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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New to ALPSP - Dove Medical Press Ltd

We are pleased to welcome Dove Medical Press Ltd as an Associate Member of ALPSP.

New to ALPSP - Tallinn University Press

We're pleased to welcome Tallinn University Press as a full member of ALPSP.

Brill and Publishing Technology celebrate launch of Brill Online

- Longstanding partnership yields strategic new e-resource of aggregated content -

Oxford, 17 May 2012 – Publishing Technology, the largest provider of software and services to the publishing industry, along with Dutch publisher and long-term partner BRILL, announce the launch of the new aggregated scholarly portal, Brill Online Books and Journals.

For the first time, all of Brill’s content from 20 subject specialities across three imprints (BRILL, Global Oriental and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers) is integrated within a single resource.  At launch, the site includes 175 journals and 2,400 e-books, equating to over 150,000 distinct articles and chapters. The new platform is designed with a semantic architecture providing students, researchers and teachers with an enhanced user experience through enriched content and increased discoverability.

Transitioning much of its content from Publishing Technology’s ingentaconnect solution, Brill has moved to a custom pub2web platform to consolidate content assets previously distributed across multiple resources.  The publisher now commands an agile and adaptable site ensuring long-term cost efficiency and a solid and flexible base for future innovation and experimentation.

Brill Online Books and Journals now features;

• search and browse of content by title, type, subject or imprint
• preservation of individual imprint catalogues and brand
• faceted search and browse functionality, facilitating greater discoverability
• usability enhancements such as the introduction of auto-suggestions within search
• ability to create new categories of collections across both journals and e-books
• promotional features for generating content recommendations to libraries
• integration with back-end enterprise systems, for consolidated production workflow

Sam Bruinsma, Director of Business Development, BRILL, commented: “We are excited to launch our next generation online platform, one of the richest scholarly resources of its kind. We have worked closely with Publishing Technology to implement a digital strategy which drives discovery and usage, allows us to quickly and easily capitalize on the latest business models for online delivery, and gain important workflow efficiencies with close integration with our key back office systems.”

Louise Russell, Chief Operating Officer for Online Solutions at Publishing Technology, said: “As a highly-valued customer for over 12 years, we are very proud to deliver the next step in BRILL’s digital strategy. The combination of book and journal content within a single platform brings immediate benefits for BRILL and their customers but also generates a number of existing opportunities for future innovation. By providing the reassurance of a leading edge platform with a clear product development roadmap, we provide a foundation for agile and efficient innovation and look forward to collaborating further with BRILL – the journey does not end at launch!”

http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/   

For more information about Publishing Technology’s online publishing services,

please visit our booth (#207) at the SSP 34th Annual Meeting,

May 30-June 1, Marriott Crystal Gateway, Arlington, VA.

-ENDS-

Notes to Editors:

For more information, please contact:

Emily Taylor Gregory, Publishing Technology plc

Tel: +44 1865 397873

Email: emily.taylor@publishingtechnology.com

Publishing Technology plc:

Publishing Technology’s products and services include advance, ingentaconnect, VISTA, author2reader, pub2web, ICS and PCG. The Publishing Technology group enables publishers to focus on their core competences by providing a single, trusted partner for both technology requirements and business development services. It is one of the largest providers of software and services for the publishing industry, servicing eight out of ten of the world's largest publishers. The group’s proposition uniquely spans front and back office systems – complemented by a range of business development services – to provide the industry's only end-to-end suite of software specifically designed to support the publishing process. Capabilities cover editorial & production, product information, billing & fulfilment, content conversion & hosting, website development, marketing programs, information commerce, customer relationship management, rights & royalties and business intelligence. All application modules can be configured independently to meet specific publishers' needs and to allow flexible integration with existing systems. Associated sales and marketing services include consultancy and research, sales representation and telemarketing. The company is listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and has offices in the UK, US, Brazil, India, China and Australia.

About pub2web

pub2web™ is a customized, multi-content publications platform—delivering all the functionality needed to support evolving online strategies and to satisfy the user base, however diverse their needs. Customers benefit from proven, regularly-updated technology while also maintaining full control of their brand, their content and their user relationships. It allows customers to help their users to explore all their content – whatever its format – with progressive browsing options driven by pub2web’s award-winning data storage and modelling.

Visit www.publishingtechnology.com, follow on Twitter @publishingtech, or connect on LinkedIn.

About BRILL

Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, BRILL is a leading international academic publisher in the fields of Ancient Near East and Egypt; Middle East and Islamic Studies; Asian Studies (incl. Hotei imprint and Global Oriental imprint); Classical Studies; Medieval and Early Modern Studies; contemporary History and History of War studies; Biblical and Religious Studies; Slavic Studies; Language & Linguistics; Biology; Science (VSP imprint); Human Rights and Public International Law (Martinus Nijhoff imprint). With offices in Leiden and Boston (MA), Brill today publishes more than 130 journals and around 600 new books and reference works each year. In principle all publications are made available in both print and electronic form. Following the acquisition of IDC Publishers in 2006 a large number of collections and databases with primary sources are marketed in the same academic fields. Key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. BRILL is a publicly traded company and listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For further information please go to www.brill.nl.