Special Interest Groups

Encouraging engagement and knowledge sharing across scholarly publishing

ALPSP has a number of Special Interest Groups available to join for free. These are open to members and the wider scholarly publishing industry.

Apply to join a SIG 

Suggest a new SIG topic 

Main aims of the groups 

• To increase engagement amongst like-minded scholarly communities
• To tackle and drill down into relevant issues and problems
• Increase networking with peers, allowing experiences and case studies to be shared
• Suggest ways to address problems and find solutions to particular issues
• Share findings with others in scholarly publishing

About the groups

• Each group will meet virtually and be overseen by a small group of leaders/conveners
• Zoom and Slack software will be used for communications across the group
• All applications and topics will be referred to/report to the ALPSP Membership and Marketing Committee and we ask all participants to adhere to the ALPSP Code of Conduct
• At least one group leader/convener should be an ALPSP member 
• The majority of SIGs are open to both members and non-members of ALPSP. Check if your organization is a member of ALPSP.

Special Interest Group topics

The following SIGs are currently open to join:

• Open Peer Review
• Library Publishing 
• Open Access Books
• Marketing Connected (general)
• Marketing Maestros (senior level)
• The SDGs and Publishing
• Production and Publishing Operations
• Researchers
• Continuous Improvement
• Early Career
• Sales, Commercial and Business Development
• Content Discovery
• Research Integrity
• Events
• Artificial Intelligence
• ALPSP/AUPresses University Press Group
• EDI

Get in touch if you require more information about the SIGs.

Download the ALPSP SIG leaflet and share with your colleagues.