Title: E-Books: Scandal or Market Economics?

Description: https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/2021/02/09/event-ebooks-webinar/

You are invited to attend the UCL Office for Open Science & Scholarship/Copyright for Knowledge E-books webinar on Monday 15th March 2021 from 2 pm to 3.30 pm GMT (3pm – 4.30pm CET; 9am-10.30am ET). We will examine the acute difficulties for higher education and public libraries caused by publishers’ pricing and licensing practices and discuss possible solutions.

Our expert speakers are:

• Dr. Paul Ayris, Pro-Vice-Provost (UCL Library Services & UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship)
• Johanna Anderson, Subject Librarian, University of Gloucestershire and founder of the #eBookSoS campaign
• Benjamin White, Researcher, Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management, University of Bournemouth and Chair of the Copyright and Legal Working Group of  the European Research Library Association (LIBER).

There will be an opportunity to put your questions to the panel in a final Q and A session.

The webinar is free to attend but if you would like to join us please register via Eventbrite.

Date: 15 March 2021 9:00 am EDT EST