Speaker
Dr
Paul AYRIS
Description
This Breakout Group will look at the new role of the Institution as publisher. Open Access allows the academy to re-assert its role in the dissemination of research outputs. Across Europe, there are examples of libraries taking on such a role in the establishment of Open Access University Presses. This is a new role for libraries. As a result, they are no longer simply the curator and cataloguer of knowledge. In this new environment, they can become producers of knowledge.
This Breakout Group will take UCL (University College London) Press as an example of this development. It will look at business planning, advocacy to academic researchers and teachers, construction of the necessary infrastructure, and look at the 3-year plan of the UCL Press. The Breakout Group will end with a group discussion on the advantages of libraries taking on this role as publisher, and examine how university libraries who wish to become publishers should get started.
