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After a successful pilot using the Open Journals System (OJS) Liverpool John Moores University launched its open journals service, managed by Library Services. From small beginnings the service is growing and expanding into the sphere of academic journals. With the increasing pressure to publish and make work open access what role can a university open journals service play in supporting that goal? 

This presentation will share my experience of setting up and managing an open journals service and how this has developed over time. It will talk about the practicalities of running such a service as well as highlight the positives and share lessons learned.

UKSG Annual Conference 2021

The accidental publisher: the highs and lows of running an open journals service single-handedly

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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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During this session you will hear from four passionate activists and Employee Resource Group leaders, who have had experience in starting up, scaling up, and leading grassroots organisations in their respective communities – at Elsevier, Wiley and Taylor & Francis. The goal of this session is to inspire and educate on the opportunities & challenges faced by ERG leaders, highlighting the importance of ERGs and what your role – whether you are an individual contributor, manager or a senior leader – can be in supporting ERGs. The topics we will cover will be: 

* The Why & importance of ERGs

* The Business Impact of ERGs

* The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of managing an ERG

* The Future of ERGs and Your Role in the ERG Movement


Driving Positive Cultural Change: The Power of an Active ERG

With the advent of responsible metrics approaches such as DORA, and their endorsement by funders such as cOAlitions S and the Wellcome Trust, there is a significant anti-journal metric backlash. Alternative ways of assessing journals are being proposed, such as TOP Factor and the Quality Open Access Market, but are yet to gain traction. This talk will explore the many ways we can evaluate a journal; whether journal citation metrics are always a bad thing; and how we might move towards a fairer assessment of the relative strengths and weaknesses of journals.

Journal metrics: what they can and can't tell us

The success or failure of the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model of open access will be decided by librarian customers. To gauge the level of support for, and understanding of, S2O among librarians, the Subscribe to Open Community of Practice (S2O CoP), undertook a survey of librarians. The S2O CoP is an unrestricted assembly of publishers, librarians, funders, agents and academics that share an interest in defining the model and exploring its value.

This session will report on the results of the survey, providing the views of librarians.

Andrea Lopez' slides here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e656TzxvqLi37v7nQJturzlLQmpAHiIl/view?usp=sharing

Uta Grothkopf' slides here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KdGbv2Uyfrkwp-Z5kAeu5aBmEEapqNhP/view?usp=sharing

Librarian attitudes to Subscribe to Open

Imposed by the Danish Ministry of Higher Education & Science, 100% of research outputs in Denmark should be publicly available starting from 2025. Like many others, University of Copenhagen (UCPH) is subject to a national OA strategy as well as Plan S becoming a reality. 

These changes impact millions of researchers, and all institutions, publishers, and funders worldwide have to take action to, on the one hand, drive change towards OA and Open Science, and on the other hand, comply with the increasingly enforced policies.

At UCPH, a bit more than 40% of research outputs are published OA today. In addition, UCPH already spends around 2 M€ per year in APCs ─ a cost that the university cannot afford to increase. The situation is faced with numerous challenges with increasing complexities of different policies from different funders, different research assessment frameworks, different publisher business models as a response, and a great deal of fragmentation due to the lack of collaboration between the stakeholders. UCPH and the Royal Danish Library have therefore partnered with ChronosHub, a platform and service provider for streamlining publication processes.

In this talk, we’ll share our experiences of solving these challenges from an institutional perspective. How did we bridge the communication between institutions, publishers, and funders, to unburden both administrators and the individual researchers? What are the effects? What have we learned? And what are the remaining challenges?

The presentation will be held by Martin Jagerhorn, Business Development Advisor, Chronos Hub; and Michael Svendsen, Head of Section for Research Support, Copenhagen University Library, Royal Danish Library.

Three actionable takeaways:

• Most universities are decentralized, which requires patience and a hands-on, stepwise roll-out to test and evolve the strategy along the way.

• It’s possible to mandate a service like Chronos Hub, but in any case, essential to drive uptake by clearly communicating benefits and incentives for the researchers, like no redundant reporting, no compliance issues, no admin for payments, etc.

• Identify and close the gaps systematically by integrating additional data sources to get closer and closer to 100% automation and 100% coverage of all articles.



Navigating the Complexities of Open Access: A Case Study from University of Copenhagen

How transitional is the Wiley–Jisc Agreement? This talk will explore the role of transitional agreements in facilitating and accelerating a transition to open access for UK research. 

Bringing together data from the first year of the Jisc–Wiley read and publish agreement with examples of transitioning journals, making changes to workflows, and publishing infrastructure in moving us towards an open sustainable research environment. This session will explore examples of the current impact and take up, discuss what this looks like in practical terms for stakeholders and review advantages and opportunities as we move to a fully OA world. 


Transitioning UK research to an open future

We outline the work of a university press, with assistance from the COPIM Project (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs), in launching an innovative revenue model to fund open access monographs at a traditional publisher. Building on library journal subscription models like OLH and on Knowledge Unlatched's approach to monograph funding, we present a new, sustainable OA publishing model that gives members exclusive access to a highly-regarded backlist, with the revenue then used to make the frontlist openly accessible. The model can be emulated by other scholarly presses who wish to take advantage of the opportunities that open access publishing affords.

A new funding model for open-access monographs: introducing a novel approach to publishing OA books through library membership funding

Where to beging with digital accessibility? It may seem overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be. We aim to equip you with the knowledge and tools to assess where you are with accessbility as well as a brief overview of the current legal landscape. We will then go over approaches you can take to improve your organisation's digital accessibility and resources to build your own skills and education, allowing you to take the demystification of digital accessibility into your own hands.

How to get started with your Accessibility Programme

The library fulfills a key role delivering those services to users in support of the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge. Here, open and reliable access to information takes center stage. Where and how then can the role of the library evolve to support research and speed the time from its creation to consumable, living knowledge? The presenter will look at researcher needs to conduct and share their work, while considering how the library – on its part – can best collect, preserve, disseminate and manage the research.

From creation to consumable knowledge: supporting research workflows in an open infrastructure

With the JISC initiative to standardise metadata supply with Plan M and the potential inclusion of metadata standards and guidance in the upcoming SUPC Framework Agreement, it is clear that there is a drive towards improving the quality of metadata. But what does this mean practically for Libraries? With fewer resources and the changed nature of the workplace following Covid 19, how can libraries maximise the benefits brought about by Plan M and improve their workflows and metadata standards?

Plan M and Everyday Life: The Practical Challenges of Metadata Supply and Use

This panel discussion will look at how organizations have been adapting their working practices and policies in the last year. Speakers will share experiences and lessons learned on topics such as remote working, flexible working, balancing staff preferences with organizational needs, and space planning. Delegates are encouraged to send questions in advance that the panel can address as part of the pre-recorded session; speakers will also be available for live Q&A during the conference.

The accidental publisher: the highs and lows of running an open journals service single-handedly

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