Practical Routes to OA Monographs - Collaboration, Innovation and Support online seminar 2023
2023-08-22 09:30 (Europe/London)

UKSG Usage Data for Decision Making online seminar 2023
2023-09-26 00:00 - 2023-09-27 00:00

Open Educational Resources online seminar 2023
2023-10-10 00:00 - 2023-10-11 00:00, 2023-10-10 09:00

An Introduction to Resource Discovery 2023 - online seminar
2023-11-08 00:00 - 2023-11-09 00:00

An Introduction to Resource Discovery 2023 - online seminar
2023-11-08 10:00
Resource Discovery is a new seminar which gives an overview of what is discovery from the point of view of librarians, content providers and the technology services. It gives attendees insight into the discovery services landscape, metadata and processes behind the scenes.

UKSG November Conference 2023 - Enriching Scholarship: how libraries and publishers educate, enhance and inform scholarly works
2023-11-15 09:00 - 2023-11-16 17:15
Join us for the 2023 UKSG November Conference. This year’s event will take place online over two consecutive half days. Wednesday 15th November: 9.30am GMT to approx. 1.30pm and Thursday 16th November: 1.30pm GMT to approx 5.15pm.

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Wednesday, November 15, 2023 – 09:30 GMTtoThursday, November 16, 2023 – 17:15 GMT

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OnlineUnited Kingdom

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

Fees (both days):

Member – £ 45.00 + £ 9.00 VATNon-Member – £ 55.00 + £ 11.00 VAT(A list of members can be found here)

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

Summary

The theme of our online November conference for 2023 is “Enriching Scholarship: how libraries and publishers educate, enhance and inform scholarly works”.

Just as librarianship is a lot more than collection management, publishing is far broader than peer review. In this UKSG November Conference we’ll be exploring all the ways in which our community acts to enrich scholarship, within the following themes:

Research integrity. As a community we spend a lot of time talking about research integrity – but what is it, who’s responsible, and how do we get that message out to researchers?

Open scholarship. We know that open scholarship can and often does increase the administrative burden on researchers. How can we best mitigate that workload and continue to support the research process while opening up? It can also add to the workload of the information professionals involved – what does that look like and what are the answers?

Information literacy. With the proliferation of fake news, and more recently the hallucinations of artificial intelligence, the ability to find and evaluate information sources is increasingly critical for scholars. Libraries and publishers are key sources of information literacy education, and we’d love to hear about what you are doing in that space.

Digital and blended learning. While Covid-19 pushed many institutions towards digital and blended learning in place of traditional lectures, these tools have remained in place as the world has started to re-open. What kinds of materials and support do lecturers need to deliver these new modalities, and how have they impacted on traditional tools like textbooks?

Split over two half days this event brings together voices from across our sector through a programme of presentations, Q&A and facilitated panel sessions.

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Accessibility

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

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

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

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Sunday, August 4, 2024 – 00:00 BST – Monday, November 18, 2024 – 22:10 GMT

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

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General queries – events@uksg.org

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Cancellations

The closing date for cancellations is Monday 23rd October, after which date cancellations will not be eligible for a refund. Cancellation should be sent into writing to events@uksg.org. All registrants will be sent a link to a recording after the event for their personal viewing.

The General UKSG booking terms and conditions can be found here

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UKSG Forum 2023 - “Everything everywhere all at once”: keeping up with our users information needs in the age of open scholarship and TikTok
2023-12-05 09:30
Join us for the 2023 UKSG Forum! The UKSG Forum is a dynamic exhibition and networking event designed to bring together the knowledge community. The UKSG Forum was conceived in response to requests from members. Returning by demand after a break it’s a major event in the scholarly communications calendar supporting UKSG’s mission “to connect the knowledge community and encourage the exchange of ideas on scholarly communication”.

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Tuesday, December 5, 2023 – 09:30 GMTtoWednesday, April 10, 2024 – 13:30 BST

Leonardo Royal Hotel245 Broad StreetBirmingham, B1 2HQUnited Kingdom

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Registration is now closed.

The Forum is one of the key benefits of being a UKSG member and attendance is therefore free to anyone working for a UKSG member organisation or as an individual member

For non members a charge of £75+VAT applies. (More information on becoming a member can be found here).

* Please note there will be a limit of 10 people from one institution.

Event Summary

The UKSG Forum is one of the key benefits of being a UKSG member and attendance is therefore free to anyone working within a UKSG member organisation. In line with its charitable status, UKSG also wishes to encourage attendance by members of the wider community and therefore subsidises the event so that a nominal charge applies to non-members.

Programme chairs: Katherine Rose, Magaly Bascones, Tim Leonard

Free to UKSG members!

Consider becoming a UKSG member.

Check the UKSG member list.

What can I expect at the UKSG Forum?

sessions on best practice and interesting projects

a comprehensive exhibition

ample, good-quality networking opportunities

The Forum is the place for ideas, debate, provocations and short briefings. The programme consists of short lightning talks that provide “food for thought”, appealing to a broad range of interests and levels.

“A laid back event, just right for networking, and a good combination of timings for lightning talks, meetings and networking.”

“The short presentations made the day very flexible. I was able to attend the sessions, switch to the exhibition and pick up refreshments when I wanted.”

Theme

This year’s theme is “Everything everywhere all at once”: keeping up with our users information needs in the age of open scholarship and TikTok. We believe this theme encapsulates the challenges and opportunities we face in an increasingly interconnected and fast-paced world.

As the world has emerged from the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, the pace of change seems to be at an all-time high. This free UKSG Forum will explore the many facets of change affecting scholarly publishing today.

Accessibility

We’re committed to running accessible training and events. We want you to feel welcome, included, and able to fully engage in our sessions.

To help us, please share any access needs you have when prompted by our booking form. We may be in touch to ensure we’re making the right adjustments.

If you have particular accessibility needs or questions about this seminar/webinar, we encourage you to contact events@uksg.org to discuss further.

The hotel’s accessibility features include:

A number of bedrooms suitable for wheelchair access

Accessible toilets in public areas

Lifts to all floors

Directions

The hotel is well located and close to all key transport links in Birmingham, please click here for more details.

Do note: The hotel is situated in Birmingham Clean Air Zone (CAZ) which operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It is designed to reduce vehicle emissions inside the city centre. To view details, as well as check your vehicle compliance with the scheme, please visit https://www.gov.uk/check-clean-air-zone-charge

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UKSG Licensing Skills for Librarians Online Seminar 2024
2024-02-07 00:00 - 2024-02-08 00:00

The UKSG 47th Annual Conference and Exhibition: Glasgow
2024-04-10 08:00 - 13:30
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, workshops and breakout sessions with entertaining social events and trade exhibition.

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Monday, April 8, 2024 – 08:00 BSTtoWednesday, April 10, 2024 – 13:30 BST

Scottish Event Campus (SEC)Glasgow, G3 8YWUnited Kingdom

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You can access all of the conference photographs taken by Simon Williams Photography at the links below. You are free to use and re-use these photographs in any format, commercial or otherwise.

Sunday: https://images.simonwilliamsphotography.co.uk/p348531333

Monday: https://images.simonwilliamsphotography.co.uk/p446577628

Tuesday: https://images.simonwilliamsphotography.co.uk/p340722794

Wednesday: https://images.simonwilliamsphotography.co.uk/p120411265

Registration

Sorry registration has closed for the UKSG this year. Please don’t contact us with late bookings at this time as we will be unable to process them. There will be no on-site bookings so please do be considerate and not just turn up as we will have to say no.

We look forward to welcoming everyone to Glasgow!

Programme

Please scroll down for the latest programme information.

Please click here to download a copy of the programme, do note this year, in an effort to minimise our environmental impact and reduce paper waste, printed copies will be strictly limited at the event. We strongly encourage you to download the event app for accessing the programme or print a copy of the PDF before you travel.

Travel to Glasgow

More information on how to get to the SEC can be found here

ScotRail offer a special discounted train ticket for delegates travelling between the city centre and the SEC by train. The Conference Rover costs just £5 for up to 5 days’ travel. More information.

The Glasgow Convention bureau also provide a booklet containing special delegate offers and discounts for a variety of local tours and restaurants – this can be found here

Your access needs

We’re committed to running accessible training and events. We want you to feel welcome, included, and able to fully engage in our sessions.

To help us, please share any access needs you have when prompted by our booking form. We may be in touch to ensure we’re making the right adjustments.

Further information on access facilities for the city of Glasgow can be found here.

Conference App

The conference app is now live please, all registered delegates will receive and email with details on how to download the app. More detail can be found here.

The app includes information on:

community/networking pages including ice breaking area’s.

sessions and speakers (build your own programme)

delegates lists

sponsors and exhibitors

maps

take part in ‘The Passport Game’ with a chance to win £100 in vouchers

additional information/logistics

polls, Q&A, session chat

Additional venue information

UKSG and the SEC Campus put the safety of our attendees at the highest priority.  Safety and security measures are in place to provide reassurance to our visitors, for more information the SEC’s security measures please click here

During the live event be aware that generally bags larger than A3 size (30cm x 42cm) are not permitted inside the conference area, a complimentary cloakroom will be provided for conference delegate’s use.

A site map of the SEC can be found here

Sponsorship Opportunities

We are working again with Content Online who have produced the sponsorship pack which you can find here: https://bit.ly/44T9p0J

Exhibition

** All spaces for the exhibition are now fully booked. **

The list of our 2024 Exhibitors can be found here. The Exhibitor Manual can be found here (updated 7 December 2023)

Accommodation

Accommodation is not covered by the delegate fee.  The official online accommodation bookings service is now open – click here to view and book a range of hotels. Accommodation is sold on a first come, first served basis and the published rates will be available until 26 February.

Map of Glasgow hotels.

Alternatively, you can book directly with Premier Inn, which is located a short walk across the river from the SEC.

The Glasgow Convention bureau also provide a booklet containing special delegate offers and discounts for a variety of local tours and restaurants – this can be found here

2024 John Merriman Award/Sponsored Places

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. For more detail and the application process can be found here.

In addition to the John Merriman award we also offer sponsored conferences places for:

student

early career practitioners

underrepresented groups

scholarly information community

More details on these awards and bursaries can be found here.

The John Merriman award is supported by the generous sponsorship of Taylor & Francis Group and the early career professional awards are kindly sponsored by AIP Publishing, Frontiers and Wiley.

With thanks to our sponsors

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Programme

Monday 8 AprilTuesday 9 AprilWednesday 10 April

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08.00

Registrations opens alongside refreshments and exhibition viewing.

10.30

Opening of the Conference

followed by

Presentation of the John Merriman UKSG Award presented Taylor & Francis

(Award Sponsored by Taylor and Francis and provides free attendance at both UKSG and NASIG in the US)

Presentation to the sponsored students and early career professionals

Joanna Ball

DOAJ/Chair of UKSG

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

10.30

Plenary Session 1: Moving Research Integrity Conversations Upstream

A practitioner’s view of research integrity: how it works on the ground – Inke Näthke, University of Dundee

Research integrity leads in research-intensive universities engage closely with all aspects related to this topic, including, but not limited to, receiving and coordinating responses to issues raised related to potential breaches of integrity, developing and implementing relevant procedures and policies, developing and delivering training, and ensuring a positive research culture. I will take the audience through the processes initiated when concerns are raised to illustrate the sometimes unforeseen challenges that can arise and discuss potential improvements.

Inke Näthke

University of Dundee

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Professor Inke Näthke was awarded her PhD from the University of California, San Francisco and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and Harvard Medical School before establishing her independent research team in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee focussed on early changes in bowel cancer. She is Professor of Epithelial Biology and also Associate Dean for Professional Culture. She co-founded the Scottish Research integrity Network, is a member of the Board of Trustees of UKRIO, and is Research Integrity lead in the University.

A 30,000ft view of Research Integrity: Data, Trends and Actions – Daniel Hook, Digital Science

Protection of the scholarly record is critical for the global research enterprise to remain healthy both in terms of its ability to build on past research results and in terms of its relationships with the public that funds it. However, there are multiple drivers that break research integrity – the pressures of the evaluation system; challenges in the peer review landscape and the aims of nefarious external actors to name just a few. Creating good quality data sources that allow us to detect and understand these behaviours is critical to keeping our research system healthy. I will give an insight into some of the challenges and opportunities in creating a good quality data signal in a way that supports the research sector in a responsible manner.

Daniel Hook

Digital Science

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Daniel Hook is CEO of Digital Science, co-founder of Symplectic, a research information management provider, and of the Research on Research Institute (RoRI). A theoretical physicist by training, he continues to do research both in physics and in bibliometrics in his spare time, and holds visiting academic positions at Imperial College London and Washington University in St Louis.

Retractions: On the Rise, But Not Enough – Ivan Oransky, Retraction Watch

In 2000, there were about 40 retractions from the scholarly literature. In 2023, there were more than 10,000. That is a dramatic increase, even accounting for the growing number of papers published per year. In this talk, I will start with what a retraction is, and how perceptions and practice have changed. I will also explore the reasons for the increase, why it is good news, and why the real number should be even higher — along with the root cause of why researchers end up having to retract. I will tell the stories of the sleuths who are finding problems in the literature, and describe efforts that academic libraries, publishers, technology vendors and others are making — and can make — to effect change.

Ivan Oransky

Retraction Watch

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Ivan Oransky is one of the two co-founders of Retraction Watch, the editor-in-chief of Spectrum and distinguished journalist in residence at New York University’s Arthur L Carter Journalism Institute.

12.00

Lunch and Exhibition Viewing

Kindly sponsored by

13.30

Breakout Session – Group A

13.30

Workshop 1 – Making and Breaking the Rules: critical literacies for an AI-disrupted world

We live in a period of rapid digital transformation where hype around new technologies can overtake reality. AI, automation, virtual reality, big data and algorithmic decision-making can potentially disrupt education, work and entertainment. But the models underpinning these technologies aren’t new; we can critically evaluate them using established knowledge constructs and concepts.

Critical literacies and knowledge of computational thinking can empower communities to generate new knowledge through responsible use of scholarly outputs, data and technology. This interactive workshop explores critical approaches to digital and information literacies: through community learning we’ll develop threshold concepts, enabling empowered ethical adoption of digital technologies.

Susan Halfpenny

University of Aberdeen

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Susan Halfpenny is Head of Research and Learning Information Services at the University of Aberdeen. She is responsible for the delivery of digital and information skills, open research and subject services within the Library. Susan has led on a range of initiatives to develop staff and students digital capabilities, including the development of skills frameworks, the rollout of training programmes and the creation of digital citizenship and wellbeing MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). Her interests are digital scholarship, tackling information inequalities and ethical digital transformation for education and research.

Steph Jesper

University of York

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Steph Jesper (she or they) is a Teaching & Learning Advisor in the DISC (Digital Inclusion, Skills, & Creativity) team in Library, Archives, and Learning Services at the University of York. She’s a qualified Librarian who moonlights in IT, developing and delivering digital skills training for students and staff, and looking after the University’s online Skills Guides resources. When she’s not teaching all things digital, she’s the sort of person who makes computer games in spreadsheets for fun.

Siobhan Dunlop

University of York

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Siobhan Dunlop (they/them) is a Teaching and Learning Advisor in the Digital Inclusion, Skills and Creativity (DISC) team at the University of York, supporting people’s digital skills within the university and beyond. They focus on introductory coding, multimedia creation, and digital creativity, as well as the ways in which digital technologies impact our lives in a digital society and the importance of critical digital literacies and ethics in the technological world. When not doing all of this, they also write poems using code.

14.30

Breakout Session – Group B

15.30

Refreshments and exhibition viewing

16.00

Breakout session – Group C

17.00

Lightning Session 1

Practical steps towards an open research culture: Building support around FAIR data & software at the University of Sheffield – Jenni Adams, University of Sheffield, Ric Campbell, University of Sheffield

Academic researchers are becoming increasingly aware of the need to make data and software FAIR in order to support the sharing and reuse of non-publication outputs. Currently there is still a lack of concise and practical guidance on how to achieve this in the context of specific data types and disciplines.

This presentation details recent and ongoing work at the University of Sheffield to bridge this gap. It will explore the development of a FAIR resource with specialist guidance for a range of data types and will examine the planned development of this project during the period 2023-25.

Jenni Adams

University of Sheffield

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Jenni Adams is Open Research Manager at the University of Sheffield, where she leads projects to raise awareness and support uptake of open research practices among researchers at all levels.

Ric Campbell

University of Sheffield

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Ric Campbell is Research Data Steward at the University of Sheffield. Based in the University Library, he is currently working with departments and research groups across the University to support the adoption of FAIR practices for research data and software.

17.00

Responding to the UN SDG Publishers Compact – Bristol University Press Digital – Simon Bell, Bristol University Press

The UN SDG Publishers Compact, launched in 2020, was set up to inspire action among publishers to accelerate progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, asking signatories to develop sustainable practices, act as champions and publish books and journals that will “inform, develop and inspire action in that direction”.This Lightning Talk will discuss how our new Bristol University Press Digital has been developed as part of our mission to contribute a meaningful and impactful response to this call to action as well as the global social challenges we face.Using thematic tagging to create uniquely curated themed eBook collections around the Global Social Challenges, Bristol University Press Digital responds directly to the need to provide the scholarly community access to a comprehensive range SDG focussed content while minimising time and resource at the institution end in collating content and maintaining collection relevance to rapidly evolving themes

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Presentation slides – Jenni Adams/Ric Campbell

Presentation slides – Simon Bell

Simon Bell

Bristol University Press

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Simon Bell is the Institutional Sales Manager for Bristol University Press, responsible for all institutional sales across BUP’s book and journal portfolio including BUP’s new digital platform “Bristol University Press Digital”.

17.30

Exhibition viewing and reception

TBC

Supper and quiz or free evening

(pre-booking for the Quiz is required at time of conference registration – numbers limited)

Thank you to our sponsor for the evening

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09.00

Plenary Session 2

Let’s Talk About Green – Beth Montague-Hellen, Francis Crick Institute, Katie Fraser, University of Nottingham

Open Access is a foundational topic in Scholarly Communications. However, when information professionals and publishers talk about its future, it is nearly always Gold open access we discuss. Green was seen as the big solution for providing access to those who couldn’t afford it. However, publishers have protested that Green destroys their business models. How true is this, and are we even all talking the same language when we talk about Green?

Has a recent focus on negotiating ‘read and publish’ deals moved towards Gold? Will upcoming milestones in research funder financing and compliance move us back? This session will discuss these questions and ask whether there is a model of Green that we can all get behind.

Are we there yet? A review of transitional agreements in the UK – Chris Banks, Imperial College London, Caren Milloy, Jisc,

Transitional agreements were developed in response to funder policy and institutional demand to constrain costs and facilitate funder compliance. They have since become the dominant model by which UK research outputs are made open access. In January 2023, Jisc instigated a critical review of TAs and the OA landscape to provide an evidence base to inform a conversation on the desired future state of research dissemination. This session will discuss the key findings of the review and its impact on a sector-wide consultation and concrete actions in the UK and beyond.

What did we Read, What did we Publish: Distilling the data that librarians need to manage transformative agreements – Michael Levine-Clark, University of Denver, Jason Price, SCELC Library Consortium

As transformative agreements emerge as a new standard, it is critical for libraries, consortia, publishers, and vendors to have consistent and comprehensive data – yet data around publication profiles, authorship, and readership has been shown to be highly variable in availability and accuracy. Building on prior research around frameworks for assessing the combined value of open publishing and comprehensive read access that these deals provide, we will address multi-dimensional perspectives to the challenges that the industry faces with the dissemination, collection, and analysis of data about authorship, readership, and value.

Beth Montague-Hellen

Francis Crick Institute

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

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

Katie Fraser

University of Nottingham

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As Associate Director for Research, Katie is a member of the senior management team at University of Nottingham Libraries UK, and departmental lead on developments and innovations in research communications, research support and research technologies. Katie builds relationships throughout the university community, and leads a team providing practical, straightforward advice and training on planning, publishing, sharing and preserving research. Before becoming a librarian, Katie undertook a PhD in Learning Sciences developing insights into, and enthusiasm for, learning, emerging technologies and the process of research. Katie is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP).

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.

Chris Banks

Imperial College London

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

Caren Milloy

Jisc

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Caren leads Jisc’s licensing and negotiation service, providing UK education and research with access to digital content and software solutions that support the digital transformation of research, learning, teaching and assessment and the digital estate of universities and colleges.

Jason Price

SCELC Library Consortium

10.30

Refreshments and exhibition viewing

11.00

Breakout Session – Group A

11.00

Workshop 2 – Tools that support research workflows. Revisiting innovations in scholarly communications.

Based on Bianca Kramer’s (formerly a scholarly communications librarian at Utrecht University Library, now a consultant at Sesame Open Science) and Jeroen Bosman’s ( Information specialist Utrecht University Library) Innovation in Scholarly Communications; this workshop looks again that the numerous and complex tools available to support scholarly communications and the research workflow.

We all have a limited amount of time to look at and assess these tools. How should we grade them; what is most important; which will come out top? What might work best for our researchers/discipline? This workshop will look at some of the tools currently available.

Do Note: It is highly recommended that you maximize your workshop experience by bringing a device, such as a phone or tablet, capable of connecting to WiFi. This will enable you to actively engage and fully participate in the session.

Judith Carr

Edge Hill University

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Judith Carr is the Head of Open Research Services at Edge Hill University. She has worked in scholarly communications and open research for 10 years and was formerly Research Data Manager at University of Liverpool. Her interest in the Innovation in Scholarly communications project was sparked by a workshop at the Crick Institute in 2016.

Rachel Bury

Edge Hill University

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Rachel Bury has worked in Higher Education for more than 20 years, previously working in NHS library and information services in Merseyside. Academic Engagement and Resources covers all support and collaboration with academic colleagues and researchers, including resource provision, and developing staff skills. Previous roles include academic liaison, with extensive experience of working with Faculty of Health staff and NHS researchers.

12.00

Lightning Session 2

Advocating for data sharing: messaging frameworks for repository engagement strategies – Gareth Cole, Loughborough University, Adrian Clark, Figshare

Researchers face more pressure to share their research data than ever before. Owing to a rise in funder policies and momentum towards more openness across the research landscape. Although policies for data sharing are in place, engagement work is undertaken by librarians in order to ensure repository uptake and compliance.We will discuss a particular strategy implemented at Loughborough University that involved the application of conceptual messaging frameworks to engagement activities in order to promote and encourage use of our Figshare-powered repository. We will showcase the rationale behind the adoption of messaging frameworks for library outreach and some practical examples.

All Watched Over By Machines That Love Open Research – Mark Lester, Cardiff Metropolitan University

This talk will outline how a completely accidental occurrence led to brand new avenues for open research advocacy and reasons for being. This advocacy has occurred within student communities such as trainee teachers, student psychologists and (especially) those soon losing access to subscription-based library content. Alongside these new forms of advocacy, these ethical example of AI use cases has begun to form a cornerstone of directly connecting the work of the library to new technology.

How GetFTR Supports Discovery and Access of OA Content – Hylke Koers, STM Solutions

Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) launched in 2020 with the objective of streamlining discovery and access of scholarly content in the many tools that researchers use today, such as Dimensions, Semantic Scholar, Mendeley, and many others. It works equally well for open access content as it does for subscription-based content, providing researchers with recognizable buttons and indicators to get them to the most up-to-date version of content with minimal effort. Currently, around 30,000 OA articles are accessed every day via GetFTR links.

Resources

Presentation slides – Gareth Cole/Adrian Clark

Presentation slides – Mark Lester

Presentation slides – Hylke Koers

Gareth Cole

Loughborough University

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Gareth Cole is the Open Research Development and Discovery Lead at Loughborough University. He was previously the Loughborough’s Research Data Manager. In his current role he manages the Research Repository team and leads on the University Library’s open research work.Gareth is also a work package lead on the Open Book Futures project, where he leads the work investigating the archiving and preservation of open access monographs. He held a similar role on the earlier COPIM project.

Adrian Clark

Figshare

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After a 14 year career in public, FE and HE libraries, Adrian joined Figshare from Loughborough University, as Business Development Manager for the UK, Ireland and Nordics. Adrian is a passionate advocate of open research, and supporting technologies. As a first in family graduate with a wealth of experience supporting faculty Adrian believes in the transformative capabilities that libraries have to improve knowledge, understanding and to benefit society. If you catch him at the conference, please come and say hello; he’s always happy to talk about all things repositories and OR.

Mark Lester

Cardiff Metropolitan University

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

12.30

Lunch & exhibition viewing

14.00

Plenary Session 3 – There is No List: (How) Can We Combat “Predatory” Publishers in a Changing Scholarly Communications Landscape?

Although scholarly communications has become more open, problems with predatory and problematic publishers remain. There are commercial providers of lists, start-up/renegade Internet lists of good/bad and the researchers, publishers and assessors that try to understand and process what being on/off a list means to themselves, their careers and their institutions. Still, these problems persist and leaves many asking: where is the list?

This plenary panel will discuss the problems of “predatory” publishing and what, if anything, publishers, our community and researchers can do to try and help minimise their abundancy/impact.

Chaired by Lorraine Estelle

Katherine Stephan

Liverpool John Moores University/Think.Check.Submit.

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Katherine Stephan is the research engagement librarian at Liverpool John Moores University. She is responsible for organising library training related to research, outreach, engagement and publishing for all researchers at LJMU. She has a background in children’s librarianship and is a keen advocate of local libraries, open research and responsible research assessment. She is the librarian member of Think, Check, Submit (an initiative to help researchers identify trusted journals for their research); a member of the UKSG’s outreach and engagement committee; and a co-organiser of Open Research Week, a collaboration between LJMU, Edge Hill, Essex and Liverpool Universities.

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.

Cenyu Shen

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

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Cenyu Shen is Deputy Head of Editorial (Quality) for Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Her work focuses on leading and managing the quality team to develop processes and strategies to keep DOAJ away from questionable publishing. Since 2016, she has also been the DOAJAmbassador for China to help DOAJ develop the China market. She built the cooperation for DOAJ with Chinese scholarly societies and publishing organisations and established DOAJ’s Chinese journals community to help more local journals be indexed in DOAJ. She was the advisory board member on the Learned Publishing DEIA special issue published by ALPSP in 2022. She holds a PhD in Information Systems Science at the Hanken School of Economics in Finland. Her doctoral thesis explored the gold open access publishing model, its sustainable development and problems of questionable publishing. She is the author or co-author of several scientific publications contained in the Web of Science, one of which has been cited more than 800 times and ranked by The Financial Times in the 4th position among the 100 most socially influential research publications from business schools worldwide over the year 2015-2020.

15.00

Breakout Session – Group B

15.00

Workshop 3 – Project HAGGIS: Honing Accurate Go-betweens for Greater Integration of Systems, or, simply, MAKING E-RESOURCES WORK

Librarians expect our electronic resources to play nicely with each other, through authentication tools, MARC records, link resolvers, discovery layers, knowledgebases, and more. But they often don’t, and we have no idea what our patrons cannot access. If you’re not sure that your systems are coordinating properly, don’t fret: you’re not alone.

This workshop will present an approach to locating, identifying, fixing, and enhancing e-resource access problems. We’ll look at specific problems, lots of solutions, and a tool for managing and tracking these issues. The result is more and better access for all patrons, without spending additional money.

Do Note: While participants are encouraged to bring laptops or other wifi enabled devises for hands-on problem-solving, even if they opt not to do so, the discussion surrounding the identification and resolution of issues will equip them with the skills and understanding to address similar problems independently when they return home.

Peter McCracken

Cornell University

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Peter McCracken has been an electronic resources librarian at Cornell University since 2016. He was a reference librarian at East Carolina University and at the University of Washington, before co-founding Serials Solutions in 2000, where he was responsible for creating the first commercially available e-journal knowledgebase. Peter manages the interactions between Cornell’s e-resources, and also advises on Open Access opportunities. In his spare time, he runs an e-resources database, ShipIndex.org, which helps people do research on vessels.

16.00

Refreshments and exhibition viewing

16.30

Breakout Session – Group D

19.00

Gala Reception and Disco

The evening promises a delightful combination of drinks and canapés accompanied by enchanting performances by talented musicians from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Thank you to our sponsor for the evening

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Plenary 4

Between Convenience and Academic Integrity: Using Generative AI for Discovering Content – Christine Stohn, Clarivate

ChatGPT is convenient. This is one of the key reasons for its popularity. It does however present problems for academic integrity, with no reference to the source of information and no accreditation for authors. In this session I’m going to discuss a project combining the convenience of conversational discovery with the reliability of academic sources. Based on the ProQuest One Literature database, the assistant is using large language models to generate answers from academic literature including references to the source of information. I will discuss the goals, the details of the project and technology used, the outcomes and the lessons learned.

CORE-GPT: Combining Open Access research and large language models for credible, trustworthy question answering – David Pride, The Open University

In this paper, we present CORE-GPT, a novel question- answering platform that combines GPT-based language models and more than 32 million full-text open access scientific articles from CORE. We first demonstrate that GPT3.5 and GPT4 cannot be relied upon to provide references or citations for generated text. We then introduce CORE-GPT which delivers evidence-based answers to questions, along with citations and links to the cited papers, greatly increasing the trustworthiness of the answers and reducing the risk of hallucinations.

Christine Stohn

Clarivate

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Since joining Ex Libris (part of Clarivate) in 2001 I worked on strategic data projects, library discovery and user centered services for many years. In my current role I focus on leveraging generative AI for discovering library content. Community work is very important to me. I’m involved in various NISO initiatives incl. KBART as well as serving on the CrossRef board. I’m fascinated by the changes in technology, the scale of material that is available today, and the opportunities they offer. I have degrees in library science, information systems, and history and a passion for lifelong learning.

David Pride

The Open University

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Dr. David Pride is a Research Associate at The Knowledge Media Institute, part of the STEM faculty at the Open University. He completed his PhD. in 2020 and his research focused on extracting citations from fulltext research papers and classifying these citations according to type and influence on the citing paper. He also conducted the largest study into the use of citation data and peer review in the U.K.’s Research Excellence Framework. He has been an invited speaker at international events and has published extensively in the domain. David was also part of the team that recently completed work on the ON-MERRIT project, a Horizon 2020 project.

10.00

Breakout Session – Group C

11.00

Refreshments and exhibition viewing

11.30

Breakout Session – Group D

12.30

Plenary 5 – Revolutionary Leader: How to lead authentically in a world that’s set up for you to follow.

People often find themselves living lackluster lives as a result of conforming to societal norms that tell them to settle for less than they deserve. This leads to burnout, unhappiness, and health issues. This keynote will remind the audience that they are not only leaders of themselves but of future generations.

Playing an active role in the quality and trajectory of one’s life is crucial. This talk will invite the audience to celebrate individual strengths and authenticity for a life marked by joy, exceptional leadership, and a well-rounded perspective. It will support you in rejecting conformity, embracing your uniqueness, and empowering you to reach your potential personally and professionally.

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Shereen Thor

Bestselling Author & Executive Coach – Thor International Inc.

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Shereen Thor is a comedian turned coach who slays with hope and humor. She has shared the stage with greats like Serena Williams, Prince Harry, Pau Gasol, and Les Brown. She is also the bestselling author of Revolutionary Woman, which focuses on inspiring women and people of color to revolutionize how they see themselves to create a more equitable world. She has been featured in Forbes, TEDx, The Wall Street Journal, Insider, Medium, Spike TV, 97.1 AMP Radio, and more. When she isn’t working, she is enjoying the great outdoors, spending time with her family, coaching or playing soccer, enjoying good food with friends and leaving her cell phone in the dust for extended periods of time. To learn more go to www.shereenthor.com.

13.15

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Wednesday, December 13, 2023 – 08:00 GMT – Wednesday, March 27, 2024 – 16:00

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An Introduction to E-Resources Online Seminar 2024
2024-06-18 10:00
This two-part online event has been adapted from UKSG’s successful and long-running one-day seminar and aims to present a practical introductory overview of all aspects of e-resources management, encompassing e-journals, e-books and bibliographic and full-text databases. Taking place as two morning sessions on Tuesday 18th and Thursday 20th June.

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Tuesday, June 18, 2024 – 10:00 BSTtoThursday, June 20, 2024 – 12:30 BST

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OnlineUnited Kingdom

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Summary

This two-part online event has been adapted from UKSG’s successful and long-running one-day seminar and aims to present a practical introductory overview of all aspects of e-resources management, encompassing e-journals, e-books and bibliographic and full-text databases.

The emphasis is on developing a sound basic understanding of the details of e-resources handling in order to promote efficient and informed working practices. A wide range of day-to-day issues will be covered, with time devoted to recognising and resolving the problems that can arise at the boundaries between publishers, intermediaries and libraries, and addressing business models such as open access. In addition, the seminar will provide a forum for a virtual group discussion on the current issues and opportunities offered by e-books.

Delegates will be able to air and exchange views in the discussion session after each presentation. The seminar will be delivered over two mornings, and delegates will be asked to use the time in between sessions to reflect on some of the issues raised.

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Unfortunately the event is now fully booked, please registered here for the waitlist and to be the first to hear about the time this session is scheduled to run.

Fee(s)

UKSG Members – £70.00 +VAT where applicable

UKSG Non-Members – £82.00+VAT where applicable

Who should attend?

Designed particularly for staff who are new to working with e-resources, whether from a publisher, an intermediary or a library, this seminar may also be of interest to those looking to consolidate and update their e-resources knowledge.

We welcome participants from all corners of the globe to join our seminars, however speakers and topics are generally UK focussed, if you have any doubt about the suitability please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Course Level and previous knowledge required

Introductory and non-intensive, entry-level training for the beginner, novice or returner.

Recording

The sessions will be recorded and available to all registered delegates only after the event, so if you unable to join us live or want to review any presentation this will be available.

Accessibility

UKSG wants to provide the best possible experience for all our delegates, making presentations as accessible and inclusive as possible. Our intention were possible is to strongly encourage our speakers to provide auto generated closed captioning for both live and recorded events as well as to make sure their slides as easy as possible for all people to read. In addition we can provide auto generated transcripts post event for each of the recorded sessions.

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

Programme

Tuesday 18 JuneThursday 20 June

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10:00

Introduction & WelcomeNote: All times are BST

Richard BramwellEBSCO Information Services

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Richard Bramwell is an Account Manager at EBSCO Information Services with 9 years’ experience of working in the Library Industry consulting in Discovery, Research workflow and content. Richard is also a member of the UKSG Education Committee

Klara FinnimoreJournals and E-Resources Librarian Royal College of Art (RCA)

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

10:15

Managing E-resources – Everything everywhere all at onceA brief introduction to the life-cycle of managing e-resources such as journals, databases and other online tools. The talk will look at the full life-cycle from purchase to making content discoverable and making renewal decisions. I will try to bust some jargon and offer hints and tips to help make the process easier to manage.

Ruth SmalleyEdge Hill University

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Ruth is the Subscriptions and Licensing Manager at Edge Hill University. Ruth has had a varied career with roles in PR and teaching, before a career change took her to working in public libraries and then moving into higher education libraries. Ruth has a particular interest in evidence based collection decisions and is never happier then when she has a problem that requires a new spreadsheet! Ruth lives in Warrington and enjoys making jewellery and clothes in her spare time.

Anthony SinnottUniversity of York

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Anthony is Access and Procurement Development Manager at University of York. He oversees the purchase of print & electronic resources, the management of subscriptions & databases, and the operation of the reading list system. Anthony’s key focus is on identifying innovative purchasing models that ensure maximum access to resources and building positive relationships with suppliers. Anthony is a member of the Joint Consortia Agreement Contract Management Group, Academic Libraries North CoP Group, and sits on the National Acquisitions Group Executive Committee as Treasurer.

10:40

Break

10:55

Understanding the nuances of publishing and Introduction to Elsevier resources supporting development of Library professionals

Vishal GuptaElsevier

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Vishal is the Senior Customer Success Manager for UK South at Elsevier and has 15 years of work experience in domains of Biotechnology, publishing and data analytics. He has been in Elsevier for over 7 years now working majorly in South Asia. He recently moved to the UK and now supports customers in South of UK. Vishal is an Elsevier certified presenter for Author Workshops and a certified Mendeley and Scopus trainer.

12:15

Wrap up to day 1 & preparing for day 2

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10:00

Introduction and recap of day 1

Klara FinnimoreJournals and E-Resources Librarian Royal College of Art (RCA)

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

Richard BramwellEBSCO Information Services

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Richard Bramwell is an Account Manager at EBSCO Information Services with 9 years’ experience of working in the Library Industry consulting in Discovery, Research workflow and content. Richard is also a member of the UKSG Education Committee

10:15

E-books a round table led by the ChairA forum in which to explore e-books – topics, problems, issues and opportunities for the community.

Ruth SmalleyEdge Hill University

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Ruth is the Subscriptions and Licensing Manager at Edge Hill University. Ruth has had a varied career with roles in PR and teaching, before a career change took her to working in public libraries and then moving into higher education libraries. Ruth has a particular interest in evidence based collection decisions and is never happier then when she has a problem that requires a new spreadsheet! Ruth lives in Warrington and enjoys making jewellery and clothes in her spare time.

11:10

Break

11:30

Buying and Managing E-BooksA look at the wide variety of ways that Libraries can acquire E-Books, detailing how they are managed, and an exploration of E-Book activity across the sector.

Anthony SinnottUniversity of York

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Anthony is Access and Procurement Development Manager at University of York. He oversees the purchase of print & electronic resources, the management of subscriptions & databases, and the operation of the reading list system. Anthony’s key focus is on identifying innovative purchasing models that ensure maximum access to resources and building positive relationships with suppliers. Anthony is a member of the Joint Consortia Agreement Contract Management Group, Academic Libraries North CoP Group, and sits on the National Acquisitions Group Executive Committee as Treasurer.

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Thank you, this was really helpful. It has increased my awareness of DDA, EBA, OA and Read & Publish agreements. It has given me a snap shot of where libraries and e-resource providers are at in the world today.
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I enjoyed it. Found it very useful, the chairs were very good. Panel discussion where they shared experience was very useful, and it was also good to hear about things from the perspective of an Aggregator and Publisher to give a rounded view. As someone new to Academic libraries it provided a really good introduction.

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Bridging the divide between the media and research: building trust in better communication webinar
2024-07-03 00:00

Bridging the divide between the media and research: building trust in better communication webinar
2024-07-03 10:00 - 15:30
Media interest in research has never been greater due to the global impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and Climate Change, among other topics. How research is communicated varies from an international scale down to local level, as also reflected in the quality of coverage from in-depth news features to poorly referenced, click-bait churnalism. Join us for this online seminar.

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You may still register for the recording of the webinar by visiting the GoToWebinar site.

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Summary

Societal and media interest in research has never been greater due to the global impact of Covid-19 and Climate Change, among other topics. How research is communicated should be of the greatest importance to academics, their organisations, funders and publishers.The relationship between journalists and researchers is an important one, but they are not the only stakeholders invested in this process. How research is communicated varies in quality and scale from international to local coverage. The quality of research-related news also varies in the quality of coverage from in-depth news features to poorly referenced, click-bait churnalism. Join us to hear from experts as to how research is being shared and what can be done to improve that process.

Those working in the publishing, media communications, library and journalism sectors share common ground and there are benefits for attendees in gaining a greater understanding of how each part of this communication cycle works and how they can collaborate better.

Librarians and journalists both work to analyse and deliver factual and timely information, yet that can be undermined by missing out key components that can underpin a news story, such as a research article or funder link. Academics looking to capture pathways to impact miss out on evidence if there is no audit trail relating to the coverage due to the lack of proper media coverage.

The lack of substantial evidence within a news story has the potential to generate fake or poorly reported news, which can have a damaging impact on the reputation of research. This seminar will highlight good examples of working practice as well as explore what more can be done to improve this ever-changing ecosystem.

Who should attend?

This seminar is aimed at journalists, research managers and administrators, librarians, publishers and communications professionals in universities and publishing.

An Introduction to open access 2024 - online seminar
2024-08-19 10:00 - 13:30
The rise of open access and associated compliance requirements has created an increasing role for librarians in supporting pre-publication workflows for journal articles and other research outputs. It has also led research institutions to develop a widening range of services and systems to support publication and manage compliance. This online event is hosted over 2 half days. Registration open.

Course Summary

The rise of open access and associated compliance requirements has created an increasing role for librarians and other information professionals in supporting pre-publication workflows for research outputs. It has also led research institutions to develop a widening range of services and systems to support publication and manage compliance. This course will give a basic introduction to this rapidly evolving area. In particular it will:

provide an overview of the research and funding landscape

outline the key stages in the open access publication lifecycle from submission to publication, noting the key differences between Green and Gold publication

summarise the typical requirements for compliance with government policies and funder mandates, and relate these to the publication routes for Green and Gold publication

explain the complementary roles of publishers, libraries and intermediaries in supporting these stages, and the typical activities that they each perform during the life-cycle

give focus to the specific challenges and opportunities associated with open access publishing for books and book chapters.

look at selected services, systems and standards designed to support and manage the processes of open access publishing

explain how new policies and initiatives (eg Right Retention) are continuing to affect open access publishing and compliance requirements

Learning objectives

Understand the key stages in publication in relation to open access and compliance

Be able to summarise typical compliance criteria, and relate these to the publication lifecycle

Understand the basic roles of funders, research managers, libraries, publishers, intermediaries at each stage of the publishing journey

Be aware of the key services and systems which support workflows

Be aware of the application of open access publishing workflows across different research output types

Course Level and previous knowledge required

This course offers an introductory, entry-level overview and no previous knowledge is required, although some awareness of the different types of scholarly journals and open access models (such as Green and Gold) may be useful. Please note that this is not a detailed practical or technical course and it will not go into detail about how specific services or systems function, or how to optimise workflows. Instead the course gives a high-level, introductory overview of the essential elements of processes and systems, providing the conceptual foundation for other more specific training in the use of particular services and systems.

Supporting Information package

This will be sent to registered delegates in advance of the seminar. The course organisers have compiled an optional Open Access pre-Course Reading List for attendees – all items will be openly available.

Attendee Information

To test your system ahead of time visit https://support.goto.com/webinar/system-check-attendee

Accessibility

UKSG wants to provide the best possible experience for all our delegates, making presentations as accessible and inclusive as possible. Our intention were possible is to strongly encourage our speakers to provide auto generated closed captioning for both live and recorded events as well as to make sure their slides as easy as possible for all people to read. In addition we can provide auto generated transcripts post event for each of the recorded sessions.

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

Recording

The sessions will be recorded and available to all registered delegates after the event, so if you unable to join us live or want to review any presentation this will be available.

FREE UKSG webinar: Getting out from the back of the sofa: Or, how can we achieve sustainable funding for Open Access books?
2024-10-24 11:00 - 12:00
This is a fantastic opportunity to listen to expert speakers with no travelling required. This is a free webinar – Please note that advance registration is required. This webinar will be recorded and all registrants will receive a link to the recording after the session. Join us for this webinar that will take place on Thursday 24th October from 11:00am to 12:00 GMT.

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Thursday, October 24, 2024 – 11:00 BSTtoThursday, October 24, 2024 – 12:00 BST

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OnlineUnited Kingdom

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Is the biggest blocker to open access books actually the economics of it all? Book Processing Charges don’t scale but they’re still the dominant method of funding OA monographs, despite the recent emergence of several alternatives to BPCs: collective funding models like Opening the Future, the Open Book Collective, Direct 2 Open, Path to Open etc.

Through presentations and audience Q&A we’ll pose some provocative questions to explore this theme:

How can these new models achieve sustainability and get out from the ‘back of the sofa’ of end-of-year leftover funds?

How can libraries continue to make a strategic case for investing in these models when budgets are being cut?

How can the sector work together to promote and maximise these alternative models in the world of increasingly tight budgets?

With demand increasing for monographs to be open this is a timely and urgent discussion with library and publishing OA experts.

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You may still register for this event recording here.

Slides

Our speakers have kindly agreed to make their slides available. You may download them from here.

Please use the correct attribution if you wish to refer to them.

Q&A

Please, find here the Q&A document that our speakers have kindly put together.

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Post-webinar reading

In preparation the speakers have also sent through the following optional links, you may wish to review before the session.

Open Access Monographs: Myths, Truths and Implications in the Wake of UKRI Open Access Policy (Dr Judith Fathallah, LIBER Quarterly)

The future of humanities research work and OA monographs (Professor Martin Eve, WonkHE)

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In addition our speakers have provided the following links, you may wish to review after the session.

How Can I Persuade My Institution to Support Collective Funding for Open Access Books? (Copim, three part practical blog)

Copim’s thoughts on the REF decision for OA books and what happens next (Copim blog)

Trailblazers: exciting new OA initiative in partnership with Liverpool University Press, The University of Liverpool, and The University of Salford (Lancaster University Library news)

Speakers

Elaine Sykes

Head of Open Research | Lancaster University

Elaine is Head of Open Research at Lancaster University, a post she had held since January 2022. She has responsibility for scholarly communications, research data management and research intelligence.

Her research interests include community based open access publishing, data visualisation and Citizen Science. She is widely active in the library sector including involvement with SCONUL, RLUK and the library Performance Measurement Conference, where she acts as a Director. She is currently a Co-Investigator on a Wellcome Trust funded project exploring how to create a more sustainable, ethical and inclusive research culture.

Tom Grady

Copim Project Co-Lead | Birkbeck, University of London

Work Package Lead – Birkbeck, University of London

Tom is a Work Package Lead on the Copim Open Book Futures project, where he runs the Opening the Future revenue model for open access books. Prior to joining Copim, Tom has worked in libraries, academic and public, and was a founding team member of the UK’s first jointly-run and library-led open access publisher, White Rose University Press. He can be found on X/Twitter (while it still exists) @scholtom but more often on BlueSky @scholtom.bsky.social

Learning outcomes

Colleagues will be able to understand and evaluate the emerging open access monograph funding landscape.

Colleagues will gain an understanding of the advantages and challenges for libraries and publishers around OA for books.

Colleagues will be equipped to compare open access initiatives and models (Diamond vs green etc), and understand the different approaches available to authors, researchers, libraries and academic publishers.

Colleagues will gain an understanding of the complexities around reliable funding for OA books amid an HE sector in flux and increasing pressure on budgets.

Colleagues will be able to identify if some of the initiatives highlighted are a good fit for their own library and institution.

Subject level and previous knowledge required

Introductory and non-intensive, no previous knowledge or experience required.

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To help you prepare for UKSG webinars, you may like to read the Notes for Participants:

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Registrations

This is a free webinar and is open to members and non-members of UKSG alike – Please note that advance registration is required.

Recording registration

Unable to attend? Register anyway and we will send you a link to a recording of the webinar after the event. If you have already registered and are subsequently unable to attend, please do not cancel your registration – only active registrations will receive the recording in a follow-up e-mail.

Accessibility

UKSG wants to provide the best possible experience for all our delegates, making presentations as accessible and inclusive as possible. Our intention were possible is to strongly encourage our speakers to provide auto generated closed captioning for both live and recorded events as well as to make sure their slides are as easy as possible for all people to read. In addition we can provide auto generated transcripts post event for each of the recorded sessions.

If you have particular accessibility needs or questions about this webinar, we welcome you to contact Samira Koelle.

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The UKSG webinars are great for me – they offer a wide range of topics and are very well prepared. I never experienced any technical difficulties. Due to the austerity measures brought by the recent worldwide events the training budget in my institution was frozen, so the fact that UKSG webinars are free is really a boon too!
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The UKSG webinar was fantastic – well-organized, timely, accessible, and with an array of presenters that had insight into the topic
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Great to squeeze in so much useful knowledge and information without having to go out to a conference. I could enjoy taking it in with a sandwich at my desk! I felt very empowered afterwards.
Emma Thompson, Glasgow Caledonian University

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UKSG Usage data for decision making online seminar 2024
2024-11-06 12:30 - 2024-11-07 12:15
This seminar is aimed at those responsible for collecting, analysing and making recommendations based on usage data, whether in a library setting or within a publishing organisation. This online seminar will take place over two days 6th (12:30 start) & 7th November (9:30 start), for more details please visit the programme section below.

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Wednesday, November 6, 2024 – 12:30 GMTtoThursday, November 7, 2024 – 12:15 GMT

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OnlineUnited Kingdom

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The seminar is now fully booked and registration is now closed, to join the waitlist please email events@uksg.org. Many thanks for your interest.

Event Summary

Those with a responsibility for overseeing the management of library collections have more access than ever to statistical data to assist with evaluation and to justify return on investment, and enhancement of the user experience. Understanding the library’s use of this data is also vital for publishers. Advances in standardisation led by the COUNTER initiative have made statistics more accessible and reliable as a basis for decision making.

Increasingly, libraries are being asked to make extremely difficult decisions about the priorities for their spending within a strategic context. Although this presents huge challenges, it can also be an impetus to change the ways in which services are provided. Publishers need to be aware of what statistics librarians are looking at and how they are being used to inform collection development.

This seminar provides illustrations by expert decision makers on how statistics are used to make strategic decisions. It will also present the challenges, such as demonstrating value and presenting data to different audiences. Future developments within the field will also be addressed, together with considerations of how these will impact on decision making in the future, for example new approaches to analytics. There will be discussion on how the development of open access is impacting on usage behaviour and influencing considerations for collection development.

Delegates will have the opportunity to reflect on the role of statistics in the broader context of further and higher education, and the culture of assessment that is becoming increasingly prominent within the sector. Delegates will be encouraged to actively participate throughout the day.

Who should attend

This seminar is aimed at both those in libraries who need to analyse or interpret usage data to support decision making about resources and collections, within a strategic context. It will be of interest to those with a responsibility for overseeing the management and evaluation of library collections in the further and higher education sector, and who need to demonstrate impact and value to senior leadership teams, rather than those involved in the operational role. It may also be of interest to those working in other areas of the scholarly information industry. It will also be of importance to publishers who need to understand the collection development decisions of their customers.

Please note: This seminar does not cover the practical aspects of collecting usage data, or of creating reports. These topics are covered by the UKSG Practical Usage Statistics for Librarians seminar, a hands-on workshop on gathering and manipulating usage statistics.

Both days will be recorded and available for playback on demand post event for registered delegates.

We welcome participants from all corners of the globe to join our seminars, however speakers and topics are generally UK focussed, if you have any doubt about the suitability please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Learning Objectives

Delegates will:

gain a greater insight into the wider environment and context in which usage statistics decision making is carried out and new approaches to this

learn about ways in which library resource usage statistics have been used by staff in university libraries to inform decision-making processes

develop an understanding of how usage statistics can be used to demonstrate value from a publisher perspective

gain knowledge of the impact of open access publishing on usage statistics and demonstrating value

Attendee Information

The webinar tool we use is Go to Webinar. To test your system ahead of time visit https://support.goto.com/webinar/system-check-attendee

Accessibility

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

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

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

Recording

The sessions will be recorded and available to all registered delegates only after the event, so if you unable to join us live or want to review any presentation this will be available.

Programme

Day 1 – 6 NovemberDay 2 – 7 November

Time

Programme

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12.30

Introduction & welcome

All times stated are GMT

Etienne Olsina

BibliU

Emma Nolin

Head of Information Resources and Scholarly Publishing Malmo University

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

12.40

Imperial Measurements – what we actually look at when we look at etextbook usage data

At Imperial College, we have been running analyses of etextbook usage for as long as we’ve had our collection, and they’ve helped us develop processes which focus on value for money, and help support decisions around purchasing and cancellations. However, in the interests of time and clarity, we’ve got used to adopting a very broad definition of the word ‘usage’. In this presentation, we’ll examine exactly what we mean by ‘usage’, and look at how some other performance indicators might challenge our previously held assumptions about what ‘good usage’ is.

Andrew Knight

Imperial College London

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

Andrew represents Imperial College at a sector level on a number of national groups and networks including Jisc’s Learning Content Expert Group, the NAG committee, and SUPC’s framework and contract management groups. His particular interests are around collection development, library-supplier relations, and how libraries can extract better value-for-money from a not-always-helpful market.

13.10

Made to measure: how can we make decisions that align with our institutional values – an update

Usage data is a tool in a Library’s evaluation arsenal. When budgets are squeezed and renewal reminders come in, we instinctively reach for those precious figures to show us how loved, or not, our resources are. We will compensate for issues in completeness and accuracy, and we use this data as a proxy for qualitative measures that are intangible. But as Library’s allocate more budget to open resources, are our proxy measures still valuable?

In this presentation, Bethany will reflect on how what we want to measure has changed, and how data driven decision making needs to make a little room for values driven decision making. She also gives an update on how things have changed recently, budgets cuts and changes.

Bethany Logan

University of Sussex

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Bethany Logan is Associate Director of the Library at the University of Sussex. She has worked in the Library since 2006 across various roles before joining the Library Leadership Team in 2024. She is responsible for the Content Delivery, Digital Development & Systems, and Research & Open Scholarship teams

13.40

Break

14.00

COUNTER Metrics: what, why, and how

Not sure why we need normalised metrics? Unclear about the difference between an Investigation and a Request (or how those relate to views and downloads)? Can’t tell your TR_J1 from a TR_J4? This session will clear up the confusion with an introduction to the COUNTER Code of Practice for usage data.

Tasha Mellins-Cohen

COUNTER Metrics / 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.

14.30

Under the COUNTER – when usage data is harder to find

COUNTER stats are great for the majority of our journal and ebook holdings, but what about the resources which don’t supply COUNTER stats? As libraries are increasingly asked to give access to a range of non-traditional resources such as maps, business data and law sites, as well as specialist journals and magazine titles the job of gathering and analysing usage can be complex.

This session will look at some of the other places Edge Hill goes hunting for usage, including directly from publishers websites, as well as using data from EZProxy to gain evidence of usage, as well as addressing some of the drawbacks to these methods.

Ruth Smalley

Edge Hill University

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Ruth is the Subscriptions and Licensing Manager at Edge Hill University. Ruth has had a varied career with roles in PR and teaching, before a career change took her to working in public libraries and then moving into higher education libraries. Ruth has a particular interest in evidence based collection decisions and is never happier then when she has a problem that requires a new spreadsheet! Ruth lives in Warrington and enjoys making jewellery and clothes in her spare time.

15.00

Break

15.20

We Have the Data: Now What?

Join this powerful session focused on transforming the groundbreaking data we now have on student course material utilization! This is the first time in history we can truly understand how students engage with resources, and it’s time to get things done. In this interactive and conversational workshop, we’ll explore what these insights mean for enhancing student success and optimizing resource allocation. Let’s roll up our sleeves, share ideas, and collaborate on actionable strategies that will make a real impact in our institutions. Together, we can turn data into powerful change all in the name of student success!

Malinda Daniel

BibliU

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With 22 years in higher education, Dr. Daniel has led award-winning initiatives for community colleges aimed at boosting student success while reducing costs through data-driven decisions, particularly focusing on Open Educational Resources (OER). Her expertise lies in fostering innovation through collaboration across campus, leveraging continuous learning and analytics to modernize systems. She prioritizes equity in access and staff efficiency in decision-making, always concentrating on enhancing ROI and ensuring project and client success.

15.50

Summary & close

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9.30

Welcome

Nathan Newey

Brown Books

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

Anja van Hoek

Programme Manager Amsterdam University Press

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Anja van Hoek has recently joined the organisation

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

9.40

Session 6: Usage statistics for decision making

This session will provide a high level overview of how to collate, analyse and interpret data for use in library decision making. It will mention some of the opportunities and challenges of this approach as well as considering potential applications and situations where this approach may be helpful.

It is intended to be an introduction to basic data analysis techniques for librarians of all abilities.

Elaine Sykes

Lancaster University

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Elaine is Head of Open Research at Lancaster University, a post she had held since January 2022. She has responsibility for scholarly communications, research data management and research intelligence.

Her research interests include community based open access publishing, data visualisation and Citizen Science. She is widely active in the library sector including involvement with SCONUL, RLUK and the library Performance Measurement Conference, where she acts as a Director. She is currently a Co-Investigator on a Wellcome Trust funded project exploring how to create a more sustainable, ethical and inclusive research culture.

10.10

Evaluating transformative agreements

A presentation of a model used at Malmö University to evaluate Transformative agreements.

Aron Lindhagen

Malmö University Library

10.40

Break

11.00

The Open access citation advantage in the context of scholarly publishing at a higher education institution

To explore the OACA effect in the context of scholarly publishing at higher education institutions, we’ve measured the OACA in publications by researchers at Malmö University within a six-year period. Discipline-specific OACA was found, despite higher average JIFs of non-OA journals. The effect was strongest for the green OA variant. These results may inform the development of publishing strategies. Researchers do not have to compromise between OA publishing or achieving citation impact. Importantly, green OA can provide at least as high citation advantage as paid OA in hybrid journals, offering a no-cost option for increased accessibility and impact.

Šárka Erben Johansson

Malmö University

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Šárka is a research librarian at Malmö University. Her areas of work are bibliometrics, publishing strategies and research support. Her main role is in supplying the university’s research units and researchers with bibliometric reports and analyses to support evidence based decision making.

11.30

Altmetrics – if you look beyond the numbers you’ll find meaning

Altmetrics or alternative indicators of scholarly interest can tell us a lot about research and how it is being received beyond the traditional citation and impact factor scores, that much we know. But what else can altmetrics tell us about our research world, especially producing the outputs, communicating them and what opportunities can we leverage from all of this? We’re not yet using altmetrics to their full potential but in the course of this short talk Andy will provide a few insights on how we can make better use of this data to gain a better grasp and understanding of our scholarly world.

Andy Tattersall

University of Sheffield

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Andy Tattersall is an Information Specialist at the Division of Population Health at The University of Sheffield. Andy writes, teaches and delivers talks and training about research communications (including podcasting, blogging, social media, video/animation, infographics), digital academia, open research, web and information science and altmetrics. In particular, their application for research, teaching, learning, knowledge exchange and collaboration. Andy received a Senate Award from The University of Sheffield for his pioneering work on Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) in 2013 and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Andy was named in Jisc’s Top 10 Social Media Superstars. He was a member of the Cilip Digital Technology Committee (MmIT) for 10 years (2 as Chair) and is a member of the UKSG Events and Education Committee. Andy co-wrote and edited a book on Altmetrics for Facet Publishing which is aimed at researchers and librarians. https://linktr.ee/andy_tattersall

12.00

Summary & close

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The variety of perspectives made it really interesting
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Fantastic lineup. Learned from all presenters. A couple who really stood out were Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Aron Lindhagen, and Andrew Knight. Their presentations were particularly relevant to my work and they had information on specific, practical processes and tips.
Previous delegate

Intense and information-packed. The sessions were just long enough and being split between two days made it easier to focus (and also schedule around work).
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UKSG Understanding data visualisation - online seminar 2024
2024-11-13 00:00 - 2024-11-14 00:00

UKSG Understanding data visualisation online seminar 2024
2024-11-13 10:00 - 2024-11-14 16:15
This new seminar will help delegates to discover the opportunities for utilising data in their institutions, introduce some of the data analysis and visualisation tools available, and offer case studies highlighting how libraries are already using different types of data to support service delivery and development and demonstrate impact.

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Wednesday, November 13, 2024 – 10:00 GMTtoThursday, November 14, 2024 – 16:15 GMT

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Course Summary

Libraries produce and have access to large amounts of statistical data which when utilised effectively can provide valuable insights into the ways resources and services are being used and help to demonstrate impact and value for money. However, collecting, cleaning, analysing, and presenting data can be time-consuming and increasingly may require specialist skills and tools. This seminar will help delegates to discover the opportunities for utilising data in their institutions, introduce some of the data analysis and visualisation tools available, and offer case studies highlighting how libraries are already using different types of data to support service delivery and development and demonstrate impact. Data sources explored will include but are not limited to resource and service usage and discovery data, research and open access data, budgetary data, print book circulation and library footfall data.

Course level and previous knowledge required

This course will be of particular interest to librarians and library managers working in further and higher education who are interested in developing a data analytics service in their library and utilising a range of different data to support decision-making. The seminar may also be of relevance to publishers and suppliers interested understanding how librarians are using data in their libraries. Previous experience of working with data may be useful but is not essential. Please note that the seminar will not provide practical hands-on experience or training on how to use specific data visualisation tools.

Please note: This seminar does not focus in depth on the collection, collation, analysis or interpretation of eresource usage data. These topics are covered by two other UKSG courses in this area: UKSG Usage Statistics – Practical Skills for Librarians and UKSG Usage Statistics for Decision Making.

Learning Objectives

Delegates will:

Understand how data can be made visually engaging and used to demonstrate impact and create stories for different audiences

Consider a range of different library data sources and how these may relate to wider institutional strategy and context

Consider how data can be used to support strategic planning and service development

Become familiar with some of the data visualisation tools available

Gain insights into how other libraries are developing data visualisation services

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Closed Captioning Options: Our GoToWebinar application allows you to toggle closed captioning on or off during live sessions. You can also customise the text size and colour to suit your preferences.

Auto-Generated Transcripts: For each recorded session, we can provide auto-generated transcripts on request.

If you have particular accessibility requirements or questions about this event, we strongly encourage you to contact events@uksg.org as soon as possible.

Recording

The sessions will be recorded and available to all registered delegates after the event, so if you unable to join us live or want to review any presentation this will be available.

Programme

Wednesday 13 NovemberThursday 14 November

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10.00

Welcome and introduction

*All times are GMT

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.

10.15

Imperial College London Library Services Data Journey

Nova Larch

Imperial College London

11.15

Break

11.30

Getting started with data visualisation for engagement and decision making

Libraries collect a myriad of data and yet are often unsure what to do with it or how to present it in such a way as to maximise its value and impact.

This webinar will seek to address this challenge by considering the different elements that go into creating successful data visualisations including selecting appropriate data, chart elements, accessibility and aesthetics.

It will also consider available tools and systems that can be used to visualise data as well as demonstrating in more details two free tools that can be used to provide data visualisations. The first is Piktochart, a free infographic building tool. This can be used to create visually appealing, informative infographics for a variety of different data sources.

The second is Looker Studio, a freely available data visualisation tool from Google. The webinar will provide examples of how it has been used to present data about library website usage, and support narratives around library engagement and impact. The talk will give an overview of some key considerations when using Looker Studio, and signpost towards a range of resources to help you get started.

Elaine Sykes

Lancaster University

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Elaine is Head of Open Research at Lancaster University, a post she had held since January 2022. She has responsibility for scholarly communications, research data management and research intelligence.

Her research interests include community based open access publishing, data visualisation and Citizen Science. She is widely active in the library sector including involvement with SCONUL, RLUK and the library Performance Measurement Conference, where she acts as a Director. She is currently a Co-Investigator on a Wellcome Trust funded project exploring how to create a more sustainable, ethical and inclusive research culture.

Tim Leonard

Lancaster University

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Tim Leonard is Associate Director: Space, Experience and Innovation at Lancaster University Library. He oversees the development of the Library’s learning spaces, its frontline services team and digital systems.Tim has worked in academic libraries for over 20 years and has held positions at Lancaster, the University of Bolton, Manchester Metropolitan University and Cardiff University. He is a member of UKSG’s Education and Events Subcommittee and represents Lancaster in a range of groups with RLUK and Academic Libraries North. His professional interests include learning space design, environmental sustainability and innovative technologies in libraries.

12.30

Wrap up and close

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13.30

Introduction and summary of day one

Magaly Taylor

Gale part of the Cengage Group.

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Magaly Taylor has over 15 years of experience in Discovery, Metadata, and Usage in libraries, content providers, and service providers. She has worked in various types of libraries and contributed to different metadata working groups and committees internationally, including ABES-SC in France, NISO in the US, and UKSG in the UK. Currently, Magaly is the Discovery and Usage Manager for Gale, which is part of the Cengage Group. She is an active member of the UKSG Education Committee; in 2024, she was elected a UKSG Trustee.

13.45

Data analysis and visualization for electronic journal agreements and Open Access publishing at Karolinska Institutet.

Lina Waltin

Karolinska Institutet

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Lina Waltin is the coordinator of the acquisitions team at Karolinska Institutet. Following the heavy increase in transformative agreements in the Swedish setting, she has been engaged in developing tools for analyzing and evaluating these agreements and e-licensing more broadly at KI.

David Hahne

Karolinska Institutet

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David Hahne is an e-licensing and Open Access librarian at Karolinska Institutet University Library in Stockholm. David is a part of the acquisitions team at the KI library, and works mainly with electronic journals – including KI’s transformative agreements. He has a keen interest in statistics and data analysis for e-resource evaluation and in support of the transition to Open Access publishing.

14.45

Break

15.00

Using Google Colab and Alma’s Analytics API to create a Library Data Dashboard

Library data is everywhere but sharing that data once it has been collected presents a challenge. Spreadsheets need updating while platforms like Alma Analytics require special permissions and expertise. This session demonstrates how to solve these issues by using Google Colab and Alma’s API to create a Data Dashboard.

Jill Locascio

SUNY College of Optometry

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Jill Locascio is the Librarian in charge of Systems as well as Digital & Technical Services at the SUNY College of Optometry. She is enthusiastic about seeking creative ways to improve library services and workflows and believes that data can be a powerful tool in this endeavor.

16.00

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FREE UKSG Further Education Webinar Series: The next step: How FE and HE libraries can work together to improve the transition of students from one to the other
2024-11-15 12:30 - 13:45
This is a fantastic opportunity to listen to expert speakers with no travelling required. This is a free webinar – Please note that advance registration is required. This webinar will be recorded and all registrants will receive a link to the recording after the session. Join us for this webinar that will take place on Friday 15th November from 12:30pm to 13:45 GMT.

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Friday, November 15, 2024 – 12:30 GMTtoFriday, November 15, 2024 – 13:45 GMT

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The transition from college to university can be a daunting process for students. From a library perspective this can be exacerbated by differences in expectations, facilities and services from FE to HE libraries. For a number of years, HE librarians at some institutions have been seeking to bridge this gap by taking a skill-based approach and offering support with the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) to college students. In this webinar we’ll look at the limitations of this approach and suggest an alternative mindset-based approach where FE and HE library colleagues can collaborate on better preparing students for transition between the sectors.

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Mike Jones

Information Librarian |Southampton Solent University

Mike Jones has been working in academic libraries for nearing 20 years, starting his career in a 6th form college before moving into higher education in 2018, first at University of Winchester and currently at Southampton Solent University. Mike’s previous work has looked at the effectiveness of social media communication for FE libraries, improving networking opportunities at conferences (in collaboration with Jo Wood) and how academic libraries can adapt their information skills training to fit the AI age.

Learning outcomes

An understanding of the differences between FE and HE library provision and the impacts this can have on student transition

An understanding of the skills-based approach take in relation to EPQ support and the limitations of this

An introduction to the mindset-based approach and how FE librarians can look to work with HE colleagues on easing transition

Subject level and previous knowledge required

Introductory and non-intensive, no previous knowledge or experience required. Relevant to all working in FE and 6th Form college libraries.

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If you have particular accessibility needs or questions about this webinar, we welcome you to contact Samira Koelle.

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Great to squeeze in so much useful knowledge and information without having to go out to a conference. I could enjoy taking it in with a sandwich at my desk! I felt very empowered afterwards.
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UKSG November Conference 2024 - "Cybersecurity and Censorship".
2024-11-20 09:00 - 2024-11-21 16:35
Join us for the 2024 UKSG November Conference. This year’s event will take place online over two consecutive half days. Wednesday 20th November and Thursday 21st November. The theme of this year’s conference is “Cybersecurity and Censorship”.

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Wednesday, November 20, 2024 – 09:30 GMTtoThursday, November 21, 2024 – 16:35 GMT

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Member – £ 45.00 + £ 9.00 VATNon-Member – £ 55.00 + £ 11.00 VAT(A list of members can be found here)

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Summary

The theme of this year’s conference is “Cybersecurity and Censorship”. Over two half-days, we aim to start exploring the multifaceted issues surrounding the protection of students, faculty and scholarly content from cyber threats while safeguarding against censorship in scholarly discourse.

The November Conference is an entirely digital event, open to speakers and attendees globally. Split over two half days this event brings together voices from across our sector through a programme of presentations, lightning talks, and facilitated panel sessions, with the audience encouraged to participate in Q&A throughout the conference.

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If you have particular accessibility requirements or questions about this event, we strongly encourage you to contact events@uksg.org as soon as possible.

Programme

Wednesday 20 NovemberThursday 21 November

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09.30

Introduction & welcome

All times stated are GMT

Tasha Mellins-Cohen

COUNTER Metrics / 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.

09.40

Opening Keynote – Cyber attack on the British Library: What happened and what we learnt

Liz Jolly

British Library

10.20

Break

10.30

Cyber security Panel session

Chair by Tasha Mellins-Cohen

Dan Conn

Trustpilot

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Dan Conn likes to straddle the worlds of dev and security. Having spent 12 years as a software engineer and have been into cybersecurity for just as long, Dan specialises in secure coding practices, vulnerability management, software supply chains, cryptography, quantum computing, AI, and security architecture. In his spare time Dan likes to keep fit and is looking forward to raising funds for Refuge UK by running the 2025 Brighton Marathon and 2025 London Marathon in the same month.

Graeme Moss

University of Leeds

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Graeme heads up the Cyber Security Architecture, Consulting and Engineering team at University of Leeds, delivering security advice & guidance across all University projects.He spends much of his non-work time organising and volunteering at cyber security events such as BSides Community conferences in Leeds, Lancashire & Newcastle as well as supporting many hacker/cyber/privacy organisations in the north of England such as DefCon & 2600.

Nikki Webb

Custodian360

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Nikki Webb is the Global Channel Manager at Custodian360, where she has served for over 7 years. Known for her deep commitment to community in the cybersecurity space, Nikki volunteers with the UK charity, The Cyber Helpline, assisting in safeguarding individuals online. She is passionate about online safety, advocating for better practices in how people interact with digital platforms and share information. Her dedication to cybersecurity and community initiatives reflects her drive to shape a safer online environment for all.

11.15

Break

11.25

Proprietary software has failed: a community-driven open source security proposal

Following a number of high-profile cyber attacks on UK universities, many libraries are rethinking the prevalent UK approach to library systems: a reliance on proprietary software that has failed to protect their users’ data and a management approach to outsourcing systems that has reduced the numbers and skills of in-house technical staff. In this presentation, I argue for a new approach to enable libraries to take back control of their systems and their data. Open source software is not only more secure than proprietary software but allows users more control and customisation over how the software works. By working collaboratively, libraries could establish community-driven multi-tenant library systems installations using open source software to give them more control over their system security, to protect their users’ lending data, and to divest themselves of third-party private library systems companies. Using examples from the Copim and the Open Book Futures project infrastructure, I’ll show how open source software provides a more secure and more ethical alternative to proprietary software.

Simon Bowie

Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University

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Simon Bowie is an Open Source Software Developer at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University, UK, where he works on the Open Book Futures project helping to build community-owned and scholar-led open infrastructures for open access book publishing with a particular focus on experimental book publishing.

11.50

Assessing Cyber Resilience in Nigerian Libraries: An Empirical Study of Security Measures, Threats, and Preparedness

Libraries in Nigeria, like others globally, are increasingly vulnerable to cyber threats, compromising the integrity and availability of their digital collections and services. This study investigates the current state of cyber security and resilience in Nigerian libraries, identifying strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. Survey research method of the quantitative type was used. Data collected online from 80 Heads of libraries and 26 Systems librarians in ten states in Nigeria will be analysed and presented in tables and percentages. The findings will inform a proposed framework for improving cyber resilience in Nigerian libraries. Practical recommendations for improvement will be provide

Adetoun Oyelude

University of Ibadan

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Adetoun Adebisi Oyelude is an accomplished academic librarian and information professional with over 30 years of experience in using ICT and knowledge management skills to drive innovation and organizational goals. She has a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science and is a Fellow of the Nigerian Library Association (FNLA). Dr. Oyelude is regarded for her exceptional achievements in the library and information science fields as evidenced in numerous publications in high-impact academic journals worldwide. Her areas of expertise include ICT skills, indigenous knowledge preservation, metadata management, and gender studies.

Cecilia Adewumi

University of Ibadan

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Cecilia O. Bolajoko ADEWUMI has worked in an academic library for over 20 years. Presently, she is the Serials Librarian in the Kenneth Dike Library, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She is a member of the Nigerian Library Association. Her research interests are in Serials Management, Agricultural Information, Information and Communication Technology, and Library Architecture and Buildings.

Titilayo Comfort Ilesanmi

University of Ibadan

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Dr Titilayo C. Ilesanmi holds BLIS, MLS and Ph.D degrees in Library and Information Studies from the University of Ibadan. She started her career in librarianship with International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria and later the service of Kenneth Dike Library, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She has published widely in both local and international journals of repute. Her major area of research is information management. She is a Professional Fellow of Commonwealth Scholarships. She is a member of Nigerian Library Association and a Chartered Librarian of Nigeria.

12.15

Summary of day 1 and close

Tasha Mellins-Cohen

COUNTER Metrics / 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.

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13.30

Welcome and Introduction

Liam Bullingham

University of Essex

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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..

13.40

Responding to attacks

What happens when it happens to you.From initial reactions and containment response through to dealing with communications, restoration and post-incident review, hear from a specialist business service provider who recently experienced an attempted data hack. A frank discussion of what it’s like to be on the front line in handling a cyber attack.

A COO

Business services provider for academic publishers

14.05

How good data management fosters a secure researchenvironment

There is a recognition that the Data Management Plan (DMP) can form a crucial “single point of truth” and hold essential information relating to a research project’s data including:

why it is being generated;

how it is being analysed or worked with; and

where research data is stored throughout the lifecycle.

Helping researchers and administrators to create good-quality DMPs and ensure they are regularly consulted and updated to reflect the above will be a key part of how we build an ever more secure environment for our researchers and their data. This session will discuss the project to deliver a new platform which supports these aims.

Bill Ayres

The University of Manchester Library

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As part of the University of Manchester Library, Bill is Strategic Lead for Research Data Management. Focus areas for RDM services include open data publishing, data management planning, training, advocacy and support for our research community across all disciplines. He is part of the Research Lifecycle Programme management team and the renewed programme will continue to remove barriers for research over the next five years. With nearly 20 years’ experience in the sector Bill delivered IT infrastructure services and projects at faculty level (storage, compute, networks, desktop) before moving to the library side and developing a passion for open research.

14.30

Break

14.40

Everyone’s Problem: Cross-sectoral responses to content challenges and bans

While book bans and content challenges may have a more visible, dramatic impact on libraries, vendors and publishers also need to confront the implications these restrictions and bans might have on their operations. User data retention policies, publishing practices, and system features tied to content curation are just a few areas where library, vendor, and publisher concerns might coalesce in response to content challenges. This session will consider cross-sectoral implications and strategies that could help us all pursue our shared commitment to information access and knowledge dissemination

Courtney McAllister

Atypon

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Courtney McAllister has worked in many areas of the knowledge landscape, ranging from public library stacks maintenance to publishing technology services. She is the author of Change Management for Library Technologists and the Associate Editor of The Serials Librarian and Serials Review. Her current project is an upcoming co-edited monograph entitled, From Chaos to Order: Addressing Cognitive Overload in the Learning Journey. Courtney loves to spoil her cat, go hiking, and watch documentaries (true crime and cult topics are her favorites, of course!).

15.05

Cybersecurity in Higher Education – Protecting Users with Decentralised Digital Identities

Higher Education has become ever more complex with the expansion of global supply chains with numerous connected organizations, technological advancements, the recent demands of educational hybrid learning, and the growing importance attached to individuals’ data and its security. In many ways, the pandemic has accelerated the acceptance of remote learning and faster technological advancements. Still, in other ways, it has exposed areas of weakness concerning data security/privacy in education and its supply chains. Besides education entities taking up more traditional and resilient security measures/frameworks, there can also be an approach to deploy innovative technologies such as blockchain or decentralized networks and utilize decentralized digital identities (DID).

In the education sector, digital identities can be used for various purposes such as verifying academic qualifications, authenticating students and staff, and managing educational resources. It could also create a secure, decentralized system for storing and sharing academic research. This would make it easier for researchers to find and access the data they need and would help to prevent fraud.

Stefan Kendzierskyj

Maverick Publishing Specialists

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Stefan Kendzierskyj has an extensive commercial, consulting, and strategic leadership background, holding senior and executive-level positions with technology solution-led companies servicing the publishing, fintech, government, and cybersecurity sectors.Stefan holds a master’s degree in Cybersecurity and is an accomplished author in emerging technology subjects, such as governance/risk/compliance, privacy, blockchain, self-sovereign identity, AI, cyber warfare, and cyberattacks/threats – with published works through world-renowned publishers such as Springer, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, IGI, and World Scientific.His latest research involves GRC frameworks and cybersecurity for ground-to-space satellite systems.

15.30

Break

15.40

The Academy is in Play, And It Is Not a Game

Librarianship is under attack in the United States. The ongoing clashes involving schools and public libraries making headlines are campaigns against core institutions in American society. Efforts are underway to vilify another core institution—the Academy. By understanding what libraries and academic institutions are facing in the U.S., academic librarians and industry professionals can better inform their leadership, colleagues, and researchers about what may be in their future. Library professionals understand the importance of information access and have access to important information—expertise that could alter the narrative about libraries and the Academy and blunt the spread of these attacks

Kathleen McEvoy

The EveryLibrary Institute

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Kathleen McEvoy is a communications expert who has worked with libraries and content/technology providers for more than 19 years. Kathleen has created strategies to address legislation in multiple U.S. states meeting directly with state executives and legislators about book banning, criminalization, and data security. Kathleen is a senior policy fellow at The EveryLibrary Institute, a board member at EveryLibrary, and is on the executive board of the American Library Association’s United for Libraries division. She is the editor of the Seeing the Whole

16.30

Wrap up and close

Liam Bullingham

University of Essex

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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..

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UKSG Forum 2024 - Our profession in 2030: publishing, sharing and curating content now and in the future
2024-12-05 09:30 - 17:15
The very popular UKSG Forum includes topical papers, networking and a dynamic exhibition designed to bring together our diverse membership for key conversations. This year’s theme is “Our profession in 2030: publishing, sharing and curating content now and in the future.” We welcome all but free admission is available to member institutions.

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Thursday, December 5, 2024 – 09:30 GMTtoThursday, December 5, 2024 – 17:15 GMT

Leonardo Royal Hotel245 Broad StreetBirmingham, B1 2HQUnited Kingdom

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The UKSG Forum is one of the key benefits of being a UKSG member and attendance is therefore free to anyone working within a UKSG member organisation. In line with its charitable status, UKSG also wishes to encourage attendance by members of the wider community and therefore subsidises the event so that a nominal charge applies to non-members.

The theme this year is ‘Our profession in 2030: publishing, sharing and curating content now and in the future’.

What will our profession look like in 2030 and what are the practical steps we can take to prepare ourselves and shape our landscape?

Programme chairs: Katherine Rose, Magaly Bascones, Tim Leonard

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Programme

Thursday 5 December

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09.30

Registration & Refreshments

10.00

Welcome and introduction

Charlie Rapple

Kudos

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Charlie Rapple is co-founder of Kudos, which works with researchers, funders, publishers and universities to ensure research is more widely found, understood, used and cited. With a background in scholarly publishing technology and marketing, she is passionate about ensuring research is more effectively communicated. She is currently serving as Chair of UKSG, having previously served as Vice Chair, Treasurer, Chair of the Marketing Subcommittee, and co-founder of KBART. She is a member of the Editorial Board for UKSG Insights, a blogger in the Scholarly Kitchen and a Fellow of the UN’s SDG Publishers Compact. Charlie has a BA in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of Bristol, and a postgraduate MDip from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

10.10

Infoscapes: Libraries Engineering KnowledgeFutures

Josh will position libraries as dynamic hubs of innovation. He will discuss the transformative impact of emerging and evolving technologies, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), which presents both significant challenges and promising opportunities. This keynote will explore how libraries can respond effectively and actively develop knowledge futures that advance research, teaching, learning, and the public good. Through this lens, Josh will emphasise the critical role that academic libraries and their partners will play by enabling our communities to navigate and shape tomorrow’s information landscapes and the knowledge built upon them.

Josh Sendall

University of Leeds

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Josh leads three large-scale associate directorates: Student Learning and Experience, Research and Digital Futures, and Content and Discovery. He works collaboratively with the executive team to enable the strategic delivery of “Knowledge for All: Libraries’ Vision for 2030” in alignment with the institutional strategy: “Universal Values, Global Change. He is a trustee for UKSG, connecting the academic knowledge community and spanning the diverse interests and activities of academic librarians, publishers, intermediaries, and technology vendors. Josh promotes open knowledge, freely accessible libraries, and equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) as essential elements of healthy, resilient cultures and communities.

10.45

Open Access and the increasing skill list of our profession

The emergence of the diamond publishing model has created opportunities for our profession to support academics and researchers within a changing publishing landscape. For library staff working at smaller non-research-intensive institutions this presents additional challenges as we often lack the infrastructure and scale to engage with emerging publishing models.

In this talk I will reflect on some of the skills needed to harness the opportunities and management potential challenges of the increasing diversity in OA publishing models from the perspective of working at a smaller university. The impact of financial challenges approaches to support for library staff will be considered.

Sharon Stevens

University of Worcester

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Sharon is the Head of Open Scholarship and Content Management joining Worcester University in later 2023. As strategic lead for open scholarship, much of her role focuses on promoting the open access across agenda across the University. Sharon has over 15 years’ experience of working within higher education, non-for-profit and the NHS in the UK and Canada in a variety of roles supporting researchers. Sharon has a particular interest in the role libraries can play in supporting research and open scholarship.

11.00

Bridging the gap: transferable skills and career growth in academic libraries

This session explores the core competencies and transferable skills involved in development pathways within academic libraries.

Our Career and Skills Development map, designed for the University of Southampton Library, opens development opportunities by providing transparent information about job roles and associated development, alongside practical resources to support people to gain experience and skills.

Drawing on personal experience we will use the example of specialist roles in open research to demonstrate that a focus on skills, activities and experience rather than job title can open career opportunities.

Nicki Clarkson

University of Southampton

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Nicki began her career in 1998 as a Library Assistant, spending time in the 2000s working part time while raising 2 children who are now old enough to go to bed later than she does.

Nicki moved to the role of Engagement Librarian at the University of Southampton in 2017 and works across several themes. She is part of the Curriculum Engagement team, teaching research skills to undergraduates, and line manages within the Open Research & Publication Practice team. Nicki is a strong advocate for open and equitable access to research outputs and champions open educational resources.

Lucy Marr

University of Southampton

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Lucy Marr is the Library Learning and Development Lead at the University of Southampton. As a learning and development professional, she has extensive experience of how learning links to career progression in different occupations. After a year and a half of working in the Library, she is still discovering the diversity of Library roles. A true believer in life-long learning, Lucy helps people shift their mindset, and develop the behaviours and skills they need to adapt and be successful.

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/lucymarr

11.15

Q&A

11.20

Break and exhibition viewing

11.45

How will data and technology shape our services and what impact might financial challenges have on the future of our sector?

Ian’s presentation will examine how data and technology will shape library services and the potential impacts of financial challenges on the sector’s future. This session will explore how libraries can leverage emerging technologies, such as AI, and adopt data-driven purchasing practices. Additionally, it will discuss the rise of Open Educational Resources (OER) as a means to navigate today’s challenging market conditions.

Ian Moroz

Bibliu

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Ian Moroz leads the commercial teams in the UK at BibliU, collaborating with over 150 universities and 2,000 publishers to expand access to essential learning resources. Driven by a strong commitment to equitable access, Ian is dedicated to ensuring students have the best educational tools and opportunities. His work focuses on building partnerships that support inclusive and effective learning experiences for all students.

12.00

Useful, Interesting, Rare: a modern approach to collection management and content supply

This presentation will discuss the underpinnings of the Library Collections Transformation Plan at the University of Sheffield. It seeks to conceive of library content as serving differing functions and to compartmentalise collections accordingly. The proliferation of open scholarly content, and the role of libraries in enabling it, has progressed existing notions of facilitated collections. Elsewhere, collective initiatives (the UKRR and the UK PBC) are evolving the conservational obligations of research libraries. With a better understanding of its other core functions the Library can then think about how it presents the unique and cultural significant content within its lager collections.

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.

12.20

Q&A

12.30

Your Metadata, Your Responsibility – Applying the Cataloguing Code of Ethics in the Metadata Ecosystem

This presentation will briefly introduce the Cataloguing Code of Ethics 2021 and illustrate it’s practical application in cataloguing and metadata work in GLAM, the publishing industry; or within the companies that sell content, systems or records.

It will focus upon the common requirements for us to know our audiences or markets; the importance of our collaborations and business partnerships; and the need for us to identify and accommodate workforce development and education so that together we can create, share, enrich and preserve the metadata that defines the quality of search, discovery and access experiences now and in the future.https://sites.google.com/view/cataloging-ethics/

Jane Daniels

Cataloguing Ethics Steering Committee

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Jane’s background is in cataloguing and metadata management in the Higher Education sector. She was a member of the WHELF Cataloguing & Metadata Group; the Jisc NBK Phase 2 Task & Finish Group for Metadata Quality & Standards – Plan M; and the Ex Libris Community Zone Management Group. Jane was also Chair of the CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group 2018-2020. In 2019 Jane joined the USA, Canadian & UK Cataloguing Ethics Steering Committee, which produced the CILIP endorsed Cataloguing Code of Ethics 2021. Since retiring in 2022 she has continued to advocate for the Code’s use and endorsement by GLAM organisations.

12.45

Envisaging the future of metadata

As a Product Manager at OCLC, it’s my job to look into the future. The crystal ball I look into is the problems, issues, and trends of today. If I do everything right, I can help ensure that as that future I have seen approaches, we as OCLC can help libraries by offering exactly what they need when they need it.

In this presentation, I will share what I have seen in this year’s crystal ball, as it pertains to the future of the library industry.

Who or what will be creating metadata in 2030, and for which types of content? What role will linked data, knowledge graphs, and AI play, especially when used together? How will data be open and accessible while also being sustainable and persistent? And how will we link knowledge in large global graphs while at the same time allowing diverse perspectives on what truth is?

Annette Dortmund

OCLC

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Dr. Annette Dortmund ( https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1588-9749) has worked for OCLC in various roles since 2001.

In recent years she has examined the adoption and integration of persistent identifiers in scholarly communication, their business and sustainability models, and their potential role in the transition of library data to MARC formatting. As a Senior Product Manager, she currently focuses on the challenges and needs associated with implementing next-generation metadata workflows in libraries and other cultural heritage institutions.

Annette graduated with a Magister Artium in Book Studies, Latin Philology and Comparative Literature from the University of Mainz and received her PhD in 1998.

13.00

Q&A

13.10

Lunch, exhibition viewing and networking

14.30

Towards a more open and equitable publishing future

cOAlition S’s “Towards Responsible Publishing” proposal aims to advance responsible publishing practices. A global stakeholder consultation on this topic revealed support for preprint posting and open peer review, but highlighted the need for seamless integration across publishing workflows and sustainable infrastructures. Building on the consultation, this presentation will highlight opportunities for libraries, institutions, publishers and more to enable and support innovative publishing practices in the coming years. The presentation will also emphasise the importance of a phased yet confident approach towards the creation of a more open, equitable and responsible publishing ecosystem, considering potential barriers and unintended consequences and continued collaboration with the global research community.

Andrea Chiarelli

Research Consulting Limited

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Andrea Chiarelli is an experienced consultant at Research Consulting, focusing on scholarly communication, open science, and university management. His work involves providing strategic guidance and practical solutions to universities, funders, publishers and other stakeholders in the research ecosystem, building on his diverse educational background and expertise. Andrea holds an Engineering PhD and an MBA, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.

15.00

The Digital Library: Redefining Access and Engagement

This presentation will:– Showcase our online Library and Digital Skills learning space, as well as showcase our new online Infoskills programme.– Consider how Library and Digital Skills resources have been embedded into subject specific courses, including the introduction of AI and the possibilities it brings.– Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of a fully Digital Offer, including the challenges faced with regards to basic digital literacy for students.– Discuss support provided for staff presently and how those skills will need to develop in the coming years.– Look ahead at how we meet and adapt to the challenges of our ever changing sector, including potential financial limitations.

Olivia Edmonds

University of Wales Trinity St David

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Olivia is currently an Academic Liaison Librarian at the University of Wales Trinity St David (Birmingham) Prior to that, she was a former Secondary English teacher of 10+ years and former Learning Resources Manager at Sixth Form level for 6 years.Olivia is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion, literacy and reading for pleasure. The best part of Olivia’s job is discussing books with all who will listen, advocating for Libraries across the age ranges and the life skill of bringing the power of reading and all you can learn from it to communities everywhere.

Tarandeep Johal

University of Wales Trinity St David

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Tarandeep is currently a Digital Skills Advisor at the Birmingham campus of University of Wales Trinity St David.

He has an interest in developing IT skills of students from a variety of different backgrounds and skillsets, and using his experience of a PGCE/PCET, Tarandeep also helps to build and develop a structured VLE to support learners in building their digital confidence.

Before this, he was working in colleges as a lecturer, digital skills advisor and librarian.

15.20

Break & exhibition viewing

15.40

Beyond Books: Library Professionals as Champions in the AI Revolution

Library professionals work beyond books, providing direction on the ethical use of information. The AI revolution has provided challenges and opportunities for information search and use. The two speakers will dwell on the similarities and differences between search strategies and prompt engineering with a focus on academic integrity. Library professionals today are drawn into a demanding shift both in their roles and skills as they race to keep pace with the advancements in AI tools. It is envisaged that this discussion will raise the value of librarianship in the information society thus creating AI champions.

Janice Fernandes

University of West London

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Dr. Janice Fernandes is the Academic Support Manager and Subject librarian at the University of West London. She is a passionate researcher with a rich experience of 34 years and over 25 research papers. She truly believes that embracing new skill sets and trusting change to steer the way forward, has led to milestones in her professional career. She is a keynote speaker at various conferences and is on several panels for assessing FHEA applications, doctoral studies, journal submissions and book reviews. She is probably the newest member of the M25 Consortium Task Group 4.

Mary Blomley

University of West London

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Mary Blomley is an Assistant Librarian working for the content and scholarly communications team at University of West London. She has worked in various roles within academic libraries. Having witnessed and experienced the changes within the academic libraries, she has developed an interest in library technology and the impact on user information seeking behaviours. However, she is a skeptical optimist when it comes to AI

16.10

Our profession in 2030: politics, people, and progress

This keynote will look to the future of our profession via some deliberations on our past and our present, reflecting on the challenges and opportunities in front of us. In particular, it will consider:

the current political, cultural, and financial context, and the challenges of future gazing under pressured circumstances

the people that make up our profession and how we are changing to meet the needs of the future

the progress we’re making within a changing landscape, whether that’s digital transformation, working to support the civic university agenda, or working beyond our traditional boundaries

As a librarian of more years than she would like to count and as a current library leader, Sarah will be framing this keynote partially as a personal reflection, but also setting it within the context of the wider information and knowledge community, linking libraries to our partners within the information ecosystem.

Sarah Pittaway

Birmingham City University

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Sarah Pittaway is Director of Library and Learning Resources at Birmingham City University. Previously she was Head of Libraries at the University of Gloucestershire, and Head of Library Academic Engagement at The Hive in Worcester, Europe’s first integrated public and university library. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and holds a PhD in Medieval Studies, having flirted with an academic career prior to embracing life as a librarian. She currently sits on the Mercian Collaboration Steering Group and the Sconul Horizons Strategy Group, and has previously been involved with UKSG as part of the Outreach & Engagement Committee.

16.40

Closing remarks & summary

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MarcEdit through the lens of a Metadata Librarian working for a publisher
2024-12-10 11:00 - 12:15
This is a fantastic opportunity to listen to expert speakers with no travelling required. This is a free webinar – Please note that advance registration is required. This webinar will be recorded and all registrants will receive a link to the recording after the session.

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Tuesday, December 10, 2024 – 11:00 GMTto12:15 GMT

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MarcEdit, is an essential program to manipulate and create metadata in an efficient way and without wasting time. During this webinar the host will show how to use the various tools available within this program, going from basic to medium and then to advanced metadata manipulation. The main focus will be manipulation of MARC records, using the MARC21 format, and the host will also illustrate how all of this is a fundamental part of her job as a Metadata Librarian working for Cambridge University Press & Assessment and how and why metadata is produced and distributed within such an environment.

The webinar will be divided in three sections:

Basic metadata manipulation: Add, Delete, Select, Join, Split

Medium metadata manipulation: Find duplicate, change from MARC21 into MARCXML, Excel and UNIMARC

Advanced metadata manipulation: Merge records, Build fields, Create Tasks, Search for external metadata using the Z39.50 protocol

Questions are welcome after each sections or after the webinar.

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Concetta La Spada

Senior Metadata Librarian | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

A native of Sicily in Italy, Concetta completed her BA in Conservation of Cultural Heritage in 2007 at the University of Messina. During her university years she worked in various libraries and cultural institutions in Italy. She completed her MA in Archival and Library Science at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ in 2009. In 2011 she moved to the UK where she worked as a Cataloguer for Blackwell, Baker & Taylor and YBP/EBSCO, acquiring great experience in cataloguing books and ebooks. In September 2015 she moved to Cambridge University Press where, as Senior Metadata Librarian, she uses her knowledge of cataloguing and metadata to improve the quality of the metadata supplied to libraries and third parties.

Learning outcomes

Basic metadata manipulation: Add, Delete, Select, Join, Split

Medium metadata manipulation: Find duplicate, change from MARC21 into MARCXML, Excel and UNIMARC

Advanced metadata manipulation: Merge records, Build fields, Create Tasks, Search for external metadata using the Z39.50 protocol

Subject level and previous knowledge required

Introductory and non-intensive, no previous knowledge or experience required.

Knowledge of the MARC21 structure and cataloguing are non-essential to attend the webinar but if you want to have a quick review of these topics, the speaker recommends using the following tool: Cataloger’s Reference Shelf, one of the most complete references tools, https://www.itsmarc.com/crs/crs.htm

You can find the latest version of MarcEdit here, https://marcedit.reeset.net/downloads

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FREE UKSG webinar: SHERIF Showcase: Powering Progress with Enhancement
2025-01-21 01:30 - 02:15
This is a fantastic opportunity to listen to expert speakers with no travelling required. This is a free webinar – Please note that advance registration is required. This webinar will be recorded and all registrants will receive a link to the recording after the session.

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Tuesday, January 21, 2024. From 13:00 to 14:15 GMT

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This session will shine a spotlight on the activity of SHERIF’s Enhancement Groups which work with eResource providers to make service and platform improvements. You will hear about how SHERIF works on behalf of its membership, reflects their views and requirements and lobbies for important development work. This session will also look at SHERIF’s liaison work with UKRI to feedback and contribute to the development of the Open Access Policy.

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Adam Robinson

Adam is the Chair of SHERIF overseeing the direction of activity and striving to make connections across the sector, lobbying for service enhancements from eResource suppliers. Adam is proud to work for the University of Derby as the Head of Academic Services, leading the strategic vision of the Acdemic Enhancement and Research Publication and Practice teams in the Library. Adam has enjoyed many other roles during his career, including taking responsibility for the Library’s collection development and management as part of his leadership of the Content and Digital Services team.

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Holly Limbert

Holly currently works as Publication Practice Librarian at the University of Derby, where she has been in post since 2019. In this role, she is able to advance her passion for research and providing access to information by being involved with and helping to support and develop the culture of Open Research at the University of Derby and beyond.

Holly believes that information is a fundamental human right, and the main way in which she supports this is by raising awareness of Open Access and the Open Research landscape. Holly is namely interested in raising the profile of librarians & the work that they do in advancing open knowledge and is also very much invested in contributing to the conversation around the future of the scholarly monograph and how a transition to Open Access can be achieved. Holly is also actively engaged in the conversation surrounding author rights retention & supporting alternative routes to achieve Open publication beyond the Gold model. She sits on the URKI Open Access Stakeholder Forum as a representative for Sherif & SCONUL.

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Kath Halfpenny

Kath Halfpenny is Subscriptions Manager at the University of Liverpool and Chair of the SHERIF-EBSCO Enhancement Group. Kath has worked in the academic library sector for over thirty years, working predominantly in content management roles. She has been in her current role at the University of Liverpool since 2017, and has responsibility for the acquisition and management of the University’s online, print and e-resource subscription collections.

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Wendy Mears

Wendy Mears has been working at the Open University Library in a student facing role for longer than she can remember, teaching students, supporting their use of Library content, and helping to shape digital and information literacy skills development. She enjoys chairing the product enhancement group, because of the conversations and networking opportunities with suppliers and colleagues across the sector.

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Delyth Morris

Delyth Morris has worked for Cardiff University since 2011 and in the role of Subject Librarian for Medicine since 2015. She has been a member of the SHERIF Ovid Enhancement Group since 2015 and chaired the group since 2017.

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Elizabeth McHugh

Elizabeth McHugh is the Electronic Resources Manager for the University of the Highlands and Islands, a post she has held since 2005. Prior to that she worked in Further Education libraries.Elizabeth is the current Chair of the SHEDL (Scottish Higher Education Digital Library) Steering Group which oversees the procurement work done by the SHEDL Working Groups. She has been a previous chair of sherif and took over the role of the sherif Scopus Enhancement Group approximately 7 years ago. She has extensive experience of working with JISC, APUC and eResources suppliers at a Scottish and UK level.

Learning outcomes

Understand the role SHERIF plays in supporting the information service profession sector

Learn about developments and improvements that have been achieved through SHERIF’s Enhancement Groups

Find out how you can get involved support the work SHERIF does

Subject level and previous knowledge required

Introductory and non-intensive, no previous knowledge or experience required.

Session is aimed at colleagues who work in the information service profession in an academic setting and who are work with eResources and digital content provision.

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FREE UKSG webinar: Society Publishing at a Crossroads: Rethinking Value in Academic Publishing
2025-02-06 12:00 - 13:00
This is a fantastic opportunity to listen to expert speakers with no travelling required. This is a free webinar – Please note that advance registration is required. This webinar will be recorded and all registrants will receive a link to the recording after the session.

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Thursday, February 6, 2025From 12:00 GMT to 13:00 GMT

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As UK and European academic libraries face critical decisions about their subscription portfolios in 2025, this webinar explores new approaches to evaluating and supporting society publishers. Drawing on recent research into the changing landscape of UK learned society publishing, published in UKSG Insights, we’ll examine how the transition to open access is affecting society publishers and explore emerging frameworks for assessing the broader value publishers of all kinds bring to the scholarly ecosystem. While the session will focus primarily on journal publishing, we’ll also touch on the role of open access book agreements within the debate over value in academic publishing.

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Speakers

Rob Johnson

Managing Director | Research Consulting

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

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Helen Dobson

Licensing Portfolio Specialist | Jisc

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.

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Shehnaz Ahmed

Director of Research and Publishing | British Association of Dermatologists

.Shehnaz Ahmed started her publishing career in India working for TERI: Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Development – India; a research organisation. She then moved to the UK where she has worked with several organisations such as the RCS, The Lancet, BSR and currently at the BAD. She has worked mainly in academic publishing in journals in the not-for-profit sector so understands the challenges and the motivations of such a landscape. She is responsible for the publishing activity and research portfolio in the BAD. She is one of the co-chairs of the ALPSP SIG in AI, a council member for SoCPC and also runs the Peer Review course for ALPSP.

Learning outcomes

Understand current trends and challenges in society publishing

Learn about new frameworks for evaluating publishing agreements beyond usage metrics

Gain insight into value-based assessment approaches for library decision-making

Subject level and previous knowledge required

Introductory and non-intensive, no previous knowledge or experience required.

Session is aimed at colleagues who work in the information service profession in an academic setting and who are work with eResources and digital content provision.

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The UKSG webinars are great for me – they offer a wide range of topics and are very well prepared. I never experienced any technical difficulties. Due to the austerity measures brought by the recent worldwide events the training budget in my institution was frozen, so the fact that UKSG webinars are free is really a boon too!
Anonymous

The UKSG webinar was fantastic – well-organized, timely, accessible, and with an array of presenters that had insight into the topic
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Great to squeeze in so much useful knowledge and information without having to go out to a conference. I could enjoy taking it in with a sandwich at my desk! I felt very empowered afterwards.
Emma Thompson, Glasgow Caledonian University

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The UKSG 48th Annual Conference and Exhibition: Brighton
2025-03-31 08:00 - 2025-04-02 13:30
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, workshops, posters and breakout sessions with entertaining social events and trade exhibition.

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Monday, March 31, 2025 – 08:00 BSTtoWednesday, April 2, 2025 – 13:30 BST

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The Brighton CentreKings RoadBrighton, BN1 2GRUnited Kingdom

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Sponsorship Opportunities

We are working again with Content Online who will work with you to create the best sponsorship package for you. See the options here. Thank you for your support – we appreciate it!

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Exhibition

The Exhibition is now open for bookings, please visit: https://uksg.jewelion.com/.

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More information on how to get to The Brighton Centre can be found here.

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To help us, please share any access needs you have when prompted by our booking form. We may be in touch to ensure we’re making the right adjustments.

Further information on access facilities can be found here for the Brighton Centre or here for generally visiting Brighton. If you have any more questions or need more information please do not hesitate to contact events (at) uksg.org.

We plan to have a quiet room (no meetings or calls please) and also a multi-faith room, more details will follow nearer the time of the event.

Accommodation

Accommodation is not covered by the delegate fee.  The official online accommodation bookings service hosted by Visit Brighton has now closed – click here for more details.

Visit Brighton also provide a number of special delegate offers and discounts for a variety of local tours and restaurants etc – this can be found here

Conference App

The conference app is now live, all registered delegates will receive and email with details on how to download the app. More details on the event app can be found here.

The app includes information on:

sessions and speakers (build your own programme)

delegates lists

sponsors and exhibitors

maps

take part in ‘The Passport Game’ with a chance to win £100 in vouchers

additional information/logistics

polls, Q&A, session chat

community/networking pages including ice breaking area’s.

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The John Merriman award is supported by the generous sponsorship of Taylor & Francis Group

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Programme

Monday 31 MarchTuesday 1 AprilWednesday 2 AprilBreakoutf sessionsPoster sessions

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08.00

Registrations opens alongside refreshments and exhibition viewing.

10.00

Opening of the Conference

followed by Presentation of Awards

Charlie Rapple

Kudos/Chair of UKSG

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Charlie Rapple is co-founder of Kudos, which works with researchers, funders, publishers and universities to ensure research is more widely found, understood, used and cited. With a background in scholarly publishing technology and marketing, she is passionate about ensuring research is more effectively communicated. She is currently serving as Chair of UKSG, having previously served as Vice Chair, Treasurer, Chair of the Marketing Subcommittee, and co-founder of KBART. She is a member of the Editorial Board for UKSG Insights, a blogger in the Scholarly Kitchen and a Fellow of the UN’s SDG Publishers Compact. Charlie has a BA in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of Bristol, and a postgraduate MDip from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

10.30

Plenary session 1

Navigating AI Futures: overview – Leo Lo, University of New Mexico

This session explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in the research and knowledge ecosystem, drawing on the ARL/CNI 2035 Scenarios report. Dr. Leo S. Lo, Dean of University Libraries at the University of New Mexico, will present four divergent scenarios developed through extensive stakeholder engagement, highlighting critical uncertainties and strategic focal points for libraries and research institutions. These scenarios range from democratized and socially integrated AI to autonomous AI systems, offering insights into potential challenges and opportunities.

AI for Academia – Kate O’Riordan, University of Sussex

Education and AI: between principles for the present and speculative futures.

In relation to AI, Universities can be seen to be shaped through contradictions:

• driving developments in AI through research, while being destabilised by them in education;

• providing stability and stewardship in relation to technocultural knowledge production, while undergoing significant disruption, instability and transformation;

• adapting and reacting in the present while anticipating speculative futures.

An engagement with the speculative futures of the ARL/CNI 2035 Scenarios report, and the role of speculation, can help to enrich strategic thinking about these contradictions and others playing out in Higher Education.

Advising and guiding AI Initiatives – Alan Oliver, Clarivate

Alan Oliver, Director of Community Engagement at Clarivate, will then discuss the work of Clarivate’s Academia AI Advisory Council, which includes Leo and 12 other Council members representing libraries and academia across 9 countries and 4 continents. The Advisory Council addresses key issues identified in the scenarios, such as bias mitigation, data integrity, and the evolving role of libraries.

This session aims to stimulate strategic thinking and foster dialogue on preparing for an AI-influenced future in scholarly communication and research practices.

Alan Oliver

Clarivate

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Alan Oliver is Director, Community Engagement at Clarivate. Before joining Clarivate, Alan worked with ProQuest and Ex Libris, starting his commercial journey with them in 2002. In his current role within Clarivate’s Academia & Government Strategy and Innovation Team, Alan oversees several key initiatives. His responsibilities include managing the Academia AI Advisory Council, the Web of Science Community Forum and Product Working Group, and maintaining relationships with ELUNA (Ex Libris Users of North America) and IGeLU (International Group of Ex Libris Users).

Leo Lo

University of New Mexico

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Dr. Leo Lo is the Dean of the College of University Libraries & Learning Sciences at the University of New Mexico. His work focuses on advancing AI literacy and developing training programs for library and higher education professionals. As President of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), Dr. Lo established a national task force to create a set of essential AI competencies for library workers, and created an AI Discussion Group. He studied Artificial Intelligence at the University of Oxford and holds a doctorate in Higher Education Management from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as an MLIS from Florida State University.

Kate O’Riordan

University of Sussex

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Kate O’Riordan is Professor of Digital Cultures and Pro Vice Chancellor for Education and Students at the University of Sussex. Her research has examined public engagement with, emerging digital and biotechnologies since the 1990s, deploying sexuality and gender as key analytical categories. She has published widely in these areas, including: Feminist Data Studies; Furious: technological feminism and digital futures; and Life and the Technological. As Pro Vice Chancellor for Education she has had oversight for developing the institutional position on AI in Education, informed by the work of the AI Community of Practice at the University of Sussex.

12.00

Lunch and Exhibition Viewing

Poster Sessions

An International Data Space for OA Book Usage Data Exchange Across Public and Private Stakeholders – Project Update – Ursula Rabar

While APIs have made it easier for libraries, publishers, policymakers, and information services to access, use and innovate with usage and metadata at scale, time and human resources are still required to manage, compile, and link OA book usage data metrics coming from multiple platforms in multiple formats. OA book usage data is even more important at this very moment when EU-funded projects such as PALOMERA worked to support policy alignment for OA monographs in Europe, and the UK has seen the implementation of their new 2024 UKRI policy including long-format outputs. It begs the question, how can OA book impact be monitored more effectively to help inform policy making?

This poster will present the project update with the findings to date and provide visitors with interactive QR codes

Database accessibility: Proactivity, transparency, buy-in – Debi Roland/Anna Dolling

How do we balance the demands of current accessibility legislation with university students’ needs for external database content?

To meet our legal requirement, we researched and sought advice from other institutions in the sector then built our own workflow which involves the implementation of a 5-point checklist. This has raised the profile of accessibility amongst our university colleagues but is skills and labour intensive.

Please come and visit our poster session to find out more and offer your suggestions.

13.30

Breakout Session – Group A

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13.30

Workshop 1: Citizen Science in Libraries: Towards Societal Impact

Citizen Science is manifesting itself in universities, research institutions and libraries and the last few years centers or hubs that facilitate a dialogue between researchers and communities have emerged. Libraries very much can play a crucial role in making not only public engagement but also research outcomes happen in practice thus supporting both scientific and societal impact.

Citizen Science can be seen as part of a global knowledge mobilization that can help solve wicked problems from climate change over health inequalities to extreme poverty (Hodgkinson et al. 2022) but is the same time manifesting itself very differently around research institutions and libraries (Kaarsted et al. 2023). There is no one size fits all.

This workshop addresses this. It brings three brief cases from the U.K. and Europe, has a take on the importance and implementation around societal impact and offer tips and practices on how libraries can get started. The presenters and facilitators are all part of the LIBER Citizen Science Working Group and offers their very different experiences towards one common goal: Getting started.

Thomas Kaarsted

SDU Citizen Science Knowledge Center

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Thomas Kaarsted is Director of the SDU Citizen Science Knowledge Center and Deputy Library Director at same university. He has worked with integrating Citizen Science and Open Science in research libraries and universities sinde 2017. He is project manager of a long range of CS-projects and also serves on the LIBER Executive Board.

Anne Kathrine Overgaard

University of Southern Denmark

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Anne Kathrine Overgaard is Head of Research & Innovation Support at the Faculty of Health Sciences at University of Southern Denmark (SDU). She collaborates closely with management on strategy development and implementation in an RMA setup spanning from pre-pre-ward to innovation and impact through an involvement of external stakeholders and potential end-users. She founded the SDU Citizen Science Knowledge Centre with Thomas Kaarsted. The Citizen Science Centre, located in the Research Library, is regarded as a crucial partner in engaging stakeholders and citizens in research aimed at creating societal impact. Anne Kathrine Overgaard is the key link in this collaboration, which is seen as essential for fulfilling the faculty’s strategy and vision.

Nel Coleman

University of Edinburgh

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Nel Coleman (they/them) is part of the Open Research team at the University of Edinburgh Library. Having joined the team early in 2022, their role has been to connect the library with citizen science activities across the University; from the medical school to the arts and humanities. They work to develop infrastructure to support participatory research, and to secure active partnerships between the library and key networks, groups, communities and hubs – helping to support the active involvement of non-professionals in research.

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.

14.30

Breakout Session – Group B

15.30

Refreshments and exhibition viewing

16.00

Breakout session – Group C

17.00

Lightning Session 1

The right to use AI : protecting and advancing learning and research. Jisc Licensing and the ICOLC AI Task Force – Ben Taplin

As AI has developed rapidly, vendors have begun to present libraries with new licence language defining rights and restrictions. Faced with new clauses that sought to prohibit use of licensed content in AI systems, a group of licensing specialists across the world came together in early 2024 to work collectively to ensure library user rights are maintained.

This session will discuss why blanket bans on AI in licences are wrong and how the ICOLC AI Taskforce supports libraries in resisting them, enabling the full legal use of AI technologies to transform teaching and research and ensure equitable access to information.

Enhancing Open Research Culture at the University of York: Lessons Learned from our Community of Practice – Luqman Muraina

This lightning talk shares successes, challenges and lessons learned on the development of a cross-disciplinary open research (OR) community of practice at the University of York, told from the perspective of our Graduate Engagement Leads. This role was created in 2023 for three postgraduate researchers in support of the University’s strategic commitments towards OR.

Achievements from the past year included the completion of a university-wide survey, the introduction of new communication channels and continuation of our OR Awards scheme. Ongoing activities include the introduction of a regular community discussion series and review of the OR Skills Framework based on community feedback and engagement.

Ben Taplin

Jisc

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Ben Taplin has been Jisc’s contract and licensing specialist for ten years. He is also a member of Jisc’s Artificial Intelligence group and the ICOLC AI Taskforce.

Luqman Muraina

University of York

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Luqman Muraina started the Global Development PhD programme at the IGDC, University of York in 2023 and completed the MA Sociology degree at the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 2022 with funding from the Mastercard Foundation and completed the B.Sc. Sociology degree from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria.He has over three years of teaching and research assistantship experience and is currently engaged as a Graduate Engagement Lead for Open Research at the York university’s library, where he supports the university’s commitment towards Open Research as a default research practice. He researches on decolonization and politics of knowledge, higher education, African politics & development, Black feminism, etc.

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Lightning Session 2

Building the Future: Addressing the Educational Gaps and supporting the development of a Professional Identity for Research Librarians – Lucy Roper & Charlotte Wein

Despite the global prevalence of research librarians, there is a notable absence of formal educational programs specifically designed for this profession in many countries. This deficiency poses significant challenges to the formation of our professional identity: The absence of shared theories, methods, and ethical standards hinders the development of a unified professional identity.

We will present some ongoing initiatives focusing on training and resource provision for early career research librarians and demonstrate how Lucy’s latest work, The Solo Librarian: A Practical Handbook, provides insights and practical guidance for librarians working alone or in small teams.

These Flipping Publishers…! Finding Our Way to OA – Beth Bayley

We can all get on board with Open Access in principle: Few would oppose all people having access to knowledge that improves lives. But the road to achieving it is bumpy. As a publisher with a genuine aim to move to OA, we’ve tried it all – flipping, Transformative Agreements, Transformative Journals, Subscribe to Open, Gold OA, and Diamond OA. This session charts the OA journey of one of the industry’s smaller, and independent, publishers, focusing on practical aspects. Can broader lessons be drawn from our experiences?

Open Research Spaces: How a library can foster an open environment – Leah Burns

The space of a library has undeniably changed and adapted to the trends of academia. This session will highlight how the physical and virtual space of a library can shift to foster an environment of Open Research, of mutual aid between academics, and welcome non-traditional knowledge sharing.

Lucy Roper

UCEM – University College of Estate Management

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Lucy Roper is an academic librarian at the University College of Estate Management (UCEM). Her role is to manage, organise, evaluate, and disseminate information, supporting members of the UCEM academic community, including students, lecturing staff and researchers. Lucy has over twenty-five years of experience managing library and information services, ten years working as a solo librarian at UCEM and wrote The Solo Librarian: A Practical Handbook in 2024. With the advancements in information governance, she took on additional responsibilities, becoming Strategic Copyright Lead, ensuring that UCEM and the library and information services provided comply with copyright and data protection legislation.

Charlotte Wien

Elsevier

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Dr. Charlotte Wien is a full professor of scholarly communication at Arctic University Tromsö, Norway and Vice President of Library Relations at Elsevier. Charlotte has worked both as a scholar and as a librarian previously and has extensive experience in curricula development for librarians. During her career she has focused on the research libraries transformation from ‘classical library’ to ‘service center for researchers and students’ and the derived consequences in terms of the changing competence needs for librarians. She holds two master degrees, of which one is in Library Science and PhD-degree in information retrieval.

Beth Bayley

Karger Publishers

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Beth Bayley is Open Science Manager at Karger Publishers, a health sciences publisher based in Switzerland. She also co-leads Karger’s Open Science Task Force as well as the Karger Ambassadors Program. Specializing in Open Access since 2010, Beth is engaged with strategy, policy, and communications to support Karger in its drive toward a sustainable transition to Open Access that will serve all stakeholders, from libraries to authors to research funders and the broader public.

Leah Burns

Lancaster University

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Leah is part of Lancaster University’s Open Research team based in the library. They manage and organise training and embed open research practices throughout the university. With a Masters in literary studies and bountiful experience with research ethics, Leah combines her passions of Open Access, citation ethics, and accessibility in the academic sphere with the physical space of the library.

09.00

Plenary Session 2

Cyber Security and the Academic Library: What to Be Worried about and What to Do- Rick Anderson and team – Rick Anderson, Heather Lowrie, Susie Winters

Academic libraries are ripe targets for cyberattack, given both the high value of the content they licence and the sensitive data hosted in the campus networks to which they are a portal. Criminals use social engineering as well as brute force attacks to try to gain access to both campus information and campus systems – and too often, they are successful. In this presentation, a publisher, an academic library director, and a higher-education cybersecurity consultant will share experiences that illustrate these dangers and share strategies libraries can use to help safeguard their institutions’ networks.

How to respond to a cyber attack in the real world – TBC

I will share details about an incident response to a cyber attack, focusing on the human impact of managing a security breach. Highlighting how team members react differently to such a crisis and shares key takeaways including the importance of having a solid incident response plan, regular employee training, and crisis management to ensure business continuity and resilience.

Rick Anderson

Brigham Young University

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Rick Anderson is University Librarian of Brigham Young University. He serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards and is a regular contributor to the Scholarly Kitchen. He has served as president of NASIG and of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, and is a recipient of the HARRASSOWITZ Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award. Rick is the author of three books, including Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2018), which has been published in three languages.

Heather Lowrie

Independent Security Advisor

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Heather Lowrie is a seasoned technology, security and risk leader with a track record of achievement in government, public and private sectors. She was recognised by her peers as “CISO of the Year 2024” at SC Awards Europe and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Information Security.

With experience spanning in-depth engineering to board level management, Heather is adept at setting direction and taking accountability for security in large and complex organisations. She is an accomplished strategist with significant experience of leading through crisis (including managing major cyber incidents), and leading strategic change for digital, AI & security transformations.

Heather served as the first Chief Information Security Officer for The University of Manchester, building security capabilities and leading through a significant cyber incident. Prior to that, she worked in Scotland’s public sector, orchestrating the cybersecurity efforts behind Scotland’s first digital-first Census. She has also held various technical and technical leadership roles in the financial services industry. Heather is a member of the UK Advisory Council for ISC2 and the Advisory Council for Infosecurity Europe.

Susie Winters

Springer Nature

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Susie Winter is Vice President Communications at Springer Nature.

Susie joined Springer Nature from the Publishers Association, the trade association for the publishing industry in the UK where, as Director of Policy and Communications, she was responsible for developing and leading the PA’s work across the policy agenda as well as promoting the contribution made by the UK publishing industry at both a UK and European level.

Prior to that, she was the first Director General for the Alliance for Intellectual Property, working to ensure that the importance of IP rights to the UK economy is recognised. Having begun her career as a Press and Broadcasting Officer for the Liberal Democrat Party she then spent several years at communications consultancy Luther Pendragon.

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Breakout Session – Group A

11.00

Workshop 2: Managing Innovation and Hype Cycles in Academic Libraries: From Reactive to Strategic

How can academic libraries navigate the complex landscape of emerging technologies while maintaining service excellence?This interactive workshop will explore how to effectively evaluate and manage (technology) hype cycles within the constraints of academic library resources. It will introduce key frameworks such as Gartner’s hype cycle (Linden & Fenn, 2003) and Roger’s diffusion of innovation (2003) for understanding technology hype cycles and their impact on library services. This session posits that the emergence of critical, systematic analysis of emerging technologies will become a key skill within librarianship. Understanding these frameworks could be central to information literacy innovation and information management infrastructures.Drawing on examples from artificial intelligence, decolonisation initiatives, and digital transformation, participants will explore how libraries have navigated recent changes, identifying successful strategies and common pitfalls. Participants will critically examine the lessons learned and discuss strategies for responding to future developments.The workshop emphasises that hype cycles, while challenging, can drive positive innovation when managed strategically. Participants will examine how to recognise where trends sit within these cycles and develop frameworks for deciding when, how, and, crucially, whether to invest limited resources.

Siobhan Haime

Open Library of Humanities

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Siobhan is the Publishing Technologies Librarian at the Open Library of Humanities and Janeway Systems. She oversees support for service and leads on improving metadata and discovery. Siobhan is passionate about Open Access, Knowledge Equity, Open Education, and has a keen interest in digital transformation and technological advances in librarianship.

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Lightning Session 3

The hidden REF, celebrating all research outputs – Lyndsey Ballantyne

Our 2021 and 2024 competitions highlight the diversity of contributions, from librarians and technicians to research software engineers and administrators — vital roles often overlooked in traditional assessments. In 2023, the Festival of Hidden REF gathered professionals and policymakers to discuss creating a more effective and equitable research environment.

The Hidden REF campaign recognises all research outputs and roles that make research possible.

I will share our initiatives, outcomes, and strategies for gaining recognition for these roles, inviting the UKSG community to collaborate and discuss strategies for gaining well-deserved recognition for these hidden roles.

Lessons Learned in the UK from Navigating the FAIR Open Research World: A Collaborative Approach to Transforming Library Workflows – Martin Jagerhorn

Lancaster University is a typical, mid-sized UK institution. With a small research support team, the library needs innovative technology and partners to meet the ever-increasing challenges of the rapidly evolving Open Research World. This presentation focuses on solutions to the cumbersome depositing of publications in institutional repositories (IR).World-wide almost every university has an IR, and nearly everyone faces the challenges of lacking data quality and coverage, with faculty frustrated over the clunkiness and overwhelming manual workload of data entry. Furthermore, research outputs increasingly require a plethora of checks necessitating FAIR and evermore extensive meta-data. Is this article eligible for APC funding or covered by an agreement, and compliant with our and the funders OA policies?

At Lancaster, we use our Current Research Information System (CRIS) for fulltext deposits, but it is faced with the same challenges. With more and more OA routes and ballooning publishing charges, our presentation delves into a first-of-its-kind innovation and collaboration with technology partners and illustrates to what extent we can hit the sweet spot for effectively managing open research workflows through a combination of AI scanning of manuscripts, integrations and a simple user interface, while upholding the flag of FAIR data principles.

Jisc’s open policy finder – re-developing Sherpa and looking to the future – Karen Jackson

Jisc’s Open Policy Finder, formerly Sherpa Services, has undergone significant changes over the past year as part of our commitment to building a future-ready, streamlined, and efficient product to support open access workflows. These changes represent not just a fresh identity but also the foundation of a platform designed to adapt and scale for future use cases, ensuring continued relevance and impact in a rapidly evolving environment.

This lightning talk will showcase the key enhancements we’ve implemented, including the launch of our unified website and the rebranding of the service in November 2024. We will share our roadmap for further development, focusing on creating solutions that anticipate and respond to the changing demands of our users.

We invite attendees to explore our accompanying poster and share feedback on the changes.

Lyndsey Ballantyne

Software Sustainbility Institute

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Lyndsey Ballantyne is a Community Manager at the Software Sustainability Institute where she plays a key role in advocating for under recognised contributors to research. By organising workshops, conferences, and networking events, she creates opportunities for people from different backgrounds to contribute to and benefit from the research software ecosystem. She is involved in the Hidden REF initiative, which aims to recognise the often-overlooked work of research staff, such as software engineers, librarians and publishers in traditional assessments like the Research Excellence Framework (REF). Lyndsey promotes inclusivity and recognition for essential behind-the-scenes roles, ensuring their contributions to research are valued and celebrated.

Martin Jagerhorn

ChronosHub

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Martin has about 20 years of experience in research information management. Since 2019, he heads Business Development at ChronosHub and establishes collaborations with institutions, consortia, funders and publishers to streamline open access management processes. Besides ChronosHub, he has co-founded or funded businesses like Avedas, Morressier and Zendy and acted as advisor towards nonprofit initiatives including national and international Open Science infrastructure initiatives. His educational background includes an MSc in Industrial Engineering with a specialization in Information Systems.

Karen Jackson

Jisc

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Karen is a product manager in the research management team at Jisc, working on open policy finder (previously Sherpa services). She has been at Jisc since 2017, and previously worked in HE libraries with a particular focus/interest in open access and institutional repository management & administration

Karen Jackson

Jisc

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Karen is a product manager in the research management team at Jisc, working on open policy finder (previously Sherpa services). She has been at Jisc since 2017, and previously worked in HE libraries with a particular focus/interest in open access and institutional repository management & administration

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Plenary Session 3:

Empowering Neurodivergent Staff, Learners andResearchers: The Library as a Partner in Success

Neurodiversity is increasingly recognised as a natural variation in human cognition, encompassing conditions such as ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and dyspraxia. Neurodivergent individuals possess unique strengths and face distinct challenges in academic environments. As a librarian with ADHD, I have experienced at firsthand the barriers and frustrations that neurodivergent students and staff can encounter when navigating academic libraries. This presentation will draw upon those personal experiences and wider research to explore how libraries can create more inclusive and supportive environments for neurodivergent users by tailoring digital resources and training to their specific needs.

The panel discussion will begin by sharing personal experiences of being neurodivergent within the workplace, examining the challenges faced by neurodivergent individuals in academic libraries, such as information overload, sensory sensitivities, and difficulties navigating complex systems. It will then highlight the opportunities for libraries to provide targeted support through a range of digital resources and training initiatives. These could include curated collections of accessible tools and resources, online tutorials and guides with alternative formats, assistive technologies, and self-paced online courses. The presentation will also emphasise the importance of fostering a neurodiversity-affirming culture in libraries through staff training, inclusive design practices, and the development of peer-to-peer support networks, such as buddy schemes.

This presentation will support library staff in creating a more inclusive and supportive library environment for all users. It will also contribute to the ongoing conversation about neurodiversity and inclusivity in higher education, aligning with the UKSG conference’s commitment to diversity and the exchange of ideas on scholarly communication.

Caroline Ball

University of Derby

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Caroline Ball is academic librarian for Business, Law and Social Sciences at the University of Derby. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has also worked as a copyright and licensing advisor and a lecturer in publishing. She is a keen advocate for librarians’ role in driving forward social justice in higher education, in recent years co-founding the #ebookSOS campaign, serving on the committee for NLISN (Neurodivergent Library and Information Staff Network), and is in her second terms as a trustee for Wikimedia UK.

Andrew Walsh

SCONUL

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Andrew works part-time supporting Academic Libraries North, part time freelance. Most of his time is nowadays spent running workshops around neurodiversity, pedagogy, playful learning, playful leadership, Lego and other fun things. He is co-chair of NLISN (nlisn.org), co-chair of the Playful Learning Association, and editor of the Journal of Play in Adulthood. He is joining the panel as an autistic, ADHD and dyspraxic librarian

Jo Fitzpatrick

Lancaster University

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Joanne is seconded to the Open Book Futures project at Lancaster University, supporting the accessibility of diamond open access monographs, and is part of the Open Research team in the Library, with experience in Research Data Management and Bibliometrics. As Co-Chair of the Neurodivergent Library and Information Staff Network (NLISN) she works to provide peer support for neurodivergent library staff. She is joining Caroline on this panel as a diagnosed autistic librarian.

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Breakout Session – Group B

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Workshop 3: Towards a Barrier-Free Future: Integrating Open Research into Publishing Practices

For over 20 years, UK institutions, libraries, Jisc, funders, and publishers have collaborated to make open access publishing standard practice, but broader open research practices have lagged behind. Policy developments and no-additional-cost agreements have expanded open access and highlighted barriers in publishing. More recently, attention has shifted to open research, but barriers in research and publishing systems persist. As negotiations are underway for post-Plan S agreements, this workshop will examine how publishing can better support open research practices, address barriers, and anticipate unintended consequences. Participants will contribute to draft recommendations, with a focus on open research and publishing practices.

Steven Vidovic

University of Southampton

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Steven Vidovic, Head of Open Research & Publication Practice at the University of Southampton, champions transparency and reproducibility in research, research integrity, and research culture. With a background in earth and environmental sciences and roles in both academic publishing and libraries, Steven has led initiatives and policy development to support open research, responsible metrics, and authorship standards at Southampton. He has contributed to national advisory groups (UKRI, NIHR, Jisc) and served as Chair of the DOAJ Advisory Board.

Ruth Harrison

Imperial College London

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Plenary 4

Challenges and Opportunities: Building an Equitable Research Culture for Marginalised Researchers – Emily Ennis

This talk provides an overview of some of the sector-specific challenges facing marginalised researchers in the UK and highlights the work universities and funders are doing to begin tackling these obstacles. Approaching the issue from a research culture perspective, this session focuses on data collected from staff surveys, HR records, and funding databases at University of Leeds to outline the challenges facing marginalised researchers. While these data do not provide an exhaustive list of challenges, they provide early insights into the deep-rooted systemic inequities in the research sector as well as opportunities for making a more inclusive, supportive, and equitable research culture.

Metrics that Matter: Identifying and Testing Scalable Metrics for a Gender Equitable Research Culture – Francesca Soldati

Research metrics are widely used in recruitment and promotion decisions but reliance on these metrics has led to unintended consequences, including gender disparities within the academic landscape. It is well documented that women in research, particularly those in early to mid-career stages, often face challenges such as lower publication rates and fewer citations than their male counterparts, while remaining underrepresented in senior positions. However, the underlying causes of these discrepancies remain unclear; this project proposes an investigation into the relationship between research culture, gender, and career outcomes, aiming to identify scalable metrics that can better support gender equity in research.

Emily Ennis

University of Leeds

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Dr Emily Ennis is the Research Culture Manager for the University of Leeds. She builds relationships with researchers and research enablers across the University to better understand diverse research cultures and ensure wide-reaching impacts from the work led by the Research Culture team. She oversees a variety of research culture initiatives at the University, including targeted interventions tackling inequities in the research environment. Emily previously worked in research and impact management at Leeds, enabling her to build a comprehensive knowledge of the full research lifecycle, including how research is used beyond the sector. Emily is also a recovering academic.

Francesca Soldati

University of Aberdeen

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Francesca is an Open Research Officer at the University of Aberdeen (UK), where she promotes the responsible use of research metrics and supports researchers in adopting open research practices. Before joining the Open Research Team in 2021, Francesca gained a PhD in Conservation Biology and held various roles at the University of Lincoln. She now applies her analytical skills from biology to bibliometrics, research impact assessment, and understanding how these areas influence research culture.

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Breakout Session – Group C

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Refreshments and exhibition viewing

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Breakout Session – Group D

12.30

Plenary 5

Stopping Short of the Goal: Is Open Access Really Fulfilling Its Promise to the Public?

The panel discussion, titled “Stopping Short of the Goal: Is Open Access Really Fulfilling Its Promise to the Public?” will delve into whether Open Access truly serves the public interest as it often said to be aiming to.

While Open Access is often described as making taxpayer-funded research freely accessible, the conversation will explore if access is sufficient, or if the concept falls short by not addressing the accessibility of information in a way that the general public can understand and apply in their lives. And if it is insufficient, what should be done to support this part of the mission of OA. Is the purpose of Open Access solely to facilitate academic exchange, or should it be evolving to bridge the gap between researchers and the public, increasing public engagement and understanding of scientific findings? This panel will tackle these complex questions and discuss if there’s a need to differentiate between Open Access and science communication, assessing the distinct but complementary roles both play in disseminating trusted, comprehensible information.

Andrew Barker

Lancaster University

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Andrew Barker has been Library Director at Lancaster University since September 2019. Prior to that he held a number of senior roles within a wide range of UK universities, including both Russell Group and Post 1992 Institutions. Within these institutions he has been responsible for all aspects of library leadership. Throughout his career in HE Andrew has also worked visibly, and actively, across the sector, often working closely with publishers on projects and advisory boards. He was a trustee of UKSG between 2014 and 2022, and was chair of its trustee board 2018 and 2022, he is currently Co-chair of SCONUL.

Chris Box

Karger Publishers

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Christian Box is the Head of Academic and Research Markets at Karger where he is responsible for the interactions, products and services across the Academic customer base. Prior to joining Karger he spent 16 years with Institute of Physics Publishing in the UK where he held a range of positions. Chris holds a BSc (hons) degree in Applied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology as well as a MSc Financial Management.

Emma Yhnell

Cardiff University

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Emma Yhnell is a multi-award-winning science communicator and educator who specialises in using innovative and engaging methods to effectively communicate complex topics to non-specialist audiences. A committed change-maker, margin mover and regular media commentator, Emma’s work to make science more accessible, inclusive and fun extends globally.

Marion Boland

Research Ireland

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Doing DORA: A small-scale project to upscale research culture and research integrity

Inspired by colleagues’ work to embed the principles of DORA but frustrated by the snail-like pace at our own institution, we embarked on a plan of small workshops to Do DORAif/where we could.  What developed over the next 12 months was in the spirit of our original plan but far beyond what we had envisaged.  This breakout will discuss the ways in which circumstance actually embedded, promoted and advocated for DORA with a shoestring budget and time where available.  We will discuss practical promotion, guerrilla good-practice, unexpected outcomes and embracing flexible opportunities when it comes to Doing DORA.

Cath Dishman

Liverpool John Moores University

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Cath is the Open Access and Digital Scholarship Librarian at Liverpool John Moores University. She takes the lead for open access advocacy at LJMU and manages the institutional repository and open journals service. Cath has over 20 years’ experience in libraries in a range of roles from academic services, customer services, user support and most recently research support. Cath is also the Content Officer for CILIP’s Library and Information Research Group (LIRG)

Katherine Stephan

Liverpool John Moores University/Think.Check.Submit.

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Katherine Stephan is the research engagement librarian at Liverpool John Moores University. She is responsible for organising library training related to research, outreach, engagement and publishing for all researchers at LJMU. She has a background in children’s librarianship and is a keen advocate of local libraries, open research and responsible research assessment. She is the librarian member of Think, Check, Submit (an initiative to help researchers identify trusted journals for their research); a member of the UKSG’s outreach and engagement committee; and a co-organiser of Open Research Week, a collaboration between LJMU, Edge Hill, Essex and Liverpool Universities.

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The Library CEO: Managing Politics, Technology and Talent as the New Paradigm

Managing an academic research library in the 21st century has no blueprint. Since the introduction of electronic resources, fundamental changes to the work of the library have been underway. Leading a modern library that is subject to perpetual shifts in its priorities, mandate, and budget, requires a set of skills and competencies not taught in library or information science programs. A unique assortment of mentorship, executive coaching, business and/or legal training, and hard won experiences are required to be successful in this new environment. Contrary to popular belief, library directors have more in common with Chief Executive Officers than they realize. But far too often the transition to library leadership is sabotaged when the expectation to manage a collection is confronted with the reality of managing an organization. This conversation among library leaders will introduce the concept of the Library CEO, offering a practical framework for both current and aspiring leaders to become proactive in managing a high performance workplace.

Tony Zanders

Skilltype

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Tony Zanders is an award-winning software entrepreneur and technology executive, currently serving as the founder and CEO of Skilltype — a software platform for information professionals and their teams to analyze, develop, and share expertise. Prior to Skilltype, Zanders served as the inaugural entrepreneur-in-residence at the Boston University Libraries, advised the senior leadership team on talent and the future of work. For nine years, he held executive roles at EBSCO and Ex Libris, where he consulted library leaders across six continents on technology strategy.

Tony is a frequent speaker and writer in library and higher education communities. Zanders is an honors graduate from Washington and Jefferson College, where he double majored in English and Philosophy, and was awarded the college’s Young Alumni Award in 2015. A proud native of New Orleans, Louisiana, he currently lives in Baton Rouge with his wife and children.Tony Zanders is an award-winning software entrepreneur and technology executive, currently serving as the founder and CEO of Skilltype — a software platform for information professionals and their teams to analyze, develop, and share expertise. Prior to Skilltype, Zanders served as the inaugural entrepreneur-in-residence at the Boston University Libraries, advised the senior leadership team on talent and the future of work. For nine years, he held executive roles at EBSCO and Ex Libris, where he consulted library leaders across six continents on technology strategy. Tony is a frequent speaker and writer in library and higher education communities. Zanders is an honors graduate from Washington and Jefferson College, where he double majored in English and Philosophy, and was awarded the college’s Young Alumni Award in 2015. A proud native of New Orleans, Louisiana, he currently lives in Baton Rouge with his wife and children.

Jessica Gardner

University of Cambridge

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Dr Jessica Gardner has been University Librarian at Cambridge since 2017, and is also a Syndic of Cambridge University Press and Assessment. Former Chair of RLUK (2021-2023), Jessica was previously University Librarian at the University of Bristol and Director of Library and Culture at the University of Exeter.

K Matthew Dames

University of Notre Dame

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Dr. K. Matthew Dames serves as Special Advisor to the Provost at the University of Notre Dame. This role enables him to utilize his legal, business and strategic expertise on opportunities facing the academy, including artificial intelligence. From 2021 to 2022, Dr. Dames was the 61st President of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the leading North American trade association for research libraries in academia and federal government. From 2021–2024, Dr. Dames was the chief executive, academic, and talent officer of the Hesburgh Libraries and the university’s Press at the University of Notre Dame.

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From Cataloguing to Discovery: a journey of innovation and resilience

We will talk about the development of the Metadata Team at the University of Leeds. Over the last seven years the team has evolved from a traditional, book-in-hand Cataloguing Team to a forward thinking, dynamic Metadata & Discovery Team. We are now involved in myriad projects ranging from internal Special Collections cataloguing to the development of international linked data and BIBFRAME partnerships.

We will cover five key areas that have contributed to this development. We will share techniques, approaches and examples from the last few years that illustrate the value and importance of a people-centric approach to metadata and discovery.

Elly Cope

University of Leeds

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Elly Cope is a cataloguer by inclination and training, though she now has to watch while others do the fun stuff and derive what pleasure she can in the metadata work vicariously. She provides strategic leadership and a supportive environment for experimentation and development to the Access & Acquisitions teams at the University of Leeds. Having joined the University as Metadata Team Leader she is now Head of Access & Acquisitions with responsibility for purchasing, reading lists, accessibility of e-resources, metadata, access and discovery.

Alison Hazelaar

University of Leeds

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Alison Hazelaar has been a leader in the Metadata Team since joining as a cataloguer in 2000. She is now the strategic manager, bringing together projects ranging from rare books cataloguing to the development of linked data initiatives. Alison believes in a coaching approach and development opportunities (but only once she’s had her own fun developing the process).

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Bridge Over Troubled Water: Supporting SocietyPublishers in Turbulent Times

Just as independent bookshops survive through online partnerships and customer loyalty, could learned society publishing thrive through similar collaborative approaches? This session presents new global evidence from Research Consulting and CCC on how society publishers are navigating industry transformation. We’ll examine changing publication patterns, revenue trends, and how libraries, vendors and partners can help societies maintain their independence while accessing world-class publishing capabilities. Learn how embracing “irrational” choices in scholarly communications could help preserve the diversity of academic publishing.

Rob Johnson

Research Consulting

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

Jamie Carmichael

CCC

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Jamie Carmichael brings 22 years’ experience in publishing to her current role as Senior Director, Information & Content Solutions at CCC. In this position, she leads go-to-market strategy for open access workflow and data solutions that support the scholarly communications industry in its shift to open science, including RightsLink for Scientific Communications and OA Intelligence. Jamie currently serves on the NISO OA Business Processes Working Group, focusing on metadata management and author workflows

Bethany Logan

University of Sussex

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

Maggie Simmons

Geological Society of London

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Maggie is the Director of Publishing at the Geological Society where she is responsible for the leadership of the Society’s independent journal and book publishing activities. This includes all aspects of the publication process and services, collaborative endeavours, and the development of sustainable future models. Prior to this Maggie held editorial development roles at both the Geological Society and IOP Publishing. Maggie is a Council member of the Society Publishers’ Coalition (SocPC).

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Raising the grade and closing the gap? Exploring the link between inclusive library collections and student success

How do we evidence the impact of inclusive library collections on the university community? How do we convince university leadership that the value-added potential of the library is worth the investment?

At King’s, multiple initiatives are underway to assess the impact of library collections on student attainment. These projects, rooted in inclusive education principles, aim to support student success, promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, and strengthen the student experience. This presentation will offer a summary of these initiatives, how they connect, and how taken together they progress towards evidencing the real-world impact of collections on student attainment and academic success.

Vanessa Farrier

King’s College London

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Vanessa is the Head of Education and Curriculum Liaison at King’s College London. An experienced academic librarian, she oversees liaison across the university community that focuses on developing inclusive collections. Her work emphasizes the importance of diverse, representative collections that reflect the needs and experiences of the whole university community. She has initiated multiple projects that aim to evaluate the impact of library collections on student success and sense of belonging. She is also a member of the directorate wide EDI Committee and is a member of the RLUK Decolonisation Group

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Supporting postgraduate research students in scholarly communications and open research

PGRs are some of the most excited and driven researchers, eager to engage with open access and open research. However, they are also incredibly influenced by the environment in which they find themselves, particularly by their research supervisor’s own behaviours and opinions around open research. Their status as students often limits their access to tools and support available to employed researchers. Equally, their status as researchers can lead to the assumption that they already understand the research and publishing landscape.What can libraries do to support PGRs in becoming ethical and open researchers? Are the one-shot training courses, often voluntary, enough? This talk will discuss barriers and strategies around support for PGRs as they embark on their research careers.

Beth Montague-Hellen

Francis Crick Institute

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

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

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OU Library support to help students study online

With a high percentage of students with a declared disability the Open University has been working with publishers and academic teams to produce accessible course content since 2008. This has been advanced through accessibility testing, enhancements in pedagogy and the use of assistive technologies and content conversions.

The OU library recently concluded an internal research project on the student experience of library converted materials. The research sheds light on the accessibility preferences of students with a declared disability.

In this workshop we aim to guide attendees through the research findings contextualised by an overview of the various accessibility processes at the OU. With the aim of facilitating a group discussing around the following questions:

How best do we ensure the student voice is kept central to discussions about accessibility?

How best can we empower students to reach accessible content? What does accessibility best practice look like from publishers? What format should be prioritised?

Bev Delaney

The Open University

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Bev Delaney is an eContent Manager/Librarian and has worked at The Open University for 18 years. Her role is broad, building publisher relationships, supplying resources, advice and guidance ensuring module needs are met, evaluation of resources to get best value and specialising in Accessibility. She works across the University with other teams, focussing on accessibility and with the library team, testing content and sharing results and needs directly with publishers. Originally from a commercial and special library background with a breadth of knowledge that helps support the needs of Law, Wellbeing (Nursing and Social work) and Policing.

Alex Mormoris

The Open University

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Alex Mormoris is an eContent Manager/Librarian who has recently switched careers and has been working at The Open University library for the last year. As part of his role, he builds and maintains relationships with publishers, assists with troubleshooting, and advises on spending decisions across three of the OU’s four academic faculties. Alex supports on accessibility efforts within the OU as well as Equality, Diversity and Inclusion work, supporting work across staff networks and curated collections. Prior to joining the OU Alex worked on both EDI and Access and Participation projects at several different UK universities.

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Shared responsibility (or failure)? Who should bear the burden of maintaining the integrity of thescientific record? A panel discussion

The current crisis in research integrity in scientific publishing is characterized by several interrelated issues that undermine the credibility and reliability of scientific research. Key aspects include the reproducibility crisis, peer-review failures, publication bias, data fabrication/falsification, plagiarism, predatory journals, pressure to publish, and differing cross-cultural norms around what constitutes best practice in research dissemination.

These issues collectively threaten the foundation of scientific knowledge, making it imperative for the scientific community to address and mitigate these challenges to restore trust and integrity in research. While this is a complex systems problem that implicates/touches all major stakeholders in the scientific community researchers, institutions, funders, publishers, and service providers the scholarly communication ecosystem seems to have shifted the majority of the burden for managing these recent crises to publishers.

Is this fair? Does it make sense? How realistic/sustainable is it for publishers to bear this burden/cost and what is the role for other stakeholders to ensure the credibility of the scientific record? This panel discussion – no presentations! – will feature publishers, librarians, and funders tackling the difficult question of who bears the responsibility for research integrity. Its costs are high. Are we ready to shoulder them together?

Sara Rouhi

American Institute of Physics (AIP) Publishing

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Sara Rouhi is the Director of Open Science and Publishing Innovation at AIP Publishing. Driving AIPP’s open science strategy, she focuses on developing new publishing models and sustainable business strategies to accelerate AIPP’s mission to advance pragmatic, researcher-focused open science.

Rouhi joins AIP Publishing from Public Library of Science (PLOS) where she held business development and publishing development leadership roles. Her work centers at the nexus of new business models, open science/access, and equity. She’s a vocal advocate for pragmatic, sustainable, community-driven open science strategies. She has a track record of leading agile, award winning teams at PLOS and Digital Science and received numerous awards and recognition for her work in scholarly publishing. She’s based outside of Washington DC, is an avid long-form improviser in the DC comedy scene, and rants on all things #scholcomm, politics, and comedy on Bluesky @RouhiRoo.bsky.social.

Sarah Thompson

University of York

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Sarah Thompson is Assistant Director for Library, Archives and Learning Services at the University of York, where she has responsibility for Content and Open Research. Her teams acquire and manage the library’s information resources and collections, and support York researchers to publish their work open access and develop other open research practices. Sarah has strategic oversight of the Library’s content budget for both paywalled and open access content, and is steering a gradual transition towards the latter. She is also active in a number of different networks, working in collaboration with other libraries, consortia, publishers and service providers to support the move to open access and open scholarship.

Rachel Bruce

UK Research and Innovation Strategy

Wei Mun Chan

eLife Sciences Publications Ltd

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Wei Mun Chan is eLife’s Research Integrity Manager. He works closely with eLife’s Executive Editor and editors, overseeing research integrity and publishing ethics for eLife.

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Group B

COUNTER-intuitive: up close and personal with usage metrics

In this highly interactive, practical session, we’ll introduce the COUNTER Code of Practice for usage for usage reporting and guide you through the ins and outs of obtaining and working with your reports. You’ll come away understanding the value of normalised metrics for comparing across publishers and over time, which metrics to use and when, and of course best practice for harvesting your data using automated tools.

Tasha Mellins-Cohen

COUNTER Metrics / 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.

Beda Kosata

CELUS

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Beda is the principal developer of the usage stats platform at Celus. He is also a member of the COUNTER Technical Advisory Group. Organic chemist by education, he switched his career to IT in the early 2000s. His former experience as research scientist helps him in his current role developing tools for research libraries

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Stronger Together: creating a new regional consortium for collective licensing of e-resources

At a time when libraries across the country are looking closely at the affordability of their online subscriptions, a group of London universities is investigating whether pooling resources and sharing procurement could offer a sustainable solution. Senate House Library, Royal Holloway University of London, Central School of Speech & Drama, and King’s College London have come together, with help from Jisc, to trial joint licensing of a selection of e-resources.

We didn’t know if this would be successful but adopted a “learning by doing” approach: try it and find out. We’re tackling issues such as access and authentication, monitoring usage and negotiating fair pricing with suppliers. At time of writing we have launched three new resources, obtaining greater access, better terms and lower pricing than any institution would individually. Negotiations on a fourth resource is underway.

The project remains a small but practical example of creating a new shared service. The project could grow to include more of Senate House’s federal members institutions, acquiring access to more of the resources they want.

Phil and Nick will explore what has worked, what hasn’t, and what we have learnt through working together.

Phil Bower

Royal Holloway

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Phil has 20 years experience in academic libraries, working in roles related to metadata and discovery, serials and subscriptions, digital resources and collection management, and project management. Since 2020, Phil has been Head of Acquisitions and Content Delivery at Royal Holloway, leading a dedicated team providing students and staff seamless access to information resources. He is committed to finding efficient and innovative ways of working that deliver the best possible experience for library users. His wider professional interests include e-resources licencing, the OA landscape, and data analysis.

Nick Skelton

University of London

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Nick Skelton is a strategic consultant in digital Higher Education. He facilitates knotty problems, acts as a critical friend, and brings people together. He has a 25 year career in UK HE, starting in IT at the University of Bristol before moving into consultancy in 2019.

Since 2023 Nick has been a part-time Project Manager for Jisc and University of London. He has managed stakeholders, negotiated with publishers, and kept the consortial licensing project on track through a successful pilot.Nick Skelton is a strategic consultant in digitalHigher Education. He facilitates knotty problems, acts as a critical friend,and brings people together. He has a 25 year career in UK HE, starting in IT atthe University of Bristol before moving into consultancy in 2019.Since 2023 Nick has been a part-time ProjectManager for Jisc and University of London. He has managed stakeholders,negotiated with publishers, and kept the consortial licensing project on trackthrough a successful pilot.

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End-to-end accessibility: joining the dotsbetween publisher practice and user experience

Providers of digital platforms and eBooks invest significant resources in improving accessibility and ensuring compliance with standards, but this is only part of the picture of successful resource provision for end-users. The benefits of these investments can be undermined if the users – and those in libraries and universities who support them – are unaware of how to translate technical improvements into user satisfaction.

Users have to navigate multiple layers to get at the content: discovery services, VLEs, reading list systems, publisher and aggregator platforms, varieties of file formats, university-provided software and software on their own computers and mobile devices. And even when all these layers are optimised for accessibility, users may not be aware of the features available to them.

This panel draws on a triple perspective – the content provider, accessibility consultant and accessibility librarian – and will answer questions such as:

What should librarians expect from their content suppliers?

How do their accessibility statements help you?

What does an accessible library service look like?

How are students supported in developing their digital skills?

What workarounds exist when accessibility barriers are found?

How does a university reduce their own accessibility risks under the accessibility regulations?

Matt Kibble

Gale

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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 Accessibility, 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

Jessica Wykes

City St George’s, University of London

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Jessica Wykes is the Accessibility Librarian at City St George’s, University of London Library, where she works on assistive technology, alternative formats, and promoting inclusivity in library services. With a keen interest in improving user experiences, she also chairs the Library Services Accessibility Group.

Alistair McNaught

Alistair McNaught Consultancy

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Alistair McNaught has inhabited the gaps between students, libraries and publisher practice since 2010. An original members of the Publisher’s Accessibility Action Group, he coordinated the first national survey of e-book accessibility in 2016, following up with the Aspire project which evolved into textBox Digital’s Aspire service.

Alistair was a senior advisor for the Jisc TechDis advisory service until 2015 when he became an accessibility specialist for Jisc. He set up his own consultancy in 2018 and now works independently and in partnership with AbilityNet (on accessibility maturity models) and textBox Digital (supporting publishers in their accessibility journeys).

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What about Open Science?

This breakout session will cover how the game “What about Open Science?”, was created with our UKSG Innovation Award, and the speakers approach to game development and education on Open Science. This competitive Open Educational Resource ‘game’ was designed to create discussion around common open science concepts and ideas that everyone should understand but do not always fully grasp. The game has been tested by OSCAIL in Dublin, Ireland; by SURF in The Netherlands; and at the 19th Munin Conference in Tromsø, Norway. The game will be published online as an OER during UKSG 2025.

The breakout session will include a presentation on game development – from inception to fruition. We will discuss highs and lows, the many pivots, and our experience with Open Peer Review of the game. In addition, we will discuss some of the game ‘remixes’ and key feedback from the launch. There will be time for questions and answers with the speakers.

Sarah Coombs

Digital Competency Centre for Practice-Oriented Research/ Saxion University of Applied Sciences

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Sarah Coombs is Content Coordinator for the Digital Competency Centre for Practice Oriented Research (DCC-PO), and the Open Science Advisor for Saxion University of Applied Sciences and for the Netherlands Association of Universities of Applied Sciences (NAUAS). She has completed her PhD with the Centre for Science and Technology at the Leiden University looking at how the impact of UAS research can be evaluated. She enjoys being creative in all kinds of ways including thinking of new ways to present Open Science and research support with Aisling Coyne and Katrine Sundsbø.

Aisling Coyne

Technological University Dublin

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Aisling Coyne is the Open Scholarship Librarian for Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) where she manages the institutional repository, Arrow, and the Diamond journals published through it; engages in outreach and promotion of Open Scholarship; delivers training to academics, staff, students, and researchers on a variety of Open topics; among other things. Aisling is a member of two Library Association of Ireland special interest groups (Library Publishing and Open Scholarship); Irish Open Access Publishers; National Open Research Forum project SCOIR; is a founding member and co-chair of OSCAIL, among other groups.​​Aisling has a very special interest in OER, Games and Gamification, creating Open Scholarship games with Sarah Coombs and Katrine Sundsbø since 2022.

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The status of Discovery: present and future of a story that will never end

Discovery, a complex network ecosystem that encompasses offerings from libraries, content and technology providers, is a crucial part of the knowledge-acquiring process. Its effectiveness is dependent on collaboration between all these stakeholders: users, librarians, content providers, and technology companies.

This presentation will delve into the current state of digital content discovery and explore the potential role of AI in this process. We will address pressing questions such as the persistence of metadata issues and the future readiness of our workflows. How will libraries, content providers, and discovery technology providers rise to the challenge of supporting effective digital content discovery pathways?

Magaly Taylor

Gale part of the Cengage Group.

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Magaly Taylor has over 15 years of experience in Discovery, Metadata, and Usage in libraries, content providers, and service providers. She has worked in various types of libraries and contributed to different metadata working groups and committees internationally, including ABES-SC in France, NISO in the US, and UKSG in the UK. Currently, Magaly is the Discovery and Usage Manager for Gale, which is part of the Cengage Group. She is an active member of the UKSG Education Committee; in 2024, she was elected a UKSG Trustee.

Ben Johnson

Ex Libris, a Clarivate company

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Ben has been working with Knowledgebases and Discovery since 2007 with Serials Solutions, ProQuest, Ex Libris products. Since 2012, he has worked on the NISO KBART Standing Committee, including two years as co-chair with co-panelist Magaly Bascones, and two years on the KBART Automation Working Group. Currently, Ben works on the Ex Libris Provider Relations team with new and existing content providers on improving the quantity and quality of metadata into Ex Libris products for use by libraries, explaining the technical and practical aspects of data exchange across the library supply chain

Will Peaden

Coventry University

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Will is Head of Content and Discovery at Coventry University. He leads the team in all aspects of acquistions, e-resources, metadata and discovery, reading lists and document supply. Previously, he worked at Aston University as a Information Resources Specialist focused on metadata, acquisitions and collections management. He is the Chair of CILIP’s Metadata and Discovery Group, Co-Chair of the Mercian Metadata Group, and a member of the BIC Metadata Group and a member of the UK Committee on RDA (UKCoR).

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AI Tools in Academic Research: empowering AI literacy in the research community with an evaluative framework

This breakout session will explore how Libraries and Learning Resources at the University of Birmingham is supporting the research community’s use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) following the emergence of Narrow and Generative AI technologies. It will explore how a collaboration between the Research Skills Team and Copyright and Licensing Team developed an evaluative framework to empower researchers to self-evaluate an AI Tool, and how this framework became central to a new training session for the 23/24 academic year. We will also discuss the influence this has had on broader institutional activity guiding the use of AI in research.

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.

Lisa Bird

University of Birmingham

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Lisa is Copyright and Licensing Advisor at the University of Birmingham providing copyright guidance and managing the digitisation service. Lisa has been an active member of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians including being Chair of their Professional Development Committee. Lisa has published several journal articles related to education, technology, and widening participation. Lisa’s interest in technology and librarianship continues in 2022 she presented at RLUK’s Digital Scholarship Network meeting on ‘Making your collections digital scholarship ready: copyright and licensing implications of AI and TDM’ and in 2023 presented at the UKSG Conference on ‘A TDM journey: understanding user needs and developing library support’

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Open Access for Books: TheRole of Libraries in a Changing Policy Landscape

Books have long lived in the shade of journal articles when it comes to institutional strategies and funder policies for open access. However, books are essential scholarly formats across many disciplines, so there is a demand to develop institutional strategies. Libraries are at the heart of such developments. But where should librarians begin, how should they advance, and what should they consider if they want to develop such strategies?

Libraries worldwide are updating their collection development policies to evaluate and invest in open access programs. They are also leading campus conversations to help faculty book authors realise the advantages of open access dissemination and align with any national or private funder mandates. This session brings together perspectives from institutions, libraries, and research funders on open access policies for books to share their observations and experiences. The emphasis is on practical recommendations to ensure that books don’t get “left behind” in a global move towards open research.

The session will particularly highlight the evidence-based work of the PALOMERA project (https://operas-eu.org/projects/palomera/), which has researched policies and strategies for open access books in 39 countries in the European Research Area. Based on an extensive open data collection and deep systematic analysis of the data, the project has developed actionable recommendations for eight stakeholder groups, including libraries and research funders.

Niels Stern

OAPEN Foundation

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Niels Saaby Stern is the Managing Director of the OAPEN Foundation and Co-director of DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books). He has worked in scholarly publishing for more than twenty years. Since 2014 he has also acted as an independent expert for the European Commission on open science and e-infrastructures. He is a member of the OPERAS Executive Assembly and the Vice-chair of the Open Book Collective Board of Stewards and serves on a number of advisory boards and committees.

Tahia Zaidi

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

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Tahia Zaidi is Senior Strategy Advisor at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). She is responsible for the development and implementation of open access policies and strategies, with a particular focus on monographs. She is presently leading projects to build capacity in the UK research and innovation sector to develop strategies that can advance the transition to open access for monographs.

Ellen Breen

Dublin City University (DCU)

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Ellen Breen is a member of the Library’s leadership team at Dublin City University (DCU). In her current role of Associate Director (Research & Teaching), she is responsible for the strategic development and delivery of targeted library services, engagement, partnerships and support to the research and teaching community. She is responsible for the management of the university’s open access university press (DCU Press) and is a member of the university’s Open Research Steering Group.

Nienke van Schaverbeke

Delft University Technology (TU Delft)

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Nienke van Schaverbeke is Head of Scholarly Communications and Publishing at the library of Delft University Technology (TU Delft), she serves as Publishing Director of TU Delft’s dedicated diamond open access publishing house: TU Delft Open Publishing.

With a background in academic publishing (Brill, Cambridge University Press) and cultural heritage (Europeana, Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision) she is on a mission to connect people with knowledge and culture.

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This house believes journals are no longer the only publishing option

Our goal is to discuss how a form of publishing which emerged in the analogue C20th is now being challenged by the digital C21st. Journals are no longer the only platform for trusted research. Preprint servers, reports on open websites, blogposts, podcasts and videos are all options for today’s researcher. Yet many funders and most universities still rely on game-able journals and their indexes for funding awards and career advancement. Covid showed that journals are too slow and too rigid for a digital-first environment, something that research institutions outside the academy, like IGOs, NGOs and think tanks, have understood. Today, they self-publish their research findings, rapidly, cheaply and openly on their websites without the need for journals and in so doing capture valuable reputational kudos – so why not universities too? Yet there are downsides to these C21st, informal, publication choices: poor metadata and unstable websites makes this content hard to discover and preserve. In this session, you’re invited to join our expert panellists in discussing the pros and cons of different publishing options in today’s digital-first environment.

Toby Green

Coherent Digital Policy Commons

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David Worlock

Outsell inc

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David Worlock is a consultant and advisor on digital information and communication. After beginning as an educational publisher, he built a pioneer database service for lawyers in the late 1970s and in 1985 launched EPS, which he sold to Outsell in 2006. He writes and blogs widely about scholarly communications.

Charlotte Wien

Elsevier

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Dr. Charlotte Wien is a full professor of scholarly communication at Arctic University Tromsö, Norway and Vice President of Library Relations at Elsevier. Charlotte has worked both as a scholar and as a librarian previously and has extensive experience in curricula development for librarians. During her career she has focused on the research libraries transformation from ‘classical library’ to ‘service center for researchers and students’ and the derived consequences in terms of the changing competence needs for librarians. She holds two master degrees, of which one is in Library Science and PhD-degree in information retrieval.

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Group C

Beyond the Stacks: A Sneak Peek into Library Staff Engagement with Job Shadowing

Do your Library teams struggle to stay in touch with each other? Do your staff sometimes not know the function of other teams within your Libraries, and who to turn to with a problem?The University of Nottingham Libraries Training and Development team saw just that, and wanted an engaging way to combat it. Thus our Libraries Job Shadowing scheme was born.Job Shadowing is a way for staff to spend time with another team, learning what they do and providing the lightbulb moments when the pieces of the Library jigsaw fall into place. The scheme upskills staff and improves staff engagement, but also promotes cross team collaboration

Ayesha Thompson

University of Nottingham

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Ayesha is a Chartered Librarian and has been at the University of Nottingham as a Resource Acquisitions Librarian since 2019. Managing a team of Acquisitions Assistants, she is an advocate for upskilling and developing staff members, leading to her joining the UoN Training and Development group and helping to found the Libraries Shadowing scheme. She is also passionate about Equality and Diversity and currently serves on UoN Libraries EDI Project Board

Cristina Rusu

Loughborough University

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Cristina is Copyright and Licensing Manager as well as Senior Library Assistant at Loughborough University. She joined the Open Research Library Team in 2022, and has since completed an MA in Information and Library Studies at Aberystwyth University. She is currently juggling multiple projects on copyright literacy, from interactive online short courses, guides, infographics, comics to videos around copyright. She recently presented a lightning talk at CILIP’s Copyright Conference 2024, on targeted copyright literacy.

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Evaluating Rights Retention, almost two years on

In May 2023, University of Aberdeen became one of the first institutions in the UK to institute a Rights Retention policy for research articles. As we, the Open Research Team, now look to expand the policy to longform publications, we need to evaluate the effectiveness of the policy and our outreach activities about it. It soon became clear that there was no one source of data that could tell us how well Rights Retention was working. In this presentation, we will look at a variety of data sources, (Pure reporting, OpenAlex, web and service analytics, and internal feedback) and consider their usefulness in evaluating new policies.

Varina Jones-Reid

University of Aberdeen

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Varina grew up as a library kid, you know the kind who’s parents support their love of books and learning but don’t have any money, so they just live at the library. Several things happened since then, including a stint in library school in the wonderful but frozen metropolis of Pittsburgh, but she’s still just a library kid, trying to make sure all the other library kids can read what they want. Now through open research advocacy.

Susan Halfpenny

University of Aberdeen

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Susan Halfpenny is Head of Research and Learning Information Services at the University of Aberdeen. Sections within her remit include open research and metadata, Aberdeen University Press, digital skills, information consultancy and subject enquiry services. Susan has led a range of initiatives to develop digital literacies and facilitate digital transformation and enable open research and digital scholarship. She is passionate about the role the libraries play in providing access to the world’s knowledge; positively impacting the wider community through the development of partnership, access to information resources and development of critical literacies.

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Adopting strategic approaches to increase scholarly publishing and digital literacy in African academic and research institutions

This paper emphasises the need for strategic approaches to boost scholarly publishing and literacy in African academic institutions. Despite the potential of scholarly publishing to enhance scholarly communication, African content remains underrepresented due to factors like low digital literacy, inadequate training, limited internet access, and high subscription costs. The paper proposes several strategies, including developing digital infrastructure, fostering global collaborations, enhancing training programmes, and advocating for policy changes. By implementing these strategies, African scholars can improve digital content creation and visibility, ultimately benefiting teaching, research, and the global digital economy.

Gloria Tachie-Donkor

University of Cape Coast

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Dr. Gloria Tachie-Donkor holds a PhD in Information Science from the University of South Africa. Presently, she is a Senior Assistant Librarian and Head of Client Services Department at the Sam Jonah Library. Additionally, she is a Research Fellow, Department of Information Science, University of South Africa. Her research expertise is in information literacy and information privacy. She led a project to develop research support services and learning spaces at the University of Cape Coast. Dr. Tachie-Donkor teaches information literacy skills at the Department of Information Science, UCC. She is currently an advocate for digital scholarly publishing and digital literacy.

Group C

It’s Nice, but is it sustainable? Rethinking sustainability for Diamond open access infrastructures and funding models

Those involved in running community-led infrastructures and funding models that support Diamond open access will be familiar with questions being repeatedly raised about the sustainability of their work. In this breakout session, we will hear short talks from five initiatives that are engaging directly with this question, in relation to both open access books and journals, even as they sometimes push back against its often unspoken assumptions. Each contributor will unpack what “achieving sustainability” means for them, including reporting on their concrete progress in support of this work, in their own terms, as well as potentially highlighting the limits of understanding sustainability as merely financial. Panellists will also reflect on developments in the broader scholarly system that potentially both are a challenge for their work and present opportunities. This will be followed by questions from the audience.

Scaling Sustainability: Open Book Collective and Community-led Open Access – Joe Deville, Open Book Collective / Lancaster University

From the Back of the Sofa to the Budget Line: Sustainability at Opening the Future – Kira Hopkins, Copim Opening the Future / Birkbeck, University of London

Why we need a Big Deal for Diamond Open Access Journals – Caroline Edwards, Open Library of Humanities / Birkbeck, University of London

Sustaining open metadata as a public good: benefits and challenges – Rupert Gatti, Thoth Open Metadata and Open Book Publishers

Sustainable Principles: POSI in Practice – Niels Stern, Directory of Open Access Books & OAPEN

Joe Deville

Lancaster University

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Joe Deville is Professor in Science and Technology Studies at Lancaster University and Managing Director of the Open Book Collective. At Lancaster, he is based jointly in the Department of Sociology and the Management School, as well as being Director of the Centre for Science Studies. He is currently leading the Copim Open Book Futures project, which is developing a fairer, more sustainable and more diverse ecosystem for the production, funding, and preservation of Open Access books. He is also a co-founder and Trustee of Mattering Press, a Diamond Open Access book publisher and UK-registered charity.

Kira Hopkins

Copim Open Book Futures / Birkbeck University

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Kira Hopkins works on Opening the Future, a part of Copim Open Book Futures. Previously, they worked at Ubiquity, a born-OA publishing house in London as a book editor and journal account manager, after completing a PhD in Archaeology.

Caroline Edwards

Birkbeck, University of London / Open Library of Humanities

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Dr Caroline Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Birkbeck, University of London and Executive Director of the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). She is author of Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2019), co-editor of China Miéville: Critical Essays (Gylphi, 2015) and Maggie Gee: Critical Essays (Gylphi, 2015) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945 (forthcoming). Caroline is also widely known as an open access advocate, having co-founded the Open Library of Humanities in 2013

Rupert Gatti

Thoth Open Metadata and Open Book Publishers

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Rupert Gatti is a Fellow in Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge and has been directly involved in establishing several non-profit open access book publishing initiatives, including Thoth Open Metadata, Open Book Publishers, the Open Book Collective, the Open Access Book Network, ScholarLed and the OPERAS Metrics Service.

Niels Stern

OAPEN Foundation

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Niels Saaby Stern is the Managing Director of the OAPEN Foundation and Co-director of DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books). He has worked in scholarly publishing for more than twenty years. Since 2014 he has also acted as an independent expert for the European Commission on open science and e-infrastructures. He is a member of the OPERAS Executive Assembly and the Vice-chair of the Open Book Collective Board of Stewards and serves on a number of advisory boards and committees.

Group C

Advancing Open Science in Africa: Lessons from the AfLIA Open Data Management Foundational Course for African Librarians

Open Science is gaining momentum in Africa as a movement to make scientific research more accessible, transparent and inclusive. However, the practice of open science within the region is at different stages of development requiring Librarians to play an active role in the advocacy for open science and open data management best practices. This paper reviews the state of Open Science in Africa and examine lessons learnt from the AfLIA Open Data Management Foundational Course for African Librarians.

Mac-Anthony Cobblah

University of Cape Coast

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Dr Mac-Anthony Cobblah is an advocate for Open Science and Digital Scholarship in Africa. He has strong background in Information Science, Electronic Information Management and Digital Scholarship. He is currently the University Librarian for the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He is also the Chair of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Ghana (CARLIGH) and the Chairperson, Academic Libraries and Library Consortia section of the African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA) as well as the Licensing Coordinator of EIFL for Ghana. He is part of the team working on the AfLIA Open data management foundational course.

Group C

Using data to analyse Read and Publish deals and a look to how we adapt our processes in a post TA future/world

In light of the Jisc Review of TA agreements, financial pressures faced by HE sector (UK) and uncertainty of block grant support, the sector is as a turning point. Without knowing what comes next we must continue working to analyse the deals to determine what we want and do not want from any future iterations. This session will discuss how we analyse these deals including the use of Unsub and EZProxy. We have begun to adapt our processes and will provide an overview of how we have established our data requirements and created a framework for assessing deals.

Helen Monagle

University of Manchester

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Helen Monagle is the Subscriptions and Negotiations Officer at the University of Manchester. She takes the lead in Library specific supplier contract negotiations and the management of these complex and evolving contracts. Helen works alongside the Subscriptions Manager in the negotiation of the new generation Plan S compliant subscription journal deals and the implication on legacy ‘big deal’ packages. In addition to this Helen is working to develop a negotiation strategy for Collection Strategies Directorate subscriptions and outright purchases including services and to give negotiation advice to colleagues. Helen has over 10 years’ experience in libraries, mostly in HE libraries but also Health and Public libraries.

Vicki Ridge

University of Manchester

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Vicki Ridge is the Subscriptions Data Analyst within the Subscriptions Team at the University of Manchester Library. She leads the data analysis side of the Plan S deals and provides cross departmental support monitoring financial trends, journal renewals and usage data.

Group C

Not just JUSP. Beyond the silos, making datasets sing to each other

With frozen budgets and more financial pressure than ever before we need to show value for money on every purchase. Evidence-based decision making for resource acquisition has always been high strategic priority for the library this paper seeks to illustrate how linking disparate datasets can illustrate and enhance value for money purchasing. We will present four mini-case studies using datasets from JUSP, Reading lists, Alma and OpenAthens. We will explore some data modelling and various ways to visualise the stories emerging from the data and how these feed library conversations both internally and with the wider university.

Gavin Brindley

Coventry University

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Gavin has been E Resources Manager at Coventry University since 2012. During this time, he has been involved in many projects including the development and management the of eBook collections via different purchasing models. These Purchasing models include traditional routes such as purchases based on reading lists and requests from academics, purchases of publisher collections and aggregator subscription packages, Demand Driven Acquisition (DDA) via aggregators platforms, and Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA) via publisher platforms and aggregators. He has also been closely involved in the implementation and development of discoverability and WAYFless linking. He has also been involved with usage analytics and Return on Investment (ROI) among other things. Prior to his time at Coventry University Gavin ran library services in an FE setting and prior to that had a background in the preservation of digital objects.

Will Peaden

Coventry University

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Will is Head of Content and Discovery at Coventry University. He leads the team in all aspects of acquistions, e-resources, metadata and discovery, reading lists and document supply. Previously, he worked at Aston University as a Information Resources Specialist focused on metadata, acquisitions and collections management. He is the Chair of CILIP’s Metadata and Discovery Group, Co-Chair of the Mercian Metadata Group, and a member of the BIC Metadata Group and a member of the UK Committee on RDA (UKCoR).

GROUP D

Group D

Realising a New Vision for Academic Publishing: HowOpen Institutional Publishers and Libraries are Working Together to Bring About Change in Scholarly Communications

Libraries are increasing becoming involved in publishing in ways that have the potential to bring about change in scholarly communications. From setting up new presses, to providing financial support as well as advocating for open research within institutions, librarians are key to realising a new future for academic publishing.

But much of this work is happening in siloes, split across roles or taking place across different professional departments. There is a lack of a coherent vision for a credible alternative to the status quo and no clear division of labour or allocation of responsibility. This panel explores the way forward to effect positive change.

Philippa Grand

LSE Press

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After completing a PhD in Modern British History at the University of Manchester, Philippa Grand, began a career in academic publishing that covers both the commercial and university press sectors, including stints at Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge and Bristol University Press. In recent years, she has been involved in open institutional publishing, first as Press Manager at University of Westminster Press (where she is still a member of their Management Board) and now at LSE Press as Head of Publishing. She is co-vice chair of the Open Institutional Publishing Association.

Rosie Higman

LSE

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Rosie Higman is Open Research Services Manager at LSE Library where she leads a team responsible for open research, open access, research data management and bibliometrics. Prior to this she held research data management roles at the Universities of Sheffield, Manchester and Cambridge focusing on data sharing and advocacy for open research. She is also undertaking an AHRC-funded PhD on Open Access and the Role of the National Library which is jointly supervised by the University of Sheffield and the British Library.

Gillian Daly

Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL)

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Gillian Daly is Executive Officer of SCURL and Press Manager for Scottish Universities Press (SUP). A qualified librarian, Gillian has held roles in both education and public libraries, and was Head of Policy and Projects at the Scottish Library and Information Council before moving into research support as Knowledge Exchange Partnerships Manager at the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities. Gillian joined SCURL in 2019 and has led the development of SUP a library-led open access press involving collaboration across 19 universities.

Paula Kennedy

University of London Press

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Paula Kennedy has overall responsibility for the University of London Press and its strategy. She leads and manages the Press team and its collaborations with a range of publishing partners and other presses, particularly regarding open access publishing. Before moving to UoL Press in 2021, Paula worked for academic publishers including Palgrave Macmillan as the Global Head of Humanities and Publisher for Literature and Theatre/Performance Studies, at the AHRC as Head of Creative Arts and Digital Humanities and as a freelance impact consultant for universities. Paula is a member of the Advisory Board for the ‘Open Book Futures’ project and a member of the OPERAS Open Access Books Network Special Interest Group.

Sarah Thompson

University of York

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Sarah Thompson is Assistant Director for Library, Archives and Learning Services at the University of York, where she has responsibility for Content and Open Research. Her teams acquire and manage the library’s information resources and collections, and support York researchers to publish their work open access and develop other open research practices. Sarah has strategic oversight of the Library’s content budget for both paywalled and open access content, and is steering a gradual transition towards the latter. She is also active in a number of different networks, working in collaboration with other libraries, consortia, publishers and service providers to support the move to open access and open scholarship.

Group D

One Nation One Subscription (ONOS): The Path to Transformative Knowledge Agreements in India

This session will explore the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) initiative of Government of India which aims to provide countrywide access to national and international scientific and academic content. The ONOS intends to sign national licenses with most of the prominent STEM publishers and database producers of the world whose contents are already being subscribed by various institutions of higher education and research organizations either directly or through Government-funded consortia. This initiative is expected to benefit access to e-resources from 70 publishers to all research and educational institutions including universities, colleges, research organizations as well as every citizen of the country.

Kruti Trivedi

Information and Library Network Centre

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Dr. Kruti Trivedi joined the INFLIBNET Centre in 2007 and currently holds the position of Scientist D (LIS). She plays a crucial role in several key initiatives, including the eShodh Sindhu Consortium, the NLIST project funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development MHRD, and the National Institutional Ranking Framework NIRF project. In her capacity at INFLIBNET, Dr. Kruti leads the bibliometrics team, contributing significantly to the Centre’s research and analytics efforts. Additionally, she is involved in the Government of India’s One Nation One Subscription ONOS initiative, which aims to secure national licenses for e-resources and enhance accessibility to scholarly content across the country.

Group D

The art of the possible: Mid-tech and low-cost ways to upgrade your skill set and harness free datasources to enhance your bibliographic metadata

Without the resource to purchase new records or employ trained cataloguing staff to create bespoke metadata and enhance existing records, how can library collections teams ensure that their catalogue records are of sufficient quality to drive discovery and enable collective collections comparison work to be as accurate as possible?

Our session we will give example workflows, highlight useful resources and helpful community members. We’ll demonstrate the impact and added value technical services teams have on improving end user experience, as well as discussing how improving accuracy and detail in MARC records can positively affect the results of collective collections work.

Jennie-Claire Crate

Jisc

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Jennie is the Product Manager for Jisc Library Hub, managing the team that supports Library Hub Cataloguing, Library Hub Compare, Library Hub Discover, and the National Bibliographic Knowledgebase. Her role includes strategic planning and convening communities of practice in order to investigate ways of solving librarian’s problems around discovery and metadata workflows.Before moving to Jisc in 2023, Jennie worked as Curation & Discovery Supervisor at the University of Kent and prior to this held metadata roles at several UK universities. She enjoys testing ways of streamlining data processes and playing with spreadsheets of statistics

Elly Cope

University of Leeds

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Elly Cope is a cataloguer by inclination and training, though she now has to watch while others do the fun stuff and derive what pleasure she can in the metadata work vicariously. She provides strategic leadership and a supportive environment for experimentation and development to the Access & Acquisitions teams at the University of Leeds. Having joined the University as Metadata Team Leader she is now Head of Access & Acquisitions with responsibility for purchasing, reading lists, accessibility of e-resources, metadata, access and discovery.

Group D

Growing and diversifying our future profession: How HE libraries develop and evaluate their Students as Partner roles

The role of student staff in academic libraries has changed. Libraries are increasingly working in partnership with students to Co-create and co-develop services, projects and initiatives (Salisbuy et al. 2021), but what is the impact of these schemes and how can we evaluate them effectively? This breakout session will explore how HE libraries are developing and evaluating students as partner roles. It will communicate the results of a large scale research project exploring the approaches of SCONUL institutions to student roles within their Libraries and if (either intentionally or not) these roles have had an impact on progression into the Library and Scholarly Communications sector or onto LIS programmes.

The breakout session will also discuss two case studies of libraries developing student as partner roles at Manchester Metropolitan University and Lancaster University, including how the impact of these roles has been evaluated. Attendees will benefit from learning more about the current approaches of other institutions to developing student as partner roles and the impact this has had on diversifying the workforce of the sector, as well as receiving practical tips on implementing and evaluating student as partner schemes at their own institutions.

Tom Morley

Lancaster University

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Tom is currently undertaking a secondment as the Research Culture and Open Monographs Lead at Lancaster University Library. Within this role he leads and coordinates programmes of activity to develop an Open Research Culture as well as exploring options to facilitate open monograph publishing. In his substantive post he works across the areas of Open Access, Research Intelligence and Research Data Management to coordinate and deliver a range of projects, services and initiatives as an Open Research Officer. Tom is also co-editor of the UKSG e-News.

Lesley English

Manchester Metropolitan University

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Lesley English is the Head of Academic Engagement and Teaching Services at Manchester Metropolitan University. She leads a team of Academic Liaison Managers, Librarians, Learning Advisers and eLearning Developer, whose focus is on engagement with academics across faculties and academic departments, and delivering Infoskills teaching, both embedded and centrally. Lesley previously worked as Head of Library Engagement at Lancaster University where she created two students-as-partner schemes, one funded by Access & Participation Plan funding. Lesley has roles within the Academic Libraries North Consortium as Co-lead on the Steering Group for EDI and as Co-Chair for the Mentoring Oversight Group.

Group D

The first year of Controlled Digital Lending at LSE

This session will briefly explain the general principles of CDL, and address it in the context of UK legislation. We will review the first year of the CDL programme at LSE – discussing the initial approach, consultation with the leadership and institutional legal teams, the selection of titles for the collection, risk management, and how it works in practice with the digital representations and their presence on different library platforms.

Wendy Lynwood

London School of Economics and Political Science

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Wendy Lynwood is the Law Librarian and Copyright Officer at LSE. Following an early career sojourn in the world of law firm libraries she has since worked in a variety of liaison roles in Higher Education. Joining LSE during the pandemic she had to quickly get up-to-speed on all things copyright related, and now knows more about the Copyright, Designs & Patents Act than she could have anticipated. Wendy is a Fellow of Advance HE, a Chartered member of CILIP, and a CILIP mentor. This is her first UKSG conference and she’s looking forward to the experience!

Kevin O’Donovan

London School of Economics and Political Science

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Kevin O’Donovan is the Library Acquisitions Manager at the London School of Economics. He has previously been part of the NAG Executive Committee, the UKSG Outreach and Education Committee, and is currently the chair of the IGELU Alma Digital working group.

Group D

Open Educational Resources and sources: Initiatives from Government of India and Higher Educational Institutions

He will present availability Digital Open Access Resources or e-learning platform initiated by the Government India and other educational institutes in India used by the students, faculty and researchers. Digital resources and e-learning have become significantly important in education systems across the world. These open educational Resources includes course materials, modules, textbooks, videos, software, and other tools, materials or techniques, used to support and provide access to knowledge and educational resources. The Ministry of Education, Govt. of India undertakes a large number of projects for providing on-line content and resources for all-round development of students. Some of these are NPTEL, Virtual labs, Talk to Teacher, Spoken Tutorial, e-PG Pathshala, SWAYAM, MOOCS Project, Sakshet, etc. There are also NDLI, National Science digital Library, Shodhganga, E-Pathshala, Gian, E-PG Pathshala, Moocs, SWAYAM, SWAYAMpraba, Virual Labs etc. It will also explain what the benefit is and who can be beneficial of these e-learning portals. It will also discuss thee valuable Government information Sources used for research and educational purposes like, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation including National Statistical Office, Central Statistical Office, National Sample Survey, the Registrar General of India, the Reserve Bank of India, NITI Aayog, The Labour Bureau, Census of India, and resources like the Indian Statistical Abstract, the Report of Currency and Finance, and the Combined Finance and Revenue Accounts of the Union and States.

Debal Chandra Kar

Galgotias University

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Dr. Debal Kar is has 37 years experience in Library profession worked as University Librarian at Galgotias University, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi, TERI University and at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). Dr. Kar has obtained a “Management of Information in Science and Technology” (MIST) Certificate course from Vrije University Brussels, Belgium. Dr. Kar is a recipient of the Endeavour Executive Fellowship 2014 from the Government of Australia and worked as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 2014. He is a SLA Fellow (USA). He is the founder-editor of World Digital Libraries. He served as president of SLA Asian Community/Chapter in 2008, 2017, and 2021. He was Vice-Chair of the IFLA Regional Division Committee – Asia and Oceania 2021-2023 and IFLA Social Science Libraries Section Standing Committee 2021-2025 member.

Group D

Catching Up with NISO’s CREC: Tools for Preventing the Spread of Retracted Research

Retracted research is published work that is withdrawn, removed, or otherwise invalidated from the scholarly record can be inadvertently propagated within the digital scholarly record through citations. This is more likely to happen when the process for effectively communicating retraction at all publication lifecycle stages is unclear. In June 2024, the NISO CREC (Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern) Working Group published its Recommended Practice, a solution that aims to ensure that retraction metadata is shared across the publishing and discovery ecosystem. This session aims to educate potential adopters about the benefits of integrating this Recommended Practice into their workflows.

Keondra Bailey

National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

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Keondra Bailey is the Assistant Standards Program Manager at the National Information Standards Organization (NISO). In this position, she works closely with a range of working groups, standing committees, and topic committees to further NISO’s mission of promoting standards development through collaboration. Keondra earned her Master of Library Science (MLS) degree from North Carolina Central University.

Group D

Academy-owned: Supporting scholars who are taking a stand for nonprofit, equitable, inclusive,and open alternatives to high-profit journals

In recent years, numerous editors and editorial boards of leading journals have stepped down in protest against publisher practices that they believe are harmful to research and academia. Subsequently, several have established successful new journals in collaboration with nonprofit organizations, often overcoming competition from the very publications they left behind.

Join us for a lively discussion of how libraries, library publishers, and nonprofit presses can effectively support researchers aiming to create high-quality, diverse, equitable, inclusive, and open alternatives to expensive, high-profit journals. We will hear from two scientists who established such alternative journals, including someone who was part of a high-profile editorial resignation, and learn more about the kinds of support they and their colleagues seek from libraries and academic publishers. We will also explore some of the benefits and challenges of moving an editorial operation from a large, commercial publisher to a smaller nonprofit and share strategies for campus partners interested in supporting research communities that are starting new journals or growing existing ones.

Amy Harris Ryan

MIT Press

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Amy Harris has held various positions at the University Press of Florida, the University Press of Kentucky, and The MIT Press. Her nineteen-year career in scholarly publishing has had a particular focus on helping academic work find its widest possible audience and achieve its greatest impact, often in partnership with libraries.

Kate E. Watkins

University of Oxford

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Kate Watkins is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. Her research uses brain imaging and stimulation to understand the neural basis of speech and language. In 2019, she co-founded a new open access journal at the MIT Press called the Neurobiology of Language. Kate is currently the co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal.

Caroline Edwards

Birkbeck, University of London / Open Library of Humanities

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Dr Caroline Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Birkbeck, University of London and Executive Director of the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). She is author of Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2019), co-editor of China Miéville: Critical Essays (Gylphi, 2015) and Maggie Gee: Critical Essays (Gylphi, 2015) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945 (forthcoming). Caroline is also widely known as an open access advocate, having co-founded the Open Library of Humanities in 2013.

Zoltan Dienes

University of Sussex

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Zoltan Dienes is a professor of psychology at the University of Sussex, where he has worked since 1990. He works in two areas: consciousness science and scientific reform. As a major part of his consciousness research, he has one of the most active labs in the world investigating hypnosis, or more generally, the process of phenomenological control. In terms of scientific reform, he has advocated methods for obtaining evidence for no effect (using Bayes factors – he provided the first online Bayes factor calculator in 2008); he was on the first Registered Reports editorial board in 2013 (an article type where papers are accepted before the data are collected); and is a co-founder of Peer Community In Registered Reports (https://rr.peercommunityin.org/), where scientific articles are free for authors and free for readers. He does not author, review nor edit for scientific journals run by for-profits, except for society journals (where there is some trickle down of money to an academic society).

Group D

Can Gold OA survive a shift to Green?

It’s been over 20 years since the Budapest Declaration on Open Access and while the OA movement has made significant headway, the future end-state is becoming increasingly less clear. In the wake of Plan S, a future fully Gold Open Access state seemed, for the first time, a possibility and then – to the concern of many stakeholders – a potential inevitability. Global market conditions in the interim, however, have made it increasingly difficult for publishers and libraries to negotiate OA agreements supporting a full transition to Gold OA. Instead, recent policy mandates have focused on immediate OA without the provision of financial support for Gold OA, effectively preferentially promoting Green OA. Concurrently, we’re seeing broader interest/adoption of the Rights Retention Strategy and a move away from paying APCs – and for the first time, we’re seeing a decline in the growth of Gold OA relative to pay-walled content. We’re also starting to see agreements suggesting financial support for zero embargo Green OA. This session seeks to examine the complex interplay and potential consequences of a shift in global policy mandates from Gold to Green and what it could mean for stakeholders across the industry, including researchers. Speakers will examine existential questions such as ‘What do we really want from OA?’, ‘What does a shift to green OA mean for subscriptions, TAs and the transition of the industry to fully OA?’, ‘How can Green OA routes be developed to better support researchers’ etc.

Sara Bosshart

Royal Society of Chemistry

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Sara is Head of Open Access at the Royal Society of Chemistry where she is responsible for OA across the organization. Sara is a Board member of OASPA and Chair of the Governing Board of ChemRxiv. Previously, Sara was OA Publisher at IWA Publishing where she transitioned the business to OA through a variety of models including Subscribe to Open and Read & Publish. Originally a marine geologist, Sara began her career at Frontiers where she launched a suite of new OA journals in the Life Sciences and was responsible for the expansion of Frontiers into the UK.

Beth Montague-Hellen

Francis Crick Institute

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

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

Adeline Rebe

Couperin Consortium / University of Strasbourg Library Services

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Dr. Adeline Rege holds a PhD in Modern History from Sorbonne Univerity and a Degree as a Scientific Librarian. She is co-head of Negotiations department at the french consortium Couperin and head of Research support and Open Access Officer at the University of Strasbourg. Her expertise extends to the negotiation of open access agreements with publishers, supporting negociators, and advocating for authors rights. Drawing on her national experience in France, she also brings an international perspective to open science, as a member of LERU’s Info & Open Access Policy Group and contributing, as an external expert and reviewer, to Switzerland’s Open Science Strategy.

Anna Vernon

Jisc

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Anna Vernon. Head of Research licensing at Jisc. She is responsible for the strategic development and delivery of Jisc’s research content and software portfolio and leads the open access negotiations on behalf of UK institutions. Prior to working at Jisc Anna worked at the British Library on a range of copyright and licensing initiatives.

Meagan Phelan

AAAS

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Meagan is the Communications Director for the Science family of journals, where she oversees efforts to boost the visibility of all forthcoming Science family of journal content for reporters worldwide. Prior to joining AAAS in 2013, she served as a senior writer at AIR Worldwide, where she interacted with more than 65 Ph.D.-level scientists and engineers to communicate advances in wind engineering, seismology, climate science, and other fields. Previously, she was a senior writer and editor at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Meagan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and Spanish from Gettysburg College, and a Master’s degree in Science Writing from The Johns Hopkins University. In 2008, Meagan received a Fulbright Scholarship to work with Dr. Juan Antonio Raga at the University of Valencia to help determine the cause of morbillivirus resurgence among small cetaceans in the Mediterranean. Meagan also completed science-reporting internships with Science as well as National Public Radio and has freelanced for various outlets including Anesthesiology News.

Database accessibility: Proactivity, transparency, buy-in.

How do we balance the demands of current accessibility legislation with university students’ needs for external database content?

To meet our legal requirement, we researched and sought advice from other institutions in the sector then built our own workflow which involves the implementation of a 5-point checklist. This has raised the profile of accessibility amongst our university colleagues but is skills and labour intensive. Please come and visit our poster session to find out more and offer your suggestions.

Debi Roland

University of the Arts London

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As part of the Discovery Team in Library Services Debi has been involved in the procurement, management and use of e-resources since the advent of networked CD-ROMs and in the late 1990s, was part of a team which created a library presence for the University of the Arts London on the World Wide Web – The i page. In more recent years she has been involved in writing accessibility statements and liaising with publishers and suppliers to ensure e-resources are accessible for all. Outside of work she still has 2 adult sons living at home and relaxes by knitting and crocheting.

Anna Dölling

University of the Arts London

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Anna has worked for University of the Arts London (UAL) Libraries since 2000. She currently works a assistant librarian for access and inclusion, and as a library assistant. Since the start of her library career Anna has been interested in the accessibility of resources and spaces, physical and digital. Anna feels that disability inclusion must be at the forefront of any service provision, from planning and conception to delivery and evaluation.

The Hidden REF, celebrating all research outputs

Lyndsey’s ‘s poster session will follow on from her lightning presentation taking place on Tuesday at 12:00.

The Hidden REF campaign recognises all research outputs and roles that make research possible.

Our 2021 and 2024 competitions highlight the diversity of contributions, from librarians and technicians to research software engineers and administrators — vital roles often overlooked in traditional assessments. In 2023, the Festival of Hidden REF gathered professionals and policymakers to discuss creating a more effective and equitable research environment.

I will share our initiatives, outcomes, and strategies for gaining recognition for these roles, inviting the UKSG community to collaborate and discuss strategies for gaining well-deserved recognition for these hidden roles.

Lyndsey Ballantyne

Software Sustainbility Institute

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Lyndsey Ballantyne is a Community Manager at the Software Sustainability Institute where she plays a key role in advocating for under recognised contributors to research. By organising workshops, conferences, and networking events, she creates opportunities for people from different backgrounds to contribute to and benefit from the research software ecosystem. She is involved in the Hidden REF initiative, which aims to recognise the often-overlooked work of research staff, such as software engineers, librarians and publishers in traditional assessments like the Research Excellence Framework (REF). Lyndsey promotes inclusivity and recognition for essential behind-the-scenes roles, ensuring their contributions to research are valued and celebrated.

Jisc’s open policy finder – re-developing Sherpa and looking to the future

Karen’s poster session will follow on from her lightning presentation taking place on Tuesday at 12:00.

‘Jisc’s Open Policy Finder, formerly Sherpa Services, has undergone significant changes over the past year as part of our commitment to building a future-ready, streamlined, and efficient product to support open access workflows. These changes represent not just a fresh identity but also the foundation of a platform designed to adapt and scale for future use cases, ensuring continued relevance and impact in a rapidly evolving environment.

Our poster will accompany our lightning talk, highlighting key enhancements including the launch of our unified website and the rebranding of the service in November 2024. We will also share our roadmap for further development, and invite attendees to view and share feedback on the changes.’

Karen Jackson

Jisc

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Karen is a product manager in the research management team at Jisc, working on open policy finder (previously Sherpa services). She has been at Jisc since 2017, and previously worked in HE libraries with a particular focus/interest in open access and institutional repository management & administration

An International Data Space for OA Book Usage Data Exchange Across Public and Private Stakeholders – Project Update

While APIs have made it easier for libraries, publishers, policymakers, and information services to access, use and innovate with usage and metadata at scale, time and human resources are still required to manage, compile, and link OA book usage data metrics coming from multiple platforms in multiple formats. OA book usage data is even more important at this very moment when EU-funded projects such as PALOMERA worked to support policy alignment for OA monographs in Europe, and the UK has seen the implementation of their new 2024 UKRI policy including long-format outputs. It begs the question, how can OA book impact be monitored more effectively to help inform policy making?

In 2022, the Mellon Foundation awarded a project team led by the University of North Texas, OpenAIRE, and OPERAS to develop “governance building blocks” for the OA Book Usage Data Trust in line with both the Principles of Open Infrastructure and protocols emerging from the Design Principles for International Data Spaces (IDS). Over 24 months, stakeholders leveraged in-depth community consultations to produce a rulebook to guide participation in the data space community, define Data Trust membership benefits, and get feedback on cost-recovery and functional requirements. In 2024, the Data Trust’s Technical Advisory Committee and Board of Trustees selected an experienced IDS technical team to build out the technical OA Book Usage Data Trust infrastructure. Using a staged development approach focused on “scaling small”, a limited proof of concept IDS focused on the exchange of COUNTER item-level views and downloads data was developed and tested with alpha cohort partners (JSTOR, LibLynx, Michigan University Publishing, Punctum Books, Taylor & Francis) with plans to extend IDS security and auditing functionality to support additional data exchange use cases in beta cohorts of publishers, presses, aggregators, and additional data analytics providers (e.g. EBSCO, OAPEN, Longleaf).

This poster will present the project update with the findings to date and provide visitors with interactive QR codes.

Ursula Rabar

OA Book Usage Data Trust

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As Community Manager for the OA Book Usage Data Trust, Ursula facilitates global consultations and engagement with diverse OA book usage stakeholder communities. Her position is hosted by OPERAS-EU, the European infrastructure consortia focused on Open Scholarly Communication in the European Research Area for Social Sciences and Humanities. Prior to this position, Ursula worked in publishing and bookselling, focusing on print book sales, foreign rights, OA journal commissioning and institutional partnerships.

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UKSG Licensing Skills for Librarians online seminar 2025
2025-04-29 11:00 - 14:00
This seminar is designed for librarians involved in e-resource purchasing in academic institutions; specifically for librarians in these institutions who are being trained to undertake purchasing roles will also benefit from attending. The seminar will take place online over two half days, although you may want to set aside some reading time prior/in between the sessions.

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Electronic publishing has brought huge changes to learned information provision and to the role of librarians and other information professionals. ‘Ownership’ of content is no longer a simple matter of receiving and storing print copies on a shelf. Publishers and intermediaries license access to electronic resources, and so the licence has become a feature of most sales agreements. Information professionals consequently need to become familiar with the terms and conditions of licences, their meaning and their implications. This two-day online course will address these issues using a mixture of presentations, Q&A and some homework.

Why should you attend?

The online course is designed specifically for librarians involved in e-resource purchasing in academic institutions. Librarians in these institutions who are being trained to undertake purchasing roles will also benefit from attending. Participants will gain a good understanding of the key issues surrounding publisher licensing and negotiations, together with practical skills and knowledge which they will be able to use in their professional lives.

Jisc Collections has an international reputation for expertise in the negotiation and licensing of scholarly online resources. It currently manages around 200 agreements, and its model licence is seen as a ‘gold standard’ across the academic sector.

DO NOTE: We welcome participants from all corners of the globe to join our seminars, however speakers and topics for this event are generally UK focussed and times are in GMT, if you have any doubt about the suitability, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the course participants will:

understand the key issues surrounding publisher licensing, and how these impact libraries

be familiar with the concept of a Model Licence and the important clauses in publisher licences

be familiar with the principles of successful negotiation of terms and conditions in the context of licensing online information resources

understand the fundamental dos and don’ts of e-resource licence negotiation

be aware of the legal implications that licence terms have for their institution

understand the latest issues and concerns related to licensing

be aware of the issues around licensing for additional users, including those at partner organisations.

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

If you have particular accessibility needs or questions about this seminar/webinar, we welcome you to contact us directly at events@uksg.org prior to booking your place.

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11:00

Welcome and Introduction Note: All times GMT

Ben Taplin

Jisc

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Ben Taplin has been Jisc’s contract and licensing specialist for ten years. He is also a member of Jisc’s Artificial Intelligence group and the ICOLC AI Taskforce.

11.05

Session 1: Introduction to licences

Why do we need licences for the online content we subscribe to, and what problems do they cause us?

Ben Taplin

Jisc

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Ben Taplin has been Jisc’s contract and licensing specialist for ten years. He is also a member of Jisc’s Artificial Intelligence group and the ICOLC AI Taskforce.

11.15

Session 2: 10 things to look for in a licence

We look at the key clauses and information any good licence should include.

Ben Taplin

Jisc

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Ben Taplin has been Jisc’s contract and licensing specialist for ten years. He is also a member of Jisc’s Artificial Intelligence group and the ICOLC AI Taskforce.

11.45

Session 3: A closer look at licences

Part 1. How to navigate your way through a licence and find the important stuff.

Ben Taplin

Jisc

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Ben Taplin has been Jisc’s contract and licensing specialist for ten years. He is also a member of Jisc’s Artificial Intelligence group and the ICOLC AI Taskforce.

12.00

Lunch Break / Time to reflect on the previous session

13.00

Session 3: A closer look at licences

Part 2. How to navigate your way through a licence and find the important stuff.

Ben Taplin

Jisc

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Ben Taplin has been Jisc’s contract and licensing specialist for ten years. He is also a member of Jisc’s Artificial Intelligence group and the ICOLC AI Taskforce.

14.00

Summary of the day and wrap up

You may wish to pencil in some time following the session to review today’s learning and prepare for tomorrow’s session.

Ben Taplin

Jisc

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Ben Taplin has been Jisc’s contract and licensing specialist for ten years. He is also a member of Jisc’s Artificial Intelligence group and the ICOLC AI Taskforce.

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11.00

Welcome and introduction to day 2

Ben Taplin

Jisc

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Ben Taplin has been Jisc’s contract and licensing specialist for ten years. He is also a member of Jisc’s Artificial Intelligence group and the ICOLC AI Taskforce.

11.05

Session 4: License negotiation

How can we negotiate with suppliers about their terms and conditions? Looking at TDM and AI.

Ben Taplin

Jisc

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Ben Taplin has been Jisc’s contract and licensing specialist for ten years. He is also a member of Jisc’s Artificial Intelligence group and the ICOLC AI Taskforce.

11.30

Session 5: Licensing for Users Overseas

A look at Jisc’s approach to licensing for TNE and partners in the UK.

Greg Ince

Jisc

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Greg Ince is a Licensing Manager, delivering the optional Jisc service, Transnational education licensing. He is a librarian with 20 years’ experience of working in higher education libraries. Prior to joining Jisc in 2017 to work on the TNE Licensing Pilot, Greg worked for De Montfort University, Royal Holloway, the University of Bath, and most recently, the University of the West of England (UWE), for 10 years. At UWE, he was responsible for content acquisition and subscription, including managing discovery and ongoing access arrangements, with an ongoing focus on licensing for UWE’s onshore and offshore collaborative provision scenarios.

12.00

Lunch Break

13.00

Session 6: Licensing scenarios for additional Users

Group exercises and discussion addressing licensing for different types of additional user groups (inc. partner organisations overseas and in the UK)

Ben Taplin

Jisc

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Ben Taplin has been Jisc’s contract and licensing specialist for ten years. He is also a member of Jisc’s Artificial Intelligence group and the ICOLC AI Taskforce.

13.45

Conclusion and wrap up

Ben Taplin

Jisc

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Ben Taplin has been Jisc’s contract and licensing specialist for ten years. He is also a member of Jisc’s Artificial Intelligence group and the ICOLC AI Taskforce.

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UKSG Open Educational Resources online seminar 2025
2025-05-07 10:00 - 16:30
This seminar takes place over one day looking at how resources are being developed and promoted, and how others have approached the creation and management of OER policies. We welcome speakers from the UK and USA to this session.

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Wednesday, May 7, 2025 – 10:00 BSTto 16:30 BST

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Course Information

The next few years will see a continual increase in the amount of materials created by educational and aligned organisations, much of which will be accessible to peers, students and the general population across the globe. The opportunities for sharing Open Education Resources are greater than ever. This widespread change has led to many ethical and practical questions around ownership, hosting and copyright. This seminar explores the current OER landscape, looks at how some of these issues are being addressed, and highlights the opportunities presented by the growth of OER resources.

Why should you attend?

Delegates will have a chance to hear from a variety of different perspectives, which will include how open resources can support teaching and learning, how resources are being developed and promoted, and how others have approached the creation and management of OER policies. This course is aimed at anyone who is keen to understand more about Open Educational Resources, with a view to creating them, making use of them for teaching and learning, or creating policies around them.

DO NOTE: We welcome participants from all corners of the globe to join our seminars, however speakers and topics for this event are generally UK focused and times are in BST, if you have any doubt about the suitability, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Who should you attend?

The seminar will be of interest to those working across the scholarly information industry, including publishers, librarians, teachers, lecturers, learning technologists, research support staff, other aligned professionals and students.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the course participants will:

Gain a wide overview of the current OER environment across the UK and US

Learn about the opportunities and challenges of implementing an OER policy at an organisational and national level

Discover benefits and opportunities of engaging with the creation of OER content

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Recording

The sessions will be recorded and available to all registered delegates after the event, so if you unable to join us live or want to review any presentation this will be available.

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If you have particular accessibility needs or questions about this seminar, we welcome you to contact us directly at events@uksg.org prior to booking your place.

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10:00

Welcome and Introduction Note: All times BST

Klara Finnimore

Royal College of Art (RCA)

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

Ai Gooch

University of Essex

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Ai is the Assistant Director (University Collections and Digital Services) at the University of Essex. She oversees the University Collections including University’s Special Collections, Archives, and Art Collections, while also leading the development of digital infrastructure and services. She previously worked as the Academic Liaison Librarian (Business and Law) at the University of Essex. Her contributions include initiatives such as Decolonising the Library, Skills @ Essex, and the Race Equality Charter.

10.15

Session 1: The Death of the Textbook

As an educational tool, the commercial textbook in its traditional form is obsolete and yet the sector remains wedded to an outdated paradigm that serves neither the needs of the student or the academy. What are the alternatives? We present the results of a pilot programme at Coventry University where the commercial textbook has been discarded in favour of a shift to Open Content. Is this the beginning of a (re)new(ed) paradigm or a Canutian exercise in futility?

Phil Brabban

Phil Brabban

Coventry University

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Having initially trained and worked as a Secondary School English and Drama teacher, Phil swiftly made the decision to alter course, changing career to follow a life of excitement and high adventure in Librarianship. He began his career at Durham University in 1999 where he worked for several years, most significantly as an ‘accidental’ Systems Librarian. Phil has worked at the University Library at Coventry since 2007 in a number of leadership roles and was appointed University Librarian in 2014. Now, as Chief Librarian, he carries responsibility for the operational and strategic direction of the service across the entire University Group. Phil has been a member of SCONUL’s Executive Board since 2022 and is co-Chair of the SCONUL Content Strategy group.

Dal Badesha

Coventry University

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Dal is the Head of Learning Resources and Student Experience at Coventry University, focusing on Open Educational Resources. With a career in academic libraries spanning nearly three decades, Dal began as a library assistant in 1996 and has since held various roles, including Project Manager for one of Europe’s largest textbook schemes. Passionate about accessible learning, she is dedicated to enhancing student experiences through innovative resource strategies.

10.40

Session 2: Taking a strategic approachto embedding the institutional use of OERs

In 2022 the University of Sheffield approved an OER policy, supporting the re-use, re-purposing and adaptation of existing OER, and the creation of new OERs. To implement the policy, a proactive approach was taken, with the formation of a cross-faculty OER Working Group. This group was tasked with promoting policy awareness, fostering an OER community, identifying guidance and support for staff and making recommendations in support of the policy. In this talk we will review the steps taken so far to move to a position where the use of OER is embedded as standard practice at Sheffield.

Louise Robson

University of Sheffield

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Louise Robson is a Professor of Digital Innovation in Learning and Teaching at the University of Sheffield, with over 30 years experience in teaching. A PFHEA and an NTF, she is known for her work around using digital technologies to enhance the student learning experience, e.g. lecture capture and active learning. She is also a strong advocate for the use of inclusive approaches in student learning. As the chair of the University of Sheffield OER Working Group, she leads the group to deliver the actions needed to embed the use of OERs into learning and teaching activities at the university.

11.05

Session 3: Reflections on building a European Open Education Network: Community as a keystone to consolidate Open Educational Practice in the educational space

This presentation reflects on the experiences of building a European Open Education Network through the ENCORE+ project. ENCORE+ has built a community of more than 500 active members since 2020. We have done this by researching, having constant dialogue with relevant stakeholders, and collecting and sharing good practice examples, strategies and innovation on key topics such as Policies & Practice, Innovation & business models, Quality and Technology. We have developed, co-created and shared our knowledge with our network in a community of practice through a series of reports, network events, focus groups, workshops and contributions to conferences

Orna Farrell

Dublin City University (DCU)

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Dr Orna Farrell is Associate Professor of Education, specialising in digital education based in the School of Policy Practice, Institute of Education in Dublin City University (DCU). Orna holds a PhD in Education from Trinity College Dublin. Orna is programme chair of the B.Sc. in Education and Training.Orna’s research interests centre around digital innovative pedagogy and include online pedagogy, learning design, digital assessment, eportfolio and open education. She has a growing publication record in her fields of interest, including a range of book chapters, journal articles, invited presentations and conference papers. She has published in high-ranking journals such as Distance Education, the Journal of Interactive Media in Education, Research in Learning Technology, and the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. Orna is a fellow of EDEN Digital Learning Europe.

11.30

Break

11.40

Session 4: Open for Good: Strategic support for OER at the University of Edinburgh

At the University of Edinburgh we believe that OER and open education are strongly in keeping with our institutional vision; to discover knowledge and make the world a better place. During this session we’ll be exploring how Edinburgh has embedded strategic support for OER across the institution, through the implementation of a permissive OER Policy, supported by a range of central services. We’ll introduce case studies, highlight the importance of developing copyright literacy skills, touch on our commitment to student engagement and co-creation, and provide recommendations that other institutions can follow to enable them to adapt and adopt this model.

Charlie Farley

University of Edinburgh

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Stephanie (Charlie) Farley has worked in Higher Education Libraries and Learning Technology services for fifteen years, and has spent the last decade embedding strategic support in policy and technologies, training, supporting, and collaborating with staff and students in the creation and use of Open Education Resources at The University of Edinburgh. [View the OEGlobal award winning collection of student made OERs on our TES repository: University of Edinburgh’s Open.Ed Open Educational Resources on TES.]

12.05

Session 5: Building it Together: Developing an Open Textbook community of practice in the UKThe Open Education Network (OEN) is a mature community of practice in the US, which has over 1,800 member institutions and is committed to making open the default in higher education. Brunel University of London Library joined the OEN in 2023 and has been collaborating with library colleagues across the UK to convert the OEN model to a UK environment. This talk will report on the academic engagement and adoption strategies applied at Brunel and the formation of a new UK community, in which librarians across the UK and Ireland are given peer support to develop their open practice

David Beales

Brunel University of London

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David Beales is the University Librarian at Brunel University of London. David has a range of experience in US and UK higher education, research and parliamentary library environments and most recently worked at the House of Commons Library as the Head of Research Information. David’s areas of expertise include Open Education Resources, collection evaluation and Big Deal modelling.

12.30

Lunch Break

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13.30

Welcome back

Tim Leonard

Lancaster University

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Tim Leonard is Associate Director: Space, Experience and Innovation at Lancaster University Library. He oversees the development of the Library’s learning spaces, its frontline services team and digital systems.Tim has worked in academic libraries for over 20 years and has held positions at Lancaster, the University of Bolton, Manchester Metropolitan University and Cardiff University. He is a member of UKSG’s Education and Events Subcommittee and represents Lancaster in a range of groups with RLUK and Academic Libraries North. His professional interests include learning space design, environmental sustainability and innovative technologies in libraries.

Andy Tattersall

University of Sheffield

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Andy Tattersall is an Information Specialist at the Division of Population Health at The University of Sheffield. Andy writes, teaches and delivers talks and training about research communications (including podcasting, blogging, social media, video/animation, infographics), digital academia, open research, web and information science and altmetrics. In particular, their application for research, teaching, learning, knowledge exchange and collaboration. Andy received a Senate Award from The University of Sheffield for his pioneering work on Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) in 2013 and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Andy was named in Jisc’s Top 10 Social Media Superstars. He was a member of the Cilip Digital Technology Committee (MmIT) for 10 years (2 as Chair) and is a member of the UKSG Events and Education Committee. Andy co-wrote and edited a book on Altmetrics for Facet Publishing which is aimed at researchers and librarians. https://linktr.ee/andy_tattersall

13.35

Session 6: Games as OERs: putting the fun in fundamental discussions

In this session we will discuss our process towards game creation for educational purposes, and the challenges and advantages games as Open Educational Resources (OERs) create. We will also explore the value of using gamification while developing OERs and walk the audience through the resources we have created, how they are used and where they can be found

Katrine Sundsbø

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)

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Katrine is a Community Manager at DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals). She has worked in open access and scholarly communications for over eight years, and have frequently used gamification in workshops and events to engage others with important topics related to open research. Katrine is the creator of the Open Access Escape Room, Open Access Mystery and co-creator of Copyright Dough (with Hannah Crago) and Open Science in Peril, Open Educational Resources Escape Room and ‘What about Open Science’ (with Aisling Coyne and Dr. Sarah Coombs). All games are of course created as Open Educational Resources.

Aisling Coyne

Technological University Dublin

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Aisling Coyne is the Open Scholarship Librarian for Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) where she manages the institutional repository, Arrow, and the Diamond journals published through it; engages in outreach and promotion of Open Scholarship; delivers training to academics, staff, students, and researchers on a variety of Open topics; among other things. Aisling is a member of two Library Association of Ireland special interest groups (Library Publishing and Open Scholarship); Irish Open Access Publishers; National Open Research Forum project SCOIR; is a founding member and co-chair of OSCAIL, among other groups.​​Aisling has a very special interest in OER, Games and Gamification, creating Open Scholarship games with Sarah Coombs and Katrine Sundsbø since 2022.

Sarah Coombs

Digital Competency Centre for Practice-Oriented Research/ Saxion University of Applied Sciences

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Sarah Coombs is Content Coordinator for the Digital Competency Centre for Practice Oriented Research (DCC-PO), and the Open Science Advisor for Saxion University of Applied Sciences and for the Netherlands Association of Universities of Applied Sciences (NAUAS). She has completed PhD with the Centre for Science and Technology at the Leiden University looking at how the impact of UAS research can be evaluated. She enjoys being creative in all kinds of ways including thinking of new ways to present Open Science and research support with Aisling Coyne and Katrine Sundsbø

14.00

Session 7: Making OA textbooks a reality

Rupert Gatti

Open Book Publishers

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Rupert Gatti is a Fellow in Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge and co-founder of Open Book Publishers – a non-profit open access scholarly book publisher. He is also a Steward (Trustee) of the Open Book Collective – a charity facilitating collective library funding for “Diamond” open access books – and an active participant within the Copim community developing open infrastructures to support OA book publishing.

14.25

Session 8: Open Education as Action

Open education is a good idea – there are very few people who think otherwise. But if we want our instructors to act differently – to engage in open educational practices that benefit our students – then we need to go beyond advocating for the idea of open education. We need concrete actions that will empower, engage, and support our instructors to change their practices. Dr. David Ernst discusses how the Open Education Network community helps its members take action to advance open education.

David Ernst

Open Education Network

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David Ernst is the Chief Information Officer and graduate faculty member at the College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota. He is the director of the Center for Open Education and holds a PhD in Learning Technologies. David is the Executive Director of the Open Education Network, a community of open education professionals representing over 1,800 higher education institutions. He also has experience and passion for intercultural understanding, faculty development, and the improvement of educational practices

14.50

Break

15.00

Session 9: Opening Learning For All: MERLOT’s & SkillsCommons’ Open Educational Resources, Practices, and Services.

With access to the internet, academic education and workforce development can be open to all whose learning opportunities have been limited by economics, cultures, politics, and more. Free and open educational resources are not sufficient to transform educational opportunities for learners, teachers and institutions. Open educational practices and services are essential to empower and accelerate educational opportunities. The presentation will highlight MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) and SkillsCommons free and open libraries of resources, practices, and services, with examples of individual, disciplinary, and institutional initiatives to provide affordable learning solutions for all.

Gerry Hanley

MERLOT & SKillsCommons

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Gerry Hanley Ph.D. is the Executive Director of MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, www.merlot.org) and SkillsCommons (www.skillscommons.org). At California State University Long Beach, Gerry is the Director of the Center for Usability in Design and Accessibility and Professor Emeritus of Psychology. Gerry’s previous positions included Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Technology Services at the California State University Chancellor’s Office, Director of Strategic Planning and Director of the Center for Faculty Development at CSULB. He received his BA, MA, and PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in Experimental/Cognitive Psychology.

15.25

Session 10 : Beyond Affordability: The Value that Open Educational Practice (and Resources!) Can Bring to your Faculty and Learners

OER is understood as a no-cost option for student that increases access at the start of the term. More than that, OER can provide a foundation for developing curriculum that can is adapted to learner contexts, to regional contexts, and that will resonate with students at a deeper level. This session will explore ways that OER can be leveraged to improve teaching and learning beyond affordability.

Mindy Newfarmer

Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME)

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Melinda Newfarmer brings over 25 years of experience in educational technology, product development, and editorial management to ISKME and OER Commons. At ISKME, Melinda runs the services group, which includes platform and tools development, professional learning in open education, and library services. Each team in the services group strives to further ISKME’s purpose of building participatory, equitable access to education. Prior to joining ISKME in 2014, Melinda worked at Stanford Libraries developing an eBook platform for scholarly communications and Cengage Learning in editorial and product management for higher education.

15.50

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16.25

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FREE UKSG webinar: OA Book Usage Data Trust: An International Data Space for Usage Data and Beyond
2025-05-13 13:00 - 14:00
This is a fantastic opportunity to listen to expert speakers with no travelling required. This is a free webinar – Please note that advance registration is required. This webinar will be recorded and all registrants will receive a link to the recording after the session.

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While APIs have made it easier for libraries, publishers, policymakers, and information services to access, use and innovate with usage and metadata at scale, time and human resources are still required to manage, compile, and link OA book usage data metrics coming from multiple platforms in multiple formats.

In 2022, the Mellon Foundation awarded a project team led by the University of North Texas, OpenAIRE, and OPERAS to develop “governance building blocks” for the OA Book Usage Data Trust in line with both the Principles of Open Infrastructure and protocols emerging from the Design Principles for International Data Spaces (IDS). Stakeholders leveraged in-depth community consultations to understand the principles needed to exchange OA book usage data across private and public stakeholders and moved ahead with a data space proof of concept. In 2024, the Data Trust’s Technical Advisory Committee and Board of Trustees selected an experienced IDS technical team to build out the technical OA Book Usage Data Trust infrastructure to develop a limited proof of concept IDS focused on the exchange of COUNTER item-level views and downloads data while collaborating with technical pilot partners (e.g. JSTOR, LibLynx, Michigan University Publishing, Punctum Books, Knowledge Unlatched). This provides an opportunity to explore if the IDS model and functionality can be extended to support additional data exchange use cases.

Within this webinar, we will explore how OAEBUDT development to date helps create a more effective, secure and equitable exchange of data across government, charity and commercial scholarly communications stakeholders. A discussion will be facilitated through a Q&A.

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Christina Drummond

Executive Director | OA Book Usage Data Trust

As Executive Director of the OA Book Usage Data Trust effort, Christina leads research teams to develop an extensible scholarly communications focused International Data Space (IDS) through an OA book usage data focused proof of concept. Prior to her current role hosted by the University of North Texas, Christina held library faculty, research administration, and leadership positions at UNT, the Educopia Institute and ACLU of Washington. She holds professional certifications in data stewardship, design thinking and information privacy..

Charles Watkinson

Associate University Librarian for Publishing | University of Michigan Library; Director | University of Michigan Press

Charles Watkinson is Director of University of Michigan Press and Associate University Librarian for Publishing at the University of Michigan. He previously held a similar role at Purdue University. He is 2022-2023 President of the Association for University Presses and a member of the Board of Directors of the OAPEN Foundation, the infrastructure service for open access books.

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Vivian Berghahn

Managing Director | Berghahn Books

Vivian Berghahn is Managing Director at Berghahn Books. Her responsibilities include advancing a range of companywide initiatives, including open access and the strategic development of its overall publishing program. With over 20 years of experience in academic publishing, Vivian has served on the AAP-PSP Committee and ALPSP Council and is currently on the Board of Trustees for the OA Book Usage Data Trust.

Learning outcomes

1. Learning how the IDS model supports a more effective and timely OA decision-making by streamlining data access management

2. Lessons learned from the IDS technical pilot – stakeholder perspectives

Subject level and previous knowledge required

Intermediary, some previous knowledge of OA books and their usage data needed, any technical concepts such as the data space will be explained at the webinar.

Primary audience for this webinar:Any organisation that creates OA book usage data or any organisation that wishes to receive OA book usage data, these include, but are not limited to: publishers, libraries, platforms and service providers, and analytics organisations.

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If you have particular accessibility needs or questions about this webinar, we welcome you to contact Samira Koelle.

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The UKSG webinars are great for me – they offer a wide range of topics and are very well prepared. I never experienced any technical difficulties. Due to the austerity measures brought by the recent worldwide events the training budget in my institution was frozen, so the fact that UKSG webinars are free is really a boon too!
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UKSG Introduction to E-Resources Online Seminar 2025
2025-06-24 10:00 - 2025-06-26 12:30
This two-part online event has been adapted from UKSG’s successful and long-running one-day seminar and aims to present a practical introductory overview of all aspects of e-resources management, encompassing e-journals, e-books and bibliographic and full-text databases. Taking place as two morning sessions on Tuesday 24th June & Thursday 26th June.

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Course Summary

This two-part online event has been adapted from UKSG’s successful and long-running one-day seminar and aims to present a practical introductory overview of all aspects of e-resources management, encompassing e-journals, e-books and bibliographic and full-text databases.

The emphasis is on developing a sound basic understanding of the details of e-resources handling in order to promote efficient and informed working practices. A wide range of day-to-day issues will be covered, with time devoted to recognising and resolving the problems that can arise at the boundaries between publishers, intermediaries and libraries, and addressing business models such as open access. In addition, the seminar will provide a forum for a virtual group discussion on the current issues and opportunities offered by e-books.

Delegates will be able to air and exchange views in the discussion session after each presentation. The seminar will be delivered over two mornings, and delegates will be asked to use the time in between sessions to reflect on some of the issues raised.

Who should attend?

Designed particularly for staff who are new to working with e-resources, whether from a publisher, an intermediary or a library, this seminar may also be of interest to those looking to consolidate and update their e-resources knowledge.

We welcome participants from all corners of the globe to join our seminars, however speakers and topics are generally UK focussed, if you have any doubt about the suitability please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Learning Objectives

To gain practical tips on managing e-resources which can be applied in the workplace

To gain a basic understanding of the serials supply chain and the factors influencing it, including Open Access

To understand and learn how to build relationships between publishers, intermediaries and libraries

To learn how to have informed conversations with customers/suppliers

To gain insight into the practical aspects of managing e-books

To share experiences with other delegates and discuss questions and challenges which arise during the seminar

Course level and previous knowledge required

Introductory and non-intensive, entry level training for the beginner, novice or returner.

Recording

The sessions will be recorded and available to all registered delegates after the event, so if you unable to join us live or want to review any presentation this will be available.

Accessibility

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

If you have particular accessibility needs or questions about this seminar/webinar, we welcome you to contact us directly at events@uksg.org prior to booking your place.

Programme

Day 1 Day 2

Time

Programme

Speakers

10:00

Welcome and Introduction Note: All times BST

Richard Bramwell

EBSCO Information Services

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Richard Bramwell is an Account Manager at EBSCO Information Services with 10 years’ experience of working in the Library Industry consulting in Discovery, Research workflow and content. Richard is also a member of the UKSG Education Committee.

Klara Finnimore

Royal College of Art (RCA)

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

10.15

Managing E-resources – Everything everywhere all at once

A brief introduction to the life-cycle of managing e-resources such as journals, databases and other online tools. The talk will look at the full life-cycle from purchase to making content discoverable and making renewal decisions. I will try to bust some jargon and offer hints and tips to help make the process easier to manage.

Ruth Smalley

Edge Hill University

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Ruth is the Subscriptions and Licensing Manager at Edge Hill University. Ruth has had a varied career with roles in PR and teaching, before a career change took her to working in public libraries and then moving into higher education libraries. Ruth has a particular interest in evidence based collection decisions and is never happier then when she has a problem that requires a new spreadsheet! Ruth lives in Warrington and enjoys making jewellery and clothes in her spare time.

11.10

Break

11.30

Buying and Managing E-Books

A look at the wide variety of ways that Libraries can acquire E-Books, detailing how they are managed, and an exploration of E-Book activity across the sector.

Anthony Sinnott

University of York

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Anthony is Access and Procurement Development Manager at University of York. He oversees the purchase of print & electronic resources, the management of subscriptions & databases, and the operation of the reading list system. Anthony’s key focus is on identifying innovative purchasing models that ensure maximum access to resources and building positive relationships with suppliers. Anthony is a member of the Joint Consortia Agreement Contract Management Group, Academic Libraries North CoP Group, and sits on the National Acquisitions Group Executive Committee as Treasurer.

12.15

Wrap up to day 1 & preparing for day 2

Time

Programme

Speakers

10.00

Introduction and recap of day 1

Klara Finnimore

Royal College of Arts

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

Richard Bramwell

EBSCO Information Services

See Biography
Richard Bramwell is an Account Manager at EBSCO Information Services with 9 years’ experience of working in the Library Industry consulting in Discovery, Research workflow and content. Richard is also a member of the UKSG Education Committee

10.15

E-Books a roundtable led by the chair

A forum in which to explore e-books – topics, problems, issues and opportunities for the community.

Ruth Smalley

Edge Hill University

See Biography
Ruth is the Subscriptions and Licensing Manager at Edge Hill University. Ruth has had a varied career with roles in PR and teaching, before a career change took her to working in public libraries and then moving into higher education libraries. Ruth has a particular interest in evidence based collection decisions and is never happier then when she has a problem that requires a new spreadsheet! Ruth lives in Warrington and enjoys making jewellery and clothes in her spare time.

Anthony Sinnott

University of York

See Biography
Anthony is Access and Procurement Development Manager at University of York. He oversees the purchase of print & electronic resources, the management of subscriptions & databases, and the operation of the reading list system. Anthony’s key focus is on identifying innovative purchasing models that ensure maximum access to resources and building positive relationships with suppliers. Anthony is a member of the Joint Consortia Agreement Contract Management Group, Academic Libraries North CoP Group, and sits on the National Acquisitions Group Executive Committee as Treasurer.

10.40

Break

10.55

Understanding the nuances of publishing and Introduction to Elsevier resources supporting development of Library professionals

Denis Reidy

Elsevier

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Denis Reidy , born in Ireland, graduated from University College Cork in 2005 with a PhD in Materials Chemistry. Following academia, Denis worked in various international companies practising business skills including product development, regulatory affairs, project management and materials procurement. In 2010 Denis joined Elsevier and worked at various positions supporting databases and services within the Life Science and Research Intelligence portfolios His current Customer Success Manager position supports the full suite of Elsevier portfolios for the United Kingdom and Ireland region.

11.30

Intermediaries and their services

The development of intermediaries, the role of the intermediary and a review of the new players and the growing range of online access services offered.

Richard Bramwell

EBSCO Information Services

See Biography
Richard Bramwell is an Account Manager at EBSCO Information Services with 9 years’ experience of working in the Library Industry consulting in Discovery, Research workflow and content. Richard is also a member of the UKSG Education Committee

12.10

An overview and a final summing up

Feedback

Thank you, this was really helpful. It has increased my awareness of DDA, EBA, OA and Read & Publish agreements. It has given me a snap shot of where libraries and e-resource providers are at in the world today.

Previous delegate

I enjoyed it. Found it very useful, the chairs were very good. Panel discussion where they shared experience was very useful, and it was also good to hear about things from the perspective of an Aggregator and Publisher to give a rounded view. As someone new to Academic libraries it provided a really good introduction.

Previous delegate

Contact

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Cancellations

The closing date for cancellations is Tuesday 3rd June, after which date cancellations will not be eligible for a refund. Cancellation should be sent into writing to events@uksg.org.

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FREE UKSG webinar: Usage metrics for OA, AI, and more: building on solid foundations
2025-09-26 13:00 - 14:00
This is a fantastic opportunity to listen to expert speakers with no travelling required. This is a free webinar – Please note that advance registration is required. This webinar will be recorded and all registrants will receive a link to the recording after the session.

When

Friday, September 26, 2025From 13:00 BST to 14:00 BST

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Where

OnlineUnited Kingdom

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About the Event

COUNTER has been the standard for usage metrics for more than two decades, but the world has changed. Can COUNTER tell us what we need to know about open access or syndicated usage? What about generative and agentic AI? Some would argue that we need something new. In this webinar, we’ll hear from Tasha Mellins-Cohen about why we should be building on the solid COUNTER foundation. She’ll touch on how many publishers are already delivering OA-optimised reporting, best practice for reporting usage of syndicated content, and how the COUNTER community is collaborating to build guidelines for reporting AI usage.

Recording

You may still register for this event recording here.

Slides

Our speaker has kindly agreed to make her slides available.

You may download them from here.

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Speakers

Tasha Mellins-Cohen

Executive Director | COUNTER Metrics

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.

Learning outcomes

1. Why we need normalised metrics

2. What COUNTER is already doing in OA, syndication and AI

3. Community collaboration opportunities

Subject level and previous knowledge required

Introductory and non-intensive, no previous knowledge or experience required. Basic awareness of usage metrics would be helpful.

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Registrations

This is a free webinar and is open to members and non-members of UKSG alike – Please note that advance registration is required.

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Unable to attend? Register anyway and we will send you a link to a recording of the webinar after the event. If you have already registered and are subsequently unable to attend, please do not cancel your registration – only active registrations will receive the recording in a follow-up e-mail.

Accessibility

UKSG wants to provide the best possible experience for all our delegates, making presentations as accessible and inclusive as possible. Our intention were possible is to strongly encourage our speakers to provide auto generated closed captioning for both live and recorded events as well as to make sure their slides are as easy as possible for all people to read. In addition we can provide auto generated transcripts post event for each of the recorded sessions.

If you have particular accessibility needs or questions about this webinar, we welcome you to contact Samira Sotomayor.

Feedback

The UKSG webinars are great for me – they offer a wide range of topics and are very well prepared. I never experienced any technical difficulties. Due to the austerity measures brought by the recent worldwide events the training budget in my institution was frozen, so the fact that UKSG webinars are free is really a boon too!
Anonymous

The UKSG webinar was fantastic – well-organized, timely, accessible, and with an array of presenters that had insight into the topic
Anonymous

Great to squeeze in so much useful knowledge and information without having to go out to a conference. I could enjoy taking it in with a sandwich at my desk! I felt very empowered afterwards.
Emma Thompson, Glasgow Caledonian University

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

Contact

This is a free webinar – Please note that advance registration is required.

Please take a look at our code of conduct

Cancellations

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