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Publication by publication, university libraries are pivotal to making open access (OA) happen. They are hubs of expertise within their institutions, managing repositories and gold OA funds and offering untiring advocacy and training. However, libraries are service providers. Their researcher clients may not be as immersed in the web of OA options and policy and tools, but librarians have to serve their scholarly communications enterprise, not vice versa. OA cannot flourish as a crusade just of libraries. 

This paper uses UKRI’s 2020 policy consultation as a lens to examine the relationship between library and research communities in a Russell Group university choosing between future OA trajectories. The choice to take a researcher-led approach revealed the current reality of OA in the institution. Few academic authors can avoid OA altogether now, but many still limit their attention to overcoming local obstacles to publishing specific outputs. How to distil legitimate and coherent feedback when researcher voices diverge, or manifest surface-level or one-sided engagement with a tangle of intricate challenges? What agency should opinions of library staff exert in this process? Should our institution lead or follow, and who decides?

UKSG Annual Conference 2021

Who speaks for the University on open access?

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The UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition 2021 will be held online for the first time. The event is a major event in the scholarly communications calendar which attracts a large number of 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 virtual social events and a major online trade exhibition.



 UKSG Annual Conference is a major event in the scholarly communications calendar which attracts a large number of delegates each year from around the world - librarians, publishers, content providers, consultants and intermediaries. 

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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

Transitional deals have changed the way academic libraries manage their subscription and open access processes, budgets, communications, as well as how they make decisions on big deals. At the University of Liverpool, the Open Access and Subscriptions teams are working in a new way to manage all aspects of transitional deals. 

Our presentation will share our approach to evaluating deals, including an outline of a set of principles that has been developed to guide our evaluation and decision-making processes. We will also share how we communicate about deals internally to the library and externally to researchers, and how we manage them financially between two traditionally separate budgets as 'read' fees decrease and 'publish' fees increase. The presentation will include template examples of documentation developed in-house to support newly developed processes as we transition to this new and collaborative way of working.

Evaluation and Collaboration: Moving to a new decision-making approach in the transitional deals landscape

This presentation revolves around the Bibsam Consortiums work in improving the transformative agreements.

It will cover the topics of author journeys, administration agreements, Open access uptake, and future price models.

Working with transformative agreements at the Bibsam Consortia

Overview of CONNECT, a free Identity Management Service for the industry that's designed to reduce anonymous site traffic and make users more inclined to engage with publishers and societies, for a stronger and more valuable scholarly community.

How Simplifying a Site's User Registration and Login Delivers More 'Known' Visitors

Following on from the UKSG webinar, The importance and use of digital primary sources in teaching and research, an overview of the Wiley Digital Archive programme and platform.

Wiley - Peter Foster Wiley Digital Archives

At Taylor & Francis, we want an open and equitable research communications ecosystem which protects, amplifies, and democratizes trusted knowledge. We believe open research is the most efficient and impactful way to advance research and share knowledge that enriches lives. In order to achieve this vision, we are challenging thinking about publishing and exploring how it might work differently. In this presentation we present two recently launched initiatives that really shift the boundaries of book publishing: Open Books Data Sharing Policy and Open Plus Books.

Taylor&Francis - Challenging thinking in book publishing

A brief over view of how the British Library and the On Demand service have worked throughout the Covid pandemic and a glimpse at the Library's future plans and an opportunity for more collaborative work.

British Library On Demand

This is a brief presentation of user reactions via surveys, case study, and usage patterns to the integration of book and reference content with journal and other serial content on ScienceDirect in the form of Topic Pages.

Elsevier - Get Up to Speed and Stay Up to Date: user responses to discovery via diverse content in ScienceDirect

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

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