USETDA 2019 will provide excellent educational opportunities for professionals from graduate schools, libraries, academic computing and others who work with electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), institutional repositories, graduate students and scholarly communications. Our goal is to offer relevant, practice-oriented content to support ETD productivity improvement, ETD professionals, advance ETD operations and encourage the formation of regional ETD associations and networking communities as well as to provide useful and innovative resources, standards, and technology for the development and support of ETD…

The FORCE2019 program includes a wide range of talks covering the future of research communication and e-Scholarship, with over fifty sessions and tracks on infrastructure for scholarly communication, promoting open research, developing new skills, and trail-blazing new initiatives.

The What, How and Why of Open Science A new science eco-system is growing: Open Science. This is based on the conviction that free access to research publications is not only a moral right of citizens but a necessity to allow the maximum use and impact of research. The current publishing system is no longer fit for purpose; too much emphasis is being placed on using publications for evaluation and not enough on the dissemination of new research results. Redressing…

The widening gap between research output in the Global North and South is arguably an extension of historical structural power when colonial capitals were centers of knowledge production and poorer colonized countries were providers of data. In recent times, the escalating costs of subscription-based scholarly communication and copyright barriers have deepened the crisis because scholars in the Global South often can’t afford access to expensive journals that publish the most cutting edge research by the best scholars in the Global…

The pace of change in our sector has accelerated - and that change has also become more wide-reaching. Where does all of this change leave researchers - are they already realising new benefits, or are they suffering from having one foot in the old world and one in the new? What will happen next, and how should scholarly publishers and librarians prepare? This year’s One-Day Conference is a partnership between UKSG and ALPSP, two organizations well placed to understand and address…

The PKP 2019 International Scholarly Publishing Conference is presented by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) in partnership with the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Since 2007, PKP's bi-annual conference has brought together participants from around the world to discuss local publishing activities and the latest in open access research. They also provide an opportunity to learn and share innovative work related to open source publishing technologies, including our flagship software, Open Journal Systems (OJS). In 2018, PKP turned 20. PKP 2019 will explore…