Strategic direction for 2011/12

Today the new UKCoRR Committee held it's first committee meeting, or rather telcon. The plans are this year to have one of these ever couple of months to make sure we can help each other drive forward the UKCoRR agenda. I think you're going to see some exciting developments over the coming months, that I'll let my fellow Committee members tell you more about in due course.

Of course this begs the question, what is the UKCoRR agenda? Clearly maintaining the organisation and mailing list in the spirit they were set up for the benefit of our members is at our core, as the the Web site outlines. But what about 2011/12 - where should we be devoting our attention to? What are the steps we should be taking? Whom are the people we should be lobbying on your behalf and what should we be lobbying them about?

Without a doubt the committee have some ideas; but we always welcome feedback from you the membership as to where we should be focussed. After all, that's what we're here to do - to be your voice to the community and broader stakeholders in the ever evolving open access and scholarly communications arena!

Make a comment, or drop us a line with your thoughts.

UKCoRR members' meeting 2011. Destination: Salford

The Committee are delighted to announce the details of the UKCoRR members' meeting 2011.

• Booking is now open!

The meeting will take place on Friday, February 25, 2011 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM (GMT), in the Conference Room of the Clifford Whitworth Library, University of Salford.

You can reserve your place at: http://ukcorr.eventbrite.com/

The event also has a page on Lanyrd.com. We hope to see you there!

A draft programme for the delay is below.

N.B. If you're interested in delivering a lightning talk on the day, please contact Dominic Tate - Dominic.Tate@rhul.ac.uk – by the end of January with ideas for 5 min presentations/updates of your repository work...

TIME	DESCRIPTION
10.00 – 10.30	Arrival and Registration
10.30 – 10.35	Opening introduction - Acting Director IS, Julie Berry
10.35 – 10.50	Committee reports/round-up
10.50 – 11.05	Coffee/tea
11.05 – 11.45	Richard Jones, Technical Lead of SWORDv2 project
11.45 – 12.15	Lightning talks
12.15 – 12.45	Josh Brown, JISC Programme Manager: E-Research - Research Information Management
12.45 – 1.30	Lunch
1.30 – 3.15	Café style networking with tables (with afternoon coffee?)
3.15 – 3.30	Coffee/tea
3.30 – 3.55	UKCoRR map
3.55 – 4.00	Concluding words and close