The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is organising a pre-conference on April 7, the day immediately preceding UKSG's 42nd Annual Conference and Exhibition at the Telford International Centre.
UKSG is a charitable organisation offering educational programs to members of the scholarly communication and knowledge communities, including librarians, researchers, funders, and publishers. Attendees of the UKSG annual conference will come together to discuss current trends and issues of interest, including new technologies, publishing ethics, accessibility, and open access models.
The theme of the SSP 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 at the pre-conference include researchers, policymakers, librarians, and academics: 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; and Marion Bolan - Head of Research Policy, Science Foundation Ireland. Ann Michael, CEO of Delta Think, Scholarly Kitchen chef, and former SSP president, will moderate.
Both the SSP pre-conference and UKSG Annual Conference will be held at the Telford International Centre in scenic Shropshire. To review a more detailed program for the preconference and to register, interested parties may visit https://customer.sspnet.org/ssp/Events/ssp/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=UKSG042019.
Those who register by March 1, 2019 will receive a 25% discount on pre-conference registration. The conference hashtag is #UKSG19.
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