R2R 2016 - Summary & Closing - Mark Carden

Researcher to Reader

15-16 February 2016BMA House, London

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Summary & Closing

Mark Carden, Conference DirectorManaging Consultant, Mosaic Search & Selection

Summary & Closing

Summary & Closing

Summary

• It’s all a bit of a mess

• It used to be simple

• But now it is complicated

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.

Welcome & Introduction

• The Delegates

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

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?

• Institutions

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• give huge piles of cash to shareholders

• be evil

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?

• Reviewers

What does everybody want?

• Conference Organisers• have this debate continue violently and forever

• have publishers and suppliers stay in business

Summary

• It’s all a bit of a mess

• It used to be simple

• But now it is complicated

Summary & Closing

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

Next Year

• Registrationsin the past two weeks

5618 1

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

Researcher to Reader

15-16 February 2016BMA House, London