‘WHAT AUTHORS WANT’: the ALPSP research study on the motivations and concerns of contributors to learned journals

The author survey was carried out on behalf of ALPSP by Key Perspectives Ltd, a specialist information industry consultancy company. Many of the publisher members of ALPSP were involved, as well as other publishers in the UK and elsewhere, distributing a total of 11,500 questionnaires to authors who had contributed to selected journals from their lists. This paper is based on the 2,500 responses to hand at the time of writing, though the final report will draw on a database of over 3,000 returned sets of answers from respondent authors. The primary aim of the survey was fourfold and sought to examine: