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As part of its professional development activities, ALPSP organises seminars for its members and others in the scholarly publishing and information world. We endeavour to make these as relevant and useful as we can but would value your feedback. Please let us know how we're doing and how you think we might improve the seminars by completing this short survey.

If you complete the survey before 21 April you'll have the chance to win one of two places on an ALPSP seminar, webinar, training course or eLearning course of your choice.

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HERE AND NOW: The Digital and Ebook Market 2011

Half day seminar organised by the Publishers Association on the current ebook market
Wednesday 9th February

Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London

8.30am for registration and breakfast
9.00am – 12.30pm : Seminar

Chaired by David Roth-Ey, Digital Director at HarperCollins, the seminar will reveal the very latest research on device and ebook buying habits in the UK. Speakers will include from the US Michael Tamblyn, Kobo, Peter Balis, John Wiley & Sons, and Theresa Horner, Barnes & Noble. Richard Mollet, CEO of the Publishers Association will give the keynote, followed by an overview of the UK and US markets by Jo Henry, BML. We then see 2 expert panels led by Sara Lloyd, Digital Director, Pan Macmillan and Fionnuala Duggan, Digital Director of Random House profiling the US ebook market and looking ahead at the international and UK ebook markets.

This is a very this low cost and content rich seminar over a half a day, and one not to be missed if you are involved or interested in the ebook market.

To register please go to www.publishers.org.uk/events

Renew Training

Technology has removed the barriers between production, editorial, marketing, sales, customer services and most importantly – the customers. Renew Training’s Understanding E-Journal Technology course is aimed at anyone in working in these departments and will help them connect with their customers and better understand their requirements.

Many publishing companies routinely send all their customer facing staff on Renew Training’s courses and 100% of course delegates have said they would recommend this course to others in their organisations.

Delegates will gain a business-level grounding in e-journal delivery technologies, gain greater insight into customers' technical and business requirements and better understand the role technology plays in e-journal deployment and discoverability. The course will educate attendees about key issues affecting the delivery of e-journals and how these affect licensing, customer service and even pricing. Participants will also learn what necessitated technological change in libraries and publishers and how to solve some of the key problems posed by library technologies such as link servers, A-Z lists, federated search, web scale discovery, DOIs, OpenURL, Athens and Shibboleth

Courses will be held in London on Tuesday 15^th February, 2011, Washington DC on 14^th March and Philadelphia on 16^th March.

Visit http://www.renewtraining.com/schedule.htm for more information and to book a place. Members of ALPSP, ASA, and SSP are eligible for affiliate discounts.

New prize from Routledge commemorates former editor of 'The Round Table'

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
13 December 2010

New prize from Routledge commemorates former editor of
‘The Round Table’

Routledge has donated to Britain’s oldest international affairs journal, The Round Table, an annual prize in memory of Peter Lyon, the journal’s editor from 1983 to 2004. The £1,000 award will be for the best article relating to policy and the contemporary Commonwealth that the journal has published during the previous calendar year.

The first award of the ‘Peter Lyon Memorial Prize’ will be made in early 2012. All articles appearing in The Round Table during 2011 that contain a significant emphasis on policy and the Commonwealth will automatically become entrants for the prize. The journal’s editor will select the winner, in consultation with Routledge and the journal’s editorial and international advisory boards.

Peter Lyon (1934-2010) was a leading expert on the Commonwealth and bridged the divide between academia and policy-making. He was Reader in International Relations at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and, while editor of The Round Table, wrote almost 100 editorials and articles for the journal about issues affecting the Commonwealth.

Kamalesh Sharma, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, paid tribute to Peter Lyon as an integral part of the Commonwealth family, whose “knowledge of the Commonwealth on five continents was second to none”.

Sir Shridath Ramphal, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth from 1975 to 1990, said: “Peter Lyon's unique blend of academia and the real world was dedicated to the service of the Commonwealth…… The whole Commonwealth is in his debt for his superlative work at The Round Table….. His contributions are immense and imperishable. Memorialised, they will help to inspire the Commonwealth to fulfilment of the great goals he saw for it.”

Chief Emeka Anyaoku, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth from 1990 to 2000, said: “Peter Lyon will long be remembered for his sustained intellectual contribution to the evolution of the Commonwealth. He has left a worthy legacy, not only at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and The Round Table, but also at the many forums where he often contributed to public discourse on the Commonwealth.”

Sir Don McKinnon, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth from 2000 to 2008, said: “Peter Lyon’s death is a loss for the whole Commonwealth. He was an almost unrivalled authority on Commonwealth issues and had a fine mind for its history.”

Founded in 1910, The Round Table provides analysis and commentary on all aspects of international affairs. The journal is a major source of coverage of policy issues concerning the contemporary Commonwealth and its role in international relations. It combines informed scholarship, opinion, and judgement, and draws its authors and readership from the worlds of government, business, finance and academe.

To submit or propose an article for publication in The Round Table, contact the Editor, Dr Venkat Iyer, at the School of Law, University of Ulster, Jordanstown campus, Shore Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, BT37 0QB, or e-mail him at theroundtable@hotmail.co.uk.

Routledge, the foremost global publisher of policy-relevant books and journals in the Social Sciences, has been awarded the prestigious International Publisher of the Year award by the International Printers Network for the environmental sustainability of its publishing programmes. For further information please contact Jennifer McMillan, Library Marketing Manager, Taylor & Francis: Jennifer.McMillan@tandf.co.uk

Further information on The Round Table is available from www.tandf.co.uk/journals/ctrt.

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Media contact: Andrea Hutchinson, Marketing Executive
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN.
Telephone: +44 (0) 207 017 5344 Fax: +44 (0) 207 017 6713
Email: Andrea.Hutchinson@tandf.co.uk Website: www.informaworld.com/politicsandir

New ALPSP Advice Note No.40: Tiered Pricing

Written by Lois Bacon and Ann Lawson, EBSCO Information Services.

In recent years an increasing number of publishers have adopted tiered pricing models for journals, databases, e-books, data sets and other resources. However introducing a new model invites the librarian to review and evaluate a subscription. This advice note outlines the key issues publishers need to take into account to ensure a smooth transition and minimal impact on renewals.

Free to download from www.alpsp.org for ALPSP members

BookVault wins business with cost-saving link between publisher and printer

Press release 21 October

Printondemand-worldwide’s system transfers orders from web shopping cart to production floor

Printondemand-worldwide is bridging the gap between publisher and printer to make the production of books faster and more efficient than ever before.

The leading UK-based digital printer has seen rising demand for its web-based BookVault system, which provides publishers with fingertip inventory management through a virtual library of titles.

Many publishers are seizing the opportunity to have BookVault integrated into their own website shopping cart, so that orders from customers are immediately transferred to the print floor – saving inestimable time, administrative and processing costs. Printondemand-worldwide’s unique technology allows for BookVault to be bolted on to an existing website very easily, but a technical team is also available to manage the process where necessary.

Early advocates of BookVault include Gareth Jarrett, Inventory Manager at Taylor and Francis Books, who said: “We have recently started using BookVault, primarily for reporting purposes, which is very useful, and to check on the status of titles in development. We haven’t yet begun to exploit its full potential but it certainly seems very user friendly and shows a lot of promise.

“We have been working with Printondemand-worldwide for around five years, during which time the company has grown to become one of our key on-demand printers. It enables us to have more titles consistently available, but without the costs of having stock waiting in storage. So the benefit is twofold – you’ve got greater revenue opportunities by making more titles available than would otherwise be possible; and you save on the storage costs of stock.”

BookVault, launched at last year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, enables publishers to upload and store a library of titles, any of which can be summoned for printing, in almost any quantity, within 48 to 72 hours, and then dispatched directly to the end customer if preferred.

Orders through BookVault now account for around 25 per cent of Printondemand-worldwide’s overall business, resulting in around 4,000 books produced each day.

Printondemand-worldwide Managing Director Andy Cork said: “This is on-demand printing in its purest form. With less than half-a-dozen clicks of your mouse, you can instantly order any quantity of books, from a single copy upwards. And whether they are perfect-bound, case-bound or saddle-stiched, full colour or black and white, the production process begins as soon as the order is received.

“It gives publishers direct control at their fingertips and in difficult economic times, that level of flexibility is proving to be a significant advantage.”

Printondemand-worldwide, the leading UK digital printer, serves publishing clients across Europe from its base in Peterborough, near Cambridge. In addition, it has recently created a network of global print partners – in the USA, Asia and Australia – all of which have had the BookVault system installed and can facilitate orders from their own countries to avoid the time, financial and environmental costs of shipping from the UK.

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Notes to Editors

Advantages of BookVault:

· Save time with easy ordering via web-based simply order system

· Minimise capital outlay by removing the need for stock printing

· Reduce associated storage, distribution and transport costs

· Save money and resources on administration

· A personal data library listing all your BookVault titles

· Real-time reporting as the job progresses through production

· Range of delivery options, including dispatch direct to end customer

· Simple to integrate with e-commerce website via a custom web application programming interface (API)

Printondemand-worldwide is one of the UK’s leading digital book printers, with a workforce in excess of 40, a cutting-edge print production facility in Peterborough, an annual turnover in excess of £2m and global roster of clients.

Printondemand-worldwide will be at Frankfurt Book Fair from October 6-10, Hall 8, Stand A937.

Established 16 years ago, the short-run specialist has taken an innovative approach to directly address the needs of diverse client groups, whether they wish to print one unit or 1,000 units.

The range of services provided by Printondemand-worldwide include Fast Print, which offers user-friendly packages to self-publishers, and BookVault, which enables publishers of all sizes to manage a digital archive of their books and call any up any of them to be printed at any time, no matter how small the volume, at pre-agreed rates.

Advantages of Printondemand-worldwide’s proposition include high quality, cost-effectiveness and flexibility. By overcoming the need for bulk storage, reducing reliance on warehouses, cutting wastage, taking action to reduce its carbon footprint, opting for ecologically-approved facilities and production methods and limiting the use of long-distance freight, the company offers print solutions that are not only efficient but also environmentally-friendly.

Visit www.printondemand-worldwide.com for further details.

For more information or images please contact:

Nick Henderson, Katie McBreen or Richard McCann

Friday’s Media Group, 18 Soho Square, London, W1D 3QL

Telephone: 0845 500 1140

nickh@fridays-group.co.uk, katiem@fridays-group.co.uk or richardm@fridays-group.co.uk

James Murdoch opens Copyright in the Digital Age (8 November, London)

James Murdoch (son of Rupert and Chairman and Chief Executive, Europe and Asia, News Corporation) leads off a very impressive line-up of speakers at the Copyright in the Digital Age: Industry issues and impacts event being run by the Stationers' Company.

The Stationers' Company (or the wonderfully named Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers to give them their full moniker) pretty much invented copyright and were responsible for its enforcement until the implementation of the Statute of Anne in 1709 so it's very appropriate that they should be organizing this debate.

The event will take place on 8 November 2010 at the Stationers' Hall in London. 

More information and online booking.