If you are seeking a sense of tradition, here was where to find it. This year’s Fiesole Retreat was held at the University of Tübingen, founded by Eberhard the Bearded, no less, in 1477, although the Alte Aula, the conference room, …
From the handbook to the conference (graphic by Litza Jansz)
This fascinating one-day event, at Imperial College, London, looked at failure from many angles. Speakers included established professors, writers, publishers, as well as early career researchers, on what failure means, …
“Here East”, the stark London venue for the conference
What is a conference for? It can be to impart information; it can be to bring people with similar interests and concerns together; but perhaps the most valuable thing a conference can …
The MIRL Conference (November) is just what a user-based conference should be: a series of case studies, with repository managers willing to share what worked, and at times, what didn’t work, with their peers. In this year’s conference, during an extended …
The Freie Universitat Berlin, which Sven Fund pointed out was actually created by the USA in 1948 as a response to Soviet influence on the existing University of Berlin [CC-BY-SA 3.0]
This event, for the first time in hybrid format, comprising …
It’s undeniable that some conferences have a special atmosphere. The location of the Fiesole Retreat, this year in Fiesole itself, at the European University Institute just outside Florence, is undoubtedly special. Most of the conference took place at the European University …
The grand surroundings of the British Medical Association for the R2R Conference
This was the tenth Researcher to Reader (R2R) Conference, ably led and chaired by Mark Carden. Why is it different to other events? It includes plenary sessions, lightning talks, …
The R2R workshop on open science created this word cloud rather than a single definition
There are some words and phrases that seem to evade the normal processes of lexicographic assessment: they turn out to have many meanings. One of them …
One of the earliest Scholarcy interfaces, from 2018
The current Scholarcy interface (2025) – quite a change
Phil Gooch, founder of the successful startup Scholarcy, was the highlight of the first-ever AI, Publishing and EdTech Meetup (London, February 2025). Each …
