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Promoting Climate Change Literacy in Africa: Repackaging Scholarly Information for varying Literacy Levels - Mac-Anthony Cobblah, University of Cape Coast The emergence of climate change pose one of the most critical global challenges of our time with far-reaching implications for all humans. In Africa, a continent particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, knowledge and education plays pivotal roles in building resilience and fostering sustainable practices. This paper presents comprehensive strategies and techniques essential to repackage scholarly information resources to create awareness and promote understanding of climate change issues specifically tailored to suit the varying literacy levels in Africa. The Open Climate Campaign: Ambitions and Approaches - Frances Pinter, Central European University Press The goal of the Open Climate Campaign (OCC) is to promote open access to accelerate progress towards solving the climate crisis and preserving global biodiversity. This four-year, $4.5 million project is funded by the Arcadia Fund and Open Society Foundations and managed by Creative Commons, EIFL and SPARC. It promotes internationally the adoption and implementation of strong OA policies, overcoming legal barriers and help funders and environmental organisations make better use of OA.
We look at how an issue-based OA campaign such as OCC can fit within the broader scientific and scholarly communications issues including the role of libraries.

UKSG Annual Conference 2024

Promoting Climate Change Literacy through the repackaging of Scholarly Information Resources to suit the varying Literacy Levels in Africa/The Open Climate Campaign: Ambitions and Approaches

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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.

What is the current state of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the scholarly publishing community? It's time to take a thorough look at the 2023 global Workplace Equity (WE) Survey results. The C4DISC coalition conducted the WE Survey to capture perceptions, experiences, and demographics of colleagues working at publishers, associations, libraries, and many more types of organizations in the global community. Four key themes emerged from the 2023 results, which will be compared to the findings from the first WE Survey conducted in 2018. Recommendations for actions organisations can consider within their contexts will be proposed and discussed.

Reckoning or Retreat? A Longitudinal Look at DEIA in Scholarly Communications Workplaces

New Open Access presses are launching across the UK and beyond, but where do library-based hosting services sit within this, and what can they offer? Join Cath Dishman and Rebecca Wojturska as they discuss Diamond Open Access, the role of the library hosting service, and what the model can contribute to the academic publishing market. Particular attention will be paid to the business, financial and sustainability aspects: how much does it cost? What skills and personnel are needed for success? What aspects need development to ensure library-based hosting can continue to shine bright into the future? Join us to find out!

Shine Bright like a Diamond: What can library hosting services offer in the academic publishing market?

Community-led organizations like DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), COUNTER (the standard for usage metrics) and OA Switchboard (information exchange for OA publications) are committed to providing reliable, not-for-profit services and standards essential for a well-functioning global research ecosystem. These organizations operate behind the scenes, with low budgets and limited staffing – no salespeople, marketing teams, travel budgets, or in-house technology support. They collaborate with one another and with bigger infrastructure bodies like Crossref and ORCID, creating the foundations on which much scholarly infrastructure relies.

Open infrastructure and standards: small bodies, big impact

In this breakout, we present a unique collaborative evaluation project where the University of Sussex Library and Bloomsbury joined forces to explore and assess the library’s publishing practices. This partnership, where colleagues from Bloomsbury’s Open Research, Textbook Editorial, and Metadata teams delved into the operations of an open textbook pilot publication, was an opportunity for meaningful knowledge exchange and honest dialogue about strengths, weaknesses and the path ahead. In this session we’ll highlight how we approached the collaboration, outline the valuable discussion points and recommendations that came out of the project, and reflect on the value of the critical friend.

With a little help from my (critical) friends': how collaborating across the publishing divide can help you do more than just get by

Over 23% of the Open University (OU) Students have declared disability. AS a result, and since 2008, the OU Library regularly collaborated with publishers to improve the accessibility of electronic resources. This session will look at how and why the OU library work with publishers, the Internal research the OU did with our disabled students and how we use that to inform how we work with publishers on accessibility.

How OU Library work with publishers to improve disabled students experience

This session will explore how Lancaster University Library has developed and implemented it’s vision for facilitating a culture of open research, with a particular focus on Open Access Monographs. The talk will provide an overview of how the library has developed the necessary infrastructure to facilitate this vision, including developing consortia and collaborative options for Open Access Monograph Publishing with other organisations. The session will also outline how the library has partnered with academic colleagues to develop it’s Open Research Service and make Open Research possible and easy.

Making it possible and making it easy: Research Culture and Open Access Monographs

In the wake of the global mental health crisis, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, the demand for mental health services has reached unprecedented levels, leaving universities grappling with the challenge of providing adequate support. Libraries have emerged as crucial allies in this endeavor, acting as knowledge hubs and offering vital resources to address the pressing mental health needs of students and researchers.

Empowering minds: libraries leading the charge in student mental health

Scottish Universities Press (SUP) is a library-led publishing initiative involving 18 institutions. SUP was formed in response to changes in the Open Access policy landscape and to harness the benefits of working collaboratively at scale. In this session we will outline the approach to establishing SUP, sharing tips and lessons learned. We will cover the practical challenges we have experienced as librarians becoming publishers and discuss how wider challenges in the OA landscape have impacted our efforts. We will also outline the opportunities of institution-led publishing as we have experienced them and explore the wider anticipated benefits as we move to scaling up SUP.

Developing Scottish Universities Press: a practical guide to library-led publishing

Its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats shape the academic library in terms of what it is and does, how it is seen, where it excels and struggles, and its potential for advancement or decline. The session will identify key factors influencing academic library status and positioning. It will analyse the overlap, interplay and occasional contradiction between the different strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, and will outline a framework of ten proposed strategic directions. The session will aim to enable attendees to advance the position of their libraries by leveraging their strengths, addressing weaknesses, taking the opportunities presented to them and mitigating significant threats they confront.

The position and prospects of academic libraries: a SWOT analysis and strategy framework

Academic researchers are becoming increasingly aware of the need to make data and software FAIR in order to support the sharing and reuse of non-publication outputs. Currently there is still a lack of concise and practical guidance on how to achieve this in the context of specific data types and disciplines. This presentation details recent and ongoing work at the University of Sheffield to bridge this gap. It will explore the development of a FAIR resource with specialist guidance for a range of data types and will examine the planned development of this project during the period 2023-25.

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