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UKSG 2008 underway

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One of the best conferences in the library world, the UKSG (United Kingdom Serials Group) Conference and Exhibition, is now underway. This year’s conference is being held in Torquay, one of the most beautiful spots in all of the UK. My sister-in-law hails from nearby Barnstaple and I spent some memorable time in that area after attending the 1999 UKSG conference held in Manchester. (See a photo album of some of the photos I took on that trip here.)

As in the past, there is live conference blogging of the UKSG conference at UKSG’s blog, LiveSerials. I highly recommend reading this blog. Already today there are some posts with notes from interesting presentations.

UKSG allows open access

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In an email sent out on December 1, UKSG (the United Kingdom Serials Group) announced that it had completed digitization of all back issues of its journal, Serials, and made them freely available as open access. Click here to access it. This is a very welcome and important example of a library organization “putting its money where its mouth is” by supporting open access to journal literature in a very direct way. UKSG is the sister organization (really, more of a parent) to NASIG and there is a very strong historic connection between the two.