SUNCAT at UKSG 2013

The SUNCAT team were very happy to attend this year's excellent UKSG Annual Conference in Bournemouth. We hope that those of you who attended were able to visit the SUNCAT stand and try out our new interface!

Team members Paula Cuccurullo and Celia Jenkins have summarised some of the plenaries and breakouts they attended for the official UKSG conference blog.

• Breakout A: ALMA@UEL and Intota@Huddersfield: implementing a next-generation library management system.
• Butterflies, Publishers and Librarians - final UKSG plenary session.
• Breakout C: PIRUS: a new COUNTER standard for article level and institutional repository usage statistics.
• "Great Expectations": how libraries are changing to meet student needs.
• Towards an 'open' approach for discovery.
• PDA checklist for academic libraries.
• Electronic resources and ILL - a self-contradiction?

You can still take a look at the new-look SUNCAT. Let us have your feedback via edina@ed.ac.uk. The new service is still in development so please continue to use the current SUNCAT as your primary service.

SUNCAT at UKSG 2013

The SUNCAT team will be attending the 36th Annual UKSG Conference to be held in Bournemouth next week, from Monday 8th April until Wednesday 10th April.

UKSG “exists to connect the knowledge community and encourage the exchange of ideas on scholarly communication. It is the only organisation spanning the wide range of interests and activities across the scholarly information community of librarians, publishers, intermediaries and technology vendors”.

We shall be attending a variety of sessions, including ‘Discoverability in the digital age’, ‘How libraries are changing to meet student needs’, ‘Making metrics meaningful’ and ‘Simplifying the search experience’.

Two members of the SUNCAT team, Paula Cuccurullo and Celia Jenkins, will be contributing to the UKSG blog at http://uksglive.blogspot.co.uk/. You can also follow SUNCAT at the conference on Twitter @suncatteam, as well as follow the event in general @uksg, with the conference hashtag being #uksglive.

In addition, Fred Guy, SUNCAT Service Manager, along with Adam Rusbridge of EDINA will be giving a breakout session on ‘E-journals and long term availability: an overview and panel discussion on the archiving infrastructure to meet the needs of users.’ It looks to be an exciting conference, as always!

SUNCAT will be on the EDINA stand (number 26) at the conference exhibition, covering all breaks. Please come along and see us if you're attending. We will be previewing the new-look SUNCAT, answering any questions you may have about SUNCAT, as well as telling you about other EDINA services.

SUNCAT at UKSG

The SUNCAT team will be attending the UKSG Annual Conference in Glasgow next week, from Monday 26th March until Wednesday 28th March.
UKSG “exists to connect the knowledge community and encourage the exchange of ideas on scholarly communication. It is the only organisation spanning the wide range of interests and activities across the scholarly information community of librarians, publishers, intermediaries and technology vendors”.
Follow the conference through the UKSG blog at http://uksglive.blogspot.co.uk/ and on the Twitter hashtag #uksg

The 35th Annual Conference is being held at the Scottish Exhibition Conference Centre in Glasgow. We shall be attending sessions covering interesting subjects such as the SCARLET Project: special collections in the age of the app, and Digging for the unknown known: practices and promises around journal article mining.
It looks to be an exciting conference!

SUNCAT will be on the EDINA stand (number 32) covering all breaks. Please come along and see us if you’re attending. It would be lovely to talk to you about SUNCAT and other EDINA services.

SUNCAT at UKSG

SUNCAT will be present at this year’s UKSG Conference, to be held in Harrogate from Monday 4^th to Wednesday 6th April. Members of the SUNCAT team will be attending the seminars and other events throughout the three days. Please feel free to come along and talk to us at the Mimas/EDINA stand (stand number 32) at the Conference’s exhibition. In addition, Fred Guy, SUNCAT Project Manager, will be giving a presentation on the Piloting an E-Journals Preservation Registry Service (PEPRS) project as one of the Group A breakout sessions.

SUNCAT at UKSG (II)

Last week, two SUNCAT team members (Natasha and Moira) attended the UKSG annual conference in Torquay. This was a fascinating three day meeting, covering anything and everything to do with serials and e-resources. It was also a chance to meet up with some of our contributing libraries’ representatives on a face-to-face basis.

As far as the plenary and breakout sessions were concerned, the highlights included a talk by Joseph Janes from the University of Washington Information School, who commented that an environment which looks familiar, but is slightly off-kilter, is highly disorientating; referring this to scholarly communications, he said that comfortable territory was being left behind in the march forward, but that the future is not yet an alien landscape. However, the serial as it exists now is evolving, and that has to be accounted for in library practices.
Three sessions on e-books were also interesting. One session of note concerned the JISC national e-books observatory project, which concluded that e-books which were free at the point of use did not have a significant impact on print sales. Moira particularly liked these sessions, as she likes to keep abreast of developments in e-resources as a whole, not simply serials, and so found them useful.
Both Natasha and Moira appreciated the talk by Jill Taylor-Roe from Newcastle University, which considered the current economic climate and the “Big Deal” packages offered by publishers. It was interesting to note that a number of libraries are considering cancelling their Big Deals to concentrate on more specific journal titles.
A highlight for Natasha was the breakout session offered by Dave Pattern, from the University of Huddersfield, which illustrated how Web 2.0 can infiltrate the library OPAC to give increased functionality and usability.

However, the high point of the conference had to be the infamous UKSG quiz – with EDINA representatives on the winning team!

Next year, the UKSG annual conference is being held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. SUNCAT hopes to see some of you there!

(For more details of the UKSG conference, please see the website: http://www.uksg.org/ and the live blog from the conference: http://liveserials.blogspot.com/ )

SUNCAT at UKSG

Two members of the SUNCAT team, Natasha Aburrow-Jones and Moira Whitson, will be attending the UK Serials Group (UKSG) conference in Torquay next week, March 30th to April 1st.

Natasha and Moira will be attending the sessions (and no doubt the social gatherings!), but you will find them at the Edina stand at break times. Please take a few minutes to visit the EDINA stand to pick up the latest SUNCAT Newsletter, to ask any questions you have about SUNCAT or just to catch up on the latest news.

SUNCAT at UKSG

Some of the SUNCAT team are being allowed out again this month, this time to attend the UK Serials Group (UKSG) conference in Torquay (April 7-9). We are looking forward to attending the presentations and workshops as well as networking with our UK library colleagues. We have created a SUNCAT highlights report for UKSG and copies of this will be available on the EDINA stand, where you will also find us, in between sessions. Please come and talk to us (Nicola, Natasha or Zena) about SUNCAT, we will be happy to answer any queries you might have.