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  Allen Press, Inc., plays a vital role in the dissemination of knowledge and information by partnering with organizations in the scientific, technical, and medical community to promote their interests and achieve their goals. Headquartered in Lawrence, KS, Allen Press provides a comprehensive portfolio of integrated services in the broad areas of content management, content delivery, and association management and publishing services. Founded more than 70 years ago, Allen Press is a trusted partner of scholarly societies, professional associations, and corporations nationwide.

  About Allen Press Seminars
   
  This is the seventh consecutive Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing™ seminar Allen Press has held in the Washington D.C. area, the fifth at the National Press Club. More important it marks the 28th consecutive year that Allen Press has sponsored educational seminars for STM and scholarly journal publishers. We were the first company providing publishing services to the STM journal community to sponsor such seminars, and we remain proud of that heritage. Our 28-year commitment to education began with the notion that convening our clients, partners, and experts in the scholarly publishing community to share information and experiences would help everyone better understand the issues we face together and how we might better serve our respective constituents. From the beginning our seminars were designed to help our clients manage change, the sometimes untimely changes, in personnel within their organizations, as well as important changes in journal publishing technology. From pasteup to desktop publishing in the 80s, from web presses to web sites in the 90s, from journal- to article-centric business models in the first decade of the 21st century, our seminars have investigated evolving technologies and business models, striving always to be forward-looking, to challenge, to probe, to ask “What if?”

The Internet, as we all know, has brought about profound changes in every stage of the scholarly communication process, greatly accelerating the pace of change. For STM journal publishers this means new opportunities, new markets, and new business models for those who pay attention. It also means that familiar paradigms are disappearing. Those who cannot adapt to the new ones may not survive. That’s why educational seminars like Emerging Trends are more important than ever. Every topic, every presentation in our program today will describe changes—technological, political, and societal—changes that present us with both the greatest challenges and also the greatest opportunities we will see in our professional careers.

When Harold Allen began typesetting and printing scientific journals in the 1950s, he quickly learned that sharing information and managing change were the keys to success in his partnership with an ever growing number of journal publishers. Thank you for helping us to continue that tradition today.