UKSG 2025

Come visit us at stand 49 and learn more about our latest projects and initiatives from our representatives: Head of Business Development, Martin Jagerhorn, Head of Publisher Relations, Romy Beard, VP of Branding & Communication, Vivi Billesø.

Romy reflects back on the 13 UKSG conferences that she has attended

People make UKSG

2025 marks my 20th anniversary of working in scholarly publishing. As I was travelling back home to Glasgow after this year’s UKSG conference in Brighton, I was reflecting on what a big part of my career the conference has played, and how my reasons for attending have changed over the years and the 13 events I have attended: from business meetings to professional development, and more and more: the people.

Read her reflections

Breakout session
Tuesday, April 1 at 12 p.m.

Lessons Learned in the UK from Navigating the FAIR Open Research World: A Collaborative Approach to Transforming Library Workflows – Martin Jagerhorn

World-wide almost every university has an IR, and nearly everyone faces the challenges of lacking data quality and coverage, with faculty frustrated over the clunkiness and overwhelming manual workload of data entry. Furthermore, research outputs increasingly require a plethora of checks necessitating FAIR and evermore extensive meta-data. Is this article eligible for APC funding or covered by an agreement, and compliant with our and the funder’s OA policies?

At Lancaster, we use our Current Research Information System (CRIS) for fulltext deposits, but it is faced with the same challenges. With more and more OA routes and ballooning publishing charges, our presentation delves into a first-of-its-kind innovation and collaboration with technology partners and illustrates to what extent we can hit the sweet spot for effectively managing open research workflows through a combination of AI scanning of manuscripts, integrations and a simple user interface, while upholding the flag of FAIR data principles.