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.
City uni libraries publishing module talk march 2014 final
1. 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
4. 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
5. So what exactly do we do?
Source: Suzanne Kavanagh, ALPSP 2014
6. We like to think small…
Source: Suzanne Kavanagh, ALPSP 2014
8. 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)
9. 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
10. 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
11. What does the future hold?
Source: Suzanne Kavanagh, ALPSP 2014
12. 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/
16. 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
Notas do Editor
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) is the international membership trade body which works to support and represent not-for-profit organisations and institutions that publish scholarly and professional content around the world. Our membership also includes those that partner with and provide services to not-for-profit publishers. We have over 330 members in 40 countries, who collectively publish over half the world’s total active journals as well books, databases and other products.
Represent
The majority of members are in the smaller membership tiers, with 30.3% in the smallest tier (31% at the end of 2013). This increases to 33% if partner and complimentary members are included (39.2% at the end of 2013). Three quarters of our members have income less than £2.3 millionBands A, C, E and G account for 75.8% of the membership (75.7% at the end of 2013). Largest over £50 million Collectively, the three largest bands (J, K and L) account for just 3.6% of the membership (3.6% at the end of 2012).
Chemistry World, RSC News, The Virtual Library, Publishing Resources inc. free journal articles accessLocal sections in UK and Ireland, international sections, MyRSC Online Community, Divisions and interest groups, Younger member networksCharted status, CPD framework, Registered Scientist and Technician, Designatory LettersCareers service and benevolent fundConference discounts and busaries, Legacy grants to promote chemical sciences, travel grantsDiscounts on wider range of products and servicesUse of the prestigious facilities at offices at beautiful Burlington House in Piccadilly