Carolyn Alderson, JISC Collections

Carolyn has worked in the journals information industry since 1988 when she joined the innovative Faxon Company. From there, she worked for Swets UK, participating in the transition from print to online journals and learning the ropes as a negotiator for the NESLi2 initiative. In January 2010, she joined Content Complete Ltd, negotiating for consortia NESLi2, SHEDL, IReL and global pharmaceutical companies GSK, AstraZeneca and Sanofi-aventis, along with working on a number of Jisc projects. She joined Jisc Collections in January 2010 and was until January 2015 acting Head of Licensing, with responsibilities that included leading the licensing team to deliver value for money agreements for UK members and providing consultancy for a number of overseas consortia. Currently working three days a week, Carolyn manages a number of novel licensing and development initiatives such as NHS and SME Pilots, following the Finch recommendations, plus the global SCOAP3 initiative for the UK. Carolyn is a member of the SCOAP3 governing council, was a member of the UKSG's Main Committee, and was chair of the UKSG's Education Sub-Committee from April 2012 to April 2014. She has an MBA from Warwick University. In her spare time, she enjoys studying for a Masters degree in History, time with family and friends, theatre and reading novels.

Carolyn joined Jisc Collections in 2010 from Content Complete Ltd where she had been a Content Negotiator since 2004. She has been in the serials information industry since 1988, working previously for Swets and Faxon. From August 2011 to December 2014 Carolyn was Head of Licensing with responsibilities that included leading the licensing team to deliver value for money agreements for UK members including the negotiation of pricing and license terms for Jisc Collections and SHEDL, as well as consultancy for overseas consortia. She currently manages a number of special licensing and development initiatives such as the NHS and SME Pilots, following the Finch recommendations. Carolyn is a member of the SCOAP3 governing council, was a member of the UKSG's Main Committee, and was chair of the UKSG's Education Sub-Committee from April 2012 to April 2014.

Title: Ode to data: Usage statistics, Publishing data and OA metadata. Why we need them.

Abstract:

• How assessing usage data (Access) and APC data (Publishing) of two major publishers has informed the UK academic community about the value of their content
• Developing OA publisher best practice regarding metadata that supports libraries in managing increased OA (green and gold) publishing (a Jisc activity that is now developing as a global initiative in conjunction with UKSG)

Krassimira Anguelova, Sales Director Europe, AlexanderStreet

Krassimira has over 9 years of experience in academic publishing and international sales, having managed sales and business development in all Europe, Middle East and Africa. She has extensive knowledge and experience in managing geographically disperse territory which encompasses a diverse range of professional, educational and social cultures and associated sales-generation and sales-support needs, allied with strong languages skills, as well as with relevant social and cultural awareness. Krassimira came to publishing from the library and academic sector, with 10 years of working experience as an academic librarian and information specialist, followed by 12 years as a university professor teaching academic librarianship to bachelor, master and PhD students.

Title: Does video belong in the academy? Partnership between Publishers, Libraries and Faculty in Academic Multimedia Content Generation

Abstract: Alexander Street occupies a unique space in the university library ecosystem. Where others license or publish, and then aggregate and distribute, we curate multimedia content (much of it licensed, some of it published) into discipline-specific or multidisciplinary collections and packages of collections. In most cases these collections and packages are decidedly aimed at the scholar/researcher, but many of them have a specifically learning-oriented/classroom focus. The presentation will focus on our specific licensing procedures and Open Access initiatives, where thousands of libraries and academic institutions from around the world contribute to a new innovative academic multimedia content generation.

Dr. Paul Ayris, UCL Library, UCL Press

Dr Ayris has been Director of UCL Library Services since 1997. He is also the UCL Copyright Officer. Dr Ayris was the President of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) 2010-14; he is now Advisor to the LIBER Board on EU matters. He is Co-Chair of the LERU (League of European Research Universities) Community of Chief Information Officers. He chairs the OAI Organizing Committee for the Cern Workshops on Innovations in Scholarly Communication. He is the Chair of JISC Collections’ Electronic Information Resources Working Group. On 1 August 2013, Dr Ayris also became Chief Executive of UCL Press. He is a member of the Provost and President’s Senior Management Team in UCL. He has a Ph.D. in Ecclesiastical History and publishes on English Reformation Studies.

Title: Open Access University Presses – a future model for scholarly publishing?

Abstract: This paper will look at the scholarly publishing landscape and suggest that universities can use the Open Access movement to create their own institutional University Presses. The paper will look in detail at the foundation of UCL Press, the UK’s first fully open access University Press, and draw conclusions from its first year of publishing.

Francesca Brazzarotto, Regional Sales Manager, IoP Publishing

Native Italian, multilingual
Territories: Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Eastern Europe
Experience: degree in Library economics with thesis on academic libraries, MA in Publishing, 6+ years’ experience in the publishing world, including working with commercial printed books, and digital products for Nature Publishing and Palgrave Macmillan.

Title: IOP Publishing and Open Access: Creating a Sustainable Business Model 

Abstract: After the publication of New Journal of Physics in 1998, the first major open access journal in physics, IOPP has been working side by side with the international physics and, more broadly, scientific community to create one of the fairest open access business models out there. 

In this presentation we will provide the historic background and current initiatives IOPP has been working on within the open access panorama. 

Lars Bjørnshauge, Director of European Library Relations at SPARC

Lars Bjørnshauge has a master degree in political science at Roskilde University, Denmark.

Current positions:

• SPARC Europe Director of European Library Relations and Managing Director, DOAJ (Directory of Open AccessJournals

Past positions (selection):

• Deputy Director, Acting Director, Technical Information Center of Denmark Technical University of Denmark (1992-2000)
• Director of Libraries at Lund University, Sweden (2001-2011)
• Former President of the Danish Research Library Association 1992-1994
• Former 1st Vice-President of the Swedish Library Association 2005-2011.

Founder of the Directory of Open Access Journals, co-founder of OpenDOAR, the Directory of Open Access Repositories, and co-founder of the Directory of Open Access Books.

Danish, based in Copenhagen.

Title: Open Access journals, quality, visibility and how DOAJ promotes transparency in OA journal publishing!

Abstract: The presentation will focus on the various aspect that are of importance to the quality and transparency of open access journals. The various stakeholders in scholarly communication - researchers, research managers, university management and research funders - need easy tools to judge the processes and performance of open access journals, not to forget libraries and librarians, in their role of providing advice and managing open access publishing funds.

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ - www.doaj.org) have during the last 30 months implemented much more detailed inclusion criteria for journals to be or stay listed in DOAJ. In May DOAJ removed 3.000 of the then 11.500 journals, due lack of re-application for staying listed on the part of these journals.

DOAJ is constantly - with the help of the community - reviewing the journals listed. In addition to that DOAJ is involved in activities to promote best practice in (open access) publishing and raising awareness of unethical business behaviour of questionable journals.

The presentation will give an overview of these activities, all contributing to increasing the attractivity of open access journals.

Madeleine Eve, Sales Manager, Central & Eastern Europe, Cambridge University Press

Madeleine Eve was born and raised in the city of Cambridge, United Kingdom. She graduated with a Bachelors degree in Literature from the University of Reading in 2006, and has been working with Cambridge University Press for the past 9 years, managing academic sales in the region of Central and Eastern Europe for the past 6. She is currently located in Wroclaw, Poland to be closer to her sales team that she manages and also her customers.

Title: How does Cambridge University Press actively support Hungarian researchers?

Abstract: In this presentation CUP will cover the launch of the new academic platform and the added benefits to researchers and librarians. OA strategy and policies will be explored as well as current publishing strengths from Hungarian researchers currently publishing with Cambridge. In conclusion, CUP will review how we have actively supported research in Hungary and how this support could be continued.

Jeannette Frey, vice presindent, LIBER

Born April 13, 1962 in Kirchberg, BE, Switzerland. First studied Ancient History, Archeology and Egyptology at University of Fribourg, Switzerland, then worked in the field of academic publishing at Redaction LIMC (Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae) in Basel. 1992, change to the Swiss national museum in Zurich as Head of Photographic Collection. First experiences in digitization of photographic collections in the years 1992-1998. 1998, change for heading the Federal Archive for Historic Monuments in Bern, where other projects for digitization of photographic collection take place. After 2002, works in private sector as Head of Information & Communication, studying in parallel Computer Science and Mathematics at University of Fribourg. 2004, changes to be the Head of Periodicals and Electronic Resources at BCU Lausanne. Director of BCU Lausanne since 2008. Main projects 2015: extension of the main building of the university library, implementation of new ILS for the network of libraries of canton de Vaud (100 libraries). Vice-President of LIBER, and member of the Board of EUROPEANA since 2014.

Title: LIBER's strategy supporting the roles of libraries in the open science environment

Abstract: LIBER is currently formulating its strategy for the years 2017-2022. The presentation will give insights in LIBER's vision for 2022 and the goals of the LIBER strategy. It will further describe the current strategy process, results of interviews of researchers and stakeholders, and how LIBER libraries have already and still can participate in the process. It will then focus on the changing roles of research libraries, activities that will probably be less important or disappear in the years to come, new activity fields in which research libraries should go into, and last but not least, the fields in which research libraries currently are strong and should remain strong in the future.

Claudia Heidrich, Sales Executive, Royal Society of Chemistry

Claudia Heidrich is the Sales Executive at the Royal Society of Chemistry based in Berlin, Germany and responsible for RSC’s Sales and Marketing Activities and Customers in Hungary and various other countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Claudia has more than 10 years publishing sales experience working with corporate, government and academic clients.

Title: Insight and Outlook – A Review of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Open Access Programme

Abstract: To support the transition to Open Access, the Royal Society of Chemistry introduced the Gold for Gold initiative in 2012, rewarding all institutions subscribing to RSC Gold with voucher codes to make papers available via OA, free of charge. The ‘Gold for Gold’ scheme started as a pilot for the UK only and was rolled out to universities and research institutes in the rest of the world in 2013. In 2015 more than 700 customers qualified for this project and over 10,000 voucher codes were issued. We will provide background information and figures about the usage of the vouchers and acceptance of the project. We will review if there is a traceable record of success, what effect the Gold for Gold project has on the RSC publications, if there is any measurable global impact; and finally what changes to expect in the future. With this presentation we want to support and add to the discussion around transition to Open Access, to promote Open Science and encourage further development of open access policies.

Melanie Imming, Project Manager, LIBER

As EU projects manager at LIBER Melanie is responsible for LIBER’s overall management of EU projects. Before joining LIBER in 2014, Melanie worked as a Senior Project Manager at the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) where she has led several innovative projects focused on the development of the digital library; she has also led the Sub Project Take Up team in the FP7 SCAPE Project. Melanie is experienced in dissemination, communications and translating more technical themes to the greater public. She has a background in audio-visual media, which was sparked by her experience at the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision, one of the largest memory institutions of the Netherlands. Melanie has a MA in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam.

Title: Working together towards world class research

Abstract: As part of our work to connect and represent research libraries in Europe, LIBER initiates and participates in strategic and innovative European projects. At the moment, LIBER is involved in nine EU projects, all to do with our three strategic directions: to enable open science, to lead in changings scholarship, and to shape innovative research.

Meinhard Kettler, Academic Relationship Manager - Dissertations & Theses, ProQuest

Experienced in the information industry, having worked in various roles for Swets for more than 15 years. Meinhard is interested in publishing and sales of professional and scholarly content, as well as library and research workflows.

Title: ProQuest: Dissertations, your library’s treasure

Abstract: ProQuest’s presentation outlines how best the libraries’ available holdings can be utilized. To reach its full potential, an efficient discovery tool can be used and as an innovative idea, making the local holdings visible outside of the library. One way for this is to get local content indexed in international databases. This may mean a role for the libraries in facilitating and generating new scientific content. A unique collection to think of is ProQuest’s Dissertations and Theses which contains 3.8 million dissertations, out of which 1.7 million in Full text. Institutions are welcome to contribute. Options for uploading dissertations and the streamlines will be presented as well as best practice.

Carolyn Kirby, Open Access Sales Manager, Taylor & Francis

Having graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Linguistics from the University of Sheffield, Carolyn gained several years’ experience in academic publishing before joining Taylor & Francis in 2014. Having held roles in both Regional Marketing and Open Access Sales, Carolyn has worked closely with academic libraries throughout Europe and the Middle East to advocate OA publishing. With a keen interest in open access, and the impact that this is having on scholarly communications, Carolyn works with institutions to help facilitate OA business models and support libraries in an evolving OA landscape.

Title: Open Access: the impact on the researcher, the library, and the publisher

Abstract: Publishing Open Access (OA) allows research to be read by anyone, anywhere. But how do authors understand the reach of their work, and what tools can they use to ensure it has the impact that they want it to? Libraries are increasingly playing an integral role in managing the open access research output from their institutions, and librarians are often becoming the go-to person to support those publishing OA. How are library teams adapting to these developments and rising to the challenges? What can the publisher do to support researchers in understanding the impact of their work, and librarians in having the right infrastructure to advocate OA within their institutions? This presentation will examine the changing dynamic between publisher, library and researcher, drawing on case studies from across Europe, as well as taking a look at what Taylor & Francis is doing to help facilitate the OA process.

Julita Madzio, Regional Sales Manager, Oxford University Press

Julita Madzio is a Regional Sales Manager for Eastern Europe responsible for sales of Online Resources and Journals portfolio at Oxford University Press. She started working at Oxford University Press over 15 years ago. Her first role was as an Assistant in the editorial team of the Dictionaries Department (English Language Teaching Division) where she had been involved with the Advanced Learners Dictionary and several bilingual dictionaries projects.

Currently Julita’s role gives her an opportunity of involvement with 14 countries in Eastern Europe. She regularly meets with Consortium members, Agents and most of all with Librarians at Universities and other Academic Institutions. She supports Librarians with presentations at their conferences, manages their subscriptions, informs them about new and forthcoming titles and negotiates prices. She organizes product training for librarians, students and professors and provide free trials and after sale customer support. She provides customers with technical information about access to OUP products, MARC records and terms and conditions of any annual or perpetual access subscriptions.

She has been educated as an Accountant, is bilingual (English and Polish) and lives in Oxford.

Title: Oxford Open – Oxford University Press take on Open Access

Abstract: OUP was one of the earliest publishers to incorporate Open Access. All of our journals comply with the publishing requirements of the major funding bodies in the US and UK, and we are committed to expanding access to research and increasing awareness of the OA movement among authors and readers.

OUP has been publishing OA content since 2004. Since that time, ‘gold’ OA has grown dramatically and proven effective in some disciplines. For example, Nucleic Acids Research moved from a subscription publication to an OA model in 2005 and has gone from strength to strength, earning its highest impact factor ever in 2013.

The presentation will deliver information on the latest development of Open Access from Oxford.

Nagy Zsuzsanna, director general, Corvinus University Library

Zsuzsanna Nagy studied economics but after graduation soon started work in the Library of the then Karl Marx University of Economics, now Corvinus University of Budapest as a subject librarian. She has been involved in subject indexing and thesaurus building then moved on to managing web-based information services and customized research support services. During the 2000s she was a registered expert of European ICT programmes and assisted in the evaluation of different ICT projects. In October 2011 Zsuzsanna was appointed director of Corvinus University Library. As a library director now she strongly supports open access and open science. She currently sits on the Advisory Board of the National Library and is President of the Association of Hungarian Academic Librarians.

Title: Open access and academic libraries - the Hungarian landscape

Erik-Jan Van Kleef, Vice President of Sales and Channel Management, 1sience

Erik Jan van Kleef is Vice President of Sales and Channel Management since March 2016 at 1Science a company with a complete portfolio of open access solutions for students, researchers, Librarians and policy makers, covers OA in all academic disciplines, in all languages and from the entire world.

Erik Jan van Kleef has been in the information industry for more than 22 years and had various Sales Marketing and Business Development positions. Financial, Marketing, Pharmaceutical, Academic and Scientific information are his fields of expertise. He has worked at Thomson Reuters for over 7 years, started as a Director of Sales in September 2006 and was promoted to Vice President of Sales EMEA at the IP and Science business division Prior to Thomson Reuters Erik Jan van Kleef has worked for 6 years at Wolters Kluwer Health as Regional Director for Germanic and Eastern Europe Territory covering the academic and healthcare markets. In Financial information at Bureau van Dijk for 10 years and opened Sales offices in Germany and Holland.

Erik Jan worked at Mintel as Director of Sales for EMEA covering Marketing and Product information solutions. Erik Jan studied at the VUB in Brussels with a degree in Economics and has an international Baccalaureate from the European school in Brussels. Erik Jan speaks French, German, English and Dutch and is often an invited public speaker in various countries on the new trends in the information industry. Erik Jan is a member of the Dutch and German Library Association. He is based in Brussels.

Title: Open Access Is Ready For You. Are YOU Prepared?

Abstract: An enormous quantity of Open Access articles in full text format and peer-reviewed is already available to use, but so far it seems to be ignored in our practices! We have been talking for almost 10 years on Open Access topics. However, libraries have not taken essential advantages on it. On the contrary, they have to spend even more funds for paying the article process costs (APC) and support Institutional repositories .This will change, thanks to the disruptive technology 1science has created to help libraries to take full advantage of Open Access.

• oaFindr is not only the world's largest integrated open access discovery platform, it's also the best-performing discovery tool with the highest-quality, expertly curated, openly available content. Building it was no small feat. Our deep understanding of researchers' and students' primary goal to rapidly find content that uniquely reflects their interests, led us to build a solution that helps do exactly that. oaFindr quickly approaches 20 millions Open Access, full text and peer-reviews articles (not mixed with other documents like theses, dissertations and grey literature!)
• aFindr you will quickly find all open access scholarly articles, published in peer-reviewed journals. In one place.

Sofie Wennström, Analyst at Stockholm University library

Sofie Wennström is working as an Analyst at the Department of Quality at the Stockholm University Library. She has over ten years of experience from working at one of the large academic publishers, and brings that know-how into the library to further develop Stockholm University Press into a high quality publishing service for peer-reviewed Open Access books and journals. She is also involved in teaching library and information services and scholarly communication strategies to students at basic and advanced level. Sofie is also a postgraduate student in education at Stockholm University, working on a master’s thesis about motivation and learning in higher education.

Title: Stockholm University Press – for researchers, by researchers – but what do the library publisher add?

Abstract: The rationality of the research process is about communication. The communicative practice, which is intrinsic in the research process, is facilitated via the publication process. This should also be the governing principle of a university press or library publishing program (Wennström, 2015). What is it then that we, as a library, can add to the scientific practices? What kind of services are relevant to provide?

The current scholarly communications landscape is changing on a global level towards a more open dissemination of research results and data, where sharing and reuse of scientific information is seen as a key feature for future development. The assignment of a university library is supply its users with research, by organising and providing information resources. To provide research information through Open Access seems like a given considering democratic values and that most research in Sweden is government funded. The open approach to publishing and sharing has also proven to increase dissemination and thereby citations to scientific records and bridging economical inequalities.

In order to support this, Stockholm University decided to start a fully open university press for the dissemination of peer-reviewed books and journals in 2013. The library was assigned to the task, with a demand for focus on openness, quality assessment and affordable publishing fees. The publishing platform created is designed take care of the practical part of publishing and make space for the researchers to concentrate on their expertise as writers and reviewers. The task of the publisher is thus to support, enhance and drive development to support the social nature of the science-making process and the strategic drivers for the university as a whole (Wennström, 2016). This presentation will show how Stockholm University Press is built on this foundation, and will also explain what we add to the process on different levels by collaboration and developing best practices to support the meaning-making of science.