Abstract
The UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition is a major event in the scholarly communications calendar and attracts over 900 delegates each year from around the world - librarians, publishers, content providers, consultants and intermediaries. The conference combines high-quality plenary presentations, lightning talks and breakout sessions with entertaining social events and a major trade exhibition. UKSG looks forward with eager anticipation to its return to the Bournemouth International Centre for the 2016 conference. Explore what Bournemouth has to offer.
Tuesday 12 April
08.30 – Registration, Purbeck Foyer
Plenary Session 2: User Experience, Tregonwell Hall, Chair: Jill Taylor-Roe, Newcastle University
09.00 - Ethnographic approaches to the practices of scholarly communication: tackling the mess of academia, Donna Lanclos, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
09.30 - Open Music Library: a community-curated open index of the world’s scholarly music resources, André Avorio, Alexander Street
10.00 - Engaging students, shaping services: the changing face of student engagement at The Hive, Sarah Pittaway, University of Worcester
10.30 - Refreshments and exhibition viewing, Purbeck Hall
11.00 Breakout sessions (Group A), BIC breakout rooms
Lightning Talks Session 2, Tregonwell Hall, Chair: Jane Harvell, University of Sussex
12.00 - 4. Measuring the impact on research of Jisc’s investment in digital content for the Humanities, Zoë Loveland, ProQuest, Paola Marchionni, Jisc
12.10 - 5. Transforming libraries in Myanmar: the EIFL eLibrary Myanmar project, Myat Sann Nyein, Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL)
12.20 - 6. Principles for doing business responsibly in developing countries, Anne Powell, INASP
12.30 - UKSG Annual General Meeting, Tregonwell Hall
13.00 - Lunch and exhibition viewing, Purbeck Hall
14.30 - Breakout sessions (Group B), BIC breakout rooms
15.30 - Refreshments and exhibition viewing, Purbeck Hall
16.00 - Breakout sessions (Group D), BIC breakout rooms
Lightning Talks Session 3, Tregonwell Hall, Chair: Ed Pentz, Crossref
17.00 - 7. No more than ten people read a journal article: extending visibility, reach and impact, Vicky Williams, Research Media Ltd
17.10 - 8. Data visualisation for scholarly communications, Tina Moir, Plum Analytics
17.20 - 9. From queries and links to questions and answers: machine intelligence and the reinvention of search, Joe Buzzanga, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
17.30 to 18.00 - Exhibition viewing, Purbeck Hall
Evening venue: Windsor Hall and Solent Hall, BIC
19.00 - Reception: All the fun of the fair!
20.15 - Conference dinner: Roll up, roll up for the Dream Circus
22.15 to 01.00 - Disco, funfair and bar
