Last chance to book - Publication to Press seminar! How research is communicated should be of the greatest importance to academics, their organisations, funders, journals and the media organisation. Ultimately it should be of the highest importance to policy makers and society. Yet, in a world where research is increasingly published Open Access there is still a failure to include all of the relevant pieces of information, such as links to the research paper, especially on a local level. Join Andy Tattersall who chairs this important seminar.
June 27 2023 - book here https://bit.ly/41U7bNB
We have just issued the call for topics for #UKSG2024! Send in your ideas here: https://bit.ly/3P5Stjh.
We have introduced a new longer format for next year, 2 to 3 hour workshops in addition to the usual plenary, breakout and lightning talk sessions and would welcome your thoughts and suggestions.
You can take a look at this year's programme to get some idea of the range of topics we cover: https://bit.ly/3N77s9J
We will be back at the SEC in Glasgow for the next conference so make a note in your diary now - 8-10 April 2024. We look forward to seeing you there!
The latest Insights article:
Transformative agreements and their practical impact: a librarian perspective
Sara Parmhed, Johanna Säll
Abstract
This case study aims at describing how transformative agreements (TAs) have affected our profession with new tasks and workflows at two university libraries in Sweden, namely Karolinska Institutet University Library and Södertörn University Library. TAs are one of the mechanisms by which scientific publications are made open access; they involve moving libraries’ contracts with publishers from payment to read toward payment to publish. We will summarize the status and progress of open access in Sweden, in particular the significant growth of TAs over a short time span. We will then focus on describing how TAs have affected our everyday work and what new tasks they have imposed. We will share our experiences and point out things we find challenging, for example, we will explore questions about eligibility, the verification process, publication types and title changes during the contract period. We will also give some recommendations on how we would prefer the workflows surrounding the TAs to be. Finally, we will share our conclusions and comments about the impact of TAs on the publishing landscape and speculate about what will happen next.