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UKSG Annual Conference 2021

OA Switchboard - A mission-driven practical solution, that thrives on collaboration

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The OWSD General Assembly and international conference will be held entirely online for the first time in OWSD's 28-year history, allowing as many of OWSD's 7600+ members to participate as possible.

The conference theme is 'Women, science and development', exploring three areas of relevance: 1) the importance of basic sciences for development; 2) the impact of applied sciences on development and 3) including sex and gender as variables in scientific research.


**Keynote speakers include:** 
* Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General of CERN; 
* Bina Agarwal, an internationally celebrated economist specializing in the political economy of gender, poverty and inequality; and 
* Angela Saini, award-winning author of Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story, Superior: The Return of Race Science, and other books. 

OWSD members will present their own research in the three themes during poster sessions throughout the conference. In addition, members will also present their own scientific and personal responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. All members will also have the opportunity to take part in a workshop on increasing their visibility and impact as a scientist, with a session on using podcasts for storytelling by Joy Owango and Adelle Onyango of the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa), followed by a session on filmmaking for impact by Nicole Leghissa, OWSD video consultant.

The conference will include a handover of the previous OWSD Executive Board to the new members, elected in June-July 2021. On the last day of the conference (19 November), the OWSD Italy Country Network will be launched. **This will be an in-person event in Trieste.** Italian government representatives and donors are invited to attend. The Trieste event will be coordinated with similar in person events being held in OWSD countries throughout the developing world and streamed online. At least 2,000 OWSD members, women scientists from developing countries around the world, are expected to participate online in the General Assembly and conference.

 

**ABOUT THE PROGRAMME**

In order to approach the complex and wide-ranging challenges of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, societies around the world must access and harness all the talent and experience available to them. The concerns and perceptions of the greatest number of all possible actors and recipients must be considered in order that the most relevant issues and effective solutions are found. Women are considerably underrepresented as researchers in STEM subjects around the globe; according to UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS) data, in 2019 the global average percentage of women researchers was still below 30%. Yet women typically have first hand specialist knowledge of the day-to-day challenges diverse individuals face within communities, and can be key informers in the design and development of their solutions. Moreover, since women are most often the providers of informal community support, if they are not fully informed—and if solutions are developed without their consultation—it may be the case that products, services and solutions are not relevant or appropriate. Technological advances may mean improved machines on large farms, for example, potentially increasing food production, but since the key points of food insecurity in the world are on small-scale farms managed by women throughout the Global South, such capital investments will have little impact in the areas where food production is most critical—and where women’s knowledgeable implementation of appropriate innovative technologies could make the most difference.

 
 


**Keynote Speakers:**
* Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General of CERN; 
* Bina Agarwal, an internationally celebrated economist specializing in the political economy of gender, poverty and inequality; and 
* Angela Saini, award-winning author of Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story, Superior: The Return of Race Science, and other books. 

**Eminent Guests:**
* Elena Bonetti, Italian Minister for Family and Equal Opportunities
* Maria Cristina Messa,	Italian Minister of Universities and Research
* Shamila Nair-Bedouelle,	Assistant Director General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO
* Maria Chiara Carrozza,	President, National Research Council of Italy
* Kerstin Jonsson Cisse,	Head of Unit for Globally Sustainable Economic Development, Sida - Sweden
* Naser Faruqui,	Director of Education and Science at IDRC - Canada
* Ylann Schemm,	Director, Elsevier Foundation
* Alberto Quadrio Curzio,	President Emeritus of the Italian Academy of Sciences and Humanities 
* Mohamed Hassan,	President, TWAS the World Academy of Sciences

**Chairs, panelists, interviewers and other speakers:**
Jennifer Thomson, Tonya Blowers, Rana Dajani, Shobhana Narasimhan, Joy Owango, Elizabeth Pollitzer, Kausila Timsina, Elizabeth Bandason, Susana Arrechea, Reinabelle Reyes, Dorine Odongo, Elizabeth Pollitzer, Adelle Onyango, Nicole Leghissa, Jana Rodriguez Hertz, Maryse Nkoua Ngavouka, Kate Shaw, Chao Mbogo, Prativa Pandey, Edna Patricia Matta-Camacho, Amira Shaheen, Wezi Nyambili, Ana Lucía Martinez Abarca, Mashura Shammi, Therese Umuhoza, Dionica Gamboa, Marian Nkansah, Babalola Olubukola Oluranti, Esi Awuah, Fortunate Farirai, Atya Kapley, Hasin Anupama Azhari, Huda Basaleem, Nashwa Eassa, Shymaa Enany, Kleinsy Bonilla, Patricia Castillo-Briceno, Fang Xin

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OWSD 6th GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

The conference theme is 'Women, science and development', exploring three areas of relevance: the importance of basic sciences for development; the impact of applied sciences on development, and including sex and gender as variables in scientific research.

lightning talk

The UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition 2021 will be held online for the first time. The event is a major event in the scholarly communications calendar which attracts a large number of 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 virtual social events and a major online trade exhibition.



 UKSG Annual Conference is a major event in the scholarly communications calendar which attracts a large number of delegates each year from around the world - librarians, publishers, content providers, consultants and intermediaries. 

Open Access Books: How to Find, Acquire, and Use Them

Lancaster University’s Research Intelligence service launched in early 2019, and has gone from strength to strength, allowing opportunity to collect a staff award along the way. Joanne will detail the organic approach that was taken towards service design, how engagement from the research community was cultivated and relationships built and managed. She will share how this translated into bibliometric services, the analyses and reports that currently serve researchers at Lancaster University, and how the service will pro-actively plan for the future.

Charismetrics: winning researcher hearts and minds with the Research Intelligence service at Lancaster University

Lightning Talks A

In early 2020 Universities UK and Jisc established a new high level negotiation strategy group to oversee UK universities negotiations with major publishers. This presentation will provide an update on the context for the group and its objectives. It will then provide an overview of the progress that has been made in negotiations with publishers in 2020, before looking to the priorities for the group in 2021 and beyond.

The UUK-Jisc Content Negotiation Strategy Group - a new approach to UK academic sector negotiations with journal publishers

OA publishing and the financial sustainability challenge - reflections based on the experience at The University of Manchester

Society finances are often thought to rest on a three-legged stool, where publishing is complemented by event and membership income. Publishing revenues have been under pressure for years. In partner-published societies, the inclusion of journals in big deals means shrinking revenue and a loss of transparency, while at the same time independent society publishers have struggled to sell single subscriptions in a market where the majority of funds are directed at big deals. Society approaches to OA, however, are driven by the needs and preferences of their members and therefore many societies are embracing OA and aiming to transition away from subscription revenues. In practice this has meant independent society publishers implementing new models, working with consortia as well as agents and introducing entirely new workflows and metadata to manage deals, in a very short space of time. By contrast partner-published societies have been swept along by their partners, usually with a further loss of visibility and control over their own titles.

 
Then 2020 arrived, bringing with it a global pandemic, and the other two legs of the society stool became as unstable as publishing revenues. Societies were unable to deliver their usual events, and thus lost the new members who would usually sign up for those events. In the UK the government pressed ahead with a hard Brexit but delayed decisions until the last possible moment, leaving societies, like everyone else, to scramble for a response. The question must be asked: How might societies and institutions better work together to properly support the scholars who rely on both sides?

Societies and the three-legged stool

In a continually developing marketplace, an array of challenges are being addressed by publishers to meet the needs of the research community and increasing requirements of funders.  Pressures and needs related to the COVID health crisis only exacerbated these.

Publishers are offering a range of sustainable business models to support Open Science and Open Access publishing. These options maintain research quality, integrity and author choice. They also assist researchers in making data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable) and support initiatives to make research more available through public libraries. This session will explore how scholarly publishers add essential value to and continue to safeguard quality, which is critical in a time of global pandemic and ‘fake science’.

Innovating to meet research community needs in an ever-changing, uncertain environment 

Scientific research fulfillment as a humanity global enterprise requires an inclusive and equitable communication infrastructure capable to deal with geographic, cultural, multilingual and thematic diversity. SciELO Network of 17 nationally operated collections of selected Open Access peer reviewed journals represents a major effort towards an inclusive global flow of scientific information. In 2021, it indexes, publishes and interoperates over 1200 journals which communicate pure and basic research covering most of the disciplines with a high coverage of local, national and regional topics and target audiences. This presentation will share SciELO advances, challenges, barriers, and lessons learned on the globalization of research communication.

For an inclusive global flow of scientific information

Within the topic, it mainly introduces how CMAPH responded to the pandemic in a Time of Global Challenge. CMAPH as the most numerous, influential, and authoritative medical journal publication in China have established a series of policies toward to pandemic and Open Access in 2020. We have implemented “manuscript fast-track flow” policy, established a COVID-19 Academic Research Communication Platform with Chinese and English version, and all articles published in the platform applied open access policy. By doing all these attempts, CMAPH is going to maintain its strategy on priority publication, academic quality, and to be more involved in global activities and collaboration. In the topic, we also intend to discuss the challenges to Chinese Sci-tech Periodical, and how OA publishing developed in CMAPH.

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