It is the ALPSP mission to serve, represent and strengthen the community of not-for-profit publishers and those who work with them and to disseminate academic and professional information. We provide representation of our sector, collective services, professional development activities and a wealth of information and advice. As part of this wider programme of activities we carry out regular research studies on specific aspects of learned and professional publishing, to improve understanding by and of publishers. The findings of this research programme are then published by ALPSP as research reports and disseminated widely.

The full list of ALPSP publications is available on this website.

The information here gives details of research that is currently in progress or planned.

ALPSP is a founding member of the Publishing Research Consortium (PRC), a group of publishing societies and individual publishers, which supports global research into scholarly communication in order to provide unbiased data and objective analysis.  Ian Russell (email) represents ALPSP on the PRC Steering Group.