r2r 2016 - summary & closing - mark carden
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Researcher to Reader
15-16 February 2016BMA House, London
Wi-Fi: Name: “Visitor” Password: “Roll on Spring”Twitter: #R2RConf
Summary
• It’s all a bit of a mess
• We have broken the old system without establishing what the new system is and how it should work.
• We got it wrong [in 2005 and 2011]: Gold OA has not developed as much as we expected.
• How do we get out of this mess?
• We need to approach these questions in aa careful and mindful way?
• There is advocacy without evidence.
• Biggest legacy of Finch is that most publishers implemented the hybrid model.
What does everybody want?
• Researchers / Authors
• Readers
• Institutions
• Libraries
• Reviewers
• Funders / Regulators
• Politicians
What does everybody want?
• Researchers / Authors• be left alone
• do research
• get promoted and get tenure
• publish with prestige, impact and brand
• do no admin
• make easy choices
• follow no rules
• read stuff without friction
• be read without friction
What does everybody want?
• Readers• free, or….
• cheap or….
• really expensive, as long as someone else is paying
• easy discovery
• easy UI
• absolutely no ‘serendipity’
• don’t think about ‘you get what you pay for’
What does everybody want?
• Institutions• not be in trouble with regulators and funders
• look good in league tables
• not get into arguments with faculty
• not spend any money
What does everybody want?
• Institutions• there are not ‘7 stages’ of the publishing lifecycle
• it isn’t pronounced ‘owl’ and it doesn’t rhyme with towel
• there is uprOAr and grOAnsabout this hOAry old topic
What does everybody want?
• Libraries• the good old days
• manageable journal subscriptions
• free stuff! (OA)
• expensive subscriptions that justified ERM
• to be publishers (maybe?)
• to be the office of research (maybe?)
• to be the repository (maybe?)
• to manage APCs (maybe?)
• don’t think about ‘you get what you pay for’
• the good old days
What does everybody want?
• Politicians• free public access to publicly-funded research
• free public access to publicly-funded aircraft carriers
• free public access to publicly-funded housing
• free stuff to give away
What does everybody want?
• Funders & Regulators
RCUK – Green & Gold | HEFCE – Green only | COAF – Gold only
What does everybody want?
• Funders & Regulators• be confusing
• be bossy
• mandate output medium
• mandate copyright rules
• become publishers???
What does everybody want?
• Publishers• not have their business model destroyed
• get some recognition for the work that goes on
• get some money to pay the salaries
• realise brand value
• attract paying authors
• attract paying subscribers
• go on doing most of the 96 things they do
• resist ‘Freemium’ at all costs
What does everybody want?
• Publishers
• OR…• break the mold
• be a platform
• or a mega-journal
• focus on articles
• forget issues
• embrace continuous publishing
• manage versioning
• let the ‘market’ handle peer review
What does everybody want?
• Reviewers• less copy-editing
• openness and anonymity
• slick processes and flexibility
• fast turn-round and lax timetables
• credit or points or money or something
• familiar subjects to review harshly
• unfamiliar subjects to review generously
What does everybody want?
• Conference Organisers• have this debate continue violently and forever
• have publishers and suppliers stay in business
Closing
• Thank You!• Delegates
• Speakers
• Panellists
• Chairpersons
• Committees
• Sponsors
• The ASA
Next Year
• Should we do one next year?
• If so, probably 20 & 21 February
• Suggestions for Topics & Speakers
• Volunteers for Planning Committee and Advisory Board
• I need an Administrator!
• Chris Banks• Sam Bruinsma• Laura Cox• Bernie Folan• Nawin Gupta• Rob Johnson• Phill Jones• Gabriella Karger • Peter Lawson
Next Year
• Registrations
October November JanuaryDecember Feb
R2R 2016 Registrations
Mark’s Blood Pressure
Closing
• 2017 – Probably 20 & 21 Februaryput the date in your calendars now!
• That means registering on about 1 November
• Please hand in both your Survey Responses at the door
• See you at Scholarly Social Lord John Russell, 96 Marchmount Street
• Thank you