ALPSP UKSG Joint Event: Shifting Power Centres in Scholarly Communications: Implications and future roles for libraries and publishers

Overview

The pace of change in our sector has accelerated – and that change has also become more wide-reaching. We are moving beyond the “fall out” from the digital revolution – and its implications for user behaviors, customer expectations, product formats and business models – into a much bigger shift, where established roles and accepted models are being questioned. Boundaries are blurring, with funders and universities taking greater ownership of how research is communicated, and publishers and libraries exploring new areas in which they can provide services and support. Where does all of this change leave researchers – are they already realising new benefits, or are they suffering from having one foot in the old world and one in the new? What will happen next, and how should scholarly publishers and librarians prepare?

This year’s One-Day Conference/Seminar is a partnership between UKSG and ALPSP, two organizations uniquely placed to understand and address the scholarly communications’ community’s needs and concerns in this rapidly evolving ecosystem. The event promises strategic insight, practical takeaways and robust discussion among research funders, academics, librarians and publishers.

Confirmed speakers already include:

• Chair: Andrew Barker, Liverpool John Moores University
• Beth Montague-Hellen, Senior Research Librarian at the University of Nottingham, on future roles for libraries
• Regina Everitt, Director of Library and Learning Services at the University of East London, on future roles for libraries
• Dr. Max Haring, Project Manager – University Journals at University of Amsterdam, on universities collaborating to create their own publishing platform
• Dr. Jocelyn Leblanc, Association of Medical Research Charities on the Funder perspective on owning OA platforms
• Ian Mulvany, Sage Publishing, on how publishers are adapting to the shifting scholarly impact landscape
• Cathal McCauley, Maynooth University on the European perspective
• Dr. Alicia Wise, Director, Information Power, on the Society Publishers Accelerating Open access and Plan S (SPA-OPS) project
• Susie Winter, Springer Nature on Transformative journals – a publisher perspective
• Anne Powell, INASP on voices from the global south (other guest speaker tbc)
• Dr Gautam Dey, Marie Curie Fellow, MRC/UCL Lab for Molecular Cell Bio, with an early-career researcher’s perspective
• Wayne Sime, Chief Executive of ALPSP

Booking and registration

Members (UKSG and ALPSP) £190.00 + VAT per person
Non-Member £240.00 + VAT per person