ALPSP Conference Sponsors

Publishers’ Licensing Services (PLS) has provided rights and licensing services to the publishing industry since 1981.

A non-profit collective management organisation, owned and directed by the four main UK publishing trade associations, our primary role is to maximise the value of published content, enable its legitimate re-use, and protect copyright through effective collective licensing, permissions and rights management services.

PA EDitorial Ltd is a leading publishing and editorial services company serving the global academic publishing community. Established in 2011, the company has rapidly grown to become a trusted name in the industry, known for its commitment to quality, innovation, and client satisfaction. PA EDitorial Ltd offers a comprehensive range of editorial services designed to meet the diverse needs of authors, publishers, academic institutions, and corporate clients.

Digital Science provides software and services that empower organizations with insights, analytics, and tools that advance the research lifecycle. Trusted by hundreds of scholarly publishers, Digital Science solutions - including Dimensions, Altmetric, Figshare and Overleaf - help to strengthen research integrity, uncover trends, benchmark performance, and streamline workflows.

Appetence - Your strategic technology services partner in STM Publishing. Appetence’s focus is now primarily on research integrity workflows that incorporate AI.

Cadmore Media provides a single platform to host, manage, deliver, and monetise professional video. Trusted by more than 50 publishers, societies, and associations worldwide, we help organisations create accessible, discoverable video experiences that engage practitioners, researchers, and learners while maximizing the value of their content.

MDPI is a pioneer in scholarly, open access publishing, that has supported academic communities since 1996. Based in Basel, Switzerland, MDPI has the mission to foster open scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines. MDPI’s 450+ diverse, peer-reviewed, gold open-access journals are supported by more than 115,000 academic experts who support MDPI’s mission, values, and commitment to providing high-quality service for our authors. MDPI’s articles are freely available and distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

The Editorial Hub delivers expert‑led, scalable peer‑review and editorial office services with a personalised, people‑first approach. Founded in 2014, they are privately owned and fully independent. They combine deep expertise across leading editorial systems with a platform‑neutral, tool‑agnostic model; optimising client‑selected technologies to deliver exceptional, efficient and timely support. Their flexible delivery models provide tailored support at scale, with high‑quality, cost‑effective service and strong research integrity oversight.

Silverchair is the leading independent platform partner for scholarly and professional publishers, serving our growing community through flexible technology and unparalleled services. Our teams build, maintain, and innovate platforms across the publishing lifecycle—from idea to impact. Our products facilitate submission, peer review, hosting, dissemination, and impact measurement, enabling researchers and professionals to maximize their contributions to our world.

Leveraging a strategic combination of AI processes and human expertise, our publishing ecosystem provides an end-to-end solution encompassing pre-submission author support, peer review management, accessibility tagging and remediation, OA/APC management and collections, automated editorial and page production, discoverability, reporting, and content management. This modular system allows publishers to configure more efficient and granular workflows to optimize speed of delivery and reduce the cost of publication.

Aries Systems transforms the way scholarly publishers bring high-value content to the world. We are committed to delivering highly customizable, flexible, and innovative workflow solutions designed to help publishers and scholars enhance the discovery and dissemination of human knowledge on a global scale. Publish faster, publish smarter, with Aries Systems.

Delta Think is a strategic consultancy specializing in the intersection of users, content, and technology. With deep expertise in scholarly publishing and association management, we have partnered with nearly 200 scholarly research organizations since our inception to deliver data-driven, evidence-based strategies. Combining research, consultation, and creativity, our uniquely qualified team excels at providing actionable insights, uncovering challenges and opportunities, and guiding clients toward sustainable growth and continued success in evolving markets and changing environments. We manage to change. 

KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL) supports every stage of the scholarly publishing lifecycle through integrated editorial, production, hosting, consulting, research integrity, and sales and marketing solutions. Our AI-powered Smart Review™ platform streamlines submission screening and research integrity workflows, while the KGL AI Gateway enables governed AI discovery, licensing, attribution, and monetization. KGL PubFactory delivers a trusted hosting platform for journals, books, and digital content; and KGL Accucoms connects content with librarians and institutions worldwide. Backed by global expertise and innovative technology, KGL helps publishers improve quality, efficiency, discoverability, and long-term growth. 

Open Pharma is a multi-sponsor collaboration that drives positive change in the communication of pharmaceutical research. Through research, education, community engagement and leadership, Open Pharma aims to make research outputs more transparent, accessible and discoverable.

Founded in 2016, Open Pharma is facilitated by Oxford PharmaGenesis and includes 19 organizations representing the pharma and publishing industries. Our Members and Supporters for 2026 are Alfasigma, Ardelyx, Astellas, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Lilly, Gilead, GSK, Ipsen, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Roche, Taylor & Francis, Takeda and UCB.

Scholastica is an academic publishing technology solutions provider with modern, easy-to-integrate software and services for peer review management, article production, and OA journal hosting. Our mission is to empower scholarly organizations to make quality research available more efficiently and affordably so they can further their missions. 1,300+ journals use Scholastica.

Technica Editorial brings over three decades of practical publishing, peer review management, and operational support to its growing client list of Scholarly publishers. Technica Editorial strengthens editorial operations by standardizing workflows and policies, reducing inefficiencies, improving editorial communication, automating manual tasks, and expanding capacity to support consistent, timely decision-making. Our team works as an extension of yours, integrating best practices, research integrity frameworks, and hybrid staffing models to increase operational capacity within established budgets.