CFP: UKSG Forum 2025 (United Kingdom Serials Group) - December 3rd, 2025 (Brighton, UK)

The popular UKSG Forum will be held in Brighton on Wednesday 3^rd December 2025.  In addition, we are also pleased to announce that the call for topics is now open for submissions. 

 

We encourage all interested individuals to submit their proposals here. This is an excellent opportunity to share your insights with an engaged and diverse audience. The UKSG Forum provides a friendly and inclusive space where experienced and first-time speakers representing the different segments of the sector are welcome to showcase their area of expertise and/or interests.

 

Areas of interest

 

We seek developed proposals from those who wish to deliver or co-deliver for presentations, lightning talks and posters. These proposals ultimately form the core of our programme. Some examples of topics for proposals are, but not limited to:

• Electronic resource life cycle and management
• Collection analysis, assessment, and development in Academic and FE libraries
• Licensing and legal framework of content
• Ethical Issues in Technical Services
• Standards, initiatives, and best practices
• Scholarly communication, including copyright, data management, and assessment.
• Institutional repositories, publishing, digital preservation, open educational resources, and open access
• Building relationships between libraries, vendors, publishers, standards groups, and others in the information community.
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion in relation to libraries and publishers
• Professional development
• Content platforms, Digital Resources and AI
• Financial and environmental sustainability

 

We particularly welcome first-time presenters and those seeking to build their experience presenting and will provide support and mentorship for those who would find it beneficial.  We accept ideas for full-length (20 - 30 minute) presentations, lightning talks (5 - 15 minutes) along with poster sessions.

 

The event will be free to attend for all those working within a UKSG membership institution – you can check whether your institution is a member here (a small nominal charge will be made for non-members), bookings for delegates will open later in the year.  You do not have to be a member to be a speaker (but we would encourage you to join!) 

 

How to submit your ideas

 

The submission link is here, please complete the short form before the deadline of Friday 20^th June after which our programme committee will convene and review all submissions.  If you need any assistance with any aspect of your submission, please do not hesitate to contact me.

 

Sponsorship/Exhibiting Opportunities

 

There will be a limited opportunity for organisations to sponsor the event or a book tabletop booth.  Both options provide an excellent platform to showcase your products, services, and initiatives to a highly engaged audience.   More details are available here

 

We look forward to receiving your innovative proposals and anticipate an extraordinary forum filled with enlightening discussions, interesting presentations, and networking opportunities, we would be grateful if you would share this email to your own networks.

 

Many thanks in advance! 

 

 

The Forum programme committee 

CFP: Copyeditors for EBLIP (Evidence Based Library and Information Practice) #OpenAccess

CFP: Copyeditors for EBLIP (Evidence Based Library and Information Practice)

 

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP) is looking for two new copyeditors to join our copyediting team. Ideally, candidates will be in place by July 2025, in time to begin work on the September issue.

 

The role of Copyeditors is to:

• Copyedit manuscripts to improve overall grammar, syntax, and spelling
• Utilize EBLIP copyediting guidelines alongside APA style guidelines
• Verify citations and references to the extent possible with available bibliographic resources
• Improve the consistency of formatting and style (as necessary)
• Communicate with the Lead Copyeditor regarding circumstances that might require temporary absences from editing availability
• Communicate with the Lead Copyeditor and Editor regarding concerns about manuscripts that cannot be resolved using the guidelines
• Respond to Editors in a timely manner to accept or reject copyediting requests
• Meet copyediting deadlines set by Editors

 

The ideal candidate will have copyediting or other detail-oriented editing experience and will possess a working knowledge of APA style and an interest in evidence based practice. The position requires dedicated time to ensure that EBLIP publishing deadlines are met, and it is therefore essential that interested persons make sure that they have available time to devote to this position prior to applying. The estimated workload is approximately 5 to 10 hours per issue, and much of this work falls over a one-month period, on a quarterly basis, prior to the publication of each issue.

Interested persons should send a resume/CV and cover letter, indicating areas of strength they would bring to the role, as a single PDF file to Melissa Moreau, Lead Copyeditor, at melissa.moreau@mcgill.ca by July 7, 2025. 

**Please note that Evidence Based Library and Information Practice is a non-profit, open access journal, and all positions are voluntary and unpaid.

 

About the journal:

Published quarterly and hosted by the University of Alberta, this peer-reviewed, open access journal is targeted at all library and information professionals interested in an evidence based model of practice. By facilitating access to librarianship research via original research articles and evidence summaries of relevant research from the library literature, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice enables librarians to practice their profession in an evidence based manner. Please visit the Evidence Based Library and Information Practice website for further information about the journal.

Midwest Business Librarian Summit: Lightning Talk Proposals Due June 13 (Conference - July 9th, 2025 - Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana)

The 2025 Midwest Business Librarian Summit is scheduled to occur in person on Wed, July 9th, at Purdue University! This is an IN-PERSON event held at the Purdue University West Lafayette, IN, campus.

Are you a business librarian or liaison, or someone who wants to know more about business librarianship? Join us for a day-long summit to discuss what we are all working on, what resources we love, teaching strategies, and more! MBLS is structured but informal, with ample time to get to know one another. The summit is FREE and will include on-campus parking at Purdue. This event is open to anyone with an interest in business librarianship, not just those located here in the Midwest. This year, we are excited to welcome Kenny Wilson, Purdue University Director of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, as our keynote speaker! Visit https://guides.lib.purdue.edu/MBLS for details.


REGISTER FOR THE EVENT HERE: https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a8LwuonhjOKX15Q

CALL FOR LIGHTNING TALKS
Can you talk for just 5 minutes about what you've been doing as a business librarian? We're asking those registered for MBLS to apply to present a lightning talk! It could be an interesting project, a workflow improvement, a negotiation strategy, a resource discovery, an innovative approach to your job, or something completely different. As long as it relates to business librarianship, we at MBLS want to hear about it. You only need your title and abstract at this point in the process.

Lightning Presentation Call-Out Schedule:

• June 13 - Abstract Submission Deadline
• June 20- Acceptance Announcement
• June 27 - Slides Due
• July 9 - MBLS Presentations (in person)

SUBMIT YOUR LIGHTNING TALK IDEA HERE: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/ir_submit.cgi?context=mbls

We hope to see you there!

Zoeanna Mayhook
On behalf of the MBLS Planning Committee (Annette Bochenek, Neal Baker, Willow Fuchs, Zoe Mayhook, Marydee Ojala)

CFP: Defend Research, Defend Open Access - 2025 SJSU Open Access Conference (Virtual - October 21st, 2025)

SJSU Biennial Open Access Conference 

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Library, San José State University

October 21, 2025, 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT

This will be a virtual conference and registration will be free.

Submit your proposal by July 15, 2025 at 5 PM PDT.

The SJSU King Library OA25 Conference Planning Committee is pleased to announce the theme of this year's biennial Open Access Conference: Defend Research, Defend Open Access. 

Around the world, government funding provides critical resources to support research and scholarship. Similarly, government open access policies like those in the United States, the European Union, Mexico, and Japan have reshaped scholarly communication to ensure immediate open access to publicly funded research. 

But what happens when governments turn against research? How can research and scholarly communication communities respond to censorship of academic research and to the dismantling of funding agencies and other research infrastructure? How can institutions and libraries maintain a commitment to open access in the face of challenging political and budgetary climates?

This conference aims to build on the Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship and to provide researchers, librarians, publishers, research administrators, and concerned citizens a chance to share their experiences and strategies in addressing and countering government censorship in the research process. We especially invite participants from outside the United States to share their perspectives and experience in navigating the impacts of political change on the research process.

Topics may include but are not limited to: 

• Impact of disrupted research agendas, including policy and social impacts as well as impacts on individual researchers;

• Disappearing data and its effect on teaching and/or research;

• Data rescue projects or research on the scope of disappearing data and web content;

• Preservation of open content;

• Labor issues related to Open Access, including invisible labor, power dynamics within academia, and sustainability of current practices;

• Strategies for organization and action in response to changes in the research environment;

• Case studies of Open Access initiatives;

• Minimal computing and other ways of reimagining infrastructure for scholarship; and

• Open Access in politically repressive or underfunded research environments.

We invite proposals for 20 or 40 minute sessions. Submit your proposal via our Google Form by July 15, 2025 at 5 PM PDT. If you have any questions, please contact Dawn Hackman, Health Sciences and Scholarly Communications Librarian, San José State University Library, at dawn.hackman@sjsu.edu.