Speaking from UKSG 2015, I share the results of applying institutional publications records with data from partners Cottage Labs, Sherpa, DOAJ, CORE and AltMetrics in support of open access service requirements at Brunel University London and King’s College London.
The presentation was broadcast live over the internet on 30/3/2015 at 17:00.
The video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEkc-oEwv_0
The video is also available from https://tv.theiet.org/?home (go to 'Partners/UKSG2015)
The presentation can also be found on SlideShare at http://www.slideshare.net/Dav1dW/presentation-5-46928488
The presentation program can be found at http://www.uksg.org/sites/uksg.org/files/UKSG%2036pg%20Conference%20Programme%202015_AW_lo-res.pdf
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An overview:
UKSG is an organisation spanning a wide range of interests and activities across the scholarly information community of librarians, publishers, intermediaries and technology vendors. In the past they were heavily focused on serials but today are continually expanding to support the new emerging framework of scholarly communication. As well as a one-day conference, forum and many other courses and webinars made available for the information community, they annually host their main conference up and down the UK - this year in Glasgow. Brunel has institutional membership with UKSG.It's a great opportunity to share practice and experience with colleagues from different institutions experiencing the same turbulent change. It's also a great chance to catch up with old faces.
Brunel was well represented this year by with myself and Ola in attendance. With different areas of focus we were able to cover the vast majority of sessions on offer. There was a very heavy focus in the plenary and breakout talks on open access, RDM and new innovative outputs and platforms from the publishing world.
I presented a lightning talk on the work being done in administering and developing our open access services, which was a great chance to promote the good work being done by Brunel. It sparked lots of interesting conversations with like minded delegates. I expect these new contacts to be helpful to us as our services mature and develop. A recording of my presentation was made and it's available at the link here if you would like to see it.
Given the rapid pace of change it's vital for research library communities to connect in this format in order to meet the challenges efficiently and head on! UKSG provides an excellent platform for this.
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Odd bits:Please find below a few photos and other odd bits from the conference:
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| Being interviewed by IET TV |
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| Merchant Square in Glasgow City Centre |
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| Scottish band with Scottish Highland dancing,,, of course! |
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| Lombard plenary main stage |
