OpenAthens earlier this week announced their online Access Lab 2025 program, taking place 24 – 27 February 2025. As OpenAthens turns 30 this year, the company says the Access Lab program celebrates its partnerships and customers’ success around the world.
OpenAthens details the Access Lab 2025 program as follows:
Chief Information Officer for STM Solutions, Hylke Koers, will give the opening keynote ‘The future of trust, access and identity in scholarly communications’. Hylke’s presentation will draw on some of the key findings from a recent STM draft report ‘Trusted Identity in Academic Publishing’.
Hylke Koers, CIO of STM Solutions, emphasizes the importance of balance: “In a world where scientific integrity is paramount and content becomes increasingly easy to fabricate, we need to develop new ways to establish the veracity of scholarly contributions. Identity verification can provide important safeguards provided that it is implemented in such a way that it does not exclude legitimate contributions and respects researchers’ right for privacy and does not impose undue barriers.”
Other sessions include:
- Misinformation, disinformation, and trust in scholarly communication: Challenges and Strategies
- Piracy websites and research integrity concerns
- Customer case study: Extending the reach of OpenAthens - leveraging library technology for non-traditional applications
- Community case study: How OpenAthens supports lifelong learning and empowers communities
- Generative AI in Research Discovery: a Web of Science case
- Workshop: AI literacy for librarians. The future skill of research support
This year’s program, shaped by a program advisory group of customers and partners, includes a number of topic-based discussion groups ranging from security and user privacy, Artificial Intelligence, and library data analytics and reporting to the impact of library budgets and user experience and accessibility, added OpenAthens. Some sessions and discussion groups will be region and language specific, OpenAthens continued.
The company says delegates can also expect to hear customer case studies and take part in OpenAthens related discussion groups to get them thinking about improvements they could make in their own organization.
Senior marketing manager and program lead, Jane Charlton commented: “We want to thank all the customer volunteers who helped to develop this year’s Access Lab program and offered to lead the topic-based discussion groups. Your session ideas and continued support are essential for making this a true community event.”
The UX Awards, now it its sixth year, will celebrate the vendor that demonstrates strength in innovation, and durability and sustainability in their investment and organization-wide approach to UX, added OpenAthens. The 2025 award winner will be announced on Thursday 27 February at 10:00 EST/ 15:00 GMT.
Take a look at the Access Lab 2025 program for more information and to register here.
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