If the nature and even timing of Brexit remain unclear, one may yet predict that Brexit will mean important changes for the UK’s scholarly publishing community.
Recorded at London Book Fair 2019
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However, whenever, and possibly even if ever – those are questions confronting Parliament throughout this week as the United Kingdom moves ever closer to March 29, 2019, the scheduled date for Brexit, when the country will exit from membership in the European Union.
At the London Book Fair on Tuesday, Copyright Clearance Center presented “Scholarly Publishing Through the Brexit Lens,” to explore the many possible directions Brexit may lead publishing in 2019 and after.
As the panelists spoke, MPs at Westminster just four miles away from Olympia Hall were preparing to vote on Prime Minister Theresa May’s latest Brexit deal. The first time she presented a proposed deal, in January, May suffered an historic defeat – losing by 230 votes. Whether she had since made enough changes to persuade enough MPs to vote her way this time was unknown at press time.
Joining CCC’s Chris Kenneally for the program were:
Simon Ross, who joined Manchester University Press as Chief Executive in 2016 after nearly 10 years with Cambridge University Press as MD of Journals and Deputy MD of the Academic Group, spending the last 4 years based in New York. He has held senior editorial and management positions at Sage Publications, Pearson Education and the Times Publishing Group, and is a past Chairman of ALPSP.
Petra Labriga, a management consultant and project manager at TIB Hanover, the German National Library of Science and Technology.
Hugh Logue, Director & Lead Analyst for Legal & Regulatory Solutions at Outsell, a research and advisory firm that tracks market performance and trends in the data and information industry. Hugh was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2007.
Tim Britton. the former Managing Director of the Open Research Group at Springer Nature. He was previously head of strategy and transformation for PwC’s global data research and insight centre, r2i.
