<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><Apologies for cross posting></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dear all</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My observations from this week’s Researcher to Reader conference are now available as a blog <a href="https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=539" class="">https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=539</a> A taster:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(20, 20, 18); font-family: 'PT Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26.6667px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">“It is all a bit of a mess. It used to be simple. Now it is complicated.” This was the conclusion of Mark Carden, the coordinator of the <a href="http://r2rconf.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(188, 54, 10); text-decoration: none;" class="">Researcher to Reader</a> conference after two days of discussion, debate and workshops about scholarly publication. <span style="line-height: 26.6667px;" class="">The conference bills itself as: ‘</span><em style="line-height: 26.6667px; box-sizing: border-box;" class="">The premier forum for discussion of the international scholarly content supply chain – bringing knowledge from the Researcher to the Reader.</em><span style="line-height: 26.6667px;" class="">’ </span><…></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: 'PT Sans', Georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3; font-size: 20px; margin: 22px 0px; color: rgb(20, 20, 18); widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Suggestions, ideas and salient points that came up</h3><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style-type: square; color: rgb(20, 20, 18); font-family: 'PT Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26.6667px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Journals are dead – the publishing future is the platform</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Journals are not dead – but we don’t need issues any more as they are entirely redundant in an online environment</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Publishing in a journal benefits the author not the reader</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Dissemination is no longer the value added offered by publishers. Anyone can have a blog. The value-add is branding</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">All research is generated from what was published the year before – and we can prove it</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Why don’t we disaggregate the APC model and charge for sections of the service separately?</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">You need to provide good service to the free users if you want to build a premium product</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">The most valuable commodity as an editor is your reviewer time</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Peer review is inconsistent and systematically biased. </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">The greater the novelty of the work the greater likelihood it is to have a negative review</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Poor academic writing is rewarded</li></ul><div class="">Enjoy!</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Danny</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class="">Dr Danny Kingsley<br class="">Head of Scholarly Communications<br class="">Cambridge University Library<br class="">West Road, Cambridge CB39DR<br class="">P: +44 (0) 1223 747 437<br class="">M: +44 (0) 7711 500 564<br class="">E: <a href="mailto:dak45@cam.ac.uk" class="">dak45@cam.ac.uk</a><br class="">T: @dannykay68<br class="">ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3636-5939</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><span><img height="152" width="600" apple-inline="yes" id="D66A0E53-9E92-4DD1-B282-9C11B44F46E3" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:22F510D9-E4C1-4E38-B4B3-10556FD2ACD8" class=""></span>
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