UKSG 43rd Annual Conference and Exhibition: Brighton 2020

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.

When

Where

Venue Photos

Monday, March 30, 2020 – 10:00 BST
to
Wednesday, April 1, 2020 – 13:15 BST

The Brigthon Centre
Brighton, BN1 2GR

About the Event

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


08.30


09.00

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)

Chair, UKSG

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


10.30

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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

Springer Nature


11.30

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


12.45

Alastair Cook

Regional Sales Director EMEA ACS Publications


13.30


14.30


15.30


16.00


17.00

Jisc


17.10

The University of California


17.20

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


19.00

£ 475.00

+95.00 VAT

£645.00

+129.00 VAT

Sponsorship queries – Beatrice Palombo Fumey, Marketing Manager, Content Online, +46 (0)72-253 62 99; beatrice@contentonline.com

General queries – events@uksg.org

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