The UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition 2020 was due to be held at the Brighton Centre, however due to the global pandemic the event was cancelled – (see announcement here). The event is a major event in the scholarly communications calendar which attracts over 900 delegates each year from around the world – librarians, publishers, content providers, consultants and intermediaries. The conference combines high-quality plenary presentations, lightning talks and breakout sessions with entertaining social events and a major trade exhibition.
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Monday, March 30, 2020 – 10:00 BST
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Wednesday, April 1, 2020 – 13:15 BST
The Brigthon Centre
Brighton, BN1 2GR
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Conference details
The UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition 2020 was cancelled due to the global pandemic – see announcement here: https://www.uksg.org/event/uksgconference20/brightoncancelled.
The summary programme is available as a PDF online.
The full programme is available below, along with a number of recorded sessions that were due to take place at the event, these can be found in the resources section below each presentation or collectively on the conference channel here – . (Please note that some of these session have software generated captioning and therefore are not 100% accurate. If you would like a transcript of any of the presentations please feel free to contact events@uksg.org)
Programme
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
Time
Programme
Speakers
08.00
Registration, refreshments and exhibition viewing
08.30
Refreshments and exhibition viewing
09.00
Opening of the conference
Followed by:
Greetings from NASIG, Kristen Wilson, President, NASIG
Presentation to the 2020 John Merriman Joint NASIG/UKSG Awards, Presented by Ian Jones, Taylor & Francis (UKSG Award sponsored by Taylor & Francis)
Presentation to the sponsored students and early career professionals (Award sponsored by Elsevier, Royal Society of Chemistry and Wiley)
Andrew Barker
Chair, UKSG
See Biography
Andrew Barker has been Director of Library Services & Learning Development at Lancaster University since September 2019. Prior to that he held a number of senior roles within diverse university libraries, including the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University. Andrew was Chair of UKSG between 2018 and 2022, and has been Vice-Chair of SCONUL since December 2021.
10.30
The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change
Transformative Agreements are shaking up the traditional journal businesses. The subscription model, though it has proved persistent and resistant, struggles to be relevant in a digital world and is under pressure from advances in OA publishing. On the plus side: subscriptions provide a stable business framework; budgetary predictability for academic libraries; a means of spreading scholarly communication costs globally across academic institutions. Journal publishers have come to rely on upfront payments for publishing services. Under these conditions, our research landscape has thrived.
However change is needed. Exploding levels of research is just one of the factors that has put the subscription model under pressure; library budgets cannot keep pace with academic taskmasters cracking the whip to ‘Publish or Perish’. Transformative Agreements provide an umbrella under which several forms of business-model metamorphosis are occurring. This talk describes how at the Microbiology Society, we calculated the price of change against the price of staying as we were; what guiding principles and vision drove our decisions, and the way in which we approached and executed changes designed to transition to a business model fit for purpose in the 21st century.
Gaynor Redvers-Mutton
Associate Director Biochemical Society/Portland Press Ltd
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Gaynor is committed to develolping sustainable and fair routes enabling authors the choice of not for profit journals in which to publish their research.
11.00
What it means to be transformative: a faster path to an open future
Plan S and the drive towards a full and immediate open access future has put a sharp focus on the role research publishing and research publishers can play in speeding up the transition to full OA. This talk will explore the concept of transformative publishing, transformative journals and transformative read and publish deals in moving us towards an open sustainable research environment.
Bringing together case studies/ live examples of those already making changes to workflows, this session will explore examples of current impact and take up, discuss what this could look like in practical terms for stakeholders and help address the main challenges stakeholders are facing in order to be able to move to a fully OA world.
Carrie Webster
Springer Nature
11.30
Transformation in the era of Plan S: Challenges and opportunities in the US
When Plan S was launched in September of 2018, many observers opined that the U.S. would never embrace a transition of the existing journal literature to immediate OA, dooming to failure the Plan S vision. Eighteen months later, and how things have changed! Or, at least, how they are changing. This talk will describe recent developments and current prospects for OA transformation in the US, highlighting the challenges, opportunities, and diversity of approaches taking shape across the pond.
Ivy Anderson
California Digital Libraries
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Ivy Anderson is Associate Executive Director and Director of Collections at the California Digital Library, where she oversees a broad range of shared collections activities on behalf of the ten-campus University of California system, including primary responsibility for systemwide publisher negotiations. Ivy is the CDL lead for UC’s efforts to transition major journal licenses to open access and serves as co-chair of UC’s systemwide Publisher Negotiations Task Force. She currently chairs the Governing Council of SCOAP3, a global open access initiative in high energy physics, and is also on the steering group of the Plan S “Pricing Publisher Services” project.
12.00
Lunch and exhibition viewing
12.45
Diamond Sponsors: ACS Update: Development of OA programmes, and product update
Alastair Cook
Regional Sales Director EMEA ACS Publications
13.30
Breakouts – Group A
Recorded Presentations available below
The research technologist – A valuable allrounder in any academic team – Andy Tattersall, The University of Sheffield
Resources
Recorded Presentation: The research technologist – A valuable allrounder in any…
14.30
Breakouts – Group B
15.30
Refreshments & exhibition viewing
16.00
Breakouts – Group C
Recorded Presentations available below
Developing an institution’s textbook and courseware strategies Caroline Mackay Jisc Collections Becky Hartnup Becky Hartnup Consulting
Resources
Recorded Presentation: Developing an institution’s textbook and courseware stra…
Recorded Presetation: “So, you want me to read for my degree?”: a Universal Des…
17.00
Using chatbots to increase discovery and interaction with learning resources in Further Education
FE Learners and teachers can benefit from Chatbots that support searching within Jisc’s FE and Skills digital content services.
Benefits include:
- Enabling discovery of relevant learning resources, making it more interactive than responding to questions
- Empowering learners to have more opportunity for independent learning and resource discovery, alleviating queries to busy FE staff
- Enabling LRC and teachers to ask about subscription services, therefore increasing the digital resources available to learners
- Data gathered from queries will inform service improvements, shape how we deliver learning content, and ensure that we are best meeting the needs of the sector
Pete Collins
Jisc
17.10
Let’s ROR together! Building an open registry or research organisations
ROR (Research Organization Registry) is a community-led project to develop an open, sustainable, usable, and unique identifier for every research organization in the world. In this session, the ROR team and community stakeholders will discuss the problem ROR is trying to solve, walk through the basics of the registry, share example implementations of ROR IDs, and hear your ideas and questions about how adoption of ROR IDs can enable more efficient discovery and tracking of publications across institutions and funding bodies and support existing workflows within the UK and Europe related to OA policies, the REF, and more. Let’s ROR!
Resources
Maria Gould
The University of California
17.20
Supporting the STEAM Curriculum: Resource provision at the RCA
There has been a growing awareness among educators of the benefits of studying arts and sciences alongside one another, the evolution from STEM to STEAM. This meeting of arts and technology is increasingly important at the Royal College of Art, where researchers are engaging creatively with the challenges of society and producing innovative and far reaching results. This talk gives an insight into the interdisciplinary research landscape at the RCA and highlights the ways in which the library is seeking to support this learning environment.
Klara Finnimore
Royal College of Art
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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.
17.30
Exhibition viewing and Reception
19.00
Supper and quiz
Pre-booking was required.
Sponsored by Mary Ann Liebert Inc
Registration
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 – 00:00 GMT – Wednesday, September 16, 2020 – 00:00 BST
£ 475.00
+95.00 VAT
UKSG Member
UKSG Member – £475.00 +VAT (total £570.00)
£645.00
+129.00 VAT
Non-Member
UKSG Non-Member – £645.00+VAT (total £774.00)
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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For any queries
Sponsorship queries – Beatrice Palombo Fumey, Marketing Manager, Content Online, +46 (0)72-253 62 99; beatrice@contentonline.com
General queries – events@uksg.org
Exhibition queries – Karina Hunt at KHEC – karina@khec.co.uk /telephone 07900 165948
Cancellations
The closing date for cancellations is Friday 1st March at 5pm GMT, after which date cancellations will not be eligible for a refund. Cancellations should be sent into writing to events@uksg.org
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