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We continue to operate in an environment characterised by significant volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. A fractured global geopolitical settlement, profound environmental and climate pressures, the rapid driving forces of digital transformation, and significant social, economic and health inequalities. These pervasive challenges have been amplified through the seismic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. These are not partisan issues – they affect us all. Josh will explore the positive role that libraries can play in responding to the challenges as compassionate leaders striving towards social justice.

UKSG Annual Conference 2022

Compassionate leadership: the role of libraries in promoting social justice

## Welcome to 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics!
This year, the conference is in Mexico City. NAACL was actually already planned for Mexico City in 2021, but due to the pandemic the entire conference was moved online. This year, finally, we get to go! So it is my sincere pleasure to welcome you to Mexico City, whether in person or virtually. Having the conference in Mexico City is a good opportunity to emphasize that NAACL is our flagship conference for ACL members not only in North America but also in Central and South America, even though NAACL has been bearing “North” in its name. At this year’s conference, we have a theme to match, with a theme track on the Languages of Latin America to showcase the linguistic diversity of the region.
 
The opportunity to present at NAACL should not depend on a researcher’s travel budget, or their family status. This is why it is so important to make virtual participation at NAACL as good an experience as possible – but we want to also provide a good experience for in-person participants. As a community, we are still working out the best way to do that. This year at NAACL, we are trying out a big virtual poster session ahead of the conference, with the hope that this will make make for a lively and interactive experience. At the same time, we are reducing virtual oral presentations, which seem to be particularly tricky to make to work well. A big thanks to the NAACL program chairs and to Luciana Benotti for all their ideas and work to improve the virtual experience. And participants, virtual as well as in-person: Please let us know what worked for you and what didn’t, so we can continue to improve hybrid conferences. 
 
I have been lucky to work with many amazing people. Without their insight, dedication and patience, and without the many hours of work they put in, NAACL would not have been possible. A huge thank you to the program chairs Helena Gomez, Kevin Duh, and Steve Bethard – you are the best! 
 
Finally, I would like to thank all authors, invited speakers and panelists, area chairs and reviewers, the volunteers organizing and chairing sessions, and all attendees, in-person and virtual. Thank you for helping us make NAACL 2024 come to life. 
 
Welcome and hope you all enjoy the conference! 
Katrin Erk 
The University of Texas at Austin 
NAACL-2024 General Chair 
*You can read the full Welcome message in the [Conference Handbook (downloadable)](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H1NvW0VASQjkSCYgw3mr-3l4yYDSxz6B/view?usp=sharing)*

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NAACL 2024

2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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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. This year we are delivering Telford both in-person and digitally.

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 ESAC Initiative is open and global community of practice of librarians who are sharing their experiences and expertise in the operational aspects of open access agreements. The ESAC community also develops community resources and guidelines to empower librarians as they move into the era of open access, including the ESAC Workflow Recommendations, ESAC Transformative Agreement Registry, and most recently, the ESAC Market Watch and the ESAC Reference Guide to Transformative Agreements. The presentation will introduce how the community can learn from a number of key trends in the demographics and distribution of scholarly journal publishing in transition, and use these to better understand their position in the scholarly publishing market and make strategic considerations regarding their interactions with publishers.

What can we learn from the ESAC Market Watch?

The REF 2021 Open Access mandate was established in recognition of the benefits of OA publication and in an effort to increase the proportion of UK-funded research that is openly accessible. The REF is, however, primarily an assessment of research quality, not availability. As researchers and academics selected their best outputs for REF submission, the possibility arose that an association would be implied between openness and quality. In order to find out whether this had happened at the University of Winchester, research-active staff were invited to complete a survey measuring the likelihood that they would choose Green and Gold OA for outputs that they perceived to be of particularly high quality. The results show that there may in fact be a perception amongst Winchester academics that Open Access is more appropriate for very good outputs than for those perceived to be mediocre. The implications of this are briefly discussed.

OA the great and powerful? Exploring the link between Open Access publication and perceived output quality at a small public research university in Hampshire

COVID has impacted so many parts of our lives since early 2020. But what has been the effect on users’ journal content discovery, reading and publishing habits and what does that mean for both user experience and researcher-centric development in 2022 and beyond? How has user behaviour changed across the world and across disciplines, from the humanities and social sciences to science and medicine? In this session we’ll explore the trends and patterns seen by one global publisher and what this means for each step of the publishing workflow, from online search to reading to publishing your research.

Publishing through a pandemic: how has COVID affected how we discover, read and publish research?

Licence agreements for online content can be bewildering and risky if you don't have legal knowledge or training, but there are certain key elements that any good licence should include. This talk will help you find your way around licences by giving a rundown of the top ten clauses, where to find them, and what to do if they’re not there.

10 things to look for in a licence

Adam Matthew digitises archival collections, making these available for researchers worldwide. Adam Matthew acknowledges that archival records are not neutral and the same goes for primary source databases. Just as archives are critically evaluating archival silences and hidden voices and considering methodologies for improving access to diverse voices, so too is Adam Matthew. This lightening session outlines the ways in which Adam Matthew has appraised its editorial processes, analysing every step from content discovery to post publication support. It will describe efforts made to contextualise archival gaps and silences through commissioned content, and to amplify marginalised voices through enhanced metadata.

Amplify what is hidden, acknowledge what has been erased: addressing silences in primary source databases

In scholarly publishing, there is a long-tail of small, open access, peer-reviewed journals. Many sadlyy are not archived in a long-term digital preservation scheme, and so something needs to be done to prevent these journals from vanishing from the internet. A team of organisations have come together to find a solution that will decrease the number of unarchived journals. This is project JASPER.

The first phase (now ongoing) is a pilot to check if journals indexed in DOAJ will engage with archiving services when prompted to do so and with the offer of help. DOAJ acts as a conduit for the journals and a single point of contact for participating preservation services (initially CLOCKSS, Internet Archive, and PKP-PN). Preserved content then appears in the Keepers Registry.

In phase two we will expand to support more journals and to involve more preservation services in hope that the content will be preserved by at least three services, in line with best practice.

The lightning talk will focus on lessons learned and next steps.


JASPER: preserving diamond Open Access journals

Phil will talk about the development of the N8+ project, its potential to reset the power balance between universities and publishers worldwide, and the role it could play in the development of "collective collections". He will argue, more broadly, that the best hope for progress in our work tends to come not from big ideas but from small, specific, concrete advances.

N8+ and collective collections: what’s the little idea?

Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) is a developing practice which allows libraries to lend a digital copy of a physical resource in a "lend like print" manner. Ex Libris has a vision of integrating CDL capabilities within our products to help librarians serve their users in the most modern and adaptive way possible.

Ex Libris has already taken steps to support libraries by providing CDL capabilities within Alma Digital, with more planned in the fields of reserves management, general circulation, and resource sharing. Judith Fraenkel, Director of Product Management will take you through these plans, and more, in this session.

Looking to the future: CDL and library solutions

During this session we will seek to explore how libraries can move towards a more strategic way of thinking about investing in Open Science Infrastructures moving away from short-term commitments to mid to longer term ones by referring to countries who have changed their funding strategies in favour of OS infrastructure. What strategies are being applied on both national and institutional levels, why and how? A panel discussion will hear from library consortial and national approaches as to why they changed their funding strategies to include OS infrastructure, which we hope will give others the confidence to do the same.

From speed dating to long-term relationships: strategiesfor including support for Open Science Infrastructures into
library budgets

The Open Access (OA) policy landscape is shifting - funder policies are beginning to include OA for books. This is uncharted territory for most publishers and academics, and those at the nexus of publishing OA books require support. 

This interactive workshop will consider current developments in this area and provide an outline of the key findings of our work. We will invite feedback from attendees to inform understanding of the requirements and challenges faced by the academic community. 

In order to provide this support, we have carried out research looking at academics’ opinions concerning publishing OA books and have identified key pain points experienced when dealing with OA book policies.

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