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Delivering knowledge, from researcher to reader
The Researcher to Reader Conference will take place at BMA House, London on 20 and 21 February
Interaction between different industry sectors will be a key part of the Researcher to Reader 2017 conference. The event,
formerly hosted by the Association of Subscription Agents and Intermediaries, attracts representatives from the world of libraries, research organisations and publishing houses – and organiser Mark Carden is keen to ensure that delegates make the most of their time with the wide range of attendees. He told Research Information: ‘We want
the conference to be very much about the supply chain that exists within the scholarly communication industry, and about interaction between its players. ‘Our choice of speakers reflects this, with all areas of the industry covered, and we fervently hope that this will make the more informal discussions – which take place in between the presentations – all the more interesting.’ The keynote speech will be by Mark
Allin, president and CEO at John Wiley and Sons, with further sessions featuring Rick Anderson, president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, Redlink CEO Kent Anderson, Elsevier’s director of access and policy Alicia Wise, and Stephen Curry, professor of structural biology at London’s Imperial College. In between the various speeches,
presentations and panel discussions, there will be a series of workshops on subjects such as Outsourcing Challenges, Alternative Research Output, Global Research Collaboration, Which Standards Matter and Why, and Understanding and
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Communicating Quality. Carden believes that these workshops are not only an effective way of disseminating knowledge and expertise between delegates, but also of making the entire event more sociable and interactive and ‘more of a talking shop than a series of lectures’. He continues: ‘Our feedback from
previous years is that the workshops are socially very important, encouraging different sectors of the audience to socialise and to share their differing opinions.
‘Not only that; it will also encourage our delegates to mix with others in a wider circle that they otherwise might at an industry event. ‘We all know how easy it is to only speak
“We want the conference to be very much about the supply chain that exists within the scholarly communication industry”
to the same group of people, year-in, year-out.’ Carden concluded: ‘The Researcher to
Reader Conference aims to be the premier forum for discussion of the international scholarly content supply chain – bringing knowledge from the researcher to the reader. ‘The 2017 Conference Programme
covers key topics in the area of scholarly content supply, with a scope that ranges from the creation of content by researchers to the point when the readers access the content, and beyond, into archiving and preservation. This supply chain involves many ‘intermediaries’ including not just subscription agents and distributors, but also publishers, librarians and technology providers.’ Registration for the 2017 Conference is open at https://r2rconf2017.ya-yaonline.
co.uk/ Discounted tickets are available for
returning delegates who attended the R2R Conference in 2016 or the ASA Conference in 2011-2015. Discounted prices are also offered to librarians and academics. These tickets are even more heavily discounted than last year, to make it easier for librarians and academics to attend.
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