First published in CSE Science Editor: Alves T, De Boer J, Ellingham A, Hay E, Leonard C. Moving from ideas to implementation: highlights of the 2025 Researcher to Reader Workshop on peer review innovation. Sci Ed. 2025;48.https://doi.org/10.36591/SE-4802-11 June 26, 2025 This follow-up session to 2024’s Researcher to Reader (R2R) workshop continued from where the previous […]
With the holidays fading into the distance and huge political uncertainty on the (very) near horizon, it was great to start the year at the 20th anniversary Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) Conference in Berlin. An opportunity to check in with friends and colleagues, and to see what themes are going to be driving the […]
HIGHLIGHTS OF 2024 Co-chairing the Peer Review Innovations workshops at the Researcher to Reader conference in London last February, and having our review published in the June 2024 edition of CSE’s Science Editor, was a real highlight. I am delighted to be collaborating with same team of Tony Alves, Alice Ellingham, Elisabeth Hay and Chris […]
This post is in my capacity as Growth Director with Kriyadocs. There is an old, somewhat clichéd Yorkshire saying: “you don’t get owt for nowt”. Which of course translates as “you don’t get anything for nothing”. A little cynical perhaps but, as with most old sayings, there is an underlying truth. As an independent publisher […]
Authors and workshop facilitators Tony Alves1, Jason De Boer2, Alice Ellingham3, Elizabeth Hay4, Christopher Leonard5 1 HighWire Press, 2 De Boer Consultancy and Kriyadocs, 3,4 Editorial Office Limited, 5 Cactus Communications Introduction The Peer Review Innovations workshop at this year’s Researcher to Reader Conference in London brought together 30 colleagues from various facets of scholarly […]
Conferences are the lifeblood of many industries, and scholarly publishing is no different. They provide opportunities for learning, networking, catching up with old friends and making new ones. We always thank the organisers at the end of the conference, but do we really appreciate the amount of preparation and ongoing work needed to make these […]
It has been terrific to be back in Berlin on behalf of Kriyadocs at the APE 2024 Conference, the now traditional start to the scholarly publishing calendar. Congratulations to Marta Dossi and the organizing team on another great event with a broad ranging programme! If I was to try and encapsulate the overarching conference themes […]
Now back home in France, after a terrific trip to London on behalf of Kriyadocs for #STMWeek2023 with great conversations, exciting innovations and really insightful panel discussions. Here are my main takeaways from the week: Innovations in AI offer opportunity and risk in near equal measure. We need to support and empower genuine authors with […]
One of the most impactful was with Mirza, my Uber driver to the station on Saturday morning. Frankfurt 2023 has been the year of my belated surrender to the all-conquering might of Uber, by the way! I was Mirza’s final customer in an exhausting 12 hour overnight shift, during which he had 45 fares. But […]