The A-to-LPSP Guide to Scholarly
Publishing
Friday 21 March 2014
Suzanne Kavanagh
Director of Marketing & Membership Services
T. 020 8670 4244
@sashers
www.alpsp.org
@alpsp
Licensed under CC BY-NC
Who am I?
Image source: Suzanne Kavanagh
Who 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
Source: Suzanne Kavanagh, ALPSP 2014
So what exactly do we do?
Source: Suzanne Kavanagh, ALPSP 2014
We like to think small…
Source: Suzanne Kavanagh, ALPSP 2014
And geeky…
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)
What does a learned society do?
‘The world’s leading chemist community.’
Latest news and research
Networking opportunities
Professional development and recognition
Support services
Funding opportunities
Member discounts
Facilities at the Chemistry Centre
Source: www.rsg.org
What does the future hold?
• Round-up from the ALPSP International Conference 2013 on what our members think the future holds: http://youtu.be/D2ZFRwPFNOI
What does the future hold?
Source: Suzanne Kavanagh, ALPSP 2014
Other research
• www.alpsp.org• www.learned-publishing.org• http://www.publishingresearch.org.uk/• http://www.uksg.org/insights• http://www.uksg.org/projects• http://www.stm-assoc.org/industry-statistics/• www.openaccessresources.org• http://www.creativeskillset.org/research/
Skills and careers
Source: www.creativeskillset.org
From the horse’s mouth
Source: ALPSP YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCot-NVcjpNRFHx_hcvlGEcg
Other viewpoints
Sources: www.blog.alpsp.org and http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/
The A-to-LPSP Guide to Scholarly
Publishing
Thank you
Suzanne Kavanagh
Director of Marketing & Membership Services
T. 020 8670 4244
@sashers
www.alpsp.org
@alpsp
Licensed under CC BY-NC
