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ALPSP Seminar
Evolving Business Models in Academic Publishing
Thursday 24 May 2007
Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, W1B 1NT
Chair: Hugh Look, Consultant
Traditional business models for academic publishing are dissolving. Journal
content is increasingly being searched, accessed and sold by the article,
rather than by subscriptions to the volume. Books are being digitised and
made available by the chapter, by the hour or by entire list. While opening
up exciting new possibilities for publishers and customers, the digital
revolution threatens existing - and well understood - financial models.
Publishers must face up to these new challenges and adapt in order to
survive.
How can publishers bridge the gap between the present and the future? How
can we take advantage of these developments to ensure not only our continued
existence, but to deliver growth?
This seminar will present an overview of some innovative business models and
offer an insight into which might be applicable for publishers.
Presentations will also look at the issue from the perspective of libraries
and subscription agents, who themselves face considerable change.
Audience: journal publishing managers, sales and marketing managers, book
publishers and all those tasked with driving forward new business models.
Programme
0930 - 1000 Coffee and Registration
1000 - 1015 Introduction: Innovation in Business Models: How it works!
Hugh Look, (Chair)
1015 - 1045 Consortia and the Big Deal - a review, has it worked, is it
sustainable, effect on subscriptions
Speaker to be confirmed
1045 - 1115 JISC/NESLI - pricing beyond institutional boundaries
Lorraine Estelle, JISC
1115 - 1145 Coffee
1145 - 1215 Subscription Agents - how is their role changing, what their
customers are wanting now, what new models are they developing
Rollo Turner, Association of Subscription Agents
1215 - 1245 Model being used for e-books, timed access.
Andrew Richardson, Lippincott
1245 - 1300 Discussion -
Led by Hugh Look (chair)
1300 - 1400 Lunch
Case Studies - innovative business models
1400 - 1430 View from the front line
Jill Taylor-Roe, Head of Liaison and Academic Services,
University of Newcastle
1430 - 1500 Faculty of 1000, Biomed Central,
Matt Cockerill, Science Navigation Group,
1500 - 1530 Nucleic Acids Research (first traditional journal to switch
to author pays model)
Fiona Bennett, Oxford University Press
1530 - 1600 BMJ Group - A balanced publisher?
Ruth Staunton, British Medical Journal Publishing Group
1600 - 1615 Final questions and close
To book please follow this link: Evolving Business
<http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/article.asp?aid=747> Models in Academic
Publishing
Diane French
Administrative Assistant
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)
Telephone/Fax: 01827 709188
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