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ALPSP/FST Seminar
Managing Risk in a Publishing Environment
17 February 2004 Chair: Sue Thorn, Society for Endocrinology
The Royal Society, 6 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 5AH
Publishing has always suffered from the commercial risk associated with serving an ever-changing market place although learned societies have had the comfort of knowing their specialist markets rather better than many larger publishers. Furthermore, for most learned societies, publishing was a smaller and subsidiary activity upon which the solvency of the society did not usually depend. However, things have changed not least because publishing often now provides a much larger part of the society's income than previously and because the importance of journals and books as methods of communication is less with the advent of electronic methods. This seminar identifies the current risks in learned society publishing and reviews the way in which those risks may be managed.
Programme
13:30 Registration and coffee
14:00 Introduction: What is risk? Why is publishing different from other businesses -
if it is? - Chair, Sue Thorn
14:15 Identifying risks in publishing as industry sees them - Kurt Paulus, previously at IOP, former ALPSP treasurer
14:55 Risk assessment and its documentation - Benjamin James, Bircham Dyson Bell
15.35 Coffee and tea
16.00 Methods of managing/minimising risk - Alastair Dryburgh, Consultant
16.40 Managing the unexpected: the RoweCom collapse - what have we learned? James Rogers, OUP
17.20 Discussion and Chair's summing up
Fees excluding VAT
ALPSP/FST members: £85.00; Academic: £100.00; SFEP freelance members: £135.00
Non-members: £170.00
To register online: http://www.alpsp.org/events/s170204.htm
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