Researcher to Reader has announced that the Call for Papers for the 2024 Conference will be open throughout July and August 2023. The Conference will take place in London on 20–21 February 2024.

The key Call for Papers headlines are:

• The proposals that the scholarly community makes are a key contributor to R2R programme development.
• Conference formats may include: Presentation, Panel, Workshop, Interview, Debate or Lightning Talk.
• Anyone involved in scholarly communications can be a contributor to the programme.
• Any topic relevant to people working across scholarly communications is of interest.
• Some ‘provocations’ to get people thinking about topics are provided in the R2R Community Forum.
• Proposals should be made by the deadline of 31 August; earlier and higher-quality proposals generally have a higher acceptance rate.
• Contributors should plan to join the Conference physically at the venue if possible, but can be online if necessary, and should ideally aim to participate in the whole Conference, not just ‘fly in’ to address an audience.
• Accepted contributors (except for Lightning Talks) have discounted or free registration.

We have no overall theme for the 2024 Conference, as we find that too limiting. We particularly value topics that are of broad interest across the diverse range of people and organisations that participate in scholarly communication, rather than subjects that focus on one particular silo. Our delegates are primarily interested in the interactions between the various parts of the scholarly communications supply chain, and how different people and organisations can work together more effectively. The Conference also values topics that are practical, informative or supported by evidence – we are interested in facilitating what could be done, rather than merely evangelising about what should be done. There are some ‘provocations’ to encourage creative proposals in the R2R Community Forum, where discussion around these and other topics is encouraged.

This year R2R will be using the Ex Ordo system for supporting the preparation and evaluation of proposals. A link to the proposals platform is provided here and on the Conference website, to allow contributors to create an account and then prepare a proposal online.

More information and guidelines about the Call for Papers process is given on the R2R Website.

Mark Carden
12 July 2023