By Hannah on August 12, 2025
We've crunched the numbers and have a spot ready for you in our upcoming webinar about Springshare's data powerhouse tool: LibInsight! Register now for the Learning Lab: Demonstrating Cost-Savings Data with LibInsight on Tuesday, August 26 at 11:00am ET, where you'll learn how the University of Alabama at Birmingham saved researchers $1.8 million in Article Processing Charges (APCs).
We are thrilled to welcome our guest presenter Jeff Graveline, who is a Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Scholarly Communication at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Libraries. Jeff also serves as Director of the UAB Libraries' Office of Scholarly Communication. He is involved nationally with ALA and ACRL and served as President of the Alabama Library Association. Jeff’s research interests focus on scholarly communication, specifically the intersection between copyright and higher education.
This background led him to develop a transformative agreements program at UAB libraries with a variety of publishers. As this initiative gained traction, it became clear how important it was to showcase the value of these agreements to the university. Jeff developed a system for tracking these crucial statistics using LibInsight. This detailed tracking has produced a dynamic dashboard, highlighting how the agreements saved $1.8 million (and growing!) in APCs for researchers from across UAB departments.
This 1-hour presentation will cover:
- Key LibInsight Features from the Springshare team
- Background about transformative agreements at UAB
- UAB's method for data collection, analysis, and reporting
- Current statistics and response from UAB authors
- Live demo of custom report generation in LibInsight
- Time for Q&A
Register now and join us on Tuesday, August 26 at 11:00am ET to learn Jeff's best practices for using LibInsight so that you can apply them to highlight the incredible work being done at your library.
If your library uses LibInsight – or any Springy Tool – in a unique or innovative way, we'd love to hear about it: present with Springshare or submit a SpringyCamp proposal!
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