city uni libraries publishing module talk march 2014 final
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Slides from presentation on the future of scholarly and learned society publishing made by Suzanne Kavanagh from ALPSP to the library and publishing course at City University, London March 2014.TRANSCRIPT
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