Researcher to Reader programme announced

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The full Conference Programme for the 2025 Researcher to Reader Conference, 25-26 February 2025, is now available on the event website, and a few highlights are listed below. The event will be held at BMA House in central London.

Keynotes: Dr Kamran Abbasi, Editor-in-Chief at the British Medical Journal, and Prof. John Willinsky, Director of the Public Knowledge Project, will be giving inspiring keynote presentations.

Workshops: Collaborative and interactive workshops will discuss peer review, making content more accessible to readers, research integrity, open science, the Global South and GetFTR.

Presentations, Panels and Roundtables: There will be informative presentations and lively discussions on: open science, trust indicators, preprints, putting research into practice. research integrity, business models (including APCs and ‘diamond’ open access) and much more.

Debate: The event will include its traditional and popular formal debate.

People: Presenters, panellists, moderators and facilitators will include: Kamran Abbasi, Rick Anderson, Damian Bird, Toby Green, Nicko Goncharoff, Mark Hahnel, Phill Jones, Hylke Koers, Chris Leonard, Dr Elliott Lumb, Blessing Mawire, Joana Osório, Sarah Phibbs, Joris van Rossum, Sara Rouhi, Heather Staines, and John Willinsky

Registration is open, with early-bird rates until the end of November, and generous discounts for academics & librarians. The event offers a 100% refund option until the end of January.

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