16.00 qs9 mon sonia wilson

•Download as PPTX, PDF•

0 likes•2,274 views

UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

KB+ provides a definitive dataset for e-resources that is owned and maintained by the library community. It aims to offer a simplified and accurate picture of publishing and licensing data by integrating information from publishers, aggregators, and other sources, and verifying it through community involvement. This reduces costs and confusion compared to current practices. KB+ is managed by the E-Resources Team at the University of Stirling and involves librarians and the SHEDL Consortium.

Education Technology

KB+ - the Stirling experience
KB+ - the Stirling experience

Why? – Drivers.
• Confused picture from publishers.
– Some not aware of what they are selling us.
• Aggregators and agents not keeping pace.
• An ERM?
• Need for a definitive dataset owned and
maintained by the community.
• SHEDL

• Ability to integrate with value-add tools and
services
• Access to accurate data for UK
• Reduced costs of data management, creation
and exchange
• Partnerships
Why? - Benefits

What?
• Data from publishers.
• Checked and verified by community.
• Licence data from Elcat.

Who?
• E-Resources Team
• Librarians
• SHEDL Consortium

Where?
• User interface
• Addition of the JUSP stats
• Ability to export data
• Individual subscriptions
• Focus groups

Questions?
Sonia Wilson
Serials & E-Resources Librarian
University of Stirling
s.r.wilson@stir.ac.uk

DLT Solutions is proud to be the first and only company to provide Oracle products and services to the U.S. Communities network of participating agencies. The contract offers one-stop shopping for the full array of Oracle products including: software, hardware, Engineered Systems, cloud services and associated Oracle technical services. In addition, participating agencies work with a single DLT Solutions licensing specialist across all product areas, which simplifies and streamlines the product selection and procurement process. DLT Solutions also has the ability to transact complex migration deals, providing an easier transition.

AdvisorVault OverviewAdvisors4Advisors

Wave 9 bett 2016 cutting the cord

Think-IT

KB+_ jan_2013_compatiblelewispick67

0930 maximising the knowledge base uksg 090413_liam_earneyUKSG: connecting the knowledge community

16.00 qs9 mon damyanti patelUKSG: connecting the knowledge community

Link Resolvers, Knowledgebases and the KBART Working Group

Sherrard Ewing

In recent years, link resolver technology has become integral to ensuring successful institutional access to electronic content. The corresponding take-up of OpenURL compliance among content providers in response has resulted in a global solution to the ‘appropriate copy’ problem. However, this solution is only effective if the knowledge base behind the link resolver is up to date, accurate and comprehensive and is a factor that is often overlooked in establishing OpenURL compliance. This presentation explores the importance of OpenURL and knowledge bases to the information community as a whole and provides an overview and update of the role that the KBART (Knowledge Bases and Related Tools) working group has to play in improving knowledge base metadata. KBART, a joint initiative between NISO and UKSG, is a working group comprised of stakeholders (libraries, content providers, and knowledgebase vendors) seeking to improve the metadata supply chain to the knowledgebases that OpenURL linker resolvers depend on. The aim of this work is improved quality and consistency of metadata that knowledgebases receive from content providers, ensuring a better experience for library patrons. The first set of recommendations was announced in January of this year. Since then several content providers and knowledgebase vendors have endorsed KBART guidelines. Learn about the experiences of content providers and linking vendors that have taken up KBART Phase 1 recommendations and the working group’s plans for next phase. Discover what libraries can do to improve the metadata exchange between content vendors and the knowledgebases they use.

Playing with metadata / Gavin Willshaw, Scott Renton (University of Edinburgh)

CIGScotland

Learn about Edinburgh University Library's metadata games platform, a crowdsourcing initiative which has improved descriptive metadata and become a vital engagement tool both within and beyond the library. Hear how they have developed their games in collaboration with Tiltfactor, a Dartmouth College-based research group which explores games design for social change, and learn what they're doing with crowd-sourced data. Presented at the CIG Scotland seminar 'Somewhere over the Rainbow: our metadata online, past, present & future' (Metadata & Web 2.0 Series) at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, 5th April 2017

‘Define, Build and Test’ is only part of the story. We also have to Run it, possibly long after Build is done and the team disbanded. Service Management is desperately uncool, thanks in no small part to ITIL, but it really is important if we are to meet business needs, realise value and satisfy the users. This presentation explores the intersection between CD and ITSM and how each informs the other when it comes to Run.

What about run? Considerations for Agile/DevOps: its not over once its live

Rob England

Future-proofing library services at the Law Society of Northern Ireland

CILIP Ireland

Uof aslis feb2013finalStephen Abram

NCompass Live: Library in a Dash

Nebraska Library Commission

Banerjee, "Large Consortium Systems: Making the Library Work With Other Libra...

National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

Joseph Matthews assumptions librarians make

Joe Matthews

Facing our E-Demons: Challenges of E-Serial Management in a Large Academic Li...

University of Toronto Libraries - Information Technology Services

As electronic serials have shifted from being the exception to the norm, libraries are becoming increasingly reliant on knowledge base driven systems to help manage their electronic resource holdings. In 2011, after over a decade of managing e-serials within a local database, the University of Toronto Libraries migrated its electronic serial holdings to a fully integrated commercial e-resource management system. Now, with two years of experience under our belts, we endeavored to take stock and analyze how our library is coping with e-serial management within this new environment. How accurate are our e-journal holding statements within the ERM? How effective are we at managing e-serial title changes? How well are we tracking journal purchases that fall outside of the big package deals? Throughout this study, we have encountered many of the benefits and pitfalls of managing electronic journals within a knowledge base-driven system. While using a commercial ERM and companion MARC record service has allowed the library to present better data to users and expose previously hidden collections, there are several new challenges that we must contend with in a knowledge base environment. A common issue hindering access to our e-journals is the supply of incorrect, outdated or incomplete metadata within the data supply chain. These metadata problems have a detrimental effect on libraries, and consequently on our users, as it affects the accuracy of our e-journal holdings within our e-resource inventories. Although the study began as an internal investigation of our e-serials management practices and workflows, the results highlight the need for greater standardization within the data supply chain, better communication with publishers and knowledge base providers, and increased collaboration to improve the e-resource management process. Presenters: Marlene van Ballegooie Metadata Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries Juliya Borie Cataloguing Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries

Facing our e-demons: challenges of e-serial management in a large academic li...

NASIG

NWCSC Manchester region event

Cyber Security Partners

[Harbar] Use profile synchronisation with Identity Manager and SharePoint Server

European Collaboration Summit

(ISM310) Scholastic's Strategy to Integration as a Service

Amazon Web Services

As a global publishing house, Scholastic Corporation has brought to market titles such as Clifford the Big Red Dog and series like Harry Potter and The Hunger Games. Scholastic is in the midst of a multi-year technology transformation, which will move it out of the data center business and all-in on AWS. This session will discuss Scholastic’s DevOps model, which has allowed it to quickly deploy traditional software systems to AWS. It will also discuss how Scholastic addressed enterprise integration challenges by developing “Integration as a Service” and building parallel feeds into Amazon Redshift and other AWS data warehouse and analytics platforms.

100622 UK Disabled Peoples Council Website Event: Website Costs and Funding

Mark Walker

Challenges to Successful Technology Alignment Between Library and Campus IT

National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

Travel Technology Europe 2013 - How to Execute a Successful E-Commerce Strate...

Open Destinations

The senior team at Open Destinations held a conference session at Travel Technology Europe show in London. The session was attended by more than 50 visitors from travel companies throughout the UK and Europe, and as far as South Africa and Malaysia. The session showcased focused on the advantages, challenges and sustainability issues when publishing a B2B and B2C API, including search and availability, speed, latency, implementation, customer support and monitoring. Speakers from Open Destinations included Kevin O'Sullivan, CEO and Brian Mebourne, Senior Vice President of Technology.

Entrepreneurship & Commerce in IT - 10 - The Internet today and How to build ...

Sachintha Gunasena

This series in about the Entrepreneurial and E-Commerce opportunities and how to harness the power of Information Technology to improve or revolutionize business. This session initially discusses about: the internet today, the internet backbone, ISPs, metropolitan area exchange, network access points, intranet and extranet. Then the big topic starts! How to build an commerce site. It includes all the necessary steps to consider, plan, build, and deploy an commerce website including build e-commerce site, planning e-commerce site, in-house vs outsourcing, technologies, server technologies, merchant applications, etc.

Improving Member & Staff Engagement with Community

Higher Logic

Learn how fellow Personify users are engaging members, committees, volunteers, mentors and staff by leveraging the partnership between Higher Logic and Personify. Your colleagues from three associations will highlight how member communities, staff intranets, volunteerism, mentoring programs and the use of community engagement data is enhancing the experiences of everyone who comes in contact with their organizations. Presenters: Adam Rosenbaum – Director of Information Systems, Council for Advancement and Support of Education Jeanne Martinez – Online Services Administrator, International Legal Technology Association Liz Messner, CAE – Senior Manager - Membership, Society of Petroleum Engineers

Buying Bigger, Buying Better...Together

CILIP

NISO Webinar: Evolving Trends in Collection Development Part 2: Putting the U...National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

CTDA Services for Cultural Heritage Institutions

Greg Colati

UKSG 2024 - Demystifying AI - Evaluating future uses and limits in library co...

UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

This session will demystify (generative) AI by exploring its workings as an advanced statistical modelling tool (suitable for any level of technical knowledge). Not only will this session explain the technological underpinnings of AI, it will also address concerns and (long-term) requirements around ethical and practical usage of AI. This includes data preparation and cleaning, data ownership, and the value of data-generated - but not owned - by libraries. It will also discuss the potentials for (hypothetical) use cases of AI in collections environments and making collections data AI-ready; providing examples of AI capabilities and applications beyond chatbots.

UKSG 2024 Plenary Session 3 - There is No List: (How) Can We Combat “Predator...

UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

CATH DISHMAN, CENYU SHEN, KATHERINE STEPHAN Although scholarly communications has become more open, problems with predatory and problematic publishers remain. There are commercial providers of lists, start-up/renegade Internet lists of good/bad and the researchers, publishers and assessors that try to understand and process what being on/off a list means to themselves, their careers and their institutions. Still, these problems persist and leaves many asking: where is the list?

Similar to 16.00 qs9 mon sonia wilson

Rob England - What about Run?

AgileNZ Conference

What about run? Considerations for Agile/DevOps: its not over once its live

Rob England

Future-proofing library services at the Law Society of Northern Ireland

CILIP Ireland

Uof aslis feb2013finalStephen Abram

NCompass Live: Library in a Dash

Nebraska Library Commission

Banerjee, "Large Consortium Systems: Making the Library Work With Other Libra...

National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

Joseph Matthews assumptions librarians make

Joe Matthews

Facing our E-Demons: Challenges of E-Serial Management in a Large Academic Li...

University of Toronto Libraries - Information Technology Services

Facing our e-demons: challenges of e-serial management in a large academic li...

NASIG

NWCSC Manchester region event

Cyber Security Partners

[Harbar] Use profile synchronisation with Identity Manager and SharePoint Server

European Collaboration Summit

(ISM310) Scholastic's Strategy to Integration as a Service

Amazon Web Services

100622 UK Disabled Peoples Council Website Event: Website Costs and Funding

Mark Walker

Challenges to Successful Technology Alignment Between Library and Campus IT

National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

Travel Technology Europe 2013 - How to Execute a Successful E-Commerce Strate...

Open Destinations

Entrepreneurship & Commerce in IT - 10 - The Internet today and How to build ...

Sachintha Gunasena

Improving Member & Staff Engagement with Community

Higher Logic

Buying Bigger, Buying Better...Together

CILIP

NISO Webinar: Evolving Trends in Collection Development Part 2: Putting the U...National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

CTDA Services for Cultural Heritage Institutions

Greg Colati

Similar to 16.00 qs9 mon sonia wilson (20)

Rob England - What about Run?

What about run? Considerations for Agile/DevOps: its not over once its live

Future-proofing library services at the Law Society of Northern Ireland

Uof aslis feb2013final

NCompass Live: Library in a Dash

Banerjee, "Large Consortium Systems: Making the Library Work With Other Libra...

Joseph Matthews assumptions librarians make

Facing our E-Demons: Challenges of E-Serial Management in a Large Academic Li...

Facing our e-demons: challenges of e-serial management in a large academic li...

NWCSC Manchester region event

[Harbar] Use profile synchronisation with Identity Manager and SharePoint Server

(ISM310) Scholastic's Strategy to Integration as a Service

100622 UK Disabled Peoples Council Website Event: Website Costs and Funding

Challenges to Successful Technology Alignment Between Library and Campus IT

Travel Technology Europe 2013 - How to Execute a Successful E-Commerce Strate...

Entrepreneurship & Commerce in IT - 10 - The Internet today and How to build ...

Improving Member & Staff Engagement with Community

Buying Bigger, Buying Better...Together

NISO Webinar: Evolving Trends in Collection Development Part 2: Putting the U...

CTDA Services for Cultural Heritage Institutions

More from UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

UKSG 2024 - Demystifying AI - Evaluating future uses and limits in library co...

UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

UKSG 2024 Plenary Session 3 - There is No List: (How) Can We Combat “Predator...

UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

UKSG 2024 From algorithms to empowerment by Christina Dinh Nguyen.pdf

UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

Christina Dinh Nguyen, University of Toronto Mississauga Library In the world of digital literacies, liaison and instructional librarians are increasingly coming to terms with a new term: algorithmic literacy. No matter the liaison or instruction subjects – computer science, sociology, language and literature, chemistry, physics, economics, or other – students are grappling with assignments that demand a critical understanding, or even use, of algorithms. Over the course of this session, we’ll discuss the term ‘algorithmic literacies,’ explore how it fits into other digital literacies, and see why it as a curriculum might belong at your library. We’ll also look at some examples of practical pedagogical methods you can implement right away, depending on what types of AL lessons you want to teach, and who your patrons are. Lastly, we’ll discuss how librarians should view themselves as co-learners when working with AL skills. This session seeks to bring together participants from across the different libraries, with diverse missions/vision/mandates, to explore ways we can all benefit from teaching AL. If time permits, we may discuss how text and data librarians (functional specialists) can support the development of this curriculum.

UKSG 2024 Plenary 4 - Combining Open Access research and large language model...

UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

David Pride, The Open University In this paper, we present CORE-GPT, a novel question- answering platform that combines GPT-based language models and more than 32 million full-text open access scientific articles from CORE. We first demonstrate that GPT3.5 and GPT4 cannot be relied upon to provide references or citations for generated text. We then introduce CORE-GPT which delivers evidence-based answers to questions, along with citations and links to the cited papers, greatly increasing the trustworthiness of the answers and reducing the risk of hallucinations.

UKSG 2024 Plenary 3 - There is No List: (How) Can We Combat “Predatory” Publi...

UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

Cath Dishman, Cenyu Shen, Katherine Stephan Although scholarly communications has become more open, problems with predatory and problematic publishers remain. There are commercial providers of lists, start-up/renegade Internet lists of good/bad and the researchers, publishers and assessors that try to understand and process what being on/off a list means to themselves, their careers and their institutions. Still, these problems persist and leaves many asking: where is the list? This plenary panel will discuss the problems of “predatory” publishing and what, if anything, publishers, our community and researchers can do to try and help minimise their abundancy/impact.

UKSG 2024 Plenary 2 - Let's Talk About Green

UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

eth Montague-Hellen, Francis Crick Institute, Katie Fraser, University of Nottingham Open Access is a foundational topic in Scholarly Communications. However, when information professionals and publishers talk about its future, it is nearly always Gold open access we discuss. Green was seen as the big solution for providing access to those who couldn’t afford it. However, publishers have protested that Green destroys their business models. How true is this, and are we even all talking the same language when we talk about Green?

UKSG 2024 Plenary 2 - Are we there yet? A review of transitional agreements i...

UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

Chris Banks, Imperial College London, Caren Milloy, Jisc, Transitional agreements were developed in response to funder policy and institutional demand to constrain costs and facilitate funder compliance. They have since become the dominant model by which UK research outputs are made open access. In January 2023, Jisc instigated a critical review of TAs and the OA landscape to provide an evidence base to inform a conversation on the desired future state of research dissemination. This session will discuss the key findings of the review and its impact on a sector-wide consultation and concrete actions in the UK and beyond.

UKSG 2024 Plenary 2 - What did we Read, What did we Publish: Distilling the d...

UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

Michael Levine-Clark, University of Denver, Jason Price, SCELC Library Consortium As transformative agreements emerge as a new standard, it is critical for libraries, consortia, publishers, and vendors to have consistent and comprehensive data – yet data around publication profiles, authorship, and readership has been shown to be highly variable in availability and accuracy. Building on prior research around frameworks for assessing the combined value of open publishing and comprehensive read access that these deals provide, we will address multi-dimensional perspectives to the challenges that the industry faces with the dissemination, collection, and analysis of data about authorship, readership, and value.

UKSG 2024 Lightning 2 - How GetFTR Supports Discovery and Access of OA Content

UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

Hylke Koers, STM Solutions Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) launched in 2020 with the objective of streamlining discovery and access of scholarly content in the many tools that researchers use today, such as Dimensions, Semantic Scholar, Mendeley, and many others. It works equally well for open access content as it does for subscription-based content, providing researchers with recognizable buttons and indicators to get them to the most up-to-date version of content with minimal effort. Currently, around 30,000 OA articles are accessed every day via GetFTR links.

UKSG 2024 Lightning 2 - Advocating for data sharing: messaging frameworks for...

UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

Gareth Cole, Loughborough University, Adrian Clark, Figshare Researchers face more pressure to share their research data than ever before. Owing to a rise in funder policies and momentum towards more openness across the research landscape. Although policies for data sharing are in place, engagement work is undertaken by librarians in order to ensure repository uptake and compliance. We will discuss a particular strategy implemented at Loughborough University that involved the application of conceptual messaging frameworks to engagement activities in order to promote and encourage use of our Figshare-powered repository. We will showcase the rationale behind the adoption of messaging frameworks for library outreach and some practical examples.

UKSG 2024 Lightning 2 - All Watched Over By Machines That Love Open Research

UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

Mark Lester, Cardiff Metropolitan University This talk will outline how a completely accidental occurrence led to brand new avenues for open research advocacy and reasons for being. This advocacy has occurred within student communities such as trainee teachers, student psychologists and (especially) those soon losing access to subscription-based library content. Alongside these new forms of advocacy, these ethical example of AI use cases has begun to form a cornerstone of directly connecting the work of the library to new technology.

UKSG 2024 Lightning 1 - Responding to the UN SDG Publishers Compact – Bristol...

UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

Simon Bell, Bristol University Press The UN SDG Publishers Compact, launched in 2020, was set up to inspire action among publishers to accelerate progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, asking signatories to develop sustainable practices, act as champions and publish books and journals that will “inform, develop and inspire action in that direction”. This Lightning Talk will discuss how our new Bristol University Press Digital has been developed as part of our mission to contribute a meaningful and impactful response to this call to action as well as the global social challenges we face. Using thematic tagging to create uniquely curated themed eBook collections around the Global Social Challenges, Bristol University Press Digital responds directly to the need to provide the scholarly community access to a comprehensive range SDG focussed content while minimising time and resource at the institution end in collating content and maintaining collection relevance to rapidly evolving themes

UKSG 2024 Lightning 1 - Practical steps towards an open research culture: Bui...

UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

Jenni Adams, University of Sheffield, Ric Campbell, University of Sheffield Academic researchers are becoming increasingly aware of the need to make data and software FAIR in order to support the sharing and reuse of non-publication outputs. Currently there is still a lack of concise and practical guidance on how to achieve this in the context of specific data types and disciplines. This presentation details recent and ongoing work at the University of Sheffield to bridge this gap. It will explore the development of a FAIR resource with specialist guidance for a range of data types and will examine the planned development of this project during the period 2023-25

UKSG 2024 - Open infrastructure and standards: small bodies, big impact

UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

TASHA MELLINS-COHEN COUNTER & Mellins-Cohen Consulting, JOANNA BALL DOAJ, YVONNE CAMPFENS OA Switchboard, ADAM DER, Max Planck Digital Library Community-led organizations like DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), COUNTER (the standard for usage metrics) and OA Switchboard (information exchange for OA publications) are committed to providing reliable, not-for-profit services and standards essential for a well-functioning global research ecosystem. These organizations operate behind the scenes, with low budgets and limited staffing – no salespeople, marketing teams, travel budgets, or in-house technology support. They collaborate with one another and with bigger infrastructure bodies like Crossref and ORCID, creating the foundations on which much scholarly infrastructure relies. These organizations deliver value through open infrastructure, data and standards, and naturally services and tools have been built by commercial and not-for-profit groups that capitalize on their open, interoperable data and services – many of which you are likely to recognize and may use on a regular basis. Hear from the Directors of COUNTER, DOAJ and OA Switchboard, as well as a library leader, on the role of these organizations, the challenges they face and why support from the community is essential to their sustainability.

UKSG 2024 - Reckoning or Retreat? A Longitudinal Look at DEIA in Scholarly Co...

UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

CAMILLE LEMIEUX Springer Nature What is the current state of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the scholarly publishing community? It's time to take a thorough look at the 2023 global Workplace Equity (WE) Survey results. The C4DISC coalition conducted the WE Survey to capture perceptions, experiences, and demographics of colleagues working at publishers, associations, libraries, and many more types of organizations in the global community. Four key themes emerged from the 2023 results, which will be compared to the findings from the first WE Survey conducted in 2018. Recommendations for actions organisations can consider within their contexts will be proposed and discussed.

UKSG 2024 - You don't know what you've got till it's gone: Future directions ...

UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

Rob Johnson, Research Consulting Angela Cochran, American Society of Clinical Oncology Gaynor Redvers-Mutton, Biochemical Society Since 2015, the number of self-published learned societies in the UK has decreased by over a third, with the remaining societies experiencing real-term revenue declines. All around the world, society publishers are struggling with increased competition from commercial publishers and the rise of open access business models that reward quantity over quality. We will delve into the distinctive position of societies in research, examine the challenges confronting UK and US learned society publishers, and explore actionable steps for libraries and policymakers to support the continued relevance of learned society publishers in the evolving scholarly landscape.

UKSG 2024 - Vision, mission, passion: how UK University Presses collaborate t...

UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

Simon Bell, Clare Hooper, Katharine Horton, Ian Morgan Over the last few years we have witnessed a seismic shift in the scholarly ecosystem. Three years since outset of the COVID pandemic and the establishment UN Publishers Compact, this is discussion-led presentation will look at how four UK Universities Presses have adopted a consultative and collaborative approach on projects to support their institutional missions, engage with the wider scholarly community while building on a commitment to make a meaningful difference to society. This panel discussion will combine the perspectives of four UK based university presses, all with distinct identities and varied publishing programs drawn from humanities, arts and social sciences, yet with a shared recognition and value of the importance to collaborate and co-operate on a shared vision to support accessibility and inclusivity within the wider scholarly community and maintain a rich bibliodiversity.

UKSG - 2024 - Fostering an Open Research culture: ARU's Graduate Trainee Seco...

UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

While research support teams are generally small and specialist in nature, an increased demand of its service has been observed across the sector. This is particularly true for teaching-intensive institutions. As a pilot to expand research support across ARU library, the library graduate trainee was seconded to the research services team for a month. This dialogue between the former trainee and manager will discuss what the experience and outcomes of the secondment were from different perspectives. The conversation will also explore the exposure Library and Information Studies students have to research services throughout their degree.

UKSG 2024 - Creating credibility through community: Encouraging high quality ...

UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

TIM FELLOWS & EMILY WILD, Jisc Octopus.ac is a UKRI funded research publishing model, designed to promote best practice. Intended to sit alongside journals, Octopus provides a space for researcher collaboration, recording work in detail, and receiving feedback from others, allowing journals to focus on narrative. The platform removes existing barriers to publishing. It’s an entirely free, open space for researchers, without editorial and pre-publication peer review processes. The only requirement for authors is a valid ORCiD ID. Without barriers, Octopus must provide feedback mechanisms to ensure the community can self-moderate. During this session, we’ll explore Octopus’ aims to foster a collaborative environment and incentivise quality.

UKSG 2024 - Author Identity Metadata: Why a Small Publisher Can Address a Maj...

UKSG: connecting the knowledge community

David Parker, Publisher and Founder, Lived Places Publishing Dr. Kadian Pow, Lecturer in Sociology and Black Studies & LPP Author, Birmingham City University Natasha Edmonds, Director, Publisher and Industry Strategy, Clarivate Library patrons want to search for and locate authors by particular identity markers, such as gender identification, country of origin, sexual orientation, nature of disability, and the many intersectional points that allow an author to express a point-of-view. Artificial Intelligence, skilled web researchers, and data scientists in general struggle to achieve accuracy on single identity markers, such as gender. And what right does anybody have to affix identity metadata to an author other than the author theirselves? And what of the risks in disseminating author identity metadata in electronic distribution platforms and in library catalog systems? Can a "fully informed" author even imagine all the possible misuses of their identity metadata?

More from UKSG: connecting the knowledge community (20)