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UKRI’s policy statement mandating OA monographs will be implemented on January 1st, 2024. In less than a year we will see a shift from a hypothetical future for OA books to a concrete policy with a hard deadline. How will the sector get there successfully and sustainably? This session will discuss what is needed from libraries, publishers, policy-makers and research funders in order to meet the imminent OA monograph mandates not only from UKRI but also, in Europe, cOAlition S and the PALOMERA project’s ambitious alignment of OA book policies. In the UK there are also potential implications of the next REF.

UKSG Annual Conference 2023

Mandates, policies, and collaboration for the success of Open Access monographs

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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.

In the UK, the increase in transitional agreements (TAs) has prompted us to ask new questions about how we measure the impact of the transition to OA, the performance of agreements, and the metrics we need. With COUNTER usage reports, we expect to see a shift in interest to global usage for individual research outputs. In this presentation, we cover: • Drivers, opportunities and challenges in open access usage reporting for libraries and consortia such as Jisc • Roles of publisher and institutional repository usage statistics • How COUNTER 5.1 supports this work • Next steps, lessons learned and the practical takeaways

A new role for COUNTER usage data in open access agreements

With the growth of E-Books and online learning platforms, more data is generated by Libraries every day. We want to start a discussion that increases awareness and knowledge of the varied kinds of data that libraries and users are generating and uncover the benefits and the harms that unregulated, unknown, data processing can lead to. This is an opportunity to develop cross-sector knowledge about publisher/supplier requirements whilst also learning how to prioritise data security and protection for our users. The generation of data has largely been taken for granted and as a sector we have failed to engage critically with the implications of large-scale sets of non-GDPR data and how this can affect the adoption of learning resources. We are concerned that information about our users and their activities are being increasingly used in ways that disadvantage Libraries and want to expand our collective knowledge to ensure that we are not being taken advantage of. This session seeks to bring together participants from across the sector to explore ways we can all benefit from data use.

#dataSOS: What's going on with Library data & what can we do about it?

Early Career Researchers in science and social sciences are both the senior researchers of the future but as doctoral candidates and post-doctoral researchers are responsible for a significant part of the actual work represented in the ever-increasing number of scientific research outputs. As part of a team from 2016- 2021 across eight countries we researched the findings from questions to the same cohort of ECRs over this period. This both included the millennial attitudes and practices of the cohorts plus also the impact of the pandemic on their behaviour. This session shall concentrate on our findings in particular from UK and US ECRs, highlighting the elements of most relevance interest to publishers and librarians

Early career scientists. Their attitudes to and practices in scholarly communication and the impact of the pandemic on them.

Indigenous or traditional knowledge (IK) holders face a lack of respect and appreciation for such knowledge. Respect for culture means following protocols, accepting diversity, and recognizing indigenous cultures as living and continuously evolving. This article advances understandings to allow libraries, archives and museums to respect, affirm, and recognize indigenous ownership of traditional and living indigenous knowledges and respect protocols for their use. Preserving IK in academic libraries, using new technologies and how to respect indigenous culture in the preservation process will be explored. Intellectual property rights of knowledge holders, respect for the rights and adopted procedures will be described, with IK preservation activities assessed. Recommendations for more efficiently handling IK preservation as respect for culture are made.

Indigenous Knowledge Preservation as a sign of respect for culture: Concerns of libraries, archives and museums

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

This Talk will update UKSG on the establishment of a new Association for UK-based institutional publishers (‘new’ university presses, library-led publishing ventures etc) who are either fully or partly open access. We will set out why the Association is being set up, its aims and next steps in its development. Institutional publishers face specific challenges and coming together will ensure the success and continued growth of this fast-emerging new sector within scholarly publishing. We will invite input from attendees about what is needed in this space and look to raise awareness amongst those who might find membership beneficial in developing their own publishing ventures.

Open Publishing UK: Introducing a New Community of Practice

As a member of the Scholarly Publications and Research Data team, I have worked collaboratively with colleagues in Research and Learning Support to integrate key concepts and information about developments within Open Research into an online Academic Library Skills course. I will speak about my experience of working on this project, which sits at the intersection of information literacy instruction and scholarly communications, bringing together aspects of librarianship which often remain distinct. The themes of the intersection of information literacy instruction and scholarly communications and collaborative working across teams are what I will focus on during this lightning talk

Guiding students through a shifting landscape: integrating Open Research topics into information literacy training at the University of Strathclyde

This lecture will examine how Black and minority ethnic staff and students remain marginalised in higher education. It will provide statistical data on the inequalities experienced by staff and students, followed by empirical research on Black and minority ethnic academics in UK and US higher education. By drawing on empirical research, the lecture will also explore how processes of whiteness and white privilege work to perpetuate the white space of higher education. The lecture will conclude by examining possible ways forward for higher education to engage with a socially just agenda for the inclusion of all groups.

Black and Minority Ethnic experiences in higher education: social justice, inclusion and white privilege

There is more content and more ways to access content than ever before, but the way disciplines are taught, and knowledge is held is not neutral. We need to reconnect, reorder and reclaim knowledges and teaching methodologies that have been submerged, hidden or marginalised. In this lightning talk, we explore ways to curate literature that reflects the global majority, while recognising that leading franchises are still dominated by senior, white, male academics. What role can digital publishing play in showcasing the voices of marginalised academics? Where can multimedia and simulations highlight relevancy for all those who want to engage?

The Role of Digital Publishing in Inclusive Practice

ROR, the Research Organization Registry, does for organizations what ORCIDs do for scholars and DOIs do for research outputs: it identifies unique entities in an open, standard, and machine-readable way. Many repository and publishing systems allow the authors of articles and other research outputs to enter their university affiliations and funders as text strings, which makes for very messy data even within systems, let alone between systems. By producing clean, consistent affiliation information, ROR IDs can not only make it easier for universities and research institutes to track their impact in the context of the Research Excellence Framework, but can also create greater interoperability between and better affiliation searches within all manner of discovery systems. In this lightning talk, Amanda French, Technical Community Manager for ROR, will go over the value proposition of ROR; describe the initiative's history, governance, and plans; explain ROR's community-driven metadata curation process; and highlight some key implementations of ROR.

Mandates, policies, and collaboration for the success of Open Access monographs

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