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January issue now online
Volume 33 No 1 Janaury 2020
| EDITORIAL: Weathering changes and challenges to society publishing |
Lettie Y. Conrad North American Editor, USA, Peter Richardson Publishing Consultant, UK and Rebecca Rinehart, Maverick Publishing Specialists, USA |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLE: The role of learned societies in national scholarly publishing |
Elina Late and Laura Korkeamäki, Tampere University, Finland, Janne Pölönen and Sami Syrjämäki, Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, Finland |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLE: How society publishers can accelerate their transition to open access and align with Plan S |
Alicia Wise and Lorraine Estelle, Information Power Ltd, UK |
| ORGIGINAL ARTICLE: Building new societies: Insights and predictionsfrom the 5th Wiley Society Member Survey |
Jonathan Roscoe, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Oxford, UK |
| INDUSTRY UPDATE: The journal publishing services agreement: A guide for societies |
Michael T. Clarke, Clarke & Esposito, USA |
| INDUSTRY UPDATE: A report on the future of independent and scholarlypublishing webinar by the Scholarly Kitchen |
Phill Jones, Double L Digital, Edinburgh, UK |
| CASE STUDY: Publishing at the British Institute of Radiology: A case study |
Sophia Anderton, Head of Publishing and Digital Learning, British Institute of Radiology, UK |
| CASE STUDY: Publishing perspectives from the British Ecological Society:Partnership, community, collaboration, and innovation |
Emilie Aimé, Erika L. Newton and Catherine Hill, British Ecological Society, UK |
| CASE STUDY: GeoScienceWorld: A case study in non-profit collaborationto drive sustainability and growth for independent societies |
Marc Segers, Brett Rubinstein, Laura FitzGerald and Alix Vance, GeoScienceWorld, USA |
| OPINION PIECE: Society publishing: It’s all about the community you serve |
Edith Holmes, Executive Director/Publisher, JOSPT, USA |
| OPINION PIECE: Plan S, self-publishing, and addressing unreasonable risks ofsociety publishing |
Quan‐Hoang Vuong, Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Social Research, Phenikaa University, Vietnam |
| OPINION PIECE: Why I value non-profit society scholarly publishing |
Richard Dodenhoff, Journals Director, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, USA |
| OPINION PIECE: Worth the effort: Why societies should make room for books |
Dana Compton, Editorial Director, and Angela Cochran, Managing Director and Publisher, American Society of Civil Engineers, USA |
| OPINION PIECE: Towards sustainable open access: A society publisher’s principles and pilots for transition |
Malavika Legge, Director of Publishing, Biochemical Society & Portland Press, UK |
| LIST OF REVIEWERS |
Thanking our reviewers, 2019 |
About Learned Publishing
Read by publishers, librarians, academics and others working in publishing around the world Learned Publishing has a fully international authorship. Articles on all aspects of scholarly communication, from the author perspective to reviewing, technology, marketing and discoverability, new initiatives, readership, data, internationalization, and more, are included.
Promotion and dissemination of academic works has been a core publisher function for the last several hundred years of scholarly communications. As discussed in a recent Learned Publishing white paper, publishers are under more pressure than ever to reach readers beyond the traditional confines of journals and faculty tenure cycles. Read more about what Learned Publishing authors have been saying on the Reach & Impact of Research Articles Beyond the Academy
Occasional special issues are also produced including: Peer Review (January 2016), University Press Redux (October 2016 and September 2018), Discoverability (January 2017), Accessibility (January 2018) and Question Everything: the future of scholarly publishing (January 2019). The Future of Scholarly Publishing (January 2020)
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Editorial Board and Associate Editors
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Editor-in-Chief: Pippa Smart editor@alpsp.org
North American Editor: Lettie Conrad US-editor@alpsp.org
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Associate Editors
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Anthony Cond, Liverpool University Press, UK
Jenny Neophytou, Wiley, UK
Andrew Plume, Elsevier, UK
Adrian Stanley, Digital Science, USA |
| Early Career Editor |
Megan Ainsworth, Liverpool University Press, UK |
| Statistical Editors |
Kornelia Junge, Wiley, Germany
Xiaofeng Wang, Chinese Laser Press, China |
| Reviews Editors |
Tom Hill, Copyright Licensing New Zealand, NZ
Rachel Kessler, ProQuest, USA |
Editorial Board
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Rick Anderson, SSP, and Assoc Dean, Marriott Library, University of Utah USA
Casey Busher, bepress, USA
Todd Carpenter, NISO, USA
Chris Graf, Wiley, UK
Sun Huh, Hallym University and Korean Council of Science Editors, South Korea
Phill Jones, Double L Digital, UK
Bill Kasdorf, Kasdorf & Associates, USA
Rachael Lammey, Crossref, UK
Judy Luther, Informed Strategies, USA
Monica McCormick, University of Delaware Library and Press, USA
Vivek Mehra, SAGE India, MD India
Ann Michael, PLOS
Charlie Rapple, Kudos, UK
Shengli Ren, NSFC, China
Wayne Sime (ALPSP) Chief Executive ALPSP, UK
Andrew Stammer, CSIRO, Australia
Anne Stone, TBI Communications, USA
Helen (YH) Zhang, Zhejiang University Press, China |
