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As has been highlighted by recent studies (links included below) and listserv discussions amongst librarians, users face many challenges in finding, logging into, and using online resources - and that many stop using them as a result. To address these issues, we are holding a free workshop for publishers, content owners and service providers to discuss how we can work together to improve discovery, access, and usage of e-resources. The workshop will take place at JISC Collections, Brettenham House, 5 Lancaster Place, London, WC2E 7EN (view map) from 10am – 4pm. To register, please complete the registration form Read the Publisher Interface Study and the User Behaviour in Resource Discovery (UBiRD) which explore the issues surrounding the user experience and present recommendations on how publishers and librarians can help improve it
Draft programme
10.00 - 10. 15 Coffee
10.15 – 10.30 Aims of the day Mark Williams, JISC Collections
10.30 – 11.10 UBiRD presentation William Wong & Hanna Stelmaszewska, Middlesex University
11.10 – 11.30 Q&A on UBiRD Caren Milloy, JISC Collections
11.30 – 11.40 Break
11.45 – 12.30 Discovery issues from the publisher interface study Rhys Smith, JANET UK
12.30 – 1.00 The library view Sarah Taylor, University of Bolton
1.00 – 1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 2.15 Publisher roundtable discussion
2.15 – 2.45 Feedback
2.45 – 3.00 The EduID business case Geoff Curtis, Curtis & Cartwright
3.00 – 3.30 Way forward Mark Williams & Caren Milloy
3.30 End
Please Contact Mark Williams m.williams@jisc.ac.uk, T – 02030066042 with any questions. The following resource providers have indicated that they will be attending:
The Roland Collections Hodder Education RSC Publishing EBSCO Credo Thomson Reuters Gale, part of Cengage Learning Oxford University Press Bloomsbury Academic Elsevier Professional Enginnering Publishing The Scientific World Semantico EDINA Eduserv Thomas Telford Informa (T&F) Ingenta (Publishing Technology) Cambridge University Press PYMCA Wilson Palgrave Macmillan
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