July issue of Learned Publishing

["Sally Morris \(Morris Associates\)" <sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk>]

The July issue of Learned Publishing is now online at 
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/alpsp/lp.  It contains much 
of interest to publishers and others involved in the research 
communication chain.

The editorial (http://dx.doi.org/ 
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315107X206344> 
10.1087/095315107X206344) reflects on the role of copy-editing, 
in the light of research articles in both the April and July 
issues which analyse the differences between authors' and 
publishers' versions of journal articles.

Sandy Thatcher, the incoming President of the Association of 
American University Presses, reflects on the challenge which Open 
Access (for books, as well as for journals) poses to University 
Presses in pursuit of their mission - 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315107X205084.

Ran Carmi and Christof Koch have a novel proposal 
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315107X204067) for opening up peer 
review, making the referees' reports public for the benefit of 
all.

Consultant Mark Ware discusses the decision process that smaller 
journal publishers must go through when considering whether to do 
their own online hosting or to outsource it - 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315107X205093.

  <http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315107X205093.>

Moritz Thommen and Carla Holmes, of Karger publishers, examine 
the increasing threat of unscrupulous agents purchasing 
subscriptions at individual rates, only to re-sell them at 
(heavily discounted) institutional rates;  they describe 
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315107X206317) how Karger 
successfully dealt with the problem.

Kent Anderson and Jean Nugent give an intriguing account 
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315107X204058)  of how the New 
England Journal of Medicine developed a 'beta site' on which to 
develop a wide range of innovative initiatives.

Paul Peters describes the remarkable development of Hindawi, 
which has recently made the decision to become a totally Open 
Access publisher, and analyses the factors which made this both 
possible and inevitable - 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315107X204049.

Saskia de Vries gives a personal account 
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315107X206308) of how Amsterdam 
University Press has responded to the challenge of Open Access, 
successfully taking advantage of 'Print-on-Demand' technology to 
combine OA online products with print versions.

A research article (http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315107X204012) 
by David Goodman, Sarah Dowson and Jean Yaremchuk analyses in 
detail the differences between author and publisher versions for 
12 articles in biochemistry and 12 in the social sciences; 
their findings show both similarities and fascinating differences 
when compared to the article (http://dx.doi.org/ 
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/174148507X185090> 
10.1087/174148507X185090) by Edward Wates and Robert Campbell in 
the previous issue.

There are three very different 'Points of View' in this issue: 
Hugh Look reflects on the real nature of innovation, and what 
this tells us about the likely success of Open Access 
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315107X205101); John Cox considers 
the future of journals in the context of technological 
developments (http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315107X206326);  and 
Karen Shashok explains how she thinks that learned societies and 
other nonprofit publishers could make the OA model sustainable 
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315107X206335).

There's also a comprehensive report 
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315107X212590) of ALPSP's recent 
'International Scholarly Communications Conference', and an 
extensive Letter to the Editor 
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315107X212996) from Peter Suber 
responding to the guest editorial by Rick Anderson 
(http://dx.doi.org/ <http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/174148507X183542> 
10.1087/174148507X183542) in the April issue.  All this plus 
reviews of a number of key books which every publisher should 
read.

We hope you will find plenty to interest, inform and stimulate 
you in this quarter's issue;  as ever, we would love to hear your 
reactions, or your own ideas for future articles!

Sally Morris, Editor-in-Chief (editor@alpsp.org)
Priscilla Markwood, North American Editor (us-editor@alpsp.org)