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Huge advances in machine learning and natural language processing are set to upend how researchers search and consume research articles as well as change how articles are written. These new approaches are becoming adept at summarising and rewriting text, answering questions about it and extracting key information. These abilities will enable humans to search for information in new ways, such as the new ChatGPT system. They are valuable tools for researchers who curate the research literature to build knowledge bases particularly in biomedicine. Nevertheless, these approaches suffer from large problems including their computational cost and that they can confidently output incorrect information. This session will provide background on how these new methods work and discuss their benefits, challenges and potential impact.

UKSG Annual Conference 2023

Will artificial intelligence change how readers use the research literature?

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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 and breakout sessions with entertaining social events and trade exhibition.

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.

Through transformative agreements and other open access publishing frameworks, libraries and consortia worldwide are repurposing their former investments in subscription paywalls to enable immediate open access publication of hundreds of thousands of peer-reviewed research articles, so that no reader is excluded from access based on their financial status, and researchers everywhere can freely build on the new knowledge. But how can we equally ensure that authors do not encounter financial barriers as journals transition to OA business models and open access becomes the default in scholarly publishing? OA2020 has partnered with UNESCO, the International Science Council, cOAlition S, EIFL and other international organizations on a series of regional workshops to identify the financial barriers that authors encounter and hear the challenges they face, particularly in resource-limited contexts, in order to develop actionable plans and practical mechanisms that ensure no author is limited in their opportunity to publish their accepted articles open access in the journals of their choice. In this talk, Colleen Campbell, Strategic Advisor to the Max Planck Digital Library and coordinator of the Open Access 2020 Initiative (OA2020), will share insights gained in the workshops and the proposals that emerged.

Global equity in scholarly journal publishing: collaborating toward practical mechanisms to remove barriers for readers and authors

This paper will explore the new approaches to research and innovations in Africa and focus on the potential of open science in sustainable and innovative research. The paper will further evaluate notable open science initiatives in Africa including the EIFL/CARLIGH open access project in Ghana and make suggestions on how to address the implementation challenges of open science practices, particularly how to equip researchers and scientists with skills and incentives to practice open science.

Increasing the visibility of African sustainable research: The potential of Open Science

Exploring the journey from submission through to publication (the blockers and enhances), we will be conducting quantitative and qualitative research to gain a high-level understanding of the current landscape, including examples of innovation in this space, positive impact on students and researchers and improvements to the diversity, equity and accessibility of the research output. Reviewing what the adoption curve looks like and practical recommendations for moving the pendulum in the right direction. Research will be conducted by Maverick Publishing Specialists.

Where are we with operationalising DEIA within the scholarly ecosystem post-pandemic?

As Scholarly Communications is amidst a transition to Open Science – resulting in the more widespread availability of open content, data and infrastructure - the scientific community itself become increasingly adept at engaging with 'open'. Two examples of 'open infrastructure services' are the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) and the OAPEN Library – both running on an open source version of DSpace with its metadata freely available under CC 0. The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) indexes over 60,000 open access books, whereas the OAPEN Library provides a structured and premium hosting environment for over 25,000 OA books.

Leveraging an open infrastructure and tapping into an open service: examples of established workflows and approaches for open access books

Journal publications currently play a significant role in research assessment: in rankings, REF and recruitment. They are assessed by quantity, citedness, the journal they appear in, or peer review. However, assessing journal publications can be difficult and can drive wider system failures such as questionable research practices, rising publication costs, and delays. Increasingly there are calls to evaluate a broader diversity of roles, inputs, processes, and outputs through our research assessments but it’s not clear to what extent these approaches truly value a wider range of research 'qualities'. This participative session will explore the appropriate place of journal publications in research and researcher assessment with the assistance of the INORMS SCOPE framework.

What role should journal publications play in research evaluation?

In October 2022, as part of a strategic commitment to Open Research, Sheffield Hallam University’s new institutional policy for research publication and copyright, based on rights retention, came into effect. As part of its role to provide access to knowledge, Hallam’s library led a partnership between the University’s research community and professional services to develop this new policy and implement rights retention as a new practice. This transformation in Hallam’s approach to copyright and scholarly communication took place alongside the development of UK HE sector requirements for transitional agreements and negotiation with publishers. In this presentation, Nick Woolley (Director of Library and Campus Services) will share how the policy was developed and implemented and what the experience has been so far, including insight from the first six months of activity and data. Nick will show how Hallam’s policy is already making a positive impact on scholarly communication and argue why rights retention as disruptive innovation is relevant for all institutions who create knowledge.



Rights Retention for Open Research: the experience at Sheffield Hallam University

COUNTER staff and volunteers are frequently told that manipulating and interpreting usage statistics presents a challenge to both librarians and publishers. In this highly interactive, practical session, I'll how you easy ways to work with industry-standard usage reports in Excel to derive answers to important questions. Other essential information covered in the session will be: the benefits of using Reports instead of Standard Views; which metrics matter most for books, journals, and databases; and why standardised usage metrics matter to all of us.

Working with usage metrics: hands on with COUNTER reports

The pandemic has had a significant impact on the motivation and health of organisations. Individuals and teams are tired, unsure, fatigued, and increasingly more polarised than ever before. The complexity and severity of the events unfolding around us is further perpetuating the feeling of learned helplessness. A systemic rebuild process is needed for organisations to move towards learned optimism, to return back to a steady and ultimately a thriving state. This presentation will focus on the observations and systems analysis of the current state, and will discuss recovery and rebuild approaches that can help us reach our goals and be optimistic about our future together.

A post-pandemic leadership model in a fractured world

A new generation of library resource sharing solutions is helping libraries transform legacy ILL practices and systems. Solutions such as Project Reshare, RapidILL from Ex Libris and Tipasa from OCLC are helping to build peer-to-peer resource sharing communities such as the N8+, improve the user experience and reduce costs and complexity. They are also challenging assumptions about library collections and the value of big deals, helping to drive forward a more open and equitable research environment.

New approaches to resource sharing - reassessing library collections, resetting the power balance in support of the open research agenda

AfricArXiv is an award-winning, community-led digital archive for African research. In addition to African researchers, it is open to submissions from ‘scientists who report on research relevant to African affairs’. This presents an opportunity for many UK-based authors, who by depositing their eligible papers will make them more accessible to African research users and broaden their readership. Use of Creative Commons licences (whereby authors retain copyright) has made this possible, but some barriers remain. We submitted an initial batch of papers and assessed engagement by research users. We maintained regular dialogue with AfricArXiv to ensure the scholarship is relevant and beneficial, so its potential can be realised.

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