International trade body, the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has announced that the ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards 2021 will be a virtual event for the second year running under the key themes of 'Discoverability and Accessibility' and 'The Great Reset: Scenario planning for life after COVID.’ The virtual conference is scheduled for September 15-17.
The three-day programme will kick-off with the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing finalists and the keynote presentation. Harlan M. Krumholz, Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE), will present the keynote on ‘medRxiv: COVID Fad or Real Innovation in Clinical Research?’
Discoverability and accessibility will be the overarching theme for day two on September 16, with three sessions covering ‘Accessibility is good for business,’ What about books?’ and ‘Exploring Discoverability.’
On September 17, the focus will be ‘The Great Reset: Scenario planning for life after COVID.’ Sessions will include speakers discussing: ‘Scholarly communications: evolution or revolution?’, ‘Which Business Models will Prevail?’ and ‘Changes in Scholar and Researcher Behaviours.’
The conference will conclude with the announcement of the winner(s) of the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2021, and all delegates will have the chance to network with the community in regular breakout sessions throughout the whole event.
The ALPSP Annual Conference, now in its 13th year, provides a friendly forum in which to share information and knowledge, learn about new initiatives and engage in open discussion on the challenges and opportunities facing the scholarly publishing industry. As part of its commitment to make the conference more widely accessible, ALPSP is offering 20 free places to students/early careers and other publishing professionals who do not have access to funding.
Early Bird rates end May 31, and group discounts are also available for ALPSP members. Click here to read the original press release.
