** Apologies for cross posting**

Date: 12^th to 14^th April 2021

Timings:  9am – 5pm BST  (with the option to catch up with presentations on demand outside these times)

The UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition 2021 will be held online for the first time. The event is a major event in the scholarly communications calendar which attracts a large number of delegates each year from around the world - librarians, publishers, content providers, consultants and intermediaries. The conference combines high-quality plenary presentations, lightning talks and breakout sessions with virtual social events and a major online trade exhibition.

Programme

• With nearly 70 presentations including
  • Plenary sessions from:
    • Collette Fagan, University of Manchester/Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Mellins-Cohen Consulting/Ian Moss, STM/Abel Pack, SciELO/Yang Pan, Chinese Medical Association Publishing House/Frederick Ato Armah, University of Cape Coast
  • 32 Breakout Sessions from 60+ speakers with interactive Q&A.
  • Lightning sessions with interactive posters
  • 20+  All new technical sessions
  • Meet with an array of exhibitors in our virtual exhibition hall.
  • Social events
    • Quiz night (kindly sponsored by Overleaf)
    • Chair Yoga (kindly sponsored by AIP Publishing)
  • Networking (the heart of the UKSG event) – will be available so you can meet people in groups or have a one-to-one  chat in our virtual lounge.
  • You won’t want to miss the virtual reception after the programme closes on the Tuesday either!

For more details take a look at the website for the latest programme of speakers and activities. 

Bursaries

Don't forget to apply for one of our 15 sponsored places! Cambridge University Press and Cell Press are each sponsoring an HE Librarian to attend, Adam Matthew Digital and Wiley are each sponsoring a Student/Early Career Professional.   On top of this, UKSG are sponsoring 10 further free places, more details are available on our bursaries page

How to Register

To book your place please visit the Conference website.  We have low rates for all delegates and we have introduced a group rate for our library members.

Sponsorship & Exhibition Enquires

For information about sponsoring the conference, please see the details here and for exhibitor information please see here for details.

Sponsors

With thanks to our sponsors:

Key Sponsors: ACS Publications, IEEE, MA Group, Oxford University Press, Royal Society of Chemistry

Gold Sponsors: AAAS/Science, Adam Matthew Digital, AdvantageCS, AIP Publishing, Annual Reviews, Atypon, Bloomsbury Digital Resources, Cambridge University Press, EBSCO Information Services, Elsevier, Gale (a Cengage Company), Karger Publishers, Proquest, SAGE Publishing, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, VitalSource Technologies, Wiley

Silver Sponsors:  Content Online, Kortext, Overleaf

We are looking forward to welcoming you along. 

Vicky Drew

Events Executive

UKSG  

events@uksg.org

We have a number of upcoming FREE webinars – please visit https://www.uksg.org/events for more details

Recorded presentations scheduled to take place the 2020 UKSG Annual Conference - here

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