[GOAL] BLOG: 'Be nice to each other' - the second Researcher 2 Reader conference

[Danny Kingsley]

<Apologies for cross posting>

This time last week about 140 publishers, librarians, intermediaries, 
researchers and others were about to start the second annual Researcher 
2 Reader conference. This is my take on the event:

'Be nice to each other' - the second Researcher 2 Reader conference -  
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=1316

A taster:

Aaaaaaaaaaargh! was Mark Carden's summary of the second annual 
Researcher 2 Reader conference, along with a plea that the different 
players show respect to one another. My take home messages were slightly 
different:

  * Publishers should embrace values of researchers & librarians and
    become more open, collaborative, experimental and disinterested.
  * Academic leaders and institutionsshoulddo their bit in combating the
    metrics focus.
  * Big Deals don't save libraries money, what helps them is the ability
    to cancel journals.
  * The green OA = subscription cancellations is only viable in a
    utopian, almost fully green world.
  * There are serious issues in the supply chain of getting books to
    readers.
  * And copyright arrangements in academia do not help scholarship or
    protect authors.

  Theprogramme <https://r2rconf.com/programme/>for the conference 
included a mix of presentations, debates and workshops. The Twitter 
hashtag is #r2rconf.

<Snip>

Enjoy!
Danny

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