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Thursday, February 6, 2025
From 12:00 GMT to 13:00 GMT
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United Kingdom
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About the Event
As UK and European academic libraries face critical decisions about their subscription portfolios in 2025, this webinar explores new approaches to evaluating and supporting society publishers. Drawing on recent research into the changing landscape of UK learned society publishing, published in UKSG Insights, we’ll examine how the transition to open access is affecting society publishers and explore emerging frameworks for assessing the broader value publishers of all kinds bring to the scholarly ecosystem.
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Speakers
Rob Johnson
Managing Director | Research Consulting
Rob Johnson is the Managing Director of Research Consulting, a mission-driven business which works to improve the effectiveness and impact of research and scholarly communication. He began his career with KPMG, the international professional services firm, before working in senior research management roles at the University of Nottingham. Since founding Research Consulting in 2013 he has led more than 150 projects in the field of scholarly communication and research. He is Vice Chair of UKSG, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and holds an MSc in Higher Education Management from Loughborough University.
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Helen Dobson
Licensing Portfolio Specialist | Jisc
Helen is a Licensing portfolio specialist for research content at Jisc. She leads a team working to deliver agreements that meet the requirements of UK universities, achieve savings and support the transition to open access. Helen’s background is in academic libraries and in previous roles she oversaw services providing Open Access and Research Data Management support and publishing advice.
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Shehnaz Ahmed
Director of Research and Publishing | British Association of Dermatologists
.Shehnaz Ahmed started her publishing career in India working for TERI: Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Development – India; a research organisation. She then moved to the UK where she has worked with several organisations such as the RCS, The Lancet, BSR and currently at the BAD. She has worked mainly in academic publishing in journals in the not-for-profit sector so understands the challenges and the motivations of such a landscape. She is responsible for the publishing activity and research portfolio in the BAD. She is one of the co-chairs of the ALPSP SIG in AI, a council member for SoCPC and also runs the Peer Review course for ALPSP.
Learning outcomes
- Understand current trends and challenges in society publishing
- Learn about new frameworks for evaluating publishing agreements beyond usage metrics
- Gain insight into value-based assessment approaches for library decision-making
Subject level and previous knowledge required
Introductory and non-intensive, no previous knowledge or experience required.
Session is aimed at colleagues who work in the information service profession in an academic setting and who are work with eResources and digital content provision.
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