A group of prestigious not-for-profit scientific membership societies have announced the launch of the Scientific Society Publisher Alliance (SSPA), an initiative focused on building awareness of and support for publication of scientific research by scientist-run scientific societies.
The SSPA started as a collaboration of scientific societies that came together to reinforce and communicate the excellence, importance, and uniqueness of their journals. The launch of the SSPA formalises this collaboration. The SSPA seeks to emphasize the value of publishing vital scientific research in scholarly journals managed by working scientists, and edited and peer reviewed in a fair and supportive manner by working scientists. Publishing in a society journal supports researchers and the scientific community, through reinvestment of revenues in the scientific community, in science advocacy, and in the careers of scientists at all stages, as part of the not-for-profit society mission.
The SSPA Founding members are: American Physiological Society (APS); American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB); American Society for Microbiology (ASM); American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB); Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB); Genetics Society of America (GSA); Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE); Society for Neuroscience (SfN); American Association of Immunologists (AAI); American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB); and American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET).
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