26th May 2009 - Towcester, UK - Frontline GMS and John Cox Associates are
pleased to announce the opening of the first ALPSP Book and eBook Publishing
Practice Survey: http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/default.asp?ID=201
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishing (ALPSP) has
previously conducted three surveys of scholarly journal publishing practice,
in 2003, 2005 and 2008, which were published as industry reports under the
title Scholarly Publishing Practice
<http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/article.asp?id=200&did=47&aid=269&st=&oaid
=-1> . These surveys provided a great deal of information on the ways in
which journal publishers have responded to the challenges of online
publishing and to the expectations of authors, readers and libraries at a
time when publishers are under scrutiny. Following a call for tenders issued
by ALPSP earlier this year it has been confirmed that Frontline and John Cox
Associates have been commissioned to produce a similar survey of book and
eBook publishers to ascertain the policies and practices of publishers in
this emerging and complex market It is expected that the new 'Scholarly
Book Publishing Practice Survey 2009' will also be repeated in the future to
build up a useful database of information about book publishing designed to
track changes in policy and practice over time.
The data that is collected will be analysed and a report published by ALPSP
later in 2009, with initial results available at the ALPSP Annual Conference
in September. Using hard data, it will enable ALPSP and, indeed, the whole
publishing industry to represent accurately what policies publishers are
adopting in the complex book and eBook arena.
It is hoped that as wide a range of scholarly and academic book publishers
from both the commercial and non-profit sectors will provide information on
their academic book publishing programmes to include information on all
types of books, both those available online as eBooks as well as those made
available in more traditional print formats.
The survey is now available online and can be assessed by clicking on the
following link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Tjz_2fFHybhDkotXBzH_2bd7Jw_3d_3d
Further information:
Frontline: Laura Cox, [log in to unmask], Tel: +44 (0) 1327 359298
ALPSP: Lesley Ogg, E: [log in to unmask] T: +44 (0)1245 260571
lis-e-resources is a UKSG list - http://www.uksg.org/serials
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