This year we invited our Forum Sponsors ($1k and above) to answer some questions for the blog so we can get to know them a bit better!
Sponsor name: Ubiquity
Website: https://ubiquity.pub/
Q: Give us your elevator pitch – the briefest possible summary of what your organization does.
Ubiquity is a leading provider of open publishing services, covering the entire research lifecycle. We provide full publishing infrastructure and services to libraries and university presses, repositories for libraries and institutions and journal and book publishing for academic societies.
Q: What’s something you’re working on that’s new or exciting?
We’re adding AI functionality across our platform, from enhancing search to making the author journal smoother and editors’ jobs easier to perform.
Q: Why do you like working with library publishers?
We’re mission aligned with libraries in our dedication to open access and open source platforms, and in our guarantee to provide services with fair and transparent pricing.
Q: What are you looking forward to at the Forum?
We can’t wait to meet with people face-to-face again, to listen to what challenges the community is facing, and to learn from the solutions being developed.
Q: Tell us something about the people who make up your organization (If you have a small team, you could introduce them. If you have a bigger team, you could tell us a bit about what you’re like as a group or how you work together.)
Our team (https://ubiquity.pub/about/) are first and foremost all deeply committed to open science, open access and open source. We have deep experience in areas including publishing, libraries, research data and software development. The majority of the team is based in London, but we are spread across eight countries overall.