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Open access community event - developing a skilled workforce

The skills needed to support scholarly communication and open access

This event took place on 7 February 2019

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Thursday 7 February 2019

10:15-16:15

Venue:
DoubleTree by Hilton York
St Maurice's Road
York
YO31 7JA

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The demand for skilled and experienced staff in scholarly communications and open access roles continues to increase as the scholarly publishing landscape changes, driven by funder mandates. How do we meet this need and equip those new to these roles and responsibilities?

Whether the role sits in the library or the research office, it is a buoyant job market with many roles being advertised in recent months. Institutions find it difficult to recruit staff with the right experience and those wishing to enter these roles often struggle to find opportunities to develop their skills. Experienced staff are in demand leading to retention issues and competition between institutions for staff.

This workshop provides an opportunity to address these issues, share experiences, find out about current activities in this area and to shape future work.

Topics for discussion

  • Sharing institutional perspectives on supporting staff development – what are the challenges and current activities?
  • What essential knowledge and competencies are needed for these roles? How do we nurture and develop the "soft skills" required?
  • The challenges of recruitment and whether there is a need for standardised language around job titles and basic job tasks
  • Digital capabilities and scholarly communication – linking to our digital capability work
  • Developing a sector wide approach to skills development

Programme

Thursday 7 February

  1. 10:15

    Registration and refreshments

  2. 10:30

    Welcome and introduction

    Progress so far on scholarly communication skills development

    • Helen Clare
      Helen Clare

      Senior e-infrastructure strategy manager (skills), Jisc

  3. 10:45

    Discussion: routes into scholarly communication roles

  4. 11:15

    Perspectives from institutions

    • Helen Dobson
      Helen Dobson

      Scholarly communications manager, University of Manchester

    • Valerie McCutcheon
      Valerie McCutcheon

      Research information manager, University of Glasgow

    • Michelle Blake
      Michelle Blake

      Head of relationship management (information services), University of York

  5. 12:30

    Lunch

  6. 13:30

    Skills and knowledge for scholarly communication roles: what do job descriptions tell us?

    • Nancy Pontika
      Nancy Pontika

      Open University

  7. 13:45

    If only I'd known...

    What are the core skills and knowledge needed for scholarly communication roles?

    Which skills and knowledge are essential?

    What level of knowledge should this be?

    This practical session will involve reviewing a draft competency framework and identifying key knowledge in these areas.

    The outputs from this session will contribute towards the development of a UK competency framework and support resource for scholarly communications.

  8. 15:00

    Break

  9. 15:15

    Feedback from previous session

  10. 15:45

    Digital capabilities: fitting scholarly communications into the bigger picture

    • Caroline Ingram
      Caroline Ingram

      Product lead, Jisc

    • Helen Clare
      Helen Clare

      Senior e-infrastructure strategy manager (skills), Jisc

  11. 16:00

    Where next? Summary and questions

Who should attend

This will be of interest to:

  • Those responsible for staff development in scholarly communications or open access support
  • Repository staff
  • Research support librarians
  • Scholarly communications librarians
  • Research managers and open access policy compliance staff
  • Library and research decision makers

Resources

Developing a skilled workforce for scholarly communication - introduction

Helen Blanchett, scholarly communications subject specialist, Jisc.

Developing a skilled workforce for scholarly communication from Jisc

 

Developing a skilled workforce: an institutional perspective

Helen Dobson, scholarly communications manager, University of Manchester library.

Developing a skilled workforce from Jisc

 

Skills for information management team and friends

Valerie McCutcheon, research information manager, University of Glasgow.

Skills for information management team and friends from Jisc

 

Soft skills to enable effective relationships

Michelle Blake, head of relationship management, University of York.

Soft skills to enable effective relationships from Jisc

 

Skills and knowledge for scholarly communication roles: what do job descriptions tell us?

Dr Nancy Pontika, open access aggregation officer, CORE.

Skills and knowledge for scholarly communication roles from Jisc

Contact

For further information please contact Helen Blanchett  (helen.blanchett@jisc.ac.uk).

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