18 January 2018
UKSG is excited to be working with the Society for Scholarly Publishing to host a pre-conference at UKSG 2019 in Telford. SSP is organising the pre-conference for Sunday 7 April. Both the SSP pre-conference and UKSG Annual Conference will be held at the Telford International Centre.
The theme of the pre-conference is ‘We're Not Who We Used to Be’: Shifting Relationship Dynamics and Imbalances in an Open Access World. With representation from publishers, libraries, funders, intermediaries and the author-researcher community itself, the pre-conference will provide analysis and case studies of changing roles and interrelationships across the scholarly community in the face of shifting OA business models.
Speakers include:
- Rob Johnson, Director, Research Consulting Limited
- Jess Wade, Researcher, Imperial College London
- Rachel Frick, Executive Director, OCLC Research Library Partnership
- Rachael Lammey, Head of Community Outreach, CrossRef
- Matthijs van Otegem, Erasmus University, Rotterdam and Chair of Open Access Working Group, LIBER
- Marion Bolan, Head of Research Policy, Science Foundation Ireland
Ann Michael, CEO of Delta Think and former SSP president, will moderate.
More details are available on the SSP website, and registration is open with a 25% discount for registrations made before 1 March 2019.