EVENTS
UKSG heads to south coast T
he English coastal resort of Bournemouth will play host to this years’ UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition. The conference is a major event in the scholarly communications calendar and attracts more than 900 delegates each year from around the world – librarians, publishers, content providers, consultants and intermediaries. The conference, which will be had at the Bournemouth International Centre from 11 to 13 April, combines high-quality plenary presentations, lightning talks and breakout sessions with entertaining social events and a major trade exhibition, for which space is already sold out.
Presentations will include:
l Managing relationships between libraries and publishers for greater impact, by Ann Rossiter from the Society of College, National and University Libraries;
l How far has the UK got towards open access and what have been the costs and implications? by consultant Michael Jubb;
l Data diving: understanding cause and effect in reputation management, by Charlie Rapple of Kudos; and
l Collaborative partnerships to address preservation challenges at scale, by Stephanie Orphan of Portico.
UKSG’s mission is to connect the knowledge community and encourage the exchange of ideas on scholarly communication. It says it is the UK’s only organisation spanning the wide range of interests and activities across the scholarly information community of librarians,
publishers, intermediaries and technology vendors.
There will also be a drinks reception on the first day of the event, with the Conference Dinner being held on Tuesday 12th April.
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Bournemouth International Centre
R2R conference subscribes to successful event format P
lans for the Researcher to Reader Conference, which is just a couple of weeks away, are in full swing. This is the successor event to the annual conferences formerly hosted by the Association of Subscription Agents & Intermediaries (ASA). Following the dissolution of the ASA in mid 2015, the popular ASA Conference will transition into the future as the new Researcher to Reader Conference, and will continue to be the premier forum for discussion of the international scholarly content supply chain – bringing knowledge from the Researcher to the Reader.
Organisers say the conference will continue to be a regular event in London in February each year, and with the support of the academic publishing community, it will
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support provided by the ASA and its former members in enabling this transition, preserving this excellent event.
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continue to thrive in its new incarnation. The event is being managed by Mark Carden, who was the conference planning committee chairman for the ASA Conferences in 2013, 2014 and 2015, ensuring both continuity with the past and a positive momentum for the future. Our new organisation is grateful for the
The programme includes speakers and panelists such as Vitek Tracz, the founder of BioMed Central, Rick Anderson from the University of Utah, Danny Kingsley from Cambridge University, Steven Hall from IOP Publishing, and the OECD’s Toby Green. Back by popular demand is a series of discussion workshops, where delegates will get their own chance to participate in the debate. The event, which will be held at BMA House in London, is sponsored by Atypon, EBSCO, Digital Science, Springer Nature, Wiley, Ringgold, Casalini, Mosaic, Karger, ISA, Dibaj and CNA.
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