17
Fiesole
Retreat
What is the likely shape of the library of the Future?
And how do we build collections for it?
Lille
2017
Lille 2017
April 20-21, 2017

LILLIAD Learning center Innovation
Villeneuve d´Ascq Cedex, France

Theme: The Evolving Scholarly Environment

Join us for the nineteenth in this series of important discussions about the future of libraries, publishing, collections, and scholarship. The Fiesole Retreat Series offers a unique opportunity to interact with a select group of your colleagues in a relaxed and thoughtful setting.

This year’s theme is “The Evolving Scholarly Environment.” The 2017 Fiesole Retreat will examine new technologies and business models, as well as the re-emerging role of collection development and librarianship in the continuing digital evolution of the scholarly ecosystem. We will also look at outside influencers, in government and on campus, who may be changing the priorities for scholarly research and those of us who endeavor to serve the scholar. Join us in Lille as we explore our joint role amidst these new directions.

The 2017 Retreat will be held at the recently opened LILLIAD Learning Center Innovation at the Université de Lille, a state-of-the-art facility which is attracting worldwide attention. The LILLIAD is a short 15-minute Metro ride from Lille’s central station. We have reserved small room blocks at two hotels located within walking distance of the station but many additional hotels are available in the city.

Lille is the capital of the Hauts de France region in northern France, near the border with Belgium. A cultural hub and bustling university town today, it was once an important merchant center of French Flanders. Many Flemish influences remain in the city’s culture, cuisine and architecture. The historic center, Vieux Lille, is characterized by 17th-century brick town houses and cobbled pedestrian streets. The city is easy to reach by airplane or direct train from Paris, London and Brussels.

Programme

Wednesday, April 19

 LILLIAD, Université de Lille Sciences et Technologies

Conference

Dinner Open / On your Own
11:00 - 12:00
Optional Event
Tours of LILLIAD led by members of the staff.
12:00 - 13:00
Registration Open / Light Lunch
(Sponsored by Atypon)
13:00 - 17:00
Preconference
Linked (Open) Data – Big Data
Cataloging of books and journals is a traditional core task of librarianship and cataloging rules have been established for several hundred years. Standards made their appearance in the 20th century, including data formats for the upcoming library management systems that became popular in the 80s and 90s. Naturally, standards and rules were shaped to facilitate searching and storing of printed books and journals. The traditional procedures are now applied for e-books and e-journals as well. But with evolving technologies, new procedures for metadata management are emerging, allowing the intellectual and still manual work of librarians to be amended or replaced by automated approaches to cataloging which enable metadata enhancements. Thanks to these new approaches, the metadata of published materials can be aggregated, enriched and contextualized to improve and optimize the results of information retrieval, including big data applications that allow operating and processing of large scale data sets for different purposes. Additionally entities in publications, like names of persons or corporations, geographical terms, any kind of subject and subject fields, can be linked with authority data, bibliographic records, ontologies, thesauri, etc. These annotations enhance text and data mining methods, which are as well part of the new big data procedures. This preconference will feature best practice examples which explain and illustrate the impact of linked (open) data, on the one hand, and on the other hand, the legal and technical aspects of upcoming demands for text and data mining.
  • Convener

    Prof. Dr. Andreas Degkwitz
    Library of the Humboldt University, Berlin

    Prof. Dr. Andreas Degkwitz (born 1956) is the Chief Librarian of the Humboldt University of Berlin and Honorary Professor for information science of Potsdam University for Applied Sciences. 2004 - 2011 he was the Chief-Information-Officer of the Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus. 1998 – 2003 he was the deputy-director of the library of Potsdam University. 1991- 1998 he worked as a consultant for library affairs at the German Research Society.

  • Lars G. Svensson
    German National Library

    Lars G. Svensson works in the German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, DNB) as an advisor for knowledge networking. He in an internationally acknowledged expert on the use of LinkedData technologies in libraries and has edited two books and published more than a dozen articles on that topic, including _User Interaction and Linked Data_ (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2013) and "Are Current Bibliographic Models Suitable for Integration with the Web?" in Information Standards Quarterly (2013). He is active in the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), where he is past Chair of the Information Technology Section's Standing Committee and Chair of the Linked Data Technical Committee. Further, he works with technical standardisation, serving or having served on working groups in W3C, IETF, DIN and NISO.

    Linked / Open Data Services of the German National Library

    Since the German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, DNB) implemented its first linked data pilot service in 2010, the provision of bibliographic and authority data in RDF has been a core part of its metadata services. As part of the ambition to bring library resources into a world-wide, open information and knowledge network, the links in the RDF data are not restricted to library resources but also connect the library's resources to other popular services such as Wikipedia/DBPedia, GeoNames and filmportal.de -- the German internet platform for German cinema. This presentation will give an overview of the creation and import and management of different kinds of linking information used in the German National Library's bibliographic services and how this information is published in the different exchange formats with a focus on the linked data service.

  • Patrice Lopez
    Science-Miner and Inria Paris

    Former research scientist (Germany, Canada, Austria, France) and European civil servant (Germany and the Netherlands), Patrice Lopez has funded in 2015 the company SCIENCE-MINER to contribute to the development of text mining for technical and scientific content, in particular by developing Open Source software based on state-of-the-art machine learning techniques. He is also consultant for the French project ISTEX and associate member of the ALMANaCH team at Inria Paris. Patrice Lopez holds a Ph.D. in computer science (University of Lorraine, France, 1999) and is a software engineer from Telecom Nancy (France, 1996).

    Text and Data Mining Applications

    Text and Data Mining (TDM) techniques make possible a vast range of new applications dedicated to scholarly content. They can be used for automatically extracting and improving metadata and for semantic content enrichment, enhancing discovery tools and document readability. For instance, today, researchers can quickly determine which articles are relevant to their research without having to read them. Beyond these applications, the growth of available digital scholar information, often presented as an issue for researchers, also opens new horizon by automatically finding new patterns, insights and hypotheses that would be otherwise overlooked by traditional human review processes. Scientific Text and Data mining is not just a promise. In the most advanced application fields like biomedicine, it has already provided remarkable results. We will illustrate the rise of TDM by presenting and demonstrating different systems developed at Inria, based on state-of-the-art Machine Learning techniques and deployed in various applications. GROBID [1] is a tool for extracting and structuring automatically scholarly documents - from bibliographical references to full text and figures. It is used in production by many service providers (ResearchGate, Mendeley, HAL Archive, Semantic Scholar, ...) and by large scientific organizations (CERN, European Patent Office, INIST-CNRS, ...) for automating or assisting tasks like cataloguing, self-archiving or bibliographical reference extraction in large scale scientific corpora. We have developed several tools dedicated to semantic content enrichment, such as specialized Named-Entity Recognition and key content extraction and disambiguation libraries [2]. (N)ERD [3] is currently experimented on Digital Humanities information in several European projects (H2020 HIRMEOS and DESIR) in relation to the DARIAH infrastructure and in the French project ISTEX, a digital library of 18 millions full text articles for access and text mining. We will explain why we believe that the impact of TDM and Machine Learning will continue to grow in the next years in scientific information, social science and Digital Humanities, and how librarians could contribute and exploit them productively by creating new workflows.

  • Raphaëlle Lapôtre
    Bibliothèque Nationale de la France


    raphaelle.lapotre@bnf.fr - Bibliothèque nationale de France - 33 1 53 79 86 92
    data.bnf.fr

    Raphaëlle Lapôtre's written work includes subjects such as information visualization, semantic web and recommendation systems. Her main interest is focused on finding new ways browsing and exploring information through data visualization and Aristotelian metaphor. For more about Raphaëlle's work, please see "Le catalogue des bibliothèques et ses données à l'heure du web".

    The data.bnf.fr Project

    Launched in 2011 by the National Library of France, the data.bnf.fr website aims at disseminating metadata from the BnF catalogs on the web, while being a single point of access to it, gathering and combining information from all the BnF applications within web pages dedicated to authors, works or subjects. More than 5 years after the beginning of the data.bnf.fr project, general observations can be made on how and why the BnF metadatas can be of particular interest for users on the web. In fact, cultural metadatas value in the attention economy is best measured in terms of comprehensiveness of its format, trust in the quality of its information, model usability and kinds of reuse. Recent use case such as Named Entity Recognition is a good example of how Linked Open Data can be used to feed recommendation systems.

  • Michael Büchner
    German National Library


    Michael Büchner is a researcher at the IT department of the Germany National Library and working for the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek since 2013. He studied Computer Science and Library and Information Science at the universities of Jena, Erfurt and Leipzig, Germany. Michael Büchner is a member of the coordination team at the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, which is responsible for the further development of the portal. He focuses on the technical development and evaluation, persistent identifiers and authority files connected with the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek.

    Linked Data Uses in the German Digital Library

    In the era of new ILS generation, the data cataloguing scenario can take advantage of smarter and more efficient ways to produce well-done and enriched data, following the RDA guidelines and the Linked Open Data paradigm, by applying different models and data structures, among which BIBFRAME, Bibliographic Framework Initiative.
    The presentation shows a new philosophy to produce, publish and share data. Thanks to this philosophy, the cataloguing workflow focuses on the identification of entities and the data reconciliation and clustering processes, enriching headings with URIs [Uniform Resource Identifier] coming from different sources and authority systems, such as – but not limited to – VIAF [Virtual International Authority File], ISNI [International Standard Name Identifier], Nuovo soggettario di Firenze, FAST [Faceted Application of Subject Terminologies], LCSH [Library of Congress Subject Headings]. In structuring and publishing data, BIBFRAME suggests a simpler model, which is more focused on the end-user requirements.
    The overall new approach to the treatment of data and information contributes to a further improvement in the cooperation among institutions and in the reuse of data in different scenarios. This approach will allow a more efficient identification of entities in the web environment, supporting, at the same time, the working process of the cultural heritage and the wider exploitation of data.

  • Tiziana Possemato
    Casalini Libri - @Cult

    Tiziana Possemato holds a degree in Philosophy (La Sapienza Rome), diplomas in Archival Science and Library Sciences (Vatican Schools) and a master degree in Library Sciences (University of Florence). She has led numerous projects for library automation, analysis, mapping, conversion and for the transformation in Linked Open Data and the publication of catalogue data from numerous institutions. She is the Chief Information Officer of Casalini Libri, and founding managing partner of @Cult.

    Enrichment, Reconciliation and Publication of Linked Data with the BIBFRAME Model

    In the era of new ILS generation, the data cataloguing scenario can take advantage of smarter and more efficient ways to produce well-done and enriched data, following the RDA guidelines and the Linked Open Data paradigm, by applying different models and data structures, among which BIBFRAME, Bibliographic Framework Initiative.
    The presentation shows a new philosophy to produce, publish and share data. Thanks to this philosophy, the cataloguing workflow focuses on the identification of entities and the data reconciliation and clustering processes, enriching headings with URIs [Uniform Resource Identifier] coming from different sources and authority systems, such as – but not limited to – VIAF [Virtual International Authority File], ISNI [International Standard Name Identifier], Nuovo soggettario di Firenze, FAST [Faceted Application of Subject Terminologies], LCSH [Library of Congress Subject Headings]. In structuring and publishing data, BIBFRAME suggests a simpler model, which is more focused on the end-user requirements.
    The overall new approach to the treatment of data and information contributes to a further improvement in the cooperation among institutions and in the reuse of data in different scenarios. This approach will allow a more efficient identification of entities in the web environment, supporting, at the same time, the working process of the cultural heritage and the wider exploitation of data.

  • Jason Chabak
    YEWNO

    Jason Chabak is a Channel Partner Manager Yewno. He is a results driven expert in commercial business development and library account management. Prior to working with Yewno, he has 10 years experience in the publishing industry, both in trade and academic markets. Jason has successfully delivered market strategies, new products and customer implementations into the academic library market. Previously, Jason was a Senior Library Sales Manager at SAGE Publishing, Regional Account Manager for Digital Science, and Senior Licensing Manager at SpringerNature, and has experience managing accounts across the United States, Canada, South America, and Europe.

    Discover What's Been Missing

    Yewno Discover is a new knowledge discovery platform that provides unique benefits not found in traditional library search tools. Yewno Discover complements traditional library discovery tools, and adds value to the research process by atomizing full text content to reveal the concepts within.
    With a unique technology that applies machine learning and advanced algorithms to textual documents, Yewno identifies semantic objects that each convey information and therefore can be given context to other concepts. As such, an artificial “neural network” is formed.
    Recent advances in computational linguistics make this solution possible, as Yewno’s architects are now able to move beyond traditional Natural Language Processing techniques and mimic these human neural networks, which quickly and comprehensively identify the relationships.
    With a sophisticated, yet simple-to-use visual concept browser Yewno Discover offers the searcher efficient understanding of a new topic and effective insight into interdisciplinary connections.

17:00 - 18:30
Opening Reception
Sponsored by American Society for Microbiology

Thursday, April 20

 LILLIAD, Université de Lille Sciences et Technologies

Conference

08:30 - 09:00
Registration Open
09:00 - 09:10
Welcome and Introduction
  • Rebecca Lenzini and Michele Casalini
    Co-Founders, The Fiesole Retreat Series
09:10 - 09:30
Opening Remarks
  • Julien Roche
    Directeur, LILLIAD
09:30 - 12:30
Session One
Re-shaping Collection Development for 2025
The time when libraries were attempting to gather collections of high value – aiming at the perfect
  • Convener

    Laure Delrue
    LILLIAD Learning Center Innovation

    Laure Delrue is a librarian and curator. She is head of Lilliad’s collections since 2014, and her current interests focus on electronic collections development, scholarly publications and on the role of liaison librarians in the new learning center. Her former position as deputy director of Lille public libraries gave her the opportunity to work on rare books, special collections and on digitization matters, as well as to curate several exhibitions in partnership with the city’s opera and history museum.

  • Ann Okerson
    Center for Research Libraries

    Ann Okerson joined the Center for Research Libraries in fall 2011 as Senior Advisor on Electronic Strategies, working with that organization to reconfigure and redirect various existing programs into digital mode. Previous experience includes 15 years as Associate University Librarian for Collections & International Programs at Yale University; prior to that she worked in the commercial sector, and also for five years as Senior Program Officer for Scholarly Communications at the Association of Research Libraries. Upon joining Yale, she organized the Northeast Research libraries consortium (NERL), a group of 28 large and over 80 smaller libraries negotiating for electronic information. She is one of the active, founding spirits of the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC). Activities include projects, publications, advisory boards, and speaking engagements worldwide, as well as professional awards. Recently, she led the group that completely re-wrote (December 2014) the widely used US LIBLICENSE Model License. Over the years, Okerson has also been active internationally and currently works with INASP (UK) in leading their publisher-contracting efforts.

    Historical Introduction about the Dynamic Shifts in Collection Development Practices, from the Comprehensive Collection to Dynamic Formats and Multiple Missions
  • Michael Levine-Clark
    Dean and Director of University Libraries, University of Denver

    Michael Levine-Clark is the Dean of the University of Denver Libraries. Prior to taking this position, he was the Associate Dean for Scholarly Communication and Collections Services, also at the University of Denver. He is the recipient of the 2015 HARRASOWITZ Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award for his work on e-books and demand-driven acquisition. With colleagues from the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, he founded the open access journal Collaborative Librarianship, and continues to serve as co-editor. He is also co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences 4th ed., and serves on editorial boards of several journals. An active member of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), he has served most recently as chair of the Collection Management Section. As co-chair of the NISO Recommended Practices for Demand-Driven Acquisition of Monographs Working Group, he was one of the lead authors of the recommended practices document. He serves on a variety of national and international publisher and vendor library advisory boards and a range of committees within library professional organizations. He writes and speaks regularly on implications of discovery service implementation and strategies for improving academic library collection development practices, including the use of e-books in academic libraries, the development of demand-driven acquisition models, and methods for assessing collections usage.

    Curating the Internet: The Collaborative Future of Library Collections

    Libraries' traditional collection development role involved building collections through acquisition of physical materials – primarily books and journals, but also manuscript collections, grey literature, and other ephemera. While collection development now encompasses a wide range of electronic resources, we are still fundamentally in a collection building mode: we select, acquire, and preserve relatively small portions of the information universe. For academic libraries to continue to preserve the scholarly and cultural record, we must dramatically expand our conception of collection management to collectively curate the open web. We need to think much more broadly and much more collaboratively about how to preserve a much larger portion of the information universe.

  • Laurent Romary
    Inria - team ALMAnaCH

    Laurent Romary is Directeur de Recherche at Inria, France and director general of DARIAH. Beyond his research activities in data modelling for the humanities, he has been responsible for defining and implementing the scientific information and open access policy of major research institutions in Europe, namely CNRS, Max Planck Society and Inria. Among his achievements he has contributed to the wide deployment of the French national publication archive HAL in 2005-2006, he negotiated the full open access agreement between Springer and the MPS in 2008 and shaped the open access Policy of Inria with a full publication deposit mandate. Through his experience in various EU projects such as PEER (large scale green open access deposit) or Cendari (networking of archives for digital scholarship), but also more largely as director of the European DARIAH eInfrastructures in the humanities he has developed a general vision of open access as part of a wider comprehensive scientific information strategy of research and higher education institutions.

    How to Open Up? (Digital) Libraries at the Service of (Digital) Scholars.

    The talk presents the perspective of an organisation, Inria, that has made a strong move towards open science and the dissemination of digital content. We will contemplate the consequences on the development of new services within our institution and show how we move from the development of collections out of externally-provided content to the shaping of a scientist-centred digital library. We will also analyse the technological impact of this policy but also the necessary evolution of the role and skills of our library staff.

12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:00
Afternoon Keynote
14:00 - 17:00
Session Two
The Changing Scholarly Communication Ecosystem
Scholarly Communication has long been a closed system. Researchers have communicated with other researchers. Publishers have acted for authors and libraries for users. Now other players have become active especially governments and the university as an institution. What are their visions and what actions are they taking? How are they changing and seeking to change the roles of publishers and libraries and the way research and researchers work? In this session we hope to describe and analyse the actions and reactions and the motivations of the key players particularly those from stakeholders represented in this conference. However, while some of us produce scholarship and others facilitate the scholarly enterprise that we all agree is what it is all about, we also all work within a societal and economic context which we all depend on.
  • Convener

    Anthony Watkinson
    Principal Consultant CIBER Research, Honorary Lecturer University College London and Director of the Charleston Conference

    Anthony Watkinson is the principal consultant of CIBER Research and is a lecturer (now honorary) at University College London. He mainly now researches in information science for CIBER and publishes extensively on topics related to scholarly communication. He is a director of the Charleston Conference and plenary chair and is co-organizer for the Fiesole Retreat. He researched in ecclesiastical history at Cambridge before moving to Oxford to run the library of New College. Most of his life he has been a publisher with senior appointments for Academic Press, Oxford University Press and the Thomson Corporation and most recently a part time post at Wiley-Blackwell. He has been awarded the VickySpeck Memorial Award for Leadership at the Charleston Conference and an award for his contribution to scholarly publishing from the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishing.

  • Jayne Marks
    Vice President, Global Publishing, Wolters Kluwer USA

    Jayne Marks is Vice President of Global Publishing at Wolters Kluwer Health Research, Learning & Practice, based in Philadelphia. She has responsibility for managing the Lippincott William & Wilkins portfolio of 290 medical, nursing and allied health journals and book programs in education and professional development. Jayne also manages the growing WK portfolio of innovative digital information products for both healthcare professionals and students.
    Jayne has spent her career working in STM publishing and regularly speaks at industry conferences. She is the currently on the Board of the STM Association and is a board member of the International Publishers Rights Organization (IPRO).
    Prior to joining Wolters Kluwer, she was vice president and editorial director at SAGE Publications, managing over 350 journals, a reference publishing program, and had responsibility for new online products. Jayne has held publishing director positions at Nature Publishing Group and Stockton Press, managing broad journal portfolios.
    Jayne holds a BSc in Environmental Sciences from University of Sussex, UK.

    Exploring how Publishing is Evolving to Adapt to a Changing Scholarly Communication Process

    As the scholarly communication process evolves and changes, the role of the publisher and librarian also needs to adapt and evolve. The role of funding agencies and governments impacts the way that research is reported and shared and funders are even starting to experiment with new models of publishing. Researchers who write and consume content are impacted by the policies of their institutions and funders and what they can and want to do with their publication outputs is influenced by changing technologies. Publishers are responding in many different ways from delivering new tools to share and store content to new access models for content consumption. This talk will explore some of these innovations and what might be driving change.

  • Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri
    MCF HDR en Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - Laboratoire ELICO, Co-Responsable de l'URFIST de Lyon

    Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri is Associate Professor in Information and Communication Science at Université de Lyon (Lyon 1 University – Sciences). She is a research member of the ELICO Research Laboratory and co-head of Urfist de Lyon.
    Her PhD (Université Lyon 2) has been dedicating to an economic analysis of the transition of the academic library services in an electronic context (defended in 2004). She has leaded many research projects on the usage and ROI of electronic resources in the French academic context, using a socio-economic approach. She defended in 2015 an "Habilitation" dedicated to the analysis of journals publishing as a cultural industry. She has published many articles in French and international journals.
    She is currently member of the Harbingers research project and has recently submitted an ANR research project dedicated to the analysis of Open Science.

    Scholarly Communication at the Creative Industry Era: Changing Rules and Values for Libraries and Publishers

    Looking at scholarly communication as a creative industry leads to take into account many of the regulations that occur in digital/knowledge economy, and government’s policies. From the results of the Harbingers projects, discussed with the frames of creative industries, this talk focuses on to show to what hat extent these regulations affect Universities and their researchers, and how this contributes to change libraries and publishers services and roles.

  • Bas Straub
    Managing Director, Konvertus, Haarlem, Netherlands

    Bas Straub holds a degree in marketing and management of scientific publications from the Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam. Before starting his career in scholarly communication he was responsible for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines inflight entertainment for 5 years. At Elsevier, where he has worked for the last 13 years, he started as a marketing manager and subsequently moved to publishing, where he became the publishing director for the German office in Munich. He then worked as director for product- and market development in the emerging markets. Bas started Konvertus a company specializing in (ebook) production for publishers. He is organizer of the APE pre-conference day and has been involved in STM’s Intensive Journal Course since 2012. Bas regularly speaks and teaches at industry events.

    Lessons from the Future?

    During the 2017 APE Pre-Conference a group of young as well as experienced experts from STM publishing convened to discuss the future of publishing. In around 10 break out sessions the delegates stretched the vision on (a.o.) quality assurance, formatting of the scientific article, longevity of content and changes in business models. Bas Straub will give an overview of the most interesting outcomes of that day.

  • Charles Watkinson
    Associate University Librarian, University of Michigan


    Michael Büchner is a researcher at the IT department of the Germany National Library and working for the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek since 2013. He studied Computer Science and Library and Information Science at the universities of Jena, Erfurt and Leipzig, Germany. Michael Büchner is a member of the coordination team at the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, which is responsible for the further development of the portal. He focuses on the technical development and evaluation, persistent identifiers and authority files connected with the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek.

    One Ring or Many? Sustaining Digital Scholarship in the Humanities in North America

    All scholars are now digital scholars. The moment a humanities professor picks up a digital camera she starts creating a rich electronic research collection. Increasingly these digital outputs will include complex (often proprietary) materials such as geospatial models, multimedia objects, visualizations, and software tools. How can we (as librarians, publishers, funders, and other stakeholders in their success) support authors and users in this transition to digital scholarship? Lacking coordinated central funding, support for digital scholarship in North America relies on collaboration across a distributed community of private and public funders, scholarly societies, university administrators, libraries, and publishers - both independently and in association. New initiatives rise and fall and there is a continuous tension between proponents of large-scale cross-field solutions and advocates for discipline-specific innovation. What are the pros and cons of such a system when contrasted with more coordinated approaches in Europe and the UK? What kinds of initiatives in North America are succeeding and which are struggling? And what can we learn from their experiences as we all try and partner to make digital scholarship "safe" for humanists and qualitative social scientists.

19:30 - 22:00
Conference Dinner
Location: Couvent des Minimes, Vieux Lille, 17 Quai du Wault
Sponsored by EBSCO
  • Gareth Smith
    Vice President Sales UK, Ireland & Nordic Region, EBSCO

Friday, April 21

 LILLIAD, Université de Lille Sciences et Technologies

Conference

09:00 - 12:00
Session Three
Emerging Business Models
Changes to the academic publishing sector, forced initially by the shift from print toward electronic and combined with the Internet as a vehicle for content distribution, has affected all of the participants involved in the market. The appearance of the so-called
  • Convener

    Josep Torn
    Library Director, European University Institute Library

    Josep "Pep" Torn is currently Library Director at the European University Institute. Previously to this he was director of the Academic & Library Services at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Barcelona) and head of digital services at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Campus Library in Terrassa, Barcelona. Pep is also member of the Working Group on Leadership and Workforce Development of LIBER.

  • Anna Lundén
    Head of Division National Coordination of Libraries, National Library of Sweden, Sweden

    Anna Lundén works at National Library of Sweden heading the Division for National Coordination of Libraries. This division handles the national library consortia for universities and research institutes which is negotiating e-resources with all major publishers. In parallel the development of openaccess.se is managed within this division. Previous to this she has a long experience from the commercial side of the business, having been the Nordic sales manager for one of the largest database vendor and subscription agents. She is the Swedish representative in the EUA high-level group on Big Deals, a member of the LIBER program committee, participates in the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) and takes part in the INTACT/ESAC initiative aiming at establishing transparent and efficient procedures to manage article processing charges.

    Offsetting Deals for Open Access – Swedish Experiences

    In March 2016 the National Library of Sweden signed the Expression of Interest for OA2020 which is an initiative building on the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. OA2020 aims to accelerate the transition to open access by transforming the existing journals from their current subscription model to open access. This presentation will focus on the offsetting pilot agreements that link subscriptions and article processing charges (APCs) in hybrid journals, seeking to reduce one as the other grows. It will present the outcome so far and discuss the challenges in the transformation to change the underlying business model of scholarly publishing, making the shift from subscription-based payments to open access service-based payments.

  • Jordi Prats
    Head of Academic Publications Office, UPC - BarcelonaTech

    Jordi Prats is at present the head of Iniciativa Digital Politècnica, the publications office of the UPC. His career path stands out for the development of projects linked to the implementation of the digital library of the university and the management of open access repositories. He is currently focusing his activity in the editing and producing of educational content, both in teaching and in research.

    Anna Rovira
    Head of Research Library Services, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

    Head of Research Library Services at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. She is responsible for projects focusing on open access, the institutional repository, the current research information system, the website for the scientific production of UPC researchers and the research data management. She has also worked in UPC libraries management area and in the University Archive She has been an assistant professor at Universitat de Barcelona for 10 years.

    Integrating Libraries and Academic Presses: Strategies to Promote Open Access

    In 2011 a publications office was created within de Libraries, Publications and Archives Service of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). This office, called Iniciativa Digital Politècnica (IPD), rose up in a university with high technological knowledge where its members use a huge amount of digital information.
    The office was created after a long process that began more than 20 years ago in which the libraries of the university assumed, beyond the traditional Library management, the access and management of the academic contents generated by the institution through the creation of several archives.
    In a context of continuous innovation in which the spaces and services of the libraries were being redefined, libraries themselves put together new services for faculty members to support the production of educational content (Les Factories). Hence an important publishing dynamics was generated amongst the faculty of the UPC that allowed to come to a catalogue with over 600 titles linked to subjects related to engineering and architecture.
    The office is currently fully integrated in the dynamics of the libraries, giving efficient support to the faculty and searching for financing models for the elaboration of open access content as well as interacting with other systems of the university that can provide added value.

  • Frank Smith
    Director, Books at JSTOR, USA

    Frank Smith is Director of the books program at JSTOR, where he has worked since 2011. Prior to joining JSTOR he was with Cambridge University Press for more than thirty years as editor for history, editorial director for North America, and Global Director of Digital Publishing.

    Open Access Business Models for Monographs: For and Against

    The benefits and virtues of expanded OA publishing of monographs have been amply discussed in recent years, but the business challenges for such expansion have received less notice. This presentation will explore those challenges, drawing principally on data relevant to American university presses, though with the understanding that the American case is only one way of looking at the question.

12:00 - 12:30
Closing Remarks
  • Michael Keller
    University Librarian, Director of Academic Information Resources, Founder of HighWire Press, Publisher of Stanford University Press
12:30 - 13:15
Light Luncheon
13:15 - 14:15
Optional Event
Tours of LILLIAD led by members of the staff.
Speaker Travel and General Conference Support Sponsored by SAGE

Contacts

For further information about the Retreat Series please contact Katina Strauch, Rebecca Lenzini or Michele Casalini.

Proceedings

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