SAGE ALPSP Conference travel grant

28 June 2012 

Stephen Buck, EResources and Periodicals Librarian at Dublin City University Library won by answering 'Why should librarians be talking to publishers in 2012' with: 
Librarian: We need to talk. 
Publisher: Why? 
Librarian: I don’t want things to go sour between us. 
Publisher: We are under a lot of stress. 
Librarian: We’ll manage. 


The SAGE judging panel awarded the prize to Stephen for his original take on the brief of capturing why publishers and librarians need to work together in partnership.


“We saw in Stephen’s entry the strong need for two-way dialogue between publishers and librarians to constructively address the challenges each faces by working together as partners, especially in challenging times,” said Clive Parry, Global Marketing Director, SAGE. “The ALPSP International Conference provides an ideal environment for publishers to learn from and to share with the library community and we’re delighted to be able to facilitate such dialogue with this travel grant.” 


 The travel grant supports a librarian or information professional with a free place at the ALPSP International Conference from 11-13 September (www.alpspconference.org). 


"I am delighted to be given the ALPSP travel award," said Stephen Buck. "Being offered the opportunity to attend the ALPSP conference will broaden my exposure to, and awareness of, the issues affecting publishers and their relationships with libraries regarding scholarly publishing, copyright, open access and new models and new ways of looking at these, and other issues. I believe that, as a librarian, attendance at a predominantly publisher oriented conference will give me an enhanced perspectives on relevant themes and will facilitate the generation of ideas and building of expertise." 
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SAGE is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students spanning a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine. An independent company, SAGE has principal offices in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC. www.sagepublications.com Contact: Katie Baker, tel +44 (0)7324 8719; katie.baker@sagepub.co.uk

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ALPSP International Conference 11-13 September 2012
www.alpspconference.org
Contact: Lesley Ogg, tel +44 (0)1245 260571; events@alpsp.org 

SCHOLARLY OUTREACH, IMPACT AND OUTCOMES: The Sixth UCL Bloomsbury Conference 28-29 June 2012

Roberts Building, Torrington Street, London WC1EA 7JE

We all know now that it is the aim of the government to give the general public access to all scholarly publications. Yet this has to be just the first step if such access is in the main other than a gesture. What can scholars, publishers, funders and librarians do to make scholarship accessible in a real sense to practitioners and scholars in different disciplines as well as the public through interpretation and explanation? What are they actually doing and planning to do? 

This conference comes just in time to hear presentations on the initial launch of the Royal Society Science as a Public Enterprise project (Professor Brian Collins), the Gateway to Research from Research Councils UK (Drs Astrid Wissenburg) and the relevant aspects of the Finch Report (Dr. Michael Jubb).

Discount for ALPSP members. 

Full detail at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/conferences/2012.

New to ALPSP - Peerage of Science

We're pleased to welcome Peerage of Science as an Associate member of ALPSP.

ALPSP/PA report on potential effect of six months embargo

 

London, 1 June 2012 – 'The potential effect of making journals free after a six month embargo' [1] , a report commissioned by The Publishers Association and the Association of Learned, Professional and Society Publishers (ALPSP), found that an across-the-board mandate might have a material effect on libraries’ subscriptions; and that the impact on publishers’ revenues would be considerable. Higher Education Institutions’ libraries may be impacted by the collapse or scaling down of academic publishing houses. The world’s most distinguished research institutions would, the report suggests, be impacted the most, since published outputs are essential for the work carried out by their researchers. The reports’ results indicate that STM publishers could expect to retain full subscriptions from 56% of libraries, compared with 35% for AHSS publishers.

Commenting on the findings of the report, Graham Taylor, Director of Educational, Academic and Professional Publishing at the Publishers Association, said: “We need a sustainable publishing model which is mutually attractive for both publishers and libraries. The findings of the report are testament to the fact that a six month embargo period is too short for the ‘green’ model of open access. The Publishers Association is in full support of a funded version of open access as we hope will be recommended by the report of the Finch Committee, which is expected to be published shortly”.

Audrey McCulloch, Chief Executive of the Association of Learned, Professional and Society Publishers, said: “ALPSP is very concerned about the effect this may have on non-profit publishers, many of whom may not survive.  The responses in the report show that the ‘green’ model of open access will reduce the number of journals and thus choice available to academics.   Learned societies rely on income from their publishing activities - how will this affect them and the services they provide?  ALPSP will only support appropriately funded publishing models, such as the current subscription model or the ‘gold’ open access model”.

The report documents the results of a survey carried out to obtain a significant body of information on how the acquisitions policies of libraries might be affected by an across-the-board mandate to make journals articles free of charge six months after publication. The report analyses the results of responses from 210 libraries across the world who were asked whether they would continue to subscribe to research journals were their content freely available within six months of publication. Libraries were asked to send separate responses for Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) journals and Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences journals (AHSS). 

[1] report prepared by Linda Bennett of Gold Leaf.

Media Contacts
ALPSP | 01442 828928 | Audrey McCulloch | Audrey.McCulloch@alpsp.org
The PA | 0207 691 1411 | Kelly Signorelli-Chaplin | KSignorelli-Chaplin@publishers.org.uk

Notes to Editors

The Publishers Association

The Publishers Association is the leading trade organisation serving book, journal, audio and electronic publishers in the UK. Membership is comprised of 117 companies from across the trade, academic and education sectors.  Its core service is representation and lobbying, around copyright, rights and other matters relevant to members, who represent roughly 80% of the industry by turnover. www.publishers.org.uk 

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) is the international organization for non-profit publishers. It has a broad and diverse membership of over 300 organizations in 37 countries who collectively publish over half of the world’s total active journals as well as books, databases and other products. ALPSP's mission is to connect, train and inform the scholarly and professional publishing community and to play an active part in shaping the future of academic and scholarly communication.  www.alpsp.org

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