Association for Learned and Professional Society Publishers

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) is an international trade association of non-profit publishers created in 1972 It is the largest association of scholarly and professional publishers in the world, claiming "more than 360 members in 36 countries". It was granted in 2004 the International Information Industry Award. The association has committees on copyright, marketing, professional education and training, and electronic developments. Recent work has included policies and practice in online publishing.

ALPSP Awards

Winners of the 2010 awards were:

Award for Contribution to Scholarly Publishing: Richard Gedye
Award for Best New Journal: BMJ Case Reports
BMJ
BMJ is a partially open-access peer-reviewed medical journal. Originally called the British Medical Journal, the title was officially shortened to BMJ in 1988. The journal is published by the BMJ Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of the British Medical Association...
Award for Publishing Innovation: ChemSpider
ChemSpider
ChemsSpider is a free chemical database, owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry.-Database:The database contains more than 26 million unique molecules from over 400 data sources including those listed below.* A-L: EPA DSSTox, U.S...
Award for Best eBook Publisher - best platform: CRCnetBASE

Learned Publishing

It publishes a peer reviewed quarterly journal called Learned Publishing, covering the field of scholarly publishing. The Journal is considered to be of a high level and to offer stimulating insights on the evolution of digital publishing. As part of a finely balanced approach to open access, it launched in 2007 an open access trial version, whereby authors can choose to make the online version of their article freely available.

ALJC Collection

In 2010 ALPSP entered a partnership with SWETS, a subscription service company, for the electronic distribution of 824 learned journals.

Ebooks

In 2009 ALPSP launched a cooperative service enabling its members to offer multipublisher collections to libraries.

External links

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