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 about scholarly publishing
1. Everything you ever wanted to know
about scholarly publishing
(but were too afraid to ask)
Suzanne Kavanagh
Director of Marketing & Membership Services
suzanne.kavanagh@alpsp.org
T. 020 8670 4244
@sashers
www.alpsp.org
@alpsp
3. 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
8. Like all good publishers…
• Highlights video from the ALPSP International
Conference 2013: http://youtu.be/jXeyCfYhvQ0
9. Together we are big…
Source: Creative Skillset (2011) Publishing – Labour Market Profile
10. 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)
13. 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
23. 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
24. Pub Quiz
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How many members does ALPSP have?
How many countries are they in?
In which year was ALPSP set up?
Name 3 ALPSP members
What does DRM stand for?
What is open access