This presentation will provide insight to IEEE's customer commitment in these challenging times as well as new directions in Open Access publishing and institutional partnerships.

IEEE Update for UKSG

Joanna Ball Chair of UKSG will officially open the 2022 conference. This will be followed by: * Greetings from NASIG, Presentation of the John Merriman Joint UKSG/NASIG Award presented by Alex Robinson from Taylor and Francis, presentation to the sponsored students and early career professionals.

Opening of the Conference

Joanna Ball Chair of UKSG will officially open the 2023 conference. This will be followed by: * Greetings from NASIG, Presentation of the John Merriman Joint UKSG/NASIG Award presented by Carolyn Kirby from Taylor and Francis, presentation to the sponsored students and early career professionals.

Q&A Session with Colleen Campbell, Max Planck Digital Library, Mac-Anthony Cobblah, University of Cape Coast and Adetoun Oyelude, University of Ibadan.

Plenary 1 Q&A

An overview of the relaunched Library Hub Cataloguing service, its benefits, utitlites, and how to access the service.

Jisc - Library hub Cataloguing service

Our break out session will build on the UKSG Insights article “The view from Salford: perspectives on scholarly communications from a research-informed university” (http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.511). Published in May 2020, this opinion piece received a significant amount of interest online and has had nearly 1500 views and downloads.

We will demonstrate the analysis model developed by Salford to evaluate transformative agreements and our framework for engaging with researchers. Financial outlay must contribute towards our goal of an open, equitable, sustainable and scholar led research environment and serve the needs of Salford, both in research terms and value for money. This interactive session will also provide other institutions the opportunity to share their experiences of assessing transformative agreements.

The session will be co delivered by Wendy Taylor (Scholarly Communications Librarian) and Helen Monagle (Electronic Resources Manager) who will discuss how our agile Collections and Research teams are working together to share knowledge and expertise and how our size and structure enables us to work flexibly and creatively.


A model approach Salford's frameworks for assessing transformative read and publish deals

Over the last 20 years or so, universities have made considerable investments in library centric discovery services. Nevertheless, for some students, especially undergraduates, discovery has become largely irrelevant. They simply log on to their learning management system to find ready prepared links to the print and electronic resources they need that week for their course or module. This is typically because the learning system is linked to a library managed reading/resource list solution. Reading/resource list solutions are essentially ‘curation’ tools. By curation I mean selecting, refining and arranging to add value. The content of a reading list is curated primarily by academics who select the best resources and list them.

The next step is helping students engage with the content. This has become increasingly important in a ‘flipped classroom’ environment where COVID has accelerated the trend to an online learning environment. We are now seeing the rise of specific solutions to better enable engagement with content. They typically encourage group ‘community’ interaction with students who are asked to analyse the content and engage with the reading itself.

This UKSG presentation will describe and analyse this important trend towards the better curation of, and engagement with content. It will encourage librarians to work more closely with university teaching and learning staff and technologists to adopt approaches and solutions that help students better engage with content which, in turn will lead to better learning outcomes

Farewell discovery, hello curation and engagement

In June 2020, cOAlition S commissioned a study to gain insights into the OA publishing landscape of journals and platforms that are free to readers and authors. A group of 10 organizations conducted the study in 2020. The research aggregated data from various activities including an online survey that gathered around 1600 exploitable responses from journal editors across the globe, a quantitative analysis of data from a range of bibliographical databases and a qualitative analysis based on literature review, interviews and focus groups. The proposed presentation will present and discuss the results of the study

Diamond Journals and platforms: challenges and opportunities for open scholarship

"The move towards a fully OA environment has moved from a theoretical conversation, to one with a deadline that those of us across Europe in particular saw at the beginning of 2021. Being faced with that deadline, the conversations about a sustainable delivery of OA have had to move from those theoretical one's focuses on challenges, opportunities and areas of development from the macro industry perspective, and now focus on the practical implications and the impact that these changes have and will continue to have on the workflows of those who are implementing the move to OA.

This session will therefore seek to focus on the details and explore what a transformative deal, one route of moving us towards a fully sustainable and engaged OA environment, looks like from the user workflow point of view. It will examine author workflow, with viewpoints from a publishing, librarian and solutions perspective. It will address topics such as author uptake and what can be done to support and increase this, work through case study examples of implementation and sustainable engagement going forward - addressing such questions as 'can we standardize transformative publishing deals?'

The goal is to make the panel interactive by asking questions of the audience as well as the panellists; therefore, getting multiple perspectives on a topic. The aim would be for participants to develop a clearer idea of the implications of transitioning to a fully OA environment, explore how to operationalize this, and see example models explored from the perspective of different stakeholder groups."

Smoothing the Path: An Examination of Managing Author Workflow in the OA transition

In the absence of funds for 'gold' open access, publishers may allow universities to share the author's accepted manuscript on a 'green' basis, with or without an embargo. The former means the work can be openly accessed typically after a period of 12-24 months. Such time gives publishers opportunity to build revenue, but creates inequalities. Firstly, there is a division between those who can afford a fee or can access a library subscription to benefit from the research and those who cannot; but there is also a divide between universities that have funds to pay publishing charges and less research-intensive institutions that have no such fund. 

This case study considers journal articles published by Edge Hill University in 2019. Originally a teacher training college, the University received taught degree-awarding powers its university title in 2006, followed by Research Degree Awarding Powers in 2008. A key finding is that embargoes mean certain kinds of research articles can be 'locked down' for longer. For instance, educational research articles were found to be held back from public access for more than twice the time when compared with health research. This divide is driven by disseminating research through publishers which make extensive use of embargoes.

As a result, the consumers of Edge Hill's education research (e.g. schools, teachers) may need to wait longer to use it. This can potentially affect their ability to use research to innovate, enhance practice, or respond to societal challenges.

Pay now or wait a year: Embargoes as a selective barrier to access)

From a cross industry perspective, drawing on her work with content and service providers to improve digital accessibility, Lettie Conrad will discuss how publishers can move beyond a view of compliance as "nice to have," to a place where accessibility is an industry standard cornerstone. Providing an overview of web accessibility protocols, content quality guidelines, and publishing standards, Conrad will review how accessibility conformance is a growing legal concern, among other factors. We have seen this with the UN SDG 4, The Americans with Disabilities Act and EU Web Accessibility Directive. Luckily, accessible publishing is not only achievable, but affordable -- with advanced technical systems and formats, such as EPUB. It has never been easier to embed accessibility standards into business-as-usual content products and workflows. This presentation will explore the current state of content accessibility standards and what steps publishers and technology providers are taking to fully embrace a truly inclusive and accessible content for all.

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Plenary 1 Q&A

Jisc - Library hub Cataloguing service

A model approach Salford's frameworks for assessing transformative read and publish deals

Opening of the Conference

Farewell discovery, hello curation and engagement

Diamond Journals and platforms: challenges and opportunities for open scholarship

Smoothing the Path: An Examination of Managing Author Workflow in the OA transition

Pay now or wait a year: Embargoes as a selective barrier to access)

Accessibility moving the (stuck) dial

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