Open Access monographs and impacts on publisher workflows, ALPSP 2013 conference
UCL ALPSP Overview of Scholarly Publishing October 2013
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Everything you ever wanted to know about scholarly publishing (but were too afraid to ask) Suzanne Kavanagh Director of Marketing & Membership Services [email protected]
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An overview of everything you ever wanted to know about scholarly publishing (but were too afraid to ask) for the students on the UCL Publishing Studies courses.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about
scholarly publishing
(but were too afraid to ask)
Suzanne Kavanagh
Director of Marketing & Membership Services
T. 020 8670 4244
@sashers
www.alpsp.org
@alpsp
What is ALPSP?
A little bit of history…
1970
• Launch of the ISBN
1972
• ALPSP formed by 24 UK based learned societies
1977
• Membership reaches 85
1981
• Publishers Licensing Society formed by ALPSP, PA and PPA
1990
• First HTTP client and server communication
1993
• ALPSP celebrates 21 years, Adobe launches PDF
1998
• Launch of Google
2002
• Launch of Amazon.co.uk
2006
• Launch of Twitter and Sony eReader
2008
• Inaugural ALPSP conference launched
2013
• Membership exceeds 320 organisations in 40 countries
Publishing trade associations (amongst others)
We like to think small…
And geeky…
So what exactly do we do?
Like all good publishers…
• Highlights video from the ALPSP International Conference 2013: http://youtu.be/jXeyCfYhvQ0
Together we are big…
Source: Creative Skillset (2011) Publishing – Labour Market Profile
Learned Societies
Geographical area % of total (2001) Number (2001)
World 100% 25,000
UK 8% 2,000
Europe (exc. UK) 22.5% 5,625
North America 27.6% 6,900
Australia & NZ 4% 1,000
Source: Scholarly Societies Project (2001)
Do you ever wonder what the future holds?
So do we…
What does it all mean?
Risk of falling behind or missing opportunities in:• New or existing markets• Extending reach into new product areas• Scaling up or extending capacity• Keeping up-to-date on new initiatives• Increasing revenue • Mitigating changes in market place• Ability to innovate
7 things you can do to find out more…
1. Follow @alpsp on Twitter
2. Join LinkedIn
3. Look at ALPSP’s website
6. Look at ALPSP YouTube
7. Read industry blogs
What do publishers think about the future?
Here’s what they said…
• Reflections on what the future holds for scholarly publishers from attendees at the ALPSP International Conference 2013: http://youtu.be/D2ZFRwPFNOI
Pub Quiz
1. How many members does ALPSP have?
2. How many countries are they in?
3. In which year was ALPSP set up?
4. Name 3 ALPSP members
5. What does DRM stand for?
6. What is open access
