Introducing Jamboard!


whole system, then we quickly get into technical areas like PIDs, and establishing where possible standards that work across the industry – things that are essential but unfortunately are still some way away.


Has Covid changed your strategic planning?


Ian Bruno: A lot of the market that we serve is the pharma sector, which is exactly who you turn to in a pandemic, so in terms of that there is still a lot of value in our services. We are being cautious because we are still not sure the longer-term economic impact; of course we perceive that there will be some vulnerability in academic circles. We’ll do what we can to make sure people have access to the data that they need.


Alenka Prinçiç: We launched a new roadmap and an open science programme in 2019/20. In terms of what we want to achieve over the next four of five years not much has changed, but of course our priorities and some of the outcomes have changed a lot. There have also been some delays. Of course we are offering more services online, and many of our services have been strengthened - and our endeavours towards open science have been accelerated.


Phil Gooch: With respect to your earlier question about the Global South, maybe as a result of the pandemic there’s more of a desire forepeople to learn more about science and research in general; we’ve seen a lot more interest from students and researchers in Latin America and Asia- Pacific. It has made us realise that a large part of our market is going to be in these regions, and less in Europe and the UK.


Rachel Bruce: As a funder, we have been monitoring activity in terms of impacts across the innovation sector and the research sector, negotiating funds and rescue packages, looking at ways in which we can pivot our research funding, extend grant funding timelines, and trying to look collaboratively and in an agile manner across interdisciplinary research. We’ll be looking at ways in which we can continue to gather data and information, and tracking the impact on


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Organisers, delegates, presenters and moderators at CISPC had to get their heads around an impressive array of technology in order to make the event a success – none more so than during the workshop sessions on the Monday afternoon, entitled ‘Librarian Strategies in a Covid World’. The session was delivered


through the ReAttendance conferencing platform, presentations and slide


decks were uploaded via the StreamYard app, the workshop breakout rooms were delivered using Zoom – and the note-taking for the discussions was completed on a piece of technology called Jamboard. Essentially a collaborative


clipboard that can be shared between a number of operators, Jamboard allowed the CISPC 2020 moderators to attach ‘virtual post-it notes’ and


“Publishers have also realised that they are going to need to have a stronger digital transformation”


productivity of different groups researchers, and what that means in the longer term. We will also be looking at the lessons learned – in terms of the positives and negatives – of the last year.


Martin Jagerhorn: Due to Covid, a lot of people have tuned to preprint archives and I think going forward this will have a big impression. Publishers have also realised that they


are going to need to have a stronger digital transformation, and obviously move more towards open access. We are also seeing from the universities that we are working with that they are facing


other messages relating to suggestions made by their group members, which were then passed digitally to the session organiser Helen Clare. Helen was then easily able to group comments, suggestions and questions by theme – and provide an informed feedback session for delegates. The moderators agreed


that Jamboard had proved to be a simple but very useful piece of technology.


budget cuts and are no longer going to be able to pay staff too do a lot of the manual work around open access and administering article processing charges. This will be a chance to institutions to see if they can work more cost-efficiently.


Danielle Apfelbaum: As an academic librarian, on our campus the biggest impact has been the limitation in terms of access to physical materials, as well as the fact that our budget is completely frozen – for nobody knows how long, at this point! It has been tough but in terms of our


strategic planning it has allowed us to double down. The situation has brought visibility to many of the things we were already doing, such as educating our campus about open access, and openly- licensed materials. It has forced many of our faculty members and instructors to really think about how the production and dissemination of different materials impact how are able to acquire them or not acquire them. It has opened up a dialogue about things that open access has the potential to solve.


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