At the International Learned Journals Seminar in London on 26 March, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers launched the ALPSP Principles of Scholarship-Friendly Journal Publishing Practice. "These principles are based on the series of analyses which we have carried out in recent years, looking at the needs of journal authors and readers, and at the practices of scholarly journal publishers. The document is intended as a guide to those practices which may best serve the needs of scholarship, without damaging publishers’ ability to continue to provide the value which they add"