This past year in Academic publishing has seen a rising need for a change in attitude to accessibility, both from a student’s perspective but also from that of their institutions. This year UKSG was a different experience and owing to it being accessible online there will be people in attendance from a number of places around the globe who may have previously been unable to attend.

In recent years Cambridge University Press has sponsored a delegate place. This year we were pleased to be sponsoring Annika Nilsson of Lund University. Annika works with education for students and researchers while also being responsible for the media selection at the Library. As CUP’s sponsorship is open to any librarian, the UKSG sponsored place enables anyone who feels they are under-represented and who lacks the resources to attend.

What Annika hoped to get from her attendance of UKSG…

‘I would like to get an overview of the media landscape of the future. How will the scientific Libraries work in the future – both from a media provider’s point of view and from a librarian view? I think this conference is an opportunity for me to fulfil my work duties in a better way.’

As I am working with the Open Access question of how to provide the Lund University Publications in the best way and also how to provide international Open access resources to the researchers in Lund, this conference would give me a lot of input. As teaching also is one of my duties this conference would give me new tools and ideas to improve and renew my teaching. And at last, since I am presently working mostly from home due to the pandemic, this online conference would give me a professional glimpse of the world outside Sweden without travelling.

As my working duties include both teaching and media in higher education this conference would give a great impact on my work. From this year, Library of Science has a new organisation and we are in a progressive phase of the library development. I can see in the program that many of the sessions are of direct interest for me to attend. Lund University has two facilities, MAX IV and ESS, that Library of Science has the responsibility for and since some parts of our library will physically move closer to the site of theses facilities I think this conference will give me inspiration to develop a modern library’

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