We are very pleased to announce that once again, Ringgold is the first sponsor to sign up to support the forthcoming R2R Conference.

Ringgold have renewed their sponsorship of the WiFi at the conference, and the 2017 event will be taking place at the BMA in London on 20 & 21 February.

Other attractive sponsorship packages are also available; contact us for details.

Dr Danny Kingsley, Head of Scholarly Communication at University of Cambridge, gave a great presentation at the 2016 Conference and also wrote up a review of the event that beautifully sums up both the content and the ethos.

We are very pleased to have her on our 2017 Advisory Board.

Mark Carden
10 August 2016

The Call For Papers for the 2017 Researcher to Reader Conference has been issued, with announcements on the Conference Website, on Twitter, by email and via other media.

Anyone who would like to propose a:

• theme
• topic
• presentation
• panel
• workshop
• speaker
• panellist
• facilitator

is very welcome to do so.

Mark Carden
9 August 2016

Prompted by some interesting articles in Learned Publishing on gender balance in scholarly publishing, the R2R Conference team has done some analysis of the gender balance for the Conference in February 2016.

The conclusion could be expressed as ‘good in parts’, and we should probably strive for more female speakers and definitely more female panelists next time.

An article called From the podium to the boardroom: Encouraging gender parity in scholarly publishing by Lauren Kane and Alice Meadows, which has a particular focus on conference speakers, suggests that gender balance at other conferences (their data is from 2015, before R2R was launched) is quite variable. (The graphic below is adapted from their article.)

Of course, the gender balance for any one conference, in any one year, may be particularly skewed just by chance, but it is certainly a metric to keep in mind.

The video-recordings of the 2016 R2R Conference are online at:  http://river-valley.zeeba.tv/conferences/r2r-2016

Table of Contents

• R2R 2016 – Welcome and Introduction
• Life After the Death of Science Journals
• Introduction to Author Behaviours presentations
• Bringing Research to the Surface – Maximising the visibility and impact of research
• Acting Rationally in a Deeply Weird Ecosystem – How authors can make smart publishing choices
• Q&A: Author Behaviours
• Panel introduction – Show me the Money
• Show me the Money (Rick Anderson)
• Show me the Money (James Evans)
• Show me the Money (Toby Green)
• Show me the Money (Steven Hall)
• Show me the Money (Danny Kingsley)
• Q&A: Show me the Money
• Introduction to the Research in Institutions presentations
• Seeing Open Access Processes More Clearly – Mapping the life cycle of open access for publishers, researchers and libraries
• Getting an Octopus into a String Bag – The complexity of communicating with the research community across a higher education institution
• Q&A: Research in Institutions
• Introduction to Peer Review presentations
• The Unseen Costs of Peer Review – Why peer review can never be free (even if your paper is perfect)

• Peer Review: a Global View – Findings from the Taylor & Francis study of researcher opinions
• Peer Review Q&A
• Considering the Sociology of Research – How research scientists actually behave as individuals and in groups
• Introduction to Discovery & Usage presentations
• Making Sense of the Flood – Ways to curate content and adapt search to deliver serendipity in discovery
• Q&A: Discovery & Usage
• R2R 2016 Workshop Feedback
• R2R 2016 Summary & Closing

For all the latest news about the Researcher to Reader Conference, see the @R2RConf Twitter feed, or search the #R2RConf hashtag.

We are delighted to be able announce the full Programme for the 2016 Researcher to Reader Conference, which can be found here: https://r2rconf.com/programme/

Speakers will include Vitek Tracz, founder of BioMed Central and ‘the Picasso of science publishing’, Rick Anderson from the University of Utah & Scholarly Kitchen, and Dr Danny Kingsley, the new Head of Scholarly Communication at Cambridge University. There will also be a Panel Discussion on the Economics of Scholarly Publishing involving Steve Hall from IOP and Toby Green from OECD, and Workshops to encourage participation and networking.

Sign up today at: https://r2rconf.com/registration/    Special discounted rates are available for ‘early-bird’ bookings, returning delegates, librarians, academics and sponsors.

Author: Mark Carden – 29 November 2015

We are very pleased to announce that the first former ASA member to become a Founding Sponsor of the R2R Conference is the International Subscription Agency, based in Lucknow, India. Founding Sponsors are former members of the Association of Subscription Agents & Intermediaries who are collectively supporting the future of the event as it transitions from the ASA Conference to become the R2R Conference.

The R2R Conference is very pleased to announce our first Main Sponsor for the 2016 Conference.

Ringgold will be sponsoring the WiFi at the event at the BMA in London on 15 & 16 February 2016.  Other attractive sponsorship packages are also available; contact us for details.

The Researcher to Reader Conference has new graphics, which represent the cycle of scholarly communications from the Researcher to the Reader.  The new graphics come in three forms: Lifecycle, Logo and Icon, to suit different environments, and these are shown below.  The graphics were designed for R2R by Helen Bowers.