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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])