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Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) launched in 2020 with the objective of streamlining discovery and access of scholarly content in the many tools that researchers use today, such as Dimensions, Semantic Scholar, Mendeley, and many others. It works equally well for open access content as it does for subscription-based content, providing researchers with recognizable buttons and indicators to get them to the most up-to-date version of content with minimal effort. Currently, around 30,000 OA articles are accessed every day via GetFTR links.

UKSG Annual Conference 2024

How GetFTR Supports Discovery and Access of OA Content

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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.

While research support teams are generally small and specialist in nature, an increased demand of its service has been observed across the sector. This is particularly true for teaching-intensive institutions. As a pilot to expand research support across ARU library, the library graduate trainee was seconded to the research services team for a month. This dialogue between the former trainee and manager will discuss what the experience and outcomes of the secondment were from different perspectives. The conversation will also explore the exposure Library and Information Studies students have to research services throughout their degree.

Fostering an Open Research culture: ARU's Graduate Trainee Secondment to research services

What are the impacts of the oldest publisher in the world going from 90% subscription content to 90% Open Access content in under 10 years and what does the future hold? Cambridge University Press is now well underway with an unprecedented transformation, but what does the next phase of Open Research look like for Cambridge and the industry at large? The efforts to get us to this point have been shared between authors, institutions, funders and publishers, and the future ecosystem of research publishing needs to be similarly balanced, sustainable and equitable. We would like to open a dialogue with the community, outlining our vision, and discuss what happens next for open scholarship..

What next for sustainable open scholarship? The Cambridge University Press transformation and beyond.

Join me as I share my experience of my first year as a Collections Engagement Manager, a brand-new role at the University of Salford, where, as a key player in ensuring sustainability and return on investment, I have tackled the persistent issue of e-resource engagement in HE. During this session, I will discuss my approach to this new position and its practical implementation by sharing the theory behind my future-focused methodology. I will demonstrate the impact of my role, including examples of both successful and unsuccessful projects, as well as the use of data-driven evidence and best practices.

Captivate, Connect, and Convert: Unlocking the art of Collections Engagement

Is the biggest blocker to open access actually the economics of it all? Book Processing Charges don’t scale but they’re still the dominant method of funding OA monographs, despite the recent emergence of several alternatives to BPCs: collective funding models like Opening the Future, the Open Book Collective, Direct-2-Open etc. Through presentations and audience Q&A we’ll pose some provocative questions to explore this theme:
- How can these new models achieve sustainability and ‘get out from the back of the sofa’ of end-of-year leftover funds? - How can libraries prioritise these models from their budgets?
- How can the sector work together to promote and maximise these alternative models in the world of tight budgets?

Getting Out From The Back of the Sofa: Or How Can We Achieve Sustainable Funding for Open Access Books?

Although scholarly communications has become more open, problems with predatory and problematic publishers remain. There are commercial providers of lists, start-up/renegade Internet lists of good/bad and the researchers, publishers and assessors that try to understand and process what being on/off a list means to themselves, their careers and their institutions. Still, these problems persist and leaves many asking: where is the list? This plenary panel will discuss the problems of “predatory” publishing and what, if anything, publishers, our community and researchers can do to try and help minimise their abundancy/impact.

Chaired by Lorraine Estelle

There is No List: (How) Can We Combat “Predatory” Publishers in a Changing Scholarly Communications Landscape?

ChatGPT is convenient. This is one of the key reasons for its popularity. It does however present problems for academic integrity, with no reference to the source of information and no accreditation for authors. In this session I’m going to discuss a project combining the convenience of conversational discovery with the reliability of academic sources. Based on the ProQuest One Literature database, the assistant is using large language models to generate answers from academic literature including references to the source of information. I will discuss the goals, the details of the project and technology used, the outcomes and the lessons learned.

Between Convenience and Academic Integrity: Using Generative AI for Discovering Content

In this session, we present CORE-GPT, a novel question- answering platform that combines GPT-based language models and more than 32 million full-text open access scientific articles from CORE. We first demonstrate that GPT3.5 and GPT4 cannot be relied upon to provide references or citations for generated text. We then introduce CORE-GPT which delivers evidence-based answers to questions, along with citations and links to the cited papers, greatly increasing the trustworthiness of the answers and reducing the risk of hallucinations.

CORE-GPT: Combining Open Access research and large language models for credible, trustworthy question answering

Q&A - David Pride / Christine Stohn

Octopus.ac is a UKRI funded research publishing model, designed to promote best practice. Intended to sit alongside journals, Octopus provides a space for researcher collaboration, recording work in detail, and receiving feedback from others, allowing journals to focus on narrative. The platform removes existing barriers to publishing. It’s an entirely free, open space for researchers, without editorial and pre-publication peer review processes. The only requirement for authors is a valid ORCiD ID. Without barriers, Octopus must provide feedback mechanisms to ensure the community can self-moderate. During this session, we’ll explore Octopus’ aims to foster a collaborative environment and incentivise quality.

Creating credibility through community: Encouraging high quality publications in an environment with no barriers to publishing

Since 2015, the number of self-published learned societies in the UK has decreased by over a third, with the remaining societies experiencing real-term revenue declines. All around the world, society publishers are struggling with increased competition from commercial publishers and the rise of open access business models that reward quantity over quality. We will delve into the distinctive position of societies in research, examine the challenges confronting UK and US learned society publishers, and explore actionable steps for libraries and policymakers to support the continued relevance of learned society publishers in the evolving scholarly landscape.

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