ALPSP has a close working relationship with SSP (the Society for Scholarly Publishing) and in fact we publish our journal, Learned Publishing, in cooperation with SSP.
We also occasionally cross-promote events and things that we think will be of interest to our members. A forthcoming web seminar ‘Improving the Copyediting Workflow’ is one such thing – details below!
Register now for the SSP/AAUP Web Seminar: Improving the Copyediting Workflow: How Can Technology Help?
May 7, 2009 - 1:00-2:30 PM EDT
The copyediting function is one of the most expensive and time-consuming parts of the publishing workflow, and has recently come under increasing scrutiny from publishers seeking cheaper and faster ways of delivering content to market. Over the last decade, a variety of tools, ranging from Microsoft Word macros to entire SGML/XML editing environments, have been deployed, using a variety of in-house and commercial expertise. This seminar explores the impact of technology on copyediting in the digital age. It features two case- studies from scholarly publishers who have reinvented their copyediting workflows, placed in context by a technical expert who will survey the latest developments in editing software.
Who should attend?
Full of practical suggestions and honest assessments, this seminar will be invaluable to production editors, managing editors, and senior management at small to medium-sized publishers of scholarly content. Under a new collaboration, both SSP and AAUP members are entitled to special "member-only" rates.Join us if you want to:
Benchmark your own copyediting workflow against successful publishers who have reinvented theirs.
Assess your organization's technology needs, and learn the pros and cons of different options.
Understand which copyediting tasks can be simplified through the application of technology, and which cannot.
Learn about the strategic issues involved in balancing in-house staffing with outsourced services.
Get practical tips for keeping copyediting projects on time, on budget, and under control.
Presenters:
John Muenning, University of Chicago Press
Michael Haskell, Columbia UP
Scott Beebe, Oxford University Press
Moderator:
Greg Suprock, VP & General Manager, Content Services, Cadmus Communications
Registration: Fees are $99 for SSP or AAUP members/$149 for non-members.
See the SSP Web site for additional details and to register: http://www.sspnet.org
Remember, with web seminars, all you need is a telephone and a computer with Internet access. Registration is per-computer; you can invite as many staff as you like to participate using a single speakerphone and projector. All participants receive a recording of the seminar after the event.
The ALPSP Blog has now moved to our main website. This page remains up as an archive of all of our previous posts.
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
Wednesday, 8 April 2009
Free online seminar on the Google Books Settlement
Those following the Google Book Settlement (or trying to) will be interested in an upcoming web-based information session offered by the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC). Details and signup information are below.
CCC is offering a free, informational online seminar titled The Authors Guild, AAP, Google Settlement: What Authors & Publishers Need to Know as May 5th Approaches on Tuesday, April 14th at 12:00 pm ET / 16:00 GMT. This session features publishing attorney and copyright expert, Lois Wasoff, who will focus on key points of the settlement to help publishers, authors and literary agents understand their options as the opt-out date of May 5th approaches.
For more information and to register, visit the CCC website.
CCC is offering a free, informational online seminar titled The Authors Guild, AAP, Google Settlement: What Authors & Publishers Need to Know as May 5th Approaches on Tuesday, April 14th at 12:00 pm ET / 16:00 GMT. This session features publishing attorney and copyright expert, Lois Wasoff, who will focus on key points of the settlement to help publishers, authors and literary agents understand their options as the opt-out date of May 5th approaches.
For more information and to register, visit the CCC website.
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Accessibility Action Group Newsletter just posted
It must be newsletter day!
Issue 5 of the Publisher Accessibility Newsletter is now available. This is produced quarterly by industry trade bodies and licensing/standards organisations under the umbrella of the ‘Accessibility Action Group’ and is "designed to help publishers meet the precise
requirements of people with reading impairments".
Inside you will find an overview of current activities in progress – both in the UK and abroad. We hope you will find the information contained in this document both interesting and educational.
Issue 5 of the Publisher Accessibility Newsletter is now available. This is produced quarterly by industry trade bodies and licensing/standards organisations under the umbrella of the ‘Accessibility Action Group’ and is "designed to help publishers meet the precise
requirements of people with reading impairments".
Inside you will find an overview of current activities in progress – both in the UK and abroad. We hope you will find the information contained in this document both interesting and educational.
Latest issue of our e-newsletter, ALPSP Alert, now available!
The April issue of ALPSP Alert, our monthly e-newsletter, is now available and is FREE to everyone at ALPSP member organizations.
To access ALPSP Alert you will have to login to the website - www.alpsp.org - (you can request a username and password from the homepage if you need one).
Please note that you may need to refresh the page after logging in for the link to ALPSP Alert to appear.
To access ALPSP Alert you will have to login to the website - www.alpsp.org - (you can request a username and password from the homepage if you need one).
Please note that you may need to refresh the page after logging in for the link to ALPSP Alert to appear.
Monday, 6 April 2009
ALPSP Awards 2009
Applications are invited for the 2009 Awards - Best New Journal, Publishing Innovation and new for 2009, Best eBook Publisher. The winners will be announced at the Awards Dinner on 10 September at the ALPSP International Conference. The closing date for applications for all three awards is 17 June 2009. Full Details; Download brochure (pdf).
ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation
sponsored by EBSCO
ALPSP Award for Best New Journal
sponsored by DHL Global Mail
ALPSP Award for Best eBook Publisher
sponsored by Ingram Digital
ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation
sponsored by EBSCO
ALPSP Award for Best New Journal
sponsored by DHL Global Mail
ALPSP Award for Best eBook Publisher
sponsored by Ingram Digital
Society of Indexers: Wheatley Medal
The Society of Indexers invites publishers to submit nominations for the prestigious Wheatley Medal for an outstanding index.
Indexes published between 1 January 2008 and 30 April 2009 are eligible for nomination and the deadline for nominations is 30 April 2009.
Further information and the nomination form are available from the Society of Indexers' website.
Indexes published between 1 January 2008 and 30 April 2009 are eligible for nomination and the deadline for nominations is 30 April 2009.
Further information and the nomination form are available from the Society of Indexers' website.
Friday, 3 April 2009
Library of the Future meeting
I attended an interesting JISC sponsored meeting on 2 April 2009. The Libraries of the Future debate was hosted by Oxford University and was expertly Chaired by Vincent Gillespie (J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford). It was the first event that I've been to that was simultaneously available in Second Life and webcast and it also featured a screen alongside the speakers which displayed real-time comments from those in the auditorium and watching on the web.
There was actually a fair amount of discussion about the publisher of the future and as the debate wore on a fair amount of publisher bashing too. Harvard University librarian Robert Darnton spoke vitriolically of "extortionately priced journals" and received a smattering of applause when he suggested that librarians should just stop buying journals. The trouble is that this fatuous remark does little to help anyone nor to advance the debate. I am sure he has no intention of ceasing the purchase of journals and if he did how would the academics at Harvard continue to do their research without access to the literature?
The issue of peer review also came up, and along with it the familiar arguments; it's all done for free by academics so why does the world need publishers (completely ignoring the importance of journal brands in the peer review process) and that the future is in overlay journals on repositories.
Peter Murray-Rust did try to address the issue of the day. In a typically polemic talk he challenged the library community to get their act together with a call to "Just Do It". He also said that it's too easy to simply blame the publishers.
The presentations were, with one exception, all excellent but I found the timbre of the meeting to be rather anti-private sector. Google (represented at the meeting by Santiago de la Mora, Partnerships Lead for Google Book Search in Europe) attracted criticism for making money via ads on their digitization programme and Google Book Search and some commentators from the floor bemoaned the fact that the public sector in general, and libraries in particular, had not done this. I am happy to defend publishing and the importance of publishing, but the place to defend capitalism was 50 miles down the M40 motorway at the G20 summit.
I left with Peter Murray-Rust's call to "Just Do It" in my head. It struck me that if replicating the benefits of the peer review / journal brand system is that easy then the academic community or the librarians should 'just do it'; that if the librarians think that they and the students and faculty members they serve would be better off if they cancelled subscriptions to journals, they should 'just do it'; that if overlay journals are such an obvious and easy solution (even though no overlay journal has emerged on the arXiv despite this being talked about for more than a decade) then someone should 'just do it'.
Better that than scoring cheap points in a debate.
The reason that I'm so keen for them to 'just do it' is because then the realization will hit that this stuff isn't that easy, that the publishing industry is not full of fat cats creaming money from from the academy and adding no value and because I am 100% confident that professional scholarly publishers can fulfil these functions more effectively and more efficiently.
There was actually a fair amount of discussion about the publisher of the future and as the debate wore on a fair amount of publisher bashing too. Harvard University librarian Robert Darnton spoke vitriolically of "extortionately priced journals" and received a smattering of applause when he suggested that librarians should just stop buying journals. The trouble is that this fatuous remark does little to help anyone nor to advance the debate. I am sure he has no intention of ceasing the purchase of journals and if he did how would the academics at Harvard continue to do their research without access to the literature?
The issue of peer review also came up, and along with it the familiar arguments; it's all done for free by academics so why does the world need publishers (completely ignoring the importance of journal brands in the peer review process) and that the future is in overlay journals on repositories.
Peter Murray-Rust did try to address the issue of the day. In a typically polemic talk he challenged the library community to get their act together with a call to "Just Do It". He also said that it's too easy to simply blame the publishers.
The presentations were, with one exception, all excellent but I found the timbre of the meeting to be rather anti-private sector. Google (represented at the meeting by Santiago de la Mora, Partnerships Lead for Google Book Search in Europe) attracted criticism for making money via ads on their digitization programme and Google Book Search and some commentators from the floor bemoaned the fact that the public sector in general, and libraries in particular, had not done this. I am happy to defend publishing and the importance of publishing, but the place to defend capitalism was 50 miles down the M40 motorway at the G20 summit.
I left with Peter Murray-Rust's call to "Just Do It" in my head. It struck me that if replicating the benefits of the peer review / journal brand system is that easy then the academic community or the librarians should 'just do it'; that if the librarians think that they and the students and faculty members they serve would be better off if they cancelled subscriptions to journals, they should 'just do it'; that if overlay journals are such an obvious and easy solution (even though no overlay journal has emerged on the arXiv despite this being talked about for more than a decade) then someone should 'just do it'.
Better that than scoring cheap points in a debate.
The reason that I'm so keen for them to 'just do it' is because then the realization will hit that this stuff isn't that easy, that the publishing industry is not full of fat cats creaming money from from the academy and adding no value and because I am 100% confident that professional scholarly publishers can fulfil these functions more effectively and more efficiently.
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