Join us for a half-day workshop at the prestigious Lancaster University, hosted by ChronosHub. This event will bring together members of the UK Higher Education Institution (HEI) community for a day of insightful presentations, networking opportunities, and meaningful discussions on the challenges faced in open science and scholarly communication workflows.
Challenges faced in open science and scholarly communication workflows.
On February 4, ChronosHub continued its workshop series with and for UK Institutions at the beautiful Lancaster University library.
After a successful similar event at London’s Francis Crick Institute previous October, a small group of UK Universities mostly from the North of England got together with ChronosHub to delve into challenges of managing the constantly evolving open access models and mandates, with a view to collaboratively coming up with solutions to the most pressing issues. This was held against a backdrop of universities in the UK undergoing harsh and unprecedented budgets cuts, lending a pronounced sense of urgency to exploring new approaches and technology solutions with cost-efficiency in mind.
Martin Jagerhorn, ChronosHub’s Head of Business Development, led the interactive sessions throughout the half-day, setting the tone for a convivial atmosphere. Martin started off with a high-level overview of key developments in OA since its first ruminations in the early 90s, to also giving an example of the fast effects of recent policy changes, citing Luxemburg’s reversal on hybrid OA mandates and the anticipated changes to the OSTP memo by the Trump administration.
Louise Zambianchi, Open Access Manager at Lancaster University, gave a succinct overview of the implementation of the ChronosHub platform at Lancaster in a live demo, highlighting tools such as the researcher-facing Journal Guide that allows authors to screen potential publication venues against funder and institutional policies, as well as Read & Publish agreements; and demonstrating the ChronosHub widget, which captures all funding requests centrally through AI scanning, minimising the time researchers spend on data input.
Leah Wong, Open Access Librarian at London South Bank University, gave a presentation of the use cases of ChronosHub at LSBU, such as promoting the visibility of existing Read & Publish agreements to researchers in order to maximise the value of these investments.
After lunch, the collaborative aspect of the day was written large in a round table discussion about challenges that UK institutions face around many aspects of OA management. This led to a mind map of challenges focused on green, hybrid/agreements and gold OA, along with suggested collaborative actions to address these challenges. As the workshop came to an end, the rain had stopped and despite the current financial and political challenges in the sector, it felt like this group of UK universities was filled with optimism and a vision of how to jointly navigate the journey ahead.
Download Presentations:
- Open Access Management UK Universities (PDF)
- Lancaster University’s Experience with Chronoshub (PDF)
- London South Bank University’s perspective on Open Access Management (PDF)
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