A conference that might interest some of you: the next Researcher to Reader Conference, taking place in London on 24–25 February. This year’s programme focuses strongly on community communication, crisis preparation, AI for authors, metadata, and peer-review recognition.
You will find keynotes, workshops, and lightning talks on topics such as:
- Open and Secure Research: Confronting uncomfortable truths about research openness, integrity and responsibility in global scholarship
- Responsible AI Use in Scholarly Writing
- Using Incentives to Improve Peer Review: How should reviewers be recognised and rewarded for responsible peer review?
- Book Metadata, Discoverability & Usage: How can we improve the academic book data supply chain?
- Better Community Engagement: How can we develop purposeful engagement with stakeholder communities?
- Responding to Global Emergencies: How can the scholarly community be ready to respond to a crisis?*
- Facing AI Futures Together: Using Scenarios to Rethink Libraries, Publishers, and the Scholarly Record
- Rethinking Peer Review: How independent peer review models drive transparency, equity and innovation*
- Business Models – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Libraries, Readers, Researchers: What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong, and What’s Next
- Beyond the Journal Article: Exploring alternative scholarly publication formats*
Read the full programme: Conference Programme | Researcher to Reader Conference — London — 24-25 February 2026