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In 2005, Brougham Castle Bridge in Cumbria, UK, suffered significant storm flood damage and partially collapsed. Cumbria County Council paid a UK structural design firm £1.15 million to conduct repairs, and in 2019 the paper of its renovation was published. Unfortunately, academics who wish to write about real-world impact will find systemic barriers to themselves publishing in a journal that prominently features practitioners, leading them to often do so ‘off-the-books’. What is the future post-UKRI ‘Pathways to Impact’? This talk identifies the challenges that practice-oriented journals face in a metric-driven research environment.

UKSG Annual Conference 2021

Castles, airports and indexes: impact beyond impact factor

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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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Lightning Talks B: Yvonne Campfens, Charles Watkinson & Joanne Fitzpatrick

Closing Session

Advancing open data: implementing an Open and FAIR data sharing policy

Wider access to academic research is recognised as a benefit of open access but what does that mean for the public? With an increasingly educated population, more people want access to reliable information.

In 2019, the library research support teams at the University of the West of England and University of Bristol, delivered a public engagement event at a public library. This aimed to showcase the tools available to access academic research outputs and provide guidance on how to appraise the information found.

This talk will explore the feedback received and next steps in response to Covid 19.


Engaging the public in academic research – what has open access done for the wider community?

OA Switchboard - A mission-driven practical solution, that thrives on collaboration

Open Access Books: How to Find, Acquire, and Use Them

Lancaster University’s Research Intelligence service launched in early 2019, and has gone from strength to strength, allowing opportunity to collect a staff award along the way. Joanne will detail the organic approach that was taken towards service design, how engagement from the research community was cultivated and relationships built and managed. She will share how this translated into bibliometric services, the analyses and reports that currently serve researchers at Lancaster University, and how the service will pro-actively plan for the future.

Charismetrics: winning researcher hearts and minds with the Research Intelligence service at Lancaster University

Lightning Talks A

In early 2020 Universities UK and Jisc established a new high level negotiation strategy group to oversee UK universities negotiations with major publishers. This presentation will provide an update on the context for the group and its objectives. It will then provide an overview of the progress that has been made in negotiations with publishers in 2020, before looking to the priorities for the group in 2021 and beyond.

Castles, airports and indexes: impact beyond impact factor

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