Facilitated by Jisc
This group will play an essential role in ensuring negotiation and communication strategies reflect and respond to the diversity of the sector, align with and advance institutional and funder priorities and policy, and maintain collective strength - a necessity in negotiating with global vendors.
This includes:
- Consideration of equitable and collective licensing models
- Intellectual property management
- Data sharing and security
- Sustainability
- The achievement of open research
The group will facilitate debate and action within the sector to help implement solutions to challenges in licensing digital research solutions, fostering a vibrant and well-functioning research ecosystem. This includes providing and soliciting evidence and expertise to inform policy development.
In 2024/25 the group will play a core role in the sector’s upcoming negotiations with Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, Taylor and Francis, and Sage, driving strategy to allow the sector to achieve collective efficiencies and support the achievement of open research.
Members
Membership of the group reflects diversity within the sector and recognises the importance of involving senior leaders from UK institutions to achieve affordable, sustainable, and innovative agreements.
- Professor Sue Hartley, vice-president for research and innovation, University of Sheffield (chair)
- Simon Bains, university librarian, University of Aberdeen
- Kevin Braim, CIO, St Mary’s University Twickenham
- Adrian Ellison, associate pro-vice chancellor, CIO and director of digital futures, University of West London
- Professor Stephen Faulkner, head of department (chemistry), University of Oxford
- Professor Keith George, PVC – research and enterprise, Liverpool John Moores University
- Professor Matthew Grenby, PVC - research and innovation, University of Newcastle
- Professor Andy Lavender, provost and vice principal (academic), Guildhall school of music and dance
- Professor Richard Reece, deputy vice-chancellor (Education and Student Experience), University of Kent
- Jeremy Upton, director of library and university collections, University of Edinburgh
Professional bodies
- Henrik Brogger, director of digital operations and service delivery, University of Reading, UCISA
- Rachel Bruce, head of open research, UKRI strategy, UKRI
- Catherine Burns, executive director of research support services, University of St Andrews (AHUA)
- Dr Sophie Collet, executive director, research enterprise and innovation, University of Bristol (ARMA)
- Dr Mehwaesh Islam, head of research policy, UUK
- Liz Jolly, chief Librarian, British Library
- Dr David Prosser, executive director, RLUK
- Monique Ritchie, associate head, open research and rights, library services, Brunel University London (CNAC)
- Ann Rossiter, executive director, SCONUL
Membership information
The combined membership of the group will be representative of all UK universities and the diversity of size, income, approaches, ambitions, strategies, students, researchers and staff etc. contained within those institutions. The membership should have wide geographical coverage.
Memberships of other Jisc groups will be taken into account when selecting institutions to reasonably avoid duplication of individuals and institutions. Exceptions to this approach include where chairs of the expert level groups should sit on the linked strategy group and members providing a link between expert level groups.
There will be up to 14 representative members as follows:
- Chair: VC or PVC-R
- Seven members in PCV-R or similar roles
- Six members in library director and research support roles
There will be seven members from professional bodies as follows:
- Universities UK: one appointee
- RLUK: one appointee
- SCONUL: one appointee
- ARMA: one appointee
- BUFDG: one appointee
- AHUA: one appointee
- CNAC: one appointee
In addition there will be three observer members as follows:
- Funding bodies (eg Wellcome Trust, RLUK): one appointee
- British Library: one appointee
- GuildHE: one appointee
The combined membership of the group will be representative of all UK universities and the diversity of size, income, approaches, ambitions, strategies, students, researchers and staff etc. contained within those institutions. The membership should have wide geographical coverage.
Memberships of other Jisc groups will be taken into account when selecting institutions to reasonably avoid duplication of individuals and institutions. Exceptions to this approach include where chairs of the expert level groups should sit on the linked strategy group and members providing a link between expert level groups.
There will be up to 14 representative members as follows:
- Chair: VC or PVC-R
- Seven members in PCV-R or similar roles
- Six members in library director and research support roles
There will be seven members from professional bodies as follows:
- Universities UK: one appointee
- RLUK: one appointee
- SCONUL: one appointee
- ARMA: one appointee
- BUFDG: one appointee
- AHUA: one appointee
- CNAC: one appointee
In addition there will be three observer members as follows:
- Funding bodies (eg Wellcome Trust, RLUK): one appointee
- British Library: one appointee
- GuildHE: one appointee