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The London Book Fair (LBF), The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) and The Publishers Association (The PA) are launching a new Scholarly and Research forum at LBF. The Research & Scholarly Publishing Forum, called “Access All Areas: Global Trends in Research and Scholarly Publishing”, will be a half-day programme of four individual sessions facilitated by Toby Green, head of publishing at OECD and Alicia Wise, director of access and policy at Elsevier. It will be sponsored by Publishers Communication Group, a division of Publishing Technology. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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