SANLiC 2017 Conference

Disruption in the Library, the Laboratory, the Classroom …

VenueVenue: Coastlands Hotel; Umhlanga, Durban, South Africa

The global struggle for access to material and intellectual resources for the production of knowledge is intensifying. Consequently, the open access movement, embodied in initiatives like Open Access 2020 and SPARC, is gaining momentum over the subscription model as the benefits to society of opening access to research outputs and educational materials become increasingly self-evident. Increasingly, research and academic institutions, whether by choice or force of circumstance, are walking away from publisher deals based on the subscription model.

Against this backdrop, the South African Higher Education sector is in crisis and disruption. The South African bill of rights in the South African Constitution (1996) states that everyone has the right to further education, which the state, through reasonable measures, must make progressively available and accessible. Instead, the opposite is happening due to progressive under-funding by the state and global forces including increased inflation. The reality is that higher education and the production of knowledge is becoming progressively unavailable and inaccessible.

While the sector strives to get back on track, this conference will assist library and information practitioners to make sense of developments, hone skills and develop strategies to deal with the disruption.

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Conference Presentations

Ralf Schimmer, Head of Scientific Information Provision at the Max Planck Digital Library.  He is responsible for the electronic resources licensing programme for the Max Planck Society and for a broad range of Open Access and other information services. A frequent co-organiser of the Berlin conferences on Open Access since 2003, he manages the Open Access publication charge agreements of the Max Planck Society.
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Ralf is past chair of the SCOAP3 governing council and is currently the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in particle physics and project manager for ‘Open Access 2020’, the Max Planck-initiated Open Access transformation initiative. He also serves on a variety of national and international committees and is a frequent member of the library advisory boards of publishers.

Open Access 2020: a global initiative to drive large-scale transformation of the subscription system

The power of community: SCOAP3 and its success in flipping journals in high-energy physics

Shifting from mandates for our researchers to a mandate for our money: a practical approach of OA2020

Bernard Rentier was the Rector of the University of Liège from 2005 to 2014. He is a virologist and immunologist by training and author of over 200 scientific publications focusing on influenza, measles and chicken pox.
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He founded Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS) and is its current president. EOS is an international association whose purpose is to persuade the world’s rectors, vice-chancellors and university presidents of the benefits of OA, and to tutor them in how best to achieve it. Bernard Rentier is described by OA guru Stevan Harnad as is the first rector to fully grasp and fully act upon OA.  He will be sharing his leadership insights via a video conference link.

The Liège model of Green Open Access mandate: a success story, and then what?

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Daisy Selematsela was the Executive Director, Knowledge Management Corporate at the National Research Foundation. She is currently the Executive Director of the UNISA Library.

Open Access transitionary process and challenges within the National System of Innovation

Lazarus Matizirofa is the Acting Executive Director, Knowledge Management Corporate, at the National Research Foundation. He heads the Data, Content and Curation Management Services (KMC) unit, which deals with digital curation of NRF-Funded Research Outputs, Knowledge Networking Databases, the NRF’s Open Access (OA) Strategy, and Digitisation.
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He is also a member of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Next Generation Repositories Working Group.  Lazarus has a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree from the University of Cape Town and is currently studying for a doctoral degree looking at the impact of OA publishing as a mode of knowledge production in the South African universities.

Open Access transitionary process and challenges within the National System of Innovation

Eve Gray, Senior Research Associate, IP Law Unit, Faculty of Law,  UCT, is an internationally recognised specialist on open access and the geopolitics of scholarly publishing, a perspective that has gained a new level of urgency in the wake of recent student demands for the ‘decolonization of the university’ in South Africa.
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Eve’s interest in the disruptive potential of digital media in scholarly publishing goes back to the 1990s, when she was the Director of Wits University Press, helping rebuild  a scholarly list post-apartheid at a time when the internet was in its very early stages. She has subsequently worked as a publishing consultant and researcher, probing the contradictions in research publication policy in South Africa.

Decolonizing the University in South Africa: the role of research publication

Ina Smith is the Planning Manager, Scholarly Publishing Unit, Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf). She was LIASA 2016 Librarian of the Year and was on the LIASA Execuitive Committee for ICT Development (2014-2016) and the LIASA HELIG Chair (2014-2016).
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Ina is also a consultant for Librarians in the Cloud/Teachers in the Cloud, an Open Access and best practice research training facilitator.

Africa embracing Open Science and Open Data

Reggie Raju is the Deputy Director for Research and Learning at the University of Cape Town Libraries,  South Africa. He has been in academic libraries for more than 30 years. He holds a PhD from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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Currently, he serves on the Academic and Research Libraries Standing Committee of IFLA and is the interim chair of the SPARC Africa Working Group. His research area is research librarianship with a specific focus on scholarly communication. He is the co-editor of the first two open access books published by UCT Libraries and has published a number of articles in national and international journals and has written a number chapters in books.

Open publishing: a social justice imperative for Africa

Robert Jacob Pearce is the Director of  Library and Information Services at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) in Port Elizabeth. He holds amongst others a Masters Degree in Librarianship from Unisa and a Diploma in Industrial Psychology, also from Unisa.
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He has been a Librarian for the past 42 years of which 30 years were spent at the University Libraries of NMMU, UNISA, Venda and the Vaal University of Technology. He has published articles and chapters in books on Librarianship and Afrikaans Literature in various countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium and South Africa. Since 2007 he has been a member of the South African Academy for Science and Arts. He is an avid musician (guitar and vocals), dramatist and poetry writer.

NMMU Library and Information Services support for Open Access

Jeremiah Pietersen is the Subscriptions Librarian at the University of Cape Town Libraries. He recently completed his master’s in LIS with a focus on developments in academic libraries spurred on by technological advancements.
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Emanating from the conclusion of the study and his current duties, Jeremiah has developed an interest in the establishment of digital scholarship services in academic libraries in the developing context. Having been involved in Open projects and the beginnings of SPARC Africa – he is interested in advancing open access on the African continent. Other research interests include open publishing and the successful marketing of academic library services.

Open Access and SPARC Africa

Adriana Marais, recently appointed Head of Innovation at SAP Africa, is a quantum biophysicist, best known as one of the 100 Mars One Project astronaut candidates in the running to move to the red planet in 2026.
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Adriana will share insights as a researcher, inspire delegates and remind the conference why, despite the disruption, it is an exciting time in the four billion year history of life on Earth to be alive! Adriana will speak at the gala dinner via a live feed from New York.

Watch this Space

Louis van Niekerk is an attorney specialising in commercial law and a partner at Dorrington Jessop Inc in Cape Town.  He assists clients with a wide variety of commercial matters, including company law, commercial agreements, non-profit law, Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment structures and consumer law.
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His clients have ranged from start-ups, non-profits, schools and universities (both public and private) to small, medium and multinational commercial enterprises.  Louis enjoys the challenge of engaging with complex problems and trying to find simple, effective solutions.  His firm has a strong commitment to social upliftment, conservation and education and assists many non-profit organisations operating in those sectors.   Louis has a passion for learning new things and believes that it is our duty to share our knowledge with others.

South African Law perspective on Electronic Resource Licenses

April Mahlangu is the Head of Library Centralised Support Services and is responsible for library quality at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) Library and Information Services (LIS). He holds an Honours Degree in Information Science for Development from the University of Pretoria and is finalising his Masters Degree in Business Administration with Tshwane University of Technology Business School.
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He has been in the library profession for 16 years with some years spent at the Universities of Pretoria and Johannesburg. April is a visionary leader, action oriented and a change agent. Strategic management, quality, project management and customer experience in academic libraries are his areas of specialty. He has done research on customer needs, market research and library impact or value in higher education institutions. He believes that any organisation exists to add value and without “value add”; the organisation naturally ceases to exist.

Information Resource Strategy During the Dry Seasons

William Thomson is an attorney of the High Court of South Africa and an Accredited Commercial and Civil Mediator with the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) (UK).
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He is an Accredited Labour Mediator, a part-time Senior Commissioner at the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) and an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Practitioner with a number of Public and Private Sector Bargaining Councils and Dispute Resolution Agencies. William conducts training and other processes for the CCMA, Bargaining Councils and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in the SADC Region and he is also attached to a number of South African Universities where he lectures and presents courses on Conflict Management, Labour Dispute Resolution and Negotiation and Mediation Skills.

Negotiation Skills

Maretha Allwright has managed the SEALS consortium business and systems for the Eastern Cape academic Libraries since 2008. The SEALS consortium uses a suite of Innovative Interfaces Inc. software products to stay in line with current technological developments and to manage print, electronic and digital resources in the consortium.
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She obtained a BA Library Science degree at UOFS in 1974 and an Information Science honours degree at the University of Stellenbosch in 2001. Her career started in 1975 at the Bloemfontein Public Library. She switched to academic libraries in 1989 and moved to the UK in 2003 where she worked in academic libraries and the Natural History Museum in London.

What do we need to build a successful knowledge base?

Dorette Snyman is Collection Developer: Commercial Electronic Resources at the Unisa Library. She is responsible for the management of the library’s electronic resources that includes the selection, licensing, fund management, access management and collection analysis of the library’s collection of major publishers’ journal agreements, database subscriptions and major reference works.
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With the recent implementation of the Library’s Encore Duet Discovery Service this also includes the implementation and accessibility of the library’s e-resources knowledgebase within the EBSCO EDS.  Dorette holds a B.Bibl (Hons) from the University of Pretoria and is a long-standing member of LIASA.

What do we need to build a successful knowledge base?

Guy Halse is the SAFIRE Project Director at the Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa (TENET).
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Whilst primarily focused on identity federation, his role at TENET has expanded to include a number of trust and identity services. Prior to joining TENET he was Rhodes University’s IT Operations Manager, and was also involved in the technical operations of the SEALS library consortium.

Identity federation: A new way to manage access to resources

Kamran Naim is Strategic Development Manager for the nonprofit publisher Annual Reviews in Palo Alto, California, and is also a Doctoral Candidate and Research Lead at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education.
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His interests span the breadth of scholarly publishing from issues relating to access (particularly examining new models for open access), accessibility, and usability of research information. He has worked extensively in the developing world working to implement technical solutions to support capacity building through broader access and visibility of research. At Annual Reviews, he works to advance the organization’s mission to support and advance research communities through a range of innovative programs that seek to maximize the positive impact of science on humanity.

The Future of Information

Visibility through Google Scholar

Maryna van den Heever has been at the Wits library for over 19 years. She was appointed as deputy librarian for the Library of Management in 1997. In 2001 she was appointed as Senior Librarian for the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment following the restructuring process at Wits.
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As one of the first participants of the Carnegie Research Library Consortium in 2007 she visited the United States in 2008. This was followed by the creation of a new post in the library and her appointment as Manager: Research Support services. She is currently overseeing the management of the two libraries in the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, the two libraries in the Faculty of Science, the Research Commons and Data Management Services. She maintains close collaboration with the Research Office in the field of research performance evaluation and bibliometrics. Her main interest lies within the many opportunities and challenges of research support in libraries and has presented at local and international conferences.

Usage Statistics: Reading between the Lines

Caroline Dean is currently Acting Deputy Director: Technical Services at UCT Libraries. She moved to this temporary role in March 2017 from her post as Acquisitions Manager, a position she has held since July 2013.

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Prior roles include Electronic Resources Librarian (June 2000 to September 2013) and manager of the Commerce Information Services Section (August 2007 to July 2011). Her library career started out in the UCT Health Sciences Library where she occupied various roles between December 1991 and mid-2000. She is a member of the Sabinet Library Products Advisory Committee: Reference and Collection Development and EBSCO’s Asia, Africa and Oceania Academic Advisory Board.

Unbundling the “Big Deal”

Joyce Myeza is the Library Director at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She holds a Master of Science degree in LIS from Simmons College, Boston MA, and is currently registered for a Doctorate in Business Administration at Bath University, United Kingdom.

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During her more than 20 years working in libraries Joyce has worked as a cataloguer, subject librarian and in library management. She is passionate about libraries and has served on a number of committees in LIS associations both in South Africa and in the United States. The recipient of several awards, Joyce is also a published author and recently collaborated with Professor Franco Frescura to compile the Illustrated Glossary of Southern African Architectural Terms: English – IsiZulu, published by UKZN Press.

Unbundling the “Big Deal”

Nels Rune Jensen is the co-founder of ConsortiaManager, a workflow tool used by SANLiC and other consortia worldwide, to manage the acquisition of content and member renewals. Nels is dedicated to increasing the service levels to consortia members, while at the same time freeing up time for the consortium staff to focus on value-adding tasks.
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Currently he is occupied with tying acquisitions to research output, to provide for better insights into content value. With almost 20 years of international experience in the information industry, Nels has held positions with Munksgaard Intl. Publishers, Blackwell Publishing, Swets and most recently as Chief Commercial Officer for LM Information delivery, before starting his own company.

ConsortiaManager and Workflows

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Vendor Presentations

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USAf and SANLiC Pre-Conference Workshop

Monday 22 May 2017 (12:00 – 17:00)
Venue: Coastlands Umhlanga Hotel

Title: OA2020 – initiative for the large-scale transformation of the subscription system
(Leveraging the power of institutional budgets and research outputs to secure the economic benefits of Open Access)

Exhibitors

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Registered exhibitors in stand number order:

  1. WorldWide Information Services
  2. ProQuest
  3. IEEE Xplore Digital Library
  4. EBSCO Information Services
  5. Wiley
  6. De Gruyter
  7. Chemical Abstracts Service
  8. CABI
  9. Gale, A Cengage Company
  10. Burgundy Information Services
  11. Elsevier
  12. Brill
  13. Taylor & Francis Group
  14. Springer Nature
  15. Royal Society of Chemistry
  16. IOP Publishing
  17. OverDrive
  18. The Royal Society, London
  19. SAGE Publishing
  20. Erasmus Boekhandel
  21. Thieme Publishing Group
  22. Dawson Books
  23. LM Information Delivery SA
  24. Emerald Publishing
  25. Cambridge University Press
  26. Bureau van Dijk, Africa
  27. American Chemical Society
  28. Universal Knowledge Software
  29. Oxford University Press
  30. RegExpress/ World Scientific Publishing
  31. Van Schaik Bookstore

Sponsors

Sponsor

Sponsorship

American Chemical Society

Gala Dinner Guest Speaker

Clarivate Analytics

Lanyards and Nametags

Dorrington Jessop Inc

National Speaker

Max Plank Society Digital Library

Keynote Speaker

Richfield Graduate Institute of Technology

Gala Dinner Beverages

TENET

National Speaker

Wolters Kluwer

Delegate Sponsorships