The Researcher to Reader Conference has announced the 2024 Lightning Talks Programme. In addition to the plenary programme and choice of workshops at the Conference (taking place in London on 20-21 February), there will also be a series of Lightning Talks. These are given during the breaks in the main Conference timetable. These 5-minute Lightning Talks are likely to include:

• RSC’s innovative open access model
• Innovating with purpose & adaptability at Silverchair
• KGL’s peer review services
• Open Access book usage data
• De Gruyter’s Subscribe to Open Programme
• An overview of new Publisher/ECR initiatives
• Bibliodiversity in the Directory of Open Access Books
• The new co-review policy at IOP Publishing
• The impact on research of the war in Ukraine
• Recruitment and career progression in scholarly communications
• The Bloomsbury approach to funding open access books
• Connecting seminars to the scholarly literature with Cassyni

Plus potential additional presentations from Digital Science, Ex Ordo and EBSCO.

More details are available on the R2R Community Forum.

The Programme for the R2R Conference, on 20-21 February in London, is available on the Conference website. Registering today is risk free, as full refunds are available until the end of January.

Mark Carden
14 January 2024