Group AG

10.25

The Future of Online Books at Oxford University Press

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.

Tanya Laplante

Oxford University Press

10.35

It’s 2021 – where are all the robots?

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

Michael M. Lee

Editor, Science Robotics

10.50

Primary source literacy: Tools for empowering students with critical thinking skills

Introducing Research Methods Primary Sources

Ellie Davey Corrigan

Adam Matthew Digital

11.00

Advantage User Interface Evolution

Dan Heffernan

AdvantageCS

11.10

Library hub Cataloguing service

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

Bethan Ruddock

Jisc

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Bethan works for Jisc, as part of the Library Hub and NBK team. She has particualr interest in bibliographic metdata.

11.20

Annual Reviews – Subscribe to Open developments

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

Mark Greene

Annual Reviews

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Mark Greene is the Manager of Sales, Partnerships & Initiatives at Annual Reviews where he is responsible for the sales and distribution of Annual Reviews journals across Europe. Based in the UK, Mark joined Annual Reviews in 2017 to foster better collaboration with our European librarian colleagues. Most recently Mark has been involved in implementing the Subscribe to Open model for Annual Reviews across Europe

11.30

How Simplifying a Site’s User Registration and Login Delivers More ‘Known’ Visitors

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.

Eleni Lialiamou

VP, Product Management Atypon

11.40

Accessibility and Complex Digital Resources

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.

Matt Kibble

Bloomsbury Digital Resources

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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.

11.50

Digital Textbooks – A Brief History of the Higher Education from Cambridge University Press (HE) Website

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.

Kerr Alexander

Cambridge University Press

12.00

Get Up to Speed and Stay Up to Date: user responses to discovery via diverse content in ScienceDirect

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.

Gwen Evans

Elsevier

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Gwen Evans is VP of Global Library Relations at Elsevier. Previously, Gwen spent seven years as Executive Director of the state agency/library consortium OhioLINK. She held the position of Associate Professor and the Coordinator of Library Information Technologies at Bowling Green State University until 2012. She has extensive experience with all types of academic libraries including consortia. Her recent publications include an Ithaka S+R issue brief co-authored with Roger Schonfeld, It’s Not What Libraries Hold; It’s Who Libraries Serve: Seeking a User-Centered Future for Academic Libraries” and “Creating Diversity in Libraries: Management Perspectives” in Library Leadership & Management with Mihoko Hosoi and Nancy S. Kirkpatrick.

12.10

Introducing EBSCO Academy

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.

Níall McMahon

EBSCO Information Services

12.20

Using Digital Tools to Bring Archives into the Classroom

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.

Chris Houghton

Gale, A Cengage Company

12.30

Uncomfortable Questions about Open Access

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

Beth Bayley

Karger Publishers

Séverine Maes

Karger Publishers

12.40

Build a library that works for every researcher…even in times of uncertainty

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.

Mark Ayling

ProQuest

12.50

How Does SAGE Support Today’s Libraries?

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.

Karen Philips

SAGE Publishing

13.00

Publishing in the Pandemic

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.

Catherine John

Springer Nature

13.00

Publishing in the Pandemic

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.

Catherine John

Springer Nature

13.10

Challenging thinking in book publishing

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.

Anna Clarkson

Taylor & Francis

13.20

Showcasing industry-leading analytics tools from VitalSource to demonstrate the impact of eTextbooks on Learning Outcomes in Higher Education

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

Philip Rees

VitalSource

13.30

Wiley Digital Archives

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

Peter Foster

Wiley

13.40

British Library On Demand

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.

Samantha Tillett

The British Library

13.50

Round up and Close of Conference

Andrew Barker

Lancaster University

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Andrew Barker has been Director of Library Services & Learning Development at Lancaster University since September 2019. Prior to that he held a number of senior roles within diverse university libraries, including the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University. Andrew was Chair of UKSG between 2018 and 2022, and has been Vice-Chair of SCONUL since December 2021.

14.00

Exhibition

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FREE UKSG webinar - The importance and use of digital primary sources in teaching and research
2021-02-24 14:00
How can digitised primary sources help teaching and research?
UKSG and Wiley bring you three speakers from different areas of research: a librarian, a researcher, and a learned society member, to give their perspectives and insights on the role digital primary source materials have in today’s teaching and research environment. Join us to find out:

A librarian’s perspective on the importance of primary sources in teaching, learning and research.
How scholars use digital primary sources to discover stories and content that haven’t been researched before.
The opportunities of cross-archive searching in contemporary and interdisciplinary historical research.

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