city uni libraries publishing module talk march 2014 final

The A-to-LPSP Guide to Scholarly

Publishing

Friday 21 March 2014

Suzanne Kavanagh

Director of Marketing & Membership Services

suzanne.kavanagh@alpsp.org

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

suzanne.kavanagh@alpsp.org

T. 020 8670 4244

@sashers

www.alpsp.org

@alpsp

Licensed under CC BY-NC