Breakout Session A

Lightning Talks A


**Moderator:** Lorraine Estelle

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**Bio:** Lorraine Estelle is a professional with experience in the development of new business models, collaborative library services, and information standards. Through her role in COUNTER she is experienced with working collaboratively with different types of publishers societies and their professional associations developing and implementing the Code of Practice.  Lorraine is also co-editor of the open access journal Insights: the UKSG journal.
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**Speakers:** 

**Liam Earney**, Jisc 

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**Title:**  The UUK-Jisc Content Negotiation Strategy Group - a new approach to UK academic sector negotiations with journal publisher

**Bio:**  Liam Earney is the Executive Director of Digital resources at Jisc since August 2019. He is responsible for Jisc’s licensing, open research, content & discovery services for further and higher education and research. This includes services such as Jisc Collections, Chest, Library hub, JUSP and SHERPA which collectively save UK universities and colleges over £100 million per annum.  Liam is also the executive leadership team lead overseeing Jisc’s strategy to support members’ research and innovation activity.  Previously Director of licensing at Jisc, with a responsibility for the units undertaking the licensing and negotiation of agreements for digital content and software on behalf of UK universities and further education colleges. Overseeing the evolution of Jisc’s approach to the negotiation of open access agreements, in particular how Jisc could best support the sector achieve its aims around pure gold, hybrid and green open access.     

**Abstract:** In early 2020 Universities UK and Jisc established a new high level negotiation strategy group to oversee UK universities negotiations with major publishers. This presentation will provide an update on the context for the group and its objectives. It will then provide an overview of the progress that has been made in negotiations with publishers in 2020, before looking to the priorities for the group in 2021 and beyond.

**Colette Fagan**, Manchester 

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**Title:** Costs, content, strategy/implications 

**Bio:** Professor Colette Fagan, FAcSS, Vice-President for Research, is responsible for leading and implementing The University of Manchester’s research and doctoral training strategy. She is incoming chair of the Russell Group’s PVC-Research Group, and serves on the editorial board of The Conversation the N8 research partnership Senior Executive Group and the UUK/JISC Content Negotiating Strategy Group. She co-authored the British Academy’s 2016 report Crossing Paths: Interdisciplinary institutions, careers, education and applications. Colette’s research and policy impact focus is employment, working conditions and job quality; including gender inequalities and international comparative analysis. She is an elected Fellow of the UK’s Academy of Social Sciences in recognition of her research standing.

**Tasha Mellins-Cohen**, Mellins-Cohen Consulting Ltd

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**Title:** The Society Publisher Perspective

**Bio:** After two decades in scholarly publishing Tasha is now an independent publishing consultant. Having worked across the industry she has a deep appreciation for the changing pressures on publishers, funders, researchers and research institutions and uses that to partner with publishers to develop data-driven business models that will allow them to achieve a sustainable transition to open access.
Believing that we must take responsibility for the changes we wish to see, Tasha is an active participant in the scholarly publishing community as a member of the COUNTER Executive Committee, and regularly volunteers time to Jisc, UKSG, ALPSP, and other industry bodies.

**Abstract:** Society finances are often thought to rest on a three-legged stool, where publishing is complemented by event and membership income. Publishing revenues have been under pressure for years. In partner-published societies, the inclusion of journals in big deals means shrinking revenue and a loss of transparency, while at the same time independent society publishers have struggled to sell single subscriptions in a market where the majority of funds are directed at big deals. Society approaches to OA, however, are driven by the needs and preferences of their members and therefore many societies are embracing OA and aiming to transition away from subscription revenues. In practice this has meant independent society publishers implementing new models, working with consortia as well as agents and introducing entirely new workflows and metadata to manage deals, in a very short space of time. By contrast partner-published societies have been swept along by their partners, usually with a further loss of visibility and control over their own titles.

Then 2020 arrived, bringing with it a global pandemic, and the other two legs of the society stool became as unstable as publishing revenues. Societies were unable to deliver their usual events, and thus lost the new members who would usually sign up for those events. In the UK the government pressed ahead with a hard Brexit but delayed decisions until the last possible moment, leaving societies, like everyone else, to scramble for a response. The question must be asked: How might societies and institutions better work together to properly support the scholars who rely on both sides?

**Ian Moss**, CEO, STM

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**Title:** The Commercial Perspective

**Bio:** Ian Moss is CEO of STM, the global trade association for scholarly publishing that represents more than 140 members, including all the major commercial publishers, learned societies and university presses.  STM’s members are responsible for around two thirds of all published papers from the world of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.  Ian was formally Director of Public Affairs at the BPI, the British Recorded Music Industry.  Before this, Ian spent twelve years in the UK Government and was a Senior Civil Servant in the Ministry of Justice as Director of Criminal Justice Strategy following roles as Head of Strategy in the Department for Work and Pensions, Principal Private Secretary at the Cabinet Office, Head of Technology and Innovation at HM Treasury and Head of Broadcasting Regulation at the Office of Telecommunications.   His full biography can be found here (link to: https://www.stm-assoc.org/about-stm/whos-who-at-stm/).

**Abstract:** In a continually developing marketplace, an array of challenges are being addressed by publishers to meet the needs of the research community and increasing requirements of funders.  Pressures and needs related to the COVID health crisis only exacerbated these.   Publishers are offering a range of sustainable business models to support Open Science and Open Access publishing. These options maintain research quality, integrity and author choice. They also assist researchers in making data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable) and support initiatives to make research more available through public libraries. This session will explore how scholarly publishers add essential value to and continue to safeguard quality, which is critical in a time of global pandemic and ‘fake science’.

Plenary Session 1

Breakout Session B

Lightning Talks B 


**Moderator:** Colleen Campbell

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**Bio**:  Colleen Campbell coordinates the global Open Access 2020 and ESAC Initiatives, which are hosted by the Max Planck Digital Library (Munich, Germany). She strategizes with all stakeholders in the scholarly communication chain on methods to repurpose subscription funds to support open access publishing and leads community efforts aimed at driving the continuous evolution of transformative agreements toward the goal of an open, equitable and efficient scholarly publishing system. She has also been a very proud member of the UKSG Board of Trustees!

**Speakers:** 

**Abel Packer**, SciELO

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**Title:** For an inclusive global flow of scientific information

**Bio:** Abel co-founded the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) in 1998, a Program of the São Paulo State Foundation (FAPESP) committed to the advancement Brazilian scientific research and communication through the open access indexing and publication of a selected collection of quality peer-reviewed journals. Currently he is Director of SciELO. He is also Project Coordinator at the Foundation of the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) and former Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences (BIREME). Abel has a bachelor's degree in Business Management and a Master of Library Science with extensive experience in information science, librarianship, information technology, and information management.

**Abstract:** Scientific research fulfillment as a humanity global enterprise requires an inclusive and equitable communication infrastructure capable to deal with geographic, cultural, multilingual and thematic diversity. SciELO Network of 17 nationally operated collections of selected Open Access peer reviewed journals represents a major effort towards an inclusive global flow of scientific information. In 2021, it indexes, publishes and interoperates over 1200 journals which communicate pure and basic research covering most of the disciplines with a high coverage of local, national and regional topics and target audiences. This presentation will share SciELO advances, challenges, barriers, and lessons learned on the globalization of research communication.

**Yang Pan,** Chinese Medical Association Publishing House

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**Title:** In a Time of Global Challenge Open Access Policy in CMAPH

**Bio:**  Yang Pan is the Director of Marketing & Public Relation Department of CMAPH, and the Managing Director of the CMA Journal《Maternal-Fetal Medicine》. She started as the editor of Chinese Edition of BMJ in CMAPH since 2001, and devoted to the publishing industry for nearly 20 years. With rich experience, she had completed a series of funded programs of China Association for Science and Technology（CAST）, such as” Brand Building of Chinese Sci-Tech Periodicals”, ”International Influence Promotion Project”. During the COVID-19 pandemic, as the committee member, she took part in building up the “COVID-19 Academic Research Communication Platform” and publishing the special issue of COVID-19 in Chinese Medical Journal. Moreover, she has supported CAST to initiate Chinese Science Journals to join the COVID-19 database which is built by WHO, further Conducts Active International Cooperation.

**Abstract:**  Within the topic, it mainly introduces how CMAPH responded to the pandemic in a Time of Global Challenge. CMAPH as the most numerous, influential, and authoritative medical journal publication in China have established a series of policies toward to pandemic and Open Access in 2020. We have implemented “manuscript fast-track flow” policy, established a COVID-19 Academic Research Communication Platform with Chinese and English version, and all articles published in the platform applied open access policy. By doing all these attempts, CMAPH is going to maintain its strategy on priority publication, academic quality, and to be more involved in global activities and collaboration. In the topic, we also intend to discuss the challenges to Chinese Sci-tech Periodical, and how OA publishing developed in CMAPH. 

**Frederick Ato Armah**, University of Cape Coast

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**Title:** The evolving scholarly publishing process in Africa

**Bio:**  Frederick Ato Armah (PhD) is a Professor of Environmental and Sustainability Science at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, and is currently the Director of the Directorate of Research, Innovation and Consultancy. His academic and research interests include, Multivariate Statistics, Human-Environment Interactions, Environmental Hazards and Risk Assessment, Agro-Ecological Systems, Participatory Natural Resources Management, and Climate Change. He has more than 140 publications in international peer-reviewed journals. Frederick was a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Regional Expert for Africa on the Global Environment Outlook Report 6 (GEO-6), and a Lead Author on the policy effectiveness chapter of the GEO-6 Report. He is a member of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

**Abstract:** This presentation is on the evolving scholarly research landscape in Africa

Plenary Session 2

Technical/Sponsor Sessions

Join Andrew Barker, Lancaster University and Chair of UKSG for the wrap-up of the conference.




Closing Session

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