Back at the cottage I'm staying in until Friday after a fab #UKSG2025 @uksg.bsky.social. Enjoyed talking with @msiowaintheuk.bsky.social and dancing night away with @oipassoc.bsky.social colleagues and others. Tired now and my knees hurt 😂
Really good point from @emmayhnell.bsky.social about better training needed for academics to communicate their research well - and more motivation / reward needed for reaching broader audiences #uksg2025
@emmayhnell.bsky.social talking about her research in Huntington’s disease and patients not able to understand the literature on their condition - science needs to be more understandable (this is why we founded @growkudos.bsky.social - science needs stories!) #uksg2025
Andrew Barker compares open access to Harold Wilson - “a moral crusade or nothing”. But we’ve got bogged down in complex definitions and compliance. We need to get back to the original goals of connecting the public with research. #uksg2025
Philippa - providing support and a collective voice for members including training, webinars and knowledge sharing #UKSG2025
Philippa - launched in 2023 includes new university presses, library publishers, open journal services etc - also have a diversity of models but we have shared principles #UKSG2025
Paula - takeaways - find ways to support these collective funding models, considered assessment criteria, if you cant support financially can you help to promote this, showcase achievements from these models, build collaboration with nonprofit publishers and researchers #UKSG2025
Paula - benefits for publishers include diversity of income streams - attracting external funding helps to show viability of the Presses to their host institutions #UKSG2025
Paula - Open Book Collective - Uni of London joined in 2024 - funding is flexible - commissioned new books, hire a fixed-term editorial assistant, partnership with Thoth #UKSG2025
Paula - Uni of London have been able to publish a number of books and also used funding to support ECRs and for promotion #UKSG2025
Paula - Jisc open access community framework - enabled publication of 36 new books, supported several diamond journals. Uni of London Press where part of this scheme #UKSG2025
Paula - libraries and publishers are already working together in new ways through various initiatives #UKSG2025
Paula Kennedy from University of London Press talking about the publisher role in open access publishing #UKSG2025
Rosie - takeaways - rebalancing time spent on starting new initiatives vs joining and sustaining, embrace the messiness of culture, consistency across spending, policy, training and services #UKSG2025
Rosie - moving away from messages of compliance, which can obscure the complexities of the decisions researchers are making #UKSG2025
Rosie - benefits to working with other teams to get those messages across as part of what other teams are doing - can then reach people who maybe wouldn't come to a "libray" session #UKSG2025
Rosie Higham - talking about research culture. Embedding open - we need to be part of the wider research culture, look at what others are doing and see how we can embed open research within that #UKSG2025
Sarah - how to do this - bring together the decision making around open content and pay walled content, improve knowledge of open access in other library teams (like liaison team), talk openly about choices, issues and complexities with academic communities #UKSG2025
Sarah - not an easy decision and was difficult conversation with academic community but having developed the principles has helped. #UKSG2025
Sarah - big budget reduction made it difficult to embody the principles - so haven't been able to grow the investment in open options but have been able to maintain what they were already supporting. But have cut other things - have come out of a number of TAs (big spend area) #UKSG2025
Sarah - developed a checklist for deciding how to decide what to support - then wondered if they were doing this more with this type of scheme rather than the more traditional service - so drew up a set of principles that apply to all things they are considering purchasing #UKSG2025
Sarah - been making deliberate choices to support open access infrastructure, OA books as well as journals. Making an effort continue to suppport these service in a time of budget cuts #UKSG2025
Sarah - incentivise open research in an attempt to create a community of practice #UKSG2025
Sarah - engaging with open research as a library has enabled us to have more interesting conversations across the university - opportunities to talk to senior leaders and researchers #UKSG2025
Sarah - library re-affirmed their commitment to open, open research and open access publishing #UKSG2025
Sarah - research intensive but also heavy focus on teaching so there are lots of pulls on finances in terms of purchasing #UKSG2025
Sarah Thompson from York Uni talking about the purchasing strategies and open research #UKSG2025
Scottish University Press - have expanded the offer to all universities in the UK and finalising a textbook publishing plan #UKSG2025
Final breakout with my OIPA colleagues - Phillipa covering for Gillian for the first speaker. Call for action - be a bit noisier about all the work we are doing #UKSGG2025
