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SANLiC Conference Programme

ContentsProgramme Timetable..................................................................................................................................................2

Preconference Day Timetable– Monday 24 June 2019 ...........................................................................................2

1. Pre-conference Workshop: E-resource management 101: Toolkit for e-resources librarians ....................2

2. SCANDISPLAY Stand build.............................................................................................................................2

3. Exhibitor setup day.......................................................................................................................................2

4. Early conference registration .......................................................................................................................2

Main Conference Programme – Tuesday 25 – Thursday 27 June 2019...................................................................3

Day 1 – Tuesday 25...............................................................................................................................................3

Day 2 – Wednesday 26 .........................................................................................................................................4

Day 3 – Thursday 27 .............................................................................................................................................5

Confirmed Presenters...................................................................................................................................................6

Pre-Conference Presenters ......................................................................................................................................6

Conference Presenters.............................................................................................................................................9

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Programme Timetable

Preconference Day Timetable– Monday 24 June 2019

1. Pre-conference Workshop: E-resource management 101: Toolkit for e-resources librariansThis course has been designed for new e-resource librarians or a refresher and will be facilitated by experienced

member e-resource librarians. Dinner is arranged for the pre-conference delegates only at 19h30. There are

dining options on campus as well as within walking distance for those delegates not attending the preconference.

Registration 08h30

Opening remarks 09h50

1. Managing the e-resources life-cycle: spinning wheels or moving forward? - Dorette

Snyman

10h00

2. Dressing your library for success: the importance of electronic resource alignment -

Matthew Ragucci

10h40

Tea – Level 2 11h20

3. Increasing E-resource usage at your institution - Kusturie Moodley 11h50

4. A toolkit for the analysis of e-journal collections - Shireen Davis-Evans 12h30

Lunch - Stonebreakers 13h10

5. Using Excel like a pro to evaluate collections - Glenn Truran 14h10

6. Connecting the dots: using the E-Resources Hub to support Client Services outputs and

outcomes – Faith Zalekile

14h50

Tea – Level 0 15h30

7. Marketing e-resources to researchers – Zanele Magoba 16h00

8. Why work harder? Making ConsortiaManager work for you - Nels Rune Jensen 16h40

End 17h20

2. SCANDISPLAY Stand buildUntil 14h00

3. Exhibitor setup dayExhibitors register and setup stands from 14h00

4. Early conference registrationConference delegates may register from – 17h00 to 19h00


Main Conference Programme – Tuesday 25 – Thursday 27 June 2019All sessions with run sequentially in the main lecture theatre in the basement of the conference centre.

Day 1 – Tuesday 25Session Time Presentation Presenter Minutes

Registration andexhibition time

08h00 Foyer and Exhibition Halls 60

1. Opening Session 09h00 Chairperson Welcome and Housekeeping Laila Vahed 15

09h15 1. Pathways to Open Access: the University ofCalifornia Experience

Jeffrey MacKie-Mason

45

10h00 Session Q&A 10

10h10 Opening of Publisher Exhibition 20

Tea break 10h30 Exhibition Halls 30

Vendor Presentation11h00

2. What Do Students and Faculty Need in aResearch Database?

Stephen Hawthorne20

2. Open Science andSouth Africa

11h203. The implications of recent Open Science

developmentsColin Wright

20

11h40 4. The African Open Science Platform Ina Smith 20

12h005. Flipping out, over flipping the flip?

Understanding the challenges concerning theopen access flip, not to flip-out but to flip-in

Belinda Boucher20


Lunch break 12h30 Exhibition Halls 60

Vendor Presentations 13h30 6. Springer Nature Asdaa Kotani 10

13h407. Knowledge Empowers Innovation: CNKI’s

International ServicesCaroline Zhou

10

3. OA Paradigms13h50

8. The real costs of OA publishing & thepotential of a fully OA paradigm in scholarlycommunication

Martin Rasmussen(remotepresentation)

20

14h10 9. SCOAP3 Update Alex Kohls 20

14h3010. University of California multipayer model and

workflows for transformative agreementsJeffrey MacKie-Mason

20

14h5011. Supporting the transition to open access. Ben Townsend and

Liz Ferguson20



4. Panel Discussion -transformativeagreements

15h50 12. Transformative agreements in practice Colleen Campbell 20

16h10

13. Exploring the largest national transformativeagreement for scholarly communication

Panellists: GerardMeijer - Projekt Deal(remote), BenTownsend & LizFerguson - Wiley, JeffMacKie-Mason – UCFacilitator: ColleenCampbell - MPDL

40


17h00 Interaction with Vendors

Exhibitor’s cocktaildinner

18h30Exhibition Halls


Day 2 – Wednesday 26Session Time Presentation Presenter Minutes

Registration andexhibition time

08h00 Foyer and Exhibition Halls 30

Vendor Presentation 08h30 14. American Psychological Association George Kowal 20

5. Pathways to OpenAccess

08h50 15. Breaking up with Elsevier Jeffrey MacKie-Mason 20

09h1016. How to deal with no deal: Alternative access

to journal articlesColleen Campbell

20

09h30 17. Building blocks and benchmarks of the OAtransition: the ESAC Initiative

Colleen Campbell20



6. Data Analysis 10h30 18. e-Resource collection development policy Caroline Dean 20

10h5019. Open access citation advantage: an analysis

of publication trends of South Africanresearchers

Isabel Basson and JacoBlanckenberg 20

11h1020. Tools for Transition: the California Pay It

Forward ProjectMat Wilmott

20

11h3021. Tools for Transition: Data analysis to support

negotiations for transformative OAagreements

Mat Wilmott20


Lunch break 12h00 Exhibition Halls 60

Vendor Presentation13h00

22. Brill Evidence Select: A New Evidence-BasedAcquisition (EBA) Model for eBooks

David Elek10

7. Core competenciesand the userinterface

13h1023. User Experience = User Interface + Role of

the LibrarianMary Lister

20

13h3024. 99 Knowledgebase problems: a KBART crash

courseMatthew Ragucci

40

14h1025. Influencing the collection: small-scale

Patron-driven acquisitions at DUT Library Kusturie Moodley

20



8. Broad-spectrum15h10

26. An investigation into alternatives to IPauthentication for access to e-Resources atStellenbosch University

Naomi Visser20

15h3027. The library and the NREN Guy Halse & Wesley

Barry20

15h5028. Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS)

Roadmap of reviewing and implementing thee-Library Information Services

Gladys Ngwenya20


Stretch break 16h20 Stretch break 5

9. Future researchscenarios

16h2529. What will the world of research look like 10

years from now?Gemma Deakin ofElsevier

40

17h05 Interaction with Vendors

19h00Gala Dinner at Sevruga restaurant Entertainer – The fabulous Cindy

Gibbons and her band


Day 3 – Thursday 27

Session Time Presentation Presenter Minutes

10. Communication08h30

30. Is there an alternative to “death byPowerPoint?”

Mary Lister20

Vendor Presentations 08h50 31. Digital Humanities Archives Daniel Solomon 10

09h0032. The state of open access

publications in South AfricaTracey October-Vilakazi

10

11. Preparing forNegotiations

09h10 33. South African Law and agreements Louis van Niekerk 20

09h30 34. How the University of Californiaprepares for negotiations

Jeffrey MacKie-Mason20


10h00 Closing message Laila Vahed 10


12. Closed member session10h40

2019 for 2020 negotiation preparations Exhibitors take downexhibitions

90

Lunch break 12h10 Other BWL venue Workshop registration 50

13. DVC Research Workshop 13h00 By invitation only SCANDISPLAY takes downexhibition stands

Tea break 14h40

14. DVC Research Workshop(continued)

15h00

Closure 17h00


Confirmed Presenters

Pre-Conference PresentersPresenters Bio Topic and Abstract

Dorette Snyman Dorette Snyman is the Collection Developer:Commercial Electronic Resources at the Universityof South Africa Library. She is responsible for themanagement of the library’s electronic resourcesincluding the selection, licensing, fundmanagement, access management and collectionanalysis of the library’s collection of majorpublishers’ journal agreements, databasesubscriptions and major reference works. Withthe implementation of the Library’s Encore DuetDiscovery Service, this also includes themanagement and integration of the library’s e-resources knowledgebase. She takes an activeinterest in the latest developments in electronicresource management and has a keen interest innew technological developments regarding e-resources standards and integration.Dorette holds a BBibl (Honours) from theUniversity of Pretoria and is a long-standingmember of LIASA.

ORCiD ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9072-9820

1. Managing the e-resources life-cycle: spinningwheels or moving forward?

Although e-resources are now entrenched inacademic library collections, libraries are stillstruggling to manage these resources at scale.The common belief that e-resources require lesswork than print resources was quickly dispelled asstaff involved in managing these resourcesdiscovered that e-resources do not managethemselves. E-resources require constant tendingand, due to their significant cost and importance,it is essential that libraries manage themeffectively. This presentation will provide anoverview of the e-resources life cycle, relatedworkflows, processes and standards. The e-resources life cycle defined by Techniques forElectronic Resources Management (TERMS) willbe used. The workshop will also refer to newprocesses for preservation and open accessresources for inclusion within the life cycle.

MatthewRagucci

Matthew Ragucci is the Library Solution Architectat Wiley. He provides insight on metadata sharingstrategies for optimizing electronic resources andimproving library customer experience. Hecurrently serves as vice chair of the NASIGStandards Committee and is a member of theNISO Platform Migration Working Group. He alsoholds a part-time position as a reference andinstruction librarian at Brookdale CommunityCollege. Matthew earned his Master’s in Libraryand Information Science (MLIS) from RutgersUniversity. His publications are “Evidence-BasedAcquisition: A Real Life Account of Managing theProgram Within The Orbis Cascade Alliance” and“MARC Metamorphosis: Transforming the WayYou Look at E-Book Records.” His interests includemetadata, standards, reference, and userexperience.

2. Dressing your library for success: theimportance of electronic resource alignment

Resource discovery and access are key drivers forcontent usage. Aligning electronic resources hasbecome an increasingly complex and labour-intensive activity. Librarians and staff need to becompetent in making content discoverable andaccessible. This session will cover key concepts ine-resource cataloging, discoverability and usingknowledgebases to create access points.Participants will leave understanding how to applythose concepts at their own institutions.

KusturieMoodley

Kusturie Moodley is the Co-ordinator: MaterialAcquisitions Librarian at the Durban University ofTechnology(DUT) Library where she manages allaspects of the acquisitions, periodicals and e-resources workflows. Her areas of interest includeemerging technologies, collection development,open access, data science and informationservices. Kusturie earned her MLIS and aCertificate of Advanced Study in Data Sciencefrom Syracuse University School of InformationStudies. She also holds a Bachelor of Accounting

3. Increasing e-resource usage at your institution

Library marketing is essential. It supports thelibrary in building its brand and image as well asthe services and e-resources that are offered. Inthis digital age, libraries are no longer the onlychoice for students, academics, researchers andstaff to go to for information. Library competitorsand technological advances have forced librariesto rethink some of their conventional marketingtechniques to promote e-resources. To raise


Presenters Bio Topic and Abstract

Science and Honours in Bachelor of InformationScience from the University of South Africa.

awareness of e-resources and entice patrons touse e-resources, DUT Library staff had to adapttheir marketing strategies and use innovativepromotional approaches as effectively as possible.My aim is to highlight some of the conventionalmarketing techniques, which DUT Libraryrepackaged to promote usage of e-resources andto introduce various tools that can be used formarketing e-resources.

Shireen Davis-Evans

Shireen Davis-Evans was the SubscriptionsLibrarian at the University of Cape Town Librariesuntil May 2019. She holds a Master’s degree inBusiness Information Technology (InformationManagement) from RMIT University (Australia)and has over 25 years of experience in the librarysector. Her previous positions includeSubscriptions Librarian at UCT Libraries (2013 –2016), Librarian at the South African AstronomicalObservatory (2001 – 2013) and various posts atCape Town City Libraries (1992-2000), includingSystems Librarian and Periodicals Librarian.

4. A toolkit for the analysis of e-journalcollections

Four years ago UCT Libraries went through anextensive review of its journal collection. Thisexercise was critical due to impending budgetcuts. However this exercise was also essential inassessing whether the journal collections werealigned to the current research & learning needsof the university.In this presentation I will examine the methods,analysis and tools that were used to evaluate theexisting e-journal packages. I will identify keyelements essential in any toolkit for analysing e-journal packages.

Glenn Truran After graduating from the University of theWitwatersrand (Wits), Glenn Truran worked as aneducator in South Africa and England. He hasworked for poverty alleviation non-profitorganisations for most of his career and has over20 years’ experience at a managerial level. He hasa BA and two post graduate diplomas from Wits,the first in education and the second in publicpolicy and development administration. He alsohas an MBA from the University of Cape Town.

5. Using Excel like a pro to evaluate collections

Excel’s powerful analytical tools can help you toanalyse large amounts of data to discover trendsand patterns that will assist you to makedecisions. Excel can help you to organise data,turn the data into helpful graphcis and charts andhelp you to carry out basic and more complexmathematical functions.

Faith Zalekile Faith Zalekile’s journey in the library world beganin 2005 at the then newly merged University ofJohannesburg (UJ), with a financial qualificationobtained from the Technikon Witwatersrand. Shestarted out at the circulation desk as the reservecollection assistant, after three weeks moved tothe Periodicals and Acquisitions section. In late2009 she was appointed Team LeaderAcquisitions & e-Resources. Since then she hasobtained an information science qualification andis furthering her studies in this field. Currently sheis the e-Resources Librarian at UJ.

6. Connecting the dots: using the E-ResourcesHub as a strategy to support Client Services’outputs and outcomes

The core function of an e-resources librarian is tomanage the stages of the electronic resourceslife-cycle. Maintaining an awareness of trends andongoing developments in areas related to theentire life cycle of e-resources is essential. In mostlibraries, e-resources use up a significant amountof the information budget. In the currentfinancially strained environment, librarymanagement has to prove the value-add andbenefit of e-resources in a tangible manner inorder to justify the budget. E-resources librarianshave to use innovative ways to prove the saidvalue. Using practical scenarios this presentationwill demonstrate how the E-Resources Hub helpsto achieve tangible and quantifiable outcomes inorder to support the university’s strategic goals.



Zanele Magoba Zanele Magoba brings over 12 years' experience inthe library information services field and hasacquired an outstanding reputation as a trainingfacilitator on various digital library systems,database platforms and research tools.

Her roles have ranged from managing a portfolioof clients, designing and facilitating varioustraining programmes. She is currently a productspecialist at WorldWide Information Services inJohannesburg.

7. Marketing e-resources to researchers

Libraries subscribe to information resources inorder to satisfy information needs, supportdissemination of knowledge and provide a portalto global content for various subject areas.Librarians are constantly developing librarycollections in order to support their users at manydifferent levels. Marketing is frequently viewed asa set of strategies that belong to administrators,not librarians. How do we introduce marketingstrategies into the library to promote our servicesand position the library as the knowledge hub ofthe organisation? The answer lies in remodellingour roles to include a marketing consultantpersona. The objective of this presentation is toequip library staff with entry-level skills of socialmedia marketing. Practical solutions are providedon how to implement a marketing strategy. Thelink between promoting library services andraising the profile of the library will also be shown.

Nels RuneJensen

With almost 20 years of international experiencein the information industry, Nels Rune Jensen hasheld positions with Munksgaard Intl. Publishers,Blackwell Publishing, Swets and most recently asChief Commercial Officer for LM Informationdelivery, before starting his own company.

8. Why work harder? Making ConsortiaManagerwork for you

ConsortiaManager is a workflow tool andelectronic workflow management system speciallydesigned for library consortia. On 1 August 2016the 2017 SANLiC renewals process was launchedon ConsortiaManager. Since then the system hasallowed SANLiC staff to keep track of allconsortium-negotiated agreements as well asmember and vendor details and usage statistics(where available).


Conference Presenters


Jeffrey MacKie-Mason The keynote speaker will beJeffrey MacKie-Mason, Professor,School of Information andProfessor of Economics at theUniversity of California, Berkeley.Jeffrey is also the UniversityLibrarian and Chief DigitalScholarship Officer at UC Berkeleyand co-chairs the University ofCalifornia Publisher NegotiationsTask Force. The University ofCalifornia is a ten–campus systemresponsible for 10% of thescholarly output of the UnitedStates and a leading proponent ofopen access.

1. Pathways to Open Access: the University ofCalifornia Experience

Following the 12th Berlin Open Access Conference in2015, and the release of the OA2020 Expression ofInterest, the University of California Academic Senateand Libraries set forth to develop a new commitmentto rapid transformation of the scholarly publishingindustry to accomplish universal open access. The firststep was to develop a coalition in agreement onobjectives, strategies and tactics. This was achievedand announced in several published documents in thefirst months of 2018, including Pathways to OpenAccess. The coalition then launched strategic initiativesto deliver on the ambitious goals. In this session Jeffreywill review how the coalition was built, the strategicroadmap they developed, and their first year ofactions, including a brief report on their negotiationswith publishers to obtain transformative agreements.

10. University of California multipayer model andworkflows for transformative agreements

The University of California Libraries developed amodel for transformative (publish-and-read)agreements that meets the needs of North American(and perhaps other) institutions with decentralizedresearch funding and local responsibility for fundingscholarly communication. In this session Jeffrey willpresent the UC model, and discuss the publisher andlibrary workflows needed to support it.

15. Breaking up with Elsevier

When developing its commitment to obtain a publish-and-read contract, the University of California Librariesknew that they might need to cancel their Big Dealsubscription with Elsevier if agreement could not bereached. Thus planning for possible cancellation beganmore than six months before the end of the previouscontract. In this session Jeffrey will discuss the analysisthey undertook to prepare for cancellation, and theirplans for implementing alternative access. He will alsodiscuss the extensive communications campaigndeveloped to keep our faculty and students informed.

34. How the University of California prepares fornegotiations

The University of California met regularly with Elsevierover an eight month period; and has also beennegotiating transformative agreements with otherpublishers. In this session Jeffrey will discusspragmatics: how the negotiation team was formed,roles, preparation, and negotiation tactics.



Stephen Hawthorne Stephen Hawthorne is VP SalesEMEA for ProQuest and has over20 years’ global experience in theinformation solutions industryworking with both commercial(Reed Elsevier) and not-for-profit(Royal Society of Chemistry)publishing organizations in sales,marketing and publishing roles.Stephen is a native of NorthernIreland where he graduated inEconomics from the Queen’sUniversity of Belfast. He now livesin Cambridgeshire, UnitedKingdom.

2. What do students and faculty need in a researchdatabase?

Universities sit at the heart of an ecosystem focused onsolving global challenges. Learning, teaching andresearch are taking more collaborative and multi-disciplinary approaches in helping address thesechallenges. Universities therefore are seekingresources and innovative business models to supporttheir patrons with the content, tools and services theyneed to enable critical thinking, engage with the widersociety and build research expertise. ProQuest isworking to ensure our university partners have suchresources.

Colin Wright Colin Wright retired as Professor:Computational Mathematics fromthe University of theWitwatersrand (Wits) with therank Emeritus Research Professor.In addition to considerableacademic managementexperience he has also been theResearch Manager: Centre forHigh Performance Computing, hasmanaged the South AfricanNational Research Network(SANREN) and, in 2008, hemotivated for the establishmentof the Very Large Databaseinitiative (now called the DataIntensive Research Initiative forSA). As Special Advisor to the SANational Integrated CyberInfrastructure System (NICIS) heled the implementation. Colin wasalso a member of the G7+O5Research Data InfrastructureWorking Group, an EU FP7/9reviewer and a member of H2020Research Infrastructures and e-Infrastructures Advisory Group.He is currently a member of theSA Research InfrastructureRoadmap Steering Committeeand of the SA DST-EU WorkingGroup, and has advised on the SAnational Open Science policy.

3. The implications of recent Open Sciencedevelopments

Open Science (OS), or Open Research has, in recenttimes, become a topic of intense interest … why? OScomprises broad and embracing strategies andpractices with many implications. We explore themerits, advantages and challenges as well as benefits ofthis innovative, contemporary mode of research. DSTrecently published the now Cabinet adopted WhitePaper on Science, Technology and Innovation (March2019) which advocates the adoption of the OSapproach in the pursuit, practice, funding, governanceand promotion of research in this country. OpenInnovation and Citizen Science require novelapproaches. Should South African institutions andresearchers embrace this approach in order to achievenational, global or local institutional researchcompatibility—or not? Are there implications for theprofessional librarian, the library and indeed forSANLiC?

Ina Smith Ina Smith’s research focus is onpromoting digital skills, openaccess, open science and opendata publishing in the globalSouth, with specific emphasis onAfrica. She holds a Masters’

4. Accelerating science, technology and innovationthrough Open Data and Open Science – the AfricanOpen Science Platform

Data – both in raw and processed format, and inaddition to monographs, research articles and other



Degree from the University ofPretoria in Computer-IntegratedEducation, a Higher EducationTeaching Diploma, and anHonours Degree in Library andInformation Science. She hasconsiderable experience workingin open access at the University ofPretoria and StellenboschUniversity; she has developedtraining materials and presentedtraining course in digital skills. Inais currently a project manager atthe Academy of Science of SA,where she manages the AfricanOpen Science Platform project.She is also a DOAJ Ambassador forsouthern Africa. Ina is a long-standing active member of LIASAand has won several awards. Inher personal capacity, Ina offerstraining in digital citizenship as co-director of In the Cloud: CreatingDigital Citizens (MICT SETAaccredited training company). Shetakes a keen interest in theresearch process and activelypromotes lifelong learning inpreparation for the challenges ofthe 4th Industrial Revolution.

forms of research output - is an increasingly valuableinformation resource. This is the result of anenvironment driven by data, referred to as the FourthIndustrial Revolution. Data has always been at theheart of science, technology and innovation but, whilethe sharing of information Increased the speed oftechnological change in the 18th Century, data is theFourth Industrial Revolution. To illustrate this point, in2013, the total amount of digital data in circulationwas estimated to be 4.4 zettabytes; by 2020 it isexpected to grow to 44 zettabytes. To be of benefit tocommunities, data needs to well curated and FAIR(findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable). TheAfrican Open Science Platform conducted a study tofind out the status of Open Data and Open Science onthe African continent. This paper will share selectedfindings from the report with the aim of stimulatingthought on the role of libraries in ensuring dataremains available to those communities that shouldbenefit from it.

Belinda Boucher Belinda Boucher started hercareer in 1996, as a juniorlibrarian at the AgriculturalResearch Council (ARC). Shemoved to the IT and SystemsDepartment, as SystemsDeveloper and Systems Librarian,responsible for developing in-house systems for the ARC, whilemanaging the library system. In2003 she was appointed asElectronic Content Librarian at theTshwane University ofTechnology, where she assistedwith the development of TUT’sown Electronic Resources Portaland the development of theelectronic resources portfolio andthe management thereof. In2007 she joined SWETS as ClientServices Executive and six monthslater as Business DevelopmentExecutive. In 2010 she movedback to the Tshwane University ofTechnology as Electronic ContentLibrarian and graduated in 2016

5. Flipping out, over flipping the flip? Understandingthe challenges concerning the open access flip, notto flip-out but to flip-in.

Open access (OA) promised many advantages toacademia. However, the main issue concerning the flipremains the ever-increasing costs of the big deals butmore so free access and the right to use qualitypublished research. It is clear that most publishinghouses embrace OA, since they have found ways tomaintain their stream of income, in spite of the OA flip,concentrating on quantity and not quality. Since goldOA publishing is being embraced by both the academicsector and libraries, it maintains the high quality andstandard of research articles, as the same journals thatauthors were used to in the past, are used,simultaneously managing the stigma of predatorypublishing within the OA world. The investments in bigdeals are therefore the same investments to be madein gold OA access, but through author processingcharges. By way of manipulation, this paper willinvestigate and focus on the challenges faced in makingthe open access movement a success, in spite of thesame pot of money being used, making librarians flipin, not flip-out.



as Master in InformationTechnology from the University ofPretoria.

Asdaa Kotani Asdaa Kotani is the Vice Presidentof Institutional Sales, EasternEurope, Middle East, Africa andCentral Asia (EEMEACA) atSpringer Nature. Based in Dubai,United Arab Emirates, hecurrently manages theInstitutional Sales teams forEastern Europe, Russia, theMiddle East and India. He findsthe work both challenging andsatisfying and enjoys meeting andworking with many interestingpeople. In his spare time, heenjoys cooking (especiallybarbeques), spending time withhis family and playing football.

6. Springer Nature e-books.

This presentation will briefly highlight the disciplinescovered by the collections, how they can be accessedand how the collections can benefit library users withdifferent scientific backgrounds.

Caroline Zhou Caroline Zhou has nine years’experience in the MarketingDepartment of CNKI International.She is currently head of GlobalGovernment and ResearchInstitutes Business Units of CNKIInternational. Caroline isresponsible for providinginformation on Chinese academicachievements in the sciences andsocial sciences and knowledgesolutions to the global academicmarket.

7. Knowledge empowers innovation: CNKI’sinternational services

This presentation will introduce China NationalKnowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), the biggest e-resources provider in China. CNKI is the definitivegateway to Chinese scholarly communication. Chinahas made great strides in scientific innovation in recentyears, and CNKI is the best resource for accessing thisinformation.

Martin Rasmussen Martin Rasmussen is ManagingDirector of Copernicus Meetingsand Open Access Publications.Before joining Copernicus, Martinstudied geoinformatics,environmental chemistry andphysics at the Friedrich SchillerUniversity in Jena, completed hisMSC in hydrology and worked insystems analysis and modelling.He now speaks regularly atconferences on open accesspublishing and open data and hascontributed to working groupsdealing with open accessfinancing, transparent peer-review approaches, and datacitation. He is co-founder of theOpen Access Scholarly PublisherAssociation (OASPA), an advisoryboard member of the Directory of

8. The real costs of OA publishing and the potential ofa fully OA paradigm in scholarly communication

The triumph of open-access (OA) publishing in the STMdisciplines has been enabled through the availability ofresearch funds, keeping the hurdle of article processingcharges (APCs) for authors relatively low. At the sametime, STM publishing has suffered from the journalcrisis with 400% growth in subscription fees over 20years. This artificially increased subscription incomemotivated traditional publishers to calculate their APCsfor OA publications by dividing the turnover by thenumber of articles. They claim €3,000–€5,000 perarticle.Concurrently, newly founded pure open-accesspublishers have developed new business models. TheirAPCs are much lower. This presentation will show whatthe real costs of OA publishing are. Furthermore,applying the OA principle has much more to offer thanfree access to scientific literature. The seconddimension is public access to the peer review of a



Open Access Journals (DOAJ), anda member of both thePublications Committee and theProgramme Committee of theEuropean Geosciences Union.

manuscript with commenting options prior topublication, and the third dimension makes all assets ofa paper freely accessible (e.g. data sets, software code,videos, or samples) enabling reproduction and reuse ofscientific results.

Alexander Kohls In his capacity as SCOAP3Operations Manager, AlexanderKohls supports the SCOAP3collaboration to ensure itsfinancial and operationaleffectiveness. Alex acts as anintermediary between the 3,000partner institutions of theinitiative on the one side and thecommercial and societypublishers on the other side. Alexalso heads the CERN ScientificInformation Service, whichincludes the CERN Library and theCERN Historic Archive. Incollaboration with internationalpartners, his team develops andoperates some of the key digitalrepository solutions for particlephysics. Alex holds a degree inbusiness administration andjoined CERN with 20 years’experience from the financialindustry where he worked invarious senior roles primarily inoperations, project and businessmanagement.

9. Collaborating for the good - an analysis of theimpact of SCOAP3

SCOAP3, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access inParticle Physics, was one of the pioneers of a large-scale collaborative model to achieve open access tojournal articles. The initiative started in 2014 and hassince converted almost 30,000 journal articles at nocost to individual authors. Alex Kohls, the OperationsManager of SCOAP3 will present a review of five yearsof SCOAP3 and highlight the impact the initiative hadon the researcher and library community in particlephysics and beyond.

Ben Townsend and LizFerguson

Ben Townsend is VP of GlobalLibrary Sales, EMEA & APAC. Benjoined Blackwell Science in 1999,initially working in Societymembership services beforemoving on to a number ofdifferent Sales and Marketingroles with Blackwell Publishingand subsequently Wiley (with ashort stint as a medical bookspublisher in between). Ben isresponsible for the Wiley LibrarySales organization in EMEA andAPAC regions, leading thedevelopment and implementationof global sales strategies for theLibrary market.

Liz Ferguson leads Wiley’s OpenAccess strategy and is alsoresponsible for acceleratedgrowth within key subjects inWiley’s global journal portfolio.

11. Supporting the transition to open access

This session will provide an overview of Wiley’sinvolvement in transitional agreements around Europeto date. Ben and Liz will share the successes, challengesand complexities encountered with the different OpenScience mandates and individual customerrequirements. Finally, they will discuss how Wiley hasbeen engaging with its society partners in thistransition process.



She played a significant role inlaunching Wiley’s Open Accessprogram and developed Wiley’sposition on data sharing. Liz is amember of the Royal Society’sPublishing Board, the ExternalAdvisory Board of DataONE, andthe Universities UK OA EfficienciesWorking Group. She has servedtwo terms on the Board of Dryad,and has been on the organizingcommittee of the Conference onOpen Access Scholarly Publishingsince 2013.

Colleen Campbell Colleen Campbell leads outreachand engagement in the OpenAccess 2020 Initiative, which iscoordinated by the Max PlanckDigital Library on behalf of theglobal research community.Passionate about libraries and theexciting changes underway inscholarly communication, Colleenleads activities that enablestakeholders to take pro-activesteps toward creating a fair,sustainable and open informationenvironment. Recently shecoordinated the 14th Berlin OpenAccess Conference in whichdelegations from 37 countriesvoiced the shared expectationthat subscription publishers workwith all members of the globalresearch community to effectcomplete and immediate openaccess. Previously EuropeanDirector for Strategic Partnershipsfor JSTOR and the digitalpreservation service Portico, shehas over 20 years’ experienceacross all areas of the academicinformation sector. Colleen serveson the LIBER Open AccessWorking Group and is an electedmember of the UKSG MainCommittee. Formerly an actress,she holds a BA in Drama, an MA inItalian Studies and lives nearFlorence, Italy.

12. Transformative agreements in practice

Libraries and consortia around the world areincreasingly adopting Transformative Agreements toenable the many benefits of open access for theirresearchers and society at large. More recently, thePlan S Principles issued by the research fundingorganizations of cOALition S has contributed to theuptake of Transformative Agreements globally. As anintroduction to the panel session on TransformativeAgreements, Colleen will provide an overview of theunderlying rationale for and mechanisms oftransformative agreements.

16. How to deal with no deal: alternative access tojournal articles

Whether in the context of an agreement cancellation,stalled negotiations or merely because libraries cannotafford to license everything, it is important tounderstand just how much subscription journal contentis available open access and how institutions and theirresearchers are tapping into it. In this session, Colleenwill highlight some of the many tools that can be usedto connect researchers to the content they need.

17. Building blocks and benchmarks of the OA transition:the ESAC Initiative

The ESAC Initiative defines Transformative Agreementsas "contracts negotiated between institutions (libraries,national and regional consortia) and publishers thattransform the business model underlying scholarlyjournal publishing, moving from one based on tollaccess (subscription) to one in which publishers areremunerated a fair price for their open accesspublishing services". However, as these agreementsare, by nature, temporary and transitional, there is nostandard model, and the agreements negotiated todate are considered to be iterative by bothlibraries/consortia and publishers. At the same time, allTransformative Agreements have certain



characteristics that are consistent, starting with thevery principles and objectives and moving down to newworkflow requirements. In this session Colleen willintroduce the ESAC Initiative and its many features atthe service of libraries and consortia who wish to knowmore about transformative agreements.

Panel DiscussionModerator:Colleen Campbell - MPDL

Panellists:

Gerard Meijer – ProjektDEAL

Ben Townsend & LizFerguson - Wiley,Jeff MacKie-Mason - UC,

Moderator:Colleen Campbell - MPDL

Panellists:

Ben Townsend & Liz Ferguson -Wiley,Jeff MacKie-Mason - UCGerard Meijer – Projekt DEAL

Prof. Gerard Meijer is Director ofthe Fritz Haber Institute (FHI) ofthe Max Planck Society in Berlin,Germany. His luminous scientificcareer and impactful researchhave earned him numerousrecognitions among which beingelected member of the AcademiaEuropaea in 2013 and a royaldecoration and conference ofKnighthood in the Order of theNetherlands Lion in 2017. In 2012he was appointed President of theExecutive Board of RadboudUniversity in Nijmegen and duringhis tenure lead, on behalf of theVSNU (Association of Universitiesin the Netherlands), the groundbreaking negotiations with themajor subscription publishers(most notably Elsevier), effectivelytaking the first step in thetransition of today’s scholarlyjournals to Open Access.

13. Panel Discussion - Exploring the largest nationaltransformative agreement for scholarlycommunication

In January 2019, the publisher John Wiley & Sons andthe Projekt DEAL, a representative of nearly 700academic institutions in Germany, entered a groundbreaking transformative agreement which allowsresearchers at Projekt DEAL institutions theopportunity to publish their articles accepted forpublication in Wiley’s subscription journals fully openaccess and provides all Projekt DEAL institutions withaccess to read Wiley’s academic journals back to theyear 1997. The innovative “Publish and Read” costmodel behind the agreement sees former subscriptionexpenditures shifted to support open access publishing,in line with the objectives of the Open Access 2020Initiative. A panel of experts from the publisher, libraryand research communities will discuss the significanceof the agreement in the evolving landscape of scholarlycommunication.

George Kowal George Kowal has 20 years’experience in providing tools andresources to the scholarly andacademic community. CurrentlyHead of Sales, Licensing andCustomer Engagement at theAmerican PsychologicalAssociation (APA), George isresponsible for providingsolutions across all markets bybringing APA’s premier content toall the communities served by ourglobal publishing operations. Insupport of APA’s mission in“advancing psychology to

14. American Psychological Association - the storybehind our mission as an association publisher

This session will feature a look at the APA as anassociation publisher, and how our mission drives ourproducts. The session will also review key updates toAPA’s data base products such as PsycINFO,PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, PsycTHERAPY andPsycTESTS.



benefiting society and improvepeople’s lives”, George isresponsible for APA Books whichincludes resources for APA Style,Life Tools, Magination Press andreference/scholarly titles.

Caroline Dean Caroline Dean is Principal Librarianin the Acquisitions Department atthe University of Cape Town (UCT)Libraries, a position she has heldsince July 2013. Prior roles includeElectronic Resources Librarian(June 2000 to September 2013)and manager of the CommerceInformation Services Section(August 2007 to July 2011). Herlibrary career started out in theUCT Health Sciences Librarywhere she occupied various rolesbetween December 1991 andmid-2000. She holds a BSc fromStellenbosch University and anMBibl from UCT.

18. e-Resource collection development policy

“Libraries without collection development policies arelike businesses without business plans.” So writesPeggy Johnson in her book Fundamentals of collectiondevelopment and management (2014, 3rd ed). In thispresentation we will define what a collectiondevelopment policy (CDP) is and outline its purpose.We will touch on the various components thatcomprise a CDP and discuss the need for an e-resourceCDP.

Isabel Basson and

Jaco Blanckenberg

Isabel Basson is currently workingas a post-doctoral fellow at CRESTafter obtaining a doctorate inScience and Technology Studies atStellenbosch University in 2019.Her doctoral studies investigatedwhether gold open access journalarticles experience a citationadvantage using differentmeasures of citation advantage.Before joining the SciSTIP teamIsabel worked at the HSRC on theSouth African R&D survey. Hercurrent research interests are:bibliometrics, scientometrics andjournal publication policies with afocus on open access publishing.

Jaco Blanckenberg obtained adoctorate in physics fromStellenbosch University. Hismasters and doctoral studiesincluded strong elements ofcomputer simulation andcomputational physics, both ofwhich require working with, andanalysing, large quantities of data.He has been working in the fieldof bibliometrics as a post-doctoralfellow at CREST since 2015.

19. Open access citation advantage: an analysis ofpublication trends of South African researchers



Mathew Willmott Mathew Willmott is the OpenAccess Collection Strategist at theCalifornia Digital Library (CDL),where his primary role involvesconducting data analysis, financialmodelling, and strategic planningrelating to transformativeagreements, which encompassboth access to content and openaccess publication. Prior to thisrole, Mathew served as the dataanalyst on the Pay-It-Forwardproject, a Mellon Foundation-funded project conducted by UCDavis and the CDL to investigatethe feasibility and sustainability ofthe APC model for large NorthAmerican research institutions.Before starting this project withCDL in May of 2015, Mathewworked for the MIT Libraries in amulti-faceted role includingphysics librarian responsibilities,collections analysis andassessment, and developmentand administration ofinfrastructure supporting theimplementation of the MITFaculty Open Access Policy.

20. Tools for Transition: The University of CaliforniaPay-It-Forward project and modeling tool

In June 2016, the University of California (led by UCDavis and the California Digital Library) completed an18-month study to examine the sustainability andfeasibility of the article processing charge (APC)business model for large, research-intensiveuniversities in North America. Outcomes from thisstudy help to guide the University of California’s effortsto transform the scholarly publishing system, and thepublicly-available Model Calculation Tool (MCT)developed as a part of the project, can extend theanalysis to other research institutions. This session willprovide an overview of the project and its findings, aswell as a brief primer on the MCT and how it can beleveraged for use elsewhere.

21. Tools for Transition: Data analysis to supportnegotiations for transformative OA agreements

Transformative OA agreements represent a new way ofdoing business with publishers. In order to be properlyprepared to negotiate for and enter into theseagreements, libraries must employ data analysisstrategies that go beyond the standard return oninvestment that is commonly used to measure thevalue of traditional subscriptions. This session willexamine the analysis strategies and tools that weredeveloped at the California Digital Library to supportthe University of California’s negotiations fortransformative OA agreements with Elsevier,Cambridge University Press, and many otherpublishers.

David Elek David Elek is Sales Manager for theMiddle East, South Asia and Africaat Brill. He formerly held similarpositions at Springer, Blackwelland OCLC.

22. Brill Evidence Select: a new evidence-basedacquisition (EBA) model for e-books

This presentation will provide a brief overview of thenew Brill Evidence Select EBA model. Brill EvidenceSelect gives librarians control over the development oftheir collections, while enabling them to address the e-book demands of their users.

Mary Lister Mary Lister is the Library Managerat the University of Cape Town(UCT) Graduate School ofBusiness (GSB). Mary’s passion forsupporting and guiding studentsand faculty includes facilitatingintroductory information trainingsessions on the informationresources available as well as one-on-one sessions throughout theyear. This has honed herpresentations skills and herinterest and expertise with user

23. User Experience = User Interface + Role of theLibrarian

User experience begins with the user’s initial interfacewith an academic portal and at each interaction, theuser, depending on their skills, knowledge, motivationand persistence, may continue or drop out. It is thefunction of the library website to facilitate the initialengagement, and then the responsibility of eachdatabase or platform to provide an experience that willallow the user to access what they need and discoverthe full potential of that database. The question isasked: Do users who need an article which an academic



interfaces and user experiences.She holds a BA, an HDLIS, and anHDE (PG)Sec all from UCT, a PostGraduate Diploma in SchoolMedia Studies (UNISA), and aTrain the Trainer Certificate(CPUT). She is a CertifiedMendeley Librarian.

has written and published in a journal need tounderstand this “land between” – the role of Google,Google Scholar, Primo (or another library platform), thefilter of the Library website, the databases, theplatforms, open-access vs paid for content? Thispresentation explores the role of the librarian and theuser interface in ensuring an excellent user experienceand ultimately, the quality of research they produce.

30. Is there an alternative to “death byPowerPoint?”

Do your PowerPoint presentations send your audienceto sleep? Do your Prezi presentations make youraudience feel seasick? A range of skills, an ability toread your audience, good knowledge of your topic,combined with a passion for your area of expertise areall elements that will result in a successfulpresentation. In this presentation, we will focus on howto make your presentations relevant, interesting andmemorable.

Matthew Ragucci Matthew Ragucci SEEPRECONFERENCE FOR PHOTOAND BIO

24. 99 Knowledgebase problems: a KBART crash course

Seldom do aspiring librarians predict that they will bethe ones managing the intricacies of electronicresources. Yet, many are charged with complicatedand unique tasks, like having to align resources invendor knowledge bases. This can often be a confusingand frustrating process for librarians. This session willprovide a brief overview of the KBART standard, itsplace in the electronic resource workflows, trends, andhow librarians can avoid some commonknowledgebase issues.

Kusturie Moodley Kusturie SEE PRECONFERENCEFOR PHOTO AND BIO

25. Influencing the collection: small-scale Patron-driven acquisitions at the Durban University of Technology(DUT) Library

The challenge for all libraries is creating an effectiveand appropriate library collection. Historically,collection development in academic libraries was basedon assumptions about patron needs. However, thetrend over the past couple of years has shifted from a“just-in-case” model to an evidence-based “just-in-time” model. Patron-driven acquisition (PDA) has beengaining much popularity, predominately in the onlineinformation environment, involving the patron in theprocess of building and shaping the library’s collections.The DUT Library has been experimenting with the useof patron-driven acquisitions (PDAs) since 2016 andlibrary patrons—unbeknownst to them—have beenplaying a part in building the library collections. Thispaper will discuss the experience of the DUT Library’sforay into small-scale patron-driven acquisition (PDA)and will explore the benefits and challenges inimplementing a PDA plan.



Naomi Visser Naomi Visser is Manager: e-Resources at the Library andInformation Service, StellenboschUniversity. She has held thisposition since 2013, before whichshe was Faculty Librarian for Arts& Social Sciences at the sameinstitution.

26. An investigation into alternatives to IPauthentication for access to e-resources atStellenbosch University (SU)

Until recently, IP authentication combined with a proxyserver for off-campus access has been the mostcommon solution worldwide to authorizing access tolicensed e-resources. This is also the case at SU whereEZproxy is the proxy server of choice. For variousreasons, however, there has been a growing interest ineliminating IP authentication in favour of federatedaccess and single user sign-on. At SU, a working groupwas tasked to investigate next-generation systems inorder to make a recommendation regarding analternative to EZproxy for accessing online informationsources, for implementation, if indicated. The workinggroup compared EZproxy, OpenAthens and RA21 basedon the following points: cost, user experience, impacton library staff, privacy and vendors. The results of thisinvestigation are summarized in this presentation.

Guy Halse Guy Halse is the Director: Trust &Identity at TENET. Trust & Identityis a term used within research andeducation networking to describea suite of related services andtechnologies focused aroundbuilding and supportingcollaboration capability withininstitutions and across borders. InSouth Africa, Guy's Trust &Identity portfolio embracesORCID, eduroam, the SAFIREidentity federation, and acertification authority. Prior tojoining TENET, he was RhodesUniversity's IT OperationsManager, and was involved in thetechnical operations of the SEALSlibrary consortium.

27. The library and the NREN (co-presenting)Just as libraries are evolving, so too are the world’snational research and education networks (NRENs).The last few years have seen great synergies betweenthe library and the NREN. Globally, publishers, librariesand NRENs have been working together under thebanner of the RA21 (Resource Access for the 21stcentury) project to make access to journals and otherelectronic resources simpler and more intuitive forusers. While RA21 is still finalising itsrecommendations, TENET, as the operator of the SouthAfrican NREN, has already offered to host an Africaninstance of the infrastructure that would be required tomake this a reality. Similarly, through the SAFIREidentity federation we have helped South Africanuniversity consortia to leverage expensive resourcesmore effectively. No discussion of “the library and theNREN” would be complete without mention of ORCID,and the role NRENs are playing in supporting ORCID intheir communities.

Wesley Barry Wesley Barry is a SystemsAdministrator and ORCIDspecialist at TENET. Wesleystarted his career building andsupporting library systems at theUniversity of Cape Town beforemoving into more general IT. AtTENET, his library background hasmade him the ideal person toprovide ORCID consortiummembers with integrationsupport. He is also more broadlyinvolved in the suite of trust &identity services TENET provides.



Gladys Ngwenya Gladys Ngwenya completed aBBibl at the University of theWestern Cape and began hercareer as a librarian in 1999 atBramley Primary School inJohannesburg. In 2001, she joinedthe Pharmaceutical Society ofSouth Africa as a trainer and ayear later joined the Air Trafficand Navigation Services SOC Ltd.(ATNS) as Air Traffic ManagementOfficer. In 2009, ATNS establisheda specialized library providingInternational Civil AviationOrganization documentation andinformation services. Gladysbecame the first library manager.She is passionate aboutencouraging ATNS staff to use thelibrary resources.

28. Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) Roadmapof reviewing and implementing the e-LibraryInformation Services

Air Traffic and Navigation Services SOC Limited (ATNS)provides air traffic, navigation, training and associatedservices within South Africa and a large part of thesouthern Indian and Atlantic Ocean, comprisingapproximately 10% of the world's airspace. ATNSstrives to be the preferred supplier of air trafficmanagement solutions and associated services to theAfrican continent as well as selected internationalmarkets. Recently, ATNS reviewed its strategies and,amongst others, decided to expand the library servicesto meet its organizational objectives of becoming atransformative organisation that invests in its staff;and, providing effective solutions and associatedservices that meet the needs and expectations of theATM community. Based on this, the library teamreviewed and optimised the library services andresources to meet the organisational vision andobjectives. This paper will outline the roadmap thatthey followed.

Gemma Deakin Gemma Deakin is a ResearchManager in the Customer Insightsteam at Elsevier, having joinedthe company in 2011 after sixyears working in a marketresearch agency in London. Shemanages several researchprograms used to drive action inthe business and to help shapeElsevier strategy. The CustomerInsights team works inpartnership with external groupsto deepen understanding of thescholarly landscape across theindustry. Gemma has a BAHonours degree in Sociology fromthe University of Sussex.

29. What will the world of research look like 10 yearsfrom now?

The research ecosystem is undergoing rapid andprofound change. This transformation is being fuelledby a wide range of factors, from advances intechnology and funding pressures to politicaluncertainty and population shifts. To understand howthese trends might shape the research landscape in thedecade ahead, Elsevier joined forces with Ipsos MORI,one of the world’s largest research agencies. Together,they conducted a large-scale, future-scoping andscenario-planning study that examines how researchwill be created and exchanged. The presentation willreview the three plausible future scenarios developedas part of ‘Research futures: drivers and scenarios forthe next decade’ project. We will discuss how theywere derived and their implications for the present.

Link to report:https://www.elsevier.com/connect/elsevier-research-futures-report

Daniel Solomon Daniel Solomon began his careerin education over a decade ago,selling printed text books atuniversities in the Middle East forPearson Education. He then wentinto global online studentrecruitment for Ivy LeagueUniversities in the USA, Canadaand the United Kingdom. In 2016,he was hired as the countrymanager for Gale Cengage, basedin Dubai.

31. Digital Humanities Archives

Gale Cengage has, for many years, provided the world’slargest digital humanities archives collections, givingresearchers online access to rare historical manuscriptcollections previously restricted to academic readingrooms or microfilm. While some resources includehighly edited selections, these archives containcomplete collections, allowing researchers to discoveropposing views and perspectives, and to conductinterdisciplinary and comparative analyses.Researchers of all levels can explore new questions,



discover original connections and enrich lectures,papers and discussions.

Tracey October-Vilakazi Tracey October-Vilakazi is theRegional Manager for SouthernAfrica and Head of ResearchManagement Solutions for Africaat Clarivate Analytics’s Web ofScience Group. She has aBachelors Degree in InternationalRelations and a Masters Degree inPolitical Science from VrijUniversity Brussels and UniversitéLibre de Bruxelles, respectively.For several years Tracey hasworked with research institutionsacross the continent, to increasetheir research output and impact,and drive innovation. One of herkey areas of focus is to developstrategies to manage andshowcase African research on aglobal scale.

32. The state of open access publications in SouthAfrica

Open Access is expected to enable and accelerateresearch discovery at a global level. This studysheds light on the state of open access in SouthAfrica, through a data-driven approach. The studyseeks to answer questions around which fieldsand institutions are the most prolific in this area,the type of Open Access most utilized in theregion and what it means for the impact ofresearch measured through citations. A criticalcomponent is to contextualize the South Africanresearch landscape within the trends of globalresearch and analyse the affects that the globalOpen Access agenda, such as plan S, will have onresearch funding in the Global South.

Louis van Niekerk Louis van Niekerk is an attorneyspecialising in commercial law anda partner at Dorrington JessopInc. in Cape Town. He assistsclients with a wide variety ofcommercial matters, includingcompany law, commercialagreements, non-profit law,Broad-Based Black EconomicEmpowerment structures andconsumer law. His clients rangefrom start-ups, non-profits,schools and universities to small,medium and multinationalcommercial enterprises. Louisenjoys the challenge of engagingwith complex problems and tryingto find simple, effective solutions.His firm has a strong commitmentto social upliftment, conservationand education and assists manynon-profit organisationsoperating in those sectors. Louishas a passion for learning newthings and believes that it is ourduty to share our knowledge withothers.

33. Subscription Agreements and South African Law

Subscription Agreements are the cornerstone ofeducational institutions’ access to essential electronicresources, yet may pose a number of challenges whereone party is located in South Africa and the other isoverseas. This talk briefly considers the key provisionsof such agreements as well as potential challenges thatarise in the South African context, including the use ofelectronic signatures, jurisdiction, protection ofpersonal information and the use of alternative accessmethods, such as Sci-Hub.

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