ALPSP and SSP announce new North American Editor for the journal Learned
Publishing
For Immediate Release
Thursday, 24 February 2011
Oxford, UK
Diane Scott-Lichter appointed as the new North American editor for the
journal Learned Publishing.
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP;
www.alpsp.org <http://www.alpsp.org/> ) and The Society for Scholarly
Publishing (SSP; www. <http://www.sspnet.org> sspnet.org) are pleased to
announce the appointment of Diane Scott-Lichter as the new North American
editor for the journal Learned Publishing (LP). Ms. Scott-Lichter is
currently publisher and head of the Publishing and Product Development
Division at the American Association of Cancer Research and began her term
on February 1, 2011. She is taking over the position from Janet Fisher,
Senior Publishing Consultant at Publishers Communication Group, who has
served in that capacity for almost three years.
Editor Alan Singleton says, "Diane has a brilliant background for this task,
having worked for a variety of commercial and nonprofit publishers. I'm
looking forward to her contribution, and to working with her."
LP is one of the few journals dedicated to the scholarly publishing industry
and is packed with the latest ideas and informed opinion to help publishers
maximize new opportunities. Published quarterly by the Association of
Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) in collaboration with
SSP, the journal is available free with a membership of ALPSP, and its
electronic form is freely available to all SSP members. To submit an
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Learned Publishing is abstracted in ASLIB Current Awareness, European
Science Editing, Library and Information Science Abstracts and Sociological
Abstracts; fully covered in Current Contents/Social and Behavioural Science
and the Institute for Scientific Information's Social SciSearch online
database and Research Alert current awareness service; contents list indexed
in the British Library Document Supply Centre's 'Inside Information'
database.
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Notes for editors
About the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) is
the international organization for non-profit publishers and the world's
largest association for scholarly and professional publishers. It is the
only international trade association that represents scholarly and
professional publishers across all disciplines of academic endeavour. ALPSP
has a broad and diverse membership of over 360 organizations and have
members in 38 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.
About SSP
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), founded in 1978, is a nonprofit
organization formed to promote and advance communication among all sectors
of the scholarly publishing community through networking, information
dissemination, and facilitation of new developments in the field.
SSP's 1,000+ members represent all aspects of scholarly publishing,
including publishers, printers, e-product developers, technical service
providers, librarians, and editors. SSP members come from a wide range of
large and small commercial and nonprofit organizations.
Media Contacts
Ian Russell
Alan Singleton
Diane Scott-Lichter
CEO, ALPSP
Editor-in-Chief, LP
North American Editor, LP
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