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To book a place or for any information regarding the events mentioned below
please visit the ALPSP website: www.alpap.org <http://www.alpap.org/>  or
contact Diane French ([log in to unmask]) or Lesley Ogg ([log in to unmask]) 

 

ALPSP One Day Seminar: Making the Most of your Editorial Board - This
seminar is booking fast, so book now to avoid disappointment 

Date: Friday 29 February  

Venue: British Institute of Radiology, London

Chair: Dr Richard Watts, Editor Rheumatology

Editorial Boards are an essential and valuable resource for journals. Are
you using yours to its full potential? Board members are often unpaid with
busy professional lives and they may sit on the boards of a number of
competing journals. How do you harness loyalty and potential? This seminar
will look at the different ways that journals structure and utilise their
editorial boards. Should editorial boards members be big names to
demonstrate your aspirations and profile, or do you need people who will be
active on your behalf? What is the correct geographical and subject balance?
How do you implement turn over of board members? What is the right structure
for your journal? This is an opportunity to exchange ideas with experts and
colleagues on how to make the most of this valuable resource.

This seminar will appeal to editors, managing editors and publishers
involved in editorial, and sales and marketing.

 

ALPSP One Day Seminar: Book Publishing Strategies for Associations and
Societies

Date: Thursday 13 March 

Venue: British Dental Association, London

Chair: Toby Green, OECD 

Book publishing, both online and in print, is being transformed by the
internet and digital printing. The opportunity to maximise impact and meet
income targets has never been better. But what are today's strategic
benchmarks for any society, association or other mission-driven book
publishing programme? How can you achieve the impact you want and still make
income targets? What are the new marketing and supply chain opportunities?
Which business model should you adopt: subscription or title-by-title sales
(or both)? Which new technologies or partners could you be using?

 

Each speaker will use proven examples to discuss the different angles that,
together, will help you determine a practical strategy for your own book
publishing programme, whether large or small. 

 

Who should attend: editorial and marketing managers who work with books
within the publishing arm of a society, non-profit organisation or other
scholarly, mission-driven, publishing operation.

 

ALPSP Half Day Technology Update: What do you publish when you stop
publishing text?

Date: Wednesday 19 March 

Venue: British Institute of Radiology, London

Chair: Geoffrey Bilder, CrossRef

The industry has long known that the average amount of time that researchers
spend reading individual articles has decreased as the number of articles
has increased. More recently we've become aware that some researchers are
clamouring for the ability to semantically enrich documents, or, barring
that, to subject documents to text mining techniques. How are these trends
related? What do they mean for the future of scholarly publishing? This
ALPSP Technology Update (the indispensable guides on technical subjects for
non-techies) shows how some publishers are using pod casts, the semantic web
and data/text mining technologies in order to help researchers not to have
to just read articles. Have fun watching industry bibliophiles succumb to
angina, and learn what the technology future really might hold.

Designed to explain the mysteries in all these inter-linked technologies,
this meeting will appeal to all Publishing Managers, whether from a smaller
society publisher or larger commercial publishing company.

 

To book a place or for any information regarding the events mentioned above
please visit the ALPSP website: www.alpap.org <http://www.alpap.org/>  or
contact Diane French ([log in to unmask]) or Lesley Ogg ([log in to unmask])

 

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