ALPSP News & Announcements

Monday 14 September 2020

Edinburgh University Press Results and CEO Timothy Wright to Retire

Edinburgh University Press has reported sales of £3.68 million for the period ending 31st July 2020 – a 2% increase on last year. Whilst print sales were significantly impacted by the Covid lockdown, ebook sales grew by 17% and journal... read more

Monday 14 September 2020

Fiona Davenport-White joins 67 Bricks as Publishing Consultant

67 Bricks is delighted to announce that Fiona Davenport-White has joined its growing team as a Publishing Consultant. Fiona will take an active role with some of the most respected names in publishing, helping clients like De Gruyter build... read more

Thursday 10 September 2020

CJK Group Acquires Cenveo Publisher Services and Cenveo Learning, Forms KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd.

CJK Group, Inc. announced today that it has acquired content services business Cenveo Publisher Services and Cenveo Learning from Cenveo Worldwide Limited, and will be merging them with its own content business Sheridan Journal Services and hostin... read more

Wednesday 09 September 2020

BMJ launches the first clinical decision support tool to improve care for patients with more than one medical condition

BMJ, one of the world’s leading medical knowledge providers, has launched a new Comorbidities tool from BMJ Best Practice to improve care for patients with underlying conditions who are admitted to hospital. BMJ Best Practice is&... read more

Tuesday 08 September 2020

IOP Publishing commits to adopting double-blind peer review for all journals

Pioneering move is part of society publisher’s commitment to improving diversity and equity in science IOP Publishing (IOPP) is proposing to move all its owned journals to double-blind peer review, making it the first physics publisher to a... read more

Tuesday 08 September 2020

ALPSP Survey

We’d be very grateful if you could spend just 10 minutes to fill in our survey – we would love to hear from you whether you're a member or non-member. The aim is to assess our services to ensure we are providing the resources and... read more

Monday 07 September 2020

OpenAthens attains membership to industry leading body

OpenAthens, the world-leading identity and access management specialist, is pleased to announce its membership of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO). Founded in 1939, NISO is a non-profit membership organisation, accredited by... read more

Thursday 03 September 2020

IOP Publishing celebrates most influential Chinese papers with its ‘Top-cited paper awards’

Recognising the significance of work published in IOPP and partner journals between 2017 and 2019, the top one per cent of the most-cited papers – which amounts to 213 papers – received the award... read more

Tuesday 01 September 2020

Society of Young Publishers (SYP) Expand Mentorship Schemes

The Society of Young Publishers (SYP) is proud to announce the expansion of its mentorship schemes tonow cover all areas of the UK and Ireland. As a result, more of those looking to get into or move ahead inthe industry than ever before will have... read more

Friday 28 August 2020

IOP Publishing report reveals continued global imbalance in distribution of peer review

A new global peer review study from IOP Publishing has found that the imbalance in the distribution of peer review continues to be felt by Western and more experienced reviewers. German, US and UK reviewers are more likely to feel overloaded by r... read more

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