The R2R Conference is delighted to welcome Kate Smith, the Marketing Director for Library Services at Wiley, to the 2016 Planning Committee.

We are excited to hear that the Call for Papers has been mentioned on the Research Information website:
http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=1963

History wonks might also like to read a review of the 2014 Conference, which I think presages both the demise of the ASA and the revised scope of the current conference, here:
http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=1548

Author: Mark Carden – 17 August 2015

There has been a big spike in attention paid to the Researcher-to-Reader website following an email marketing campaign today.  It is really good to see the word getting out, as we need to get some responses to the Call for Papers as soon as possible.

Author: Mark Carden – 13 August 2016

The Call for Papers for the 2016 Researcher-to-Reader Conference has been issued, inviting proposals for presentations and workshops.  The call is a bit late this year, hitting the streets in August and asking for responses by early September, but we hope to improve on the timing next year!   This is a great opportunity for presenters and workshop chairs to put forward their ideas and get on the programme for the conference.

You can download the PDF via the link below, or view the Call for Papers page on the Conference website: https://r2rconf.com/call-for-papers/

Download the PDF: R2R Call For Papers 2016 (2105 08 07)

Author: Mark Carden – 7 August 2016

We are delighted to be able to announce that the Advisory Board and the Planning Committee for the 2016 Conference have both been established, with some outstanding people volunteering to help to plan and deliver the event.  We may be adding a few more members to these groups over the next few months, but the founding members are listed below.

Mark Carden
27 July 2016

2016 Advisory Board

• Sam Bruinsma, Vice-President Business Development, Brill
• Chris Banks, Director of Libraries, Imperial College
• Mark Carden, Director, Scholarly & Academic Services
• Nawin Gupta, Publishing Consultant and Secretary General, ASA
• Gabriella Karger, CEO, Karger
• Arend Küster, Director, Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing
• Peter Lawson, International Sales Director, Karger and Chairman, ASA

2016 Planning Committee

• Mark Carden, Director, Scholarly & Academic Services
• Laura Cox, Chief Financial and Operating Officer, Ringgold
• Bernie Folan, Owner, Bernie Folan Research & Consulting
• Nawin Gupta, Publishing Consultant and Secretary General, ASA
• Rob Johnson, Director at Research Consulting

The Chairman of the R2R Conference, Mark Carden, has had an article on publishing career paths published in the July 2015 edition of the ALPSP journal Learned Publishing.

The abstract is below:

The job titles and career paths of people transitioning between academia and scholarly publishing, and of those who are progressing within their publishing careers, has been little studied and lacks accepted frameworks, ‘route-maps’, and taxonomies. Much of the work done to date provides merely a ‘snapshot’ of the current demographics of the publishing workforce at particular moment, and tends not to offer insight into pathways, trajectories, or momentum. This preliminary survey, involving around 150 scholarly publishers, reveals insights into job titles, progressions, and transitions, and exposes some of the reasons for transitions between academia and publishing. The analysis suggests that these transitions and career paths can be systematically studied and documented, for use both by individuals considering their own careers, and by planners and managers in academic institutions and scholarly publishing organizations.

Author: Mark Carden

I’m very pleased to have signed up the first member of the new Advisory Board for the Conference.  I can’t give the name yet, as I would like to announce the whole Board in one go, but I’m delighted that this person has accepted my invitation and look forward to more joining over the next few weeks.

Author: Mark Carden

Yes indeed, we now have a Twitter account and will be posting updates to Twitter from time to time. 

Please Follow and Re-Tweet to get the word out.  The recommended hashtag is #R2RConf

https://twitter.com/R2RConf       Follow @R2RConf

Author: Mark Carden

While the ASA Executive Committee, Secretary General and Members work on the potential dissolution of the Association, we are also working on ensuring that the Conference lives on. This means figuring out how the Conference can be re-established with a new organisation, and can begin to build a new brand, while also acknowledging its origins.

Everyone is working to make this happen, and its great to see the various issues getting resolved.  With luck around the end of this month (June 2015) or in early July we should have it all worked out.

Author: Mark Carden