The Programme for the Researcher to Reader Conference on 23-24 February 2021 will feature a panel on Inclusivity. This workshop will be previewed at a free online session on Tuesday 26 January.
The panel will discuss with the Conference participants how publishers can use their power in the scholarly communications ecosystem to make their products and practices more inclusive.
The Researcher to Reader Conference will be a fully-live and highly interactive online event, and registration is open here: https://r2rconf.com/r2r-registration/
We are very pleased to announce that EBSCO has returned as a sponsor of the Researcher to ReaderConference. EBSCO has previously been a sponsor of the 2016, 2017 and 2020 R2R Conferences and we are very happy to be welcoming them back for 2021.
EBSCO provides discovery services, online research content (databases, archives, e-books, e-journals & e-packages) and subscription management services for all types of libraries. EBSCO Information Services is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc, a family-owned company since 1944.
R2R is grateful for the support of our sponsors, which helps to make the Conference more affordable for our participants. Registration is open for the fully-live and highly interactive online Conference which will take place on 23-24 February.
The Programme for the Researcher to Reader Conference on 23-24 February 2021 will feature a workshop on Academic Writing. This workshop will be previewed at a free online session on Monday 25 January.
The workshop participants will meet three times over the two-day Conference, to discuss what constitutes ‘good’ academic writing, and work on ways to reduce barriers and increase diversity by improving the effectiveness of researcher authoring. The workshop will be facilitated by Christine Tulley, Sara Rouhi and Anna Sharman.
The Researcher to Reader Conference will be a fully-live and highly interactive online event, and registration is open here: https://r2rconf.com/r2r-registration/
Researcher to Reader 2021 is offering free online sessions in the weeks before the Conference, where registered and potential participants can meet some of the presenters and discuss their planned topic with them. Each session is likely to begin with a brief overview of the planned topic, followed by a general discussion amongst those participating the meeting. Each is planned to last for 30 minutes, but with an allowance for the conversation to continue for a whole hour if needed. They take place at 4 pm (UK) / 11 am (US Eastern) on the days listed below.
Registration is now open, and people can book their places by clicking on any of the links below.
More information on each if these Conference topics can be found in our Programme. These simple pre-Conference conversations will take place using the Zoom video conferencing application; the full R2R Conference will be using an online platform for the main event and a virtual room application for informal networking. Registration is also open for the Conference which will take place on 23-24 February.
We are delighted to announce that Wiley has become a Silver Sponsor of the Researcher to ReaderConference. Wiley has previously been a sponsor of the 2016-2019 R2R Conferences and we are very happy to be welcoming them back at the Silver level for 2021.
Wiley is a global research and learning company with a 200-year heritage of quality publishing. Wiley partners with societies, universities, corporations and others to help researchers share the discoveries that move our world forward. As the #1 society publisher, the Wiley portfolio is rooted in the research community. And with over 750 society partners around the globe, Wiley helps institutions deliver best-in-class collections with value that goes beyond the content.
Registration is open for the fully-live and highly interactive online Conference which will take place on 23-24 February.
Researcher to Reader has partnered with Research4Life to offer complimentary registration for 10 researchers or librarians from any of its eligible countries at the online R2R Conference on 23-24 February 2021. This initiative will facilitate participation by members of the global scholarly communications community in the live fully-interactive R2R Conference, enriching the international and cross-sectorial conversation that is the hallmark of this event.
We are very happy to announce that Mosaic Search & Selection have renewed theirBronze Sponsorshipof the Researcher to Reader Conference. Mosaic has been a sponsor of R2R since the Conference started in 2016, and we are very grateful for their continuing support, which helps to keep our ticket prices down.
Mosaic has been providing international executive recruitment services for publishers and related organisations for over 20 years. The Mosaic team uses their many years of sector and recruitment experience, and their professional executive search skills, to enable organisations to hire exceptional new talent cost-effectively and with minimal risk.
The fully-live and highly-interactive R2R Conference will take place on 23-24 February 2021. Registration is open here: https://r2rconf.com/r2r-registration/
The Programme for the Researcher to Reader Conference on 23-24 February 2021 will feature a series of three separate interviews with thought leaders from China’s scholarly research and communications sector, to get their opinions on key trends and developments to watch out for in 2021 and beyond. The interview sessions will include opportunities for Conference participants to ask their own questions.
The interviewer will be Nicko Goncharoff, a noted China expert and former head of Business Development for Clarivate in China. The interviewees will be Judy Bai from Digital Science, Professor Wu Jinshan from Beijing Normal University and Dr Bi Xin from Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.
Mr Goncharoff will be hosting an online pre-conference seminar, to discuss the interviews, and the likely key questions, on Thursday 28 January at 4 pm (UK time) / 11 am (US Eastern). Details of how to register for this free pre-conference session will be available shortly.
Researcher to Reader will be a fully-live and highly interactive online Conference, and registration is open here: https://r2rconf.com/r2r-registration/
The Researcher to Reader Conference, which takes place online on 23-24 February 2021, will be offering free online sessions in the weeks before the Conference, where people will be able to meet some of the presenters, moderators, and facilitators, to discuss their planned topic with them. This will give a preview of some Conference content, and help our contributors to finalise their session – eliciting interesting issues and questions from registered participants and potential participants.
These will be brief online sessions, scheduled for just 30 minutes, but with the opportunity to run for an hour if the conversation continues. Registration instructions will be announced within a few days. These sessions will be free to join, whether or not someone has registered for the Conference.
People are encouraged to save the dates for the sessions that are of interest to them (there are more details of each topic on the Programme page).
These will take place at 4 pm (UK) / 11 am (US Eastern) on the following days:
• Mon 25 Jan Workshop B: Academic Writing (Christine Tulley, Sara Rouhi & Anna Sharman) • Tue 26 Jan Panel: Inclusivity (Kim Eggleton) • Wed 27 Jan Workshop A: New OA Models (Tasha Mellins-Cohen & Stuart Taylor) • Thu 28 Jan Interviews: China Research and Publishing (Nicko Goncharoff)
• Mon 1 Feb Workshop E: Peer Review (Iratxe Puebla & Chris Graf) • Tue 2 Feb Panel: Research Realities (Heather Staines) • Wed 3 Feb Presentation: Funding OA Books (Martin Eve & Frances Pinter) • Thu 4 Feb Panel: COVID-19 Rapid Review & Preprints (Sarah Greaves)
• Mon 8 Feb to be advised • Tue 9 Feb to be advised • Wed 10 Feb Workshop C: Antiracist Framework (Jocelyn Dawson & Sabby Kaur) • Thu 11 Feb Workshop D: Usage Metrics (Lorraine Estelle & Catriona MacCallum)
It is confirmed today that the Researcher to Reader Conference on 23-24 February 2021 will be online-only. We have been planning, throughout most of 2020, for a hybrid R2R Conference, aiming to provide both online and physical participants with a real conference experience. Despite good news about vaccines, the current infection rates and new restrictions in the UK (and many other countries) have now caused our BMA House venue to close, and have forced us to switch to an online-only event. This is a disappointment, as we were looking forward to seeing people at the venue, and were relishing the challenge of integrating our physical and online participants.
Our hybrid hopes during 2020 have been useful however, as ‘thinking hybrid’ has helped us to keep working on delivering a real, fully-interactive conference experience for our participants, not just a drab online webinar for a largely passive at-home audience. We are continuing to invest heavily in planning, facilitation and technology to ensure that R2R will be a real conference, even though online. The Conference will be supported by a web-based ‘online event platform’, which will help the participants to engage fully with all aspects of the programme, including support for live Q&A and networking. We will also have a professional audio-visual production team, who will ensure that multi-way communications are highly effective. This will be supported by our experienced facilitators, who will be encouraging full engagement for all participants.
The online R2R will still be an intense and absorbing two full days of interaction, conversation and collaboration.
In recognition that our venue costs are now capped, we feel able to share this saving with our participants, and so we are lowering our Standard registration rates to the same level as our previous ‘early-bird’ discount (which ended in November). All those who have registered at the higher rate in the meantime will automatically receive a partial refund. We remain very grateful to those who registered with us early, in October and November, even though the advantage of doing so has been somewhat eroded!
We look forward to collaborating with members of the scholarly communications community – online, but face-to-face – in February.
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