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Event report


Rising to the challenge


Delivering the open research agenda was the theme of the CISPC2019 conference


Librarians, researchers, funders, publishers and other vendors came together in a spirit of cooperation for the third CISPC meeting in November. CISPC 2019 (Challenges in the Scholarly Publishing Cycle) was organised by Research Information in partnership with Info International, with the aim of providing librarians and information professionals with an invaluable insight into best practice for delivering the open research agenda.


With funders placing an increasing emphasis on open research, librarians are faced with the challenge of changing entrenched practices among researchers – particularly around the submission stage. The one-day event, held at London


Art House in the London Borough of Islington, brought together speakers from around the world who have addressed this challenge head-on, and who shared their experiences and expertise with fellow scholarly communication professionals. The theme of the conference was decided after the formation of a reader panel, an online survey and a series of telephone interviews with respondents. We asked them to describe their day-to- day duties and responsibilities, and to outline key areas where they were facing challenges. There were many areas for discussion,


but a constant theme – mentioned by all – was the relatively recent need to adopt and encourage new ways of working around the dissemination of research as we move towards the open research era. The discussions were also responsible


for the launch of a new column in Research Information, Open Book, in which a series of librarians write about their experiences in this area.


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A view from the funders Delegates were expecting a presentation from Rachel Bruce, head of open research at UK Research and Innovation (better known as UKRI), which is the UK government body that directs research and innovation funding. Unfortunately, because a general election had been called in the UK, Rachel was not allowed to report, predict or pass opinion on UKRI policy, so was forced to cancel. However, there was another superb


keynote, entitled Supporting the Shift to Open Research: views from a research funder and a scholarly publisher, from David Carr, programme manager for open research at The Wellcome Trust, and Liz Allen, director of strategic initiatives at F1000. Researchers are increasingly required and able to share their findings rapidly, openly and fully to support access, use and re-use. The transition to open and collaborative ways of working requires shifts in technology to be accompanied


“We want as many bright minds as possible to have access to that research”


by changes in behaviours and in the ways the research community works together. The keynote covered: the rationale and key drivers for open research from both a funder and a scholarly publisher perspective; examples of how funders and scholarly publishers can facilitate the transition to open research; and will reflect on the challenges and opportunities that remain in this transition and how this impacts on institutions and their librarians. Carr opened by outlining why open


research is important to Wellcome: he said it was fundamental to the organisation that the outputs of the research it funds are able to be accessed in ways that allow the research to benefit the widest audience: ‘We want as many bright minds


as possible, all around the world, to have access to that research, and to do good things with it and to amplify the benefit of the research that we support. ‘Wellcome has been a strong and passionate advocate of open research and we have strong and long-standing expectations of those we fund. We believe this policy will help to accelerate discovery and bring the widest possible benefits for health and for the wider society.’


Carr described how Wellcome is fully aligned with cOAlitionS and Plan S, and talked about the organisation’s plans to work with learned societies in coming months and years to help them meet the requirements of Plan S. Another priority is to support innovation in publishing technology around open research, of which a particular part is an ongoing partnership with its publishing partner F1000. He said the partnership could lead to a ‘game- changing model’ that would be made available to funded researchers to enable an open publishing system. F1000’s Liz Allen talked around the


concept of evolving research, and the fact that funding policies and other pressures are leading to new ways of working across scholarly communications, from laboratories to libraries to publishing houses.


She described how a formerly


fragmented system is changing – partly through ‘pulls, pushes and policies’ but also because of technology developments; the involvement of the library community is crucial in both, Allen said: ‘Things are happening, and the context in which we do research – and how it is being shared – is changing massively.’ Allen described how the range of


places where research is published has expanded way past the traditional journal/ monograph model. Preprint severs and repositories have


increased in importance hugely, and it important that the industry maintains and strengthens links between its many parts to ensure the proliferation of open


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