About BISP

The Berlin Institute for Scholarly Publishing (BISP) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to bringing publishers, researchers, funders and policymakers together. BISP provides the logistics for the Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) Conference, an annual exchange of information between publishers, researcher institutions, libraries, universities and decision-makers at local, national and EU level.

The team

We are supporting early-career researchers and publishers.

Arnoud de Kemper

Arnoud de Kemp

Chair of the APE Conference Program Committee

Arnoud was the Chair of the APE Conference Program Committee and an advisor for just about everything else at BISP! He founded the Academic Publishing in Europe Conference in 2006 after a long and distinguished career in publishing, which focussed on bringing publishers into the internet era, adopting new technology for research communication and embracing open access. He retired after his 18th APE (APE 2023), but keeps supporting BISP with his invaluable experience and insight.

Marta Dossi

Managing Director, BISP

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Marta is the Managing Director of BISP. Right after earning her B.A. in communications in Verona, she moved to Munich to pursue her love for the German culture and language, and to study sociology and literature. She started her career in publishing as a freelancer for Deutscher Kunstverlag and De Gruyter.  After being Director, Operations of BISP for the past year and a half, in her role as Managing Director she oversees logistics and finances, promotes the APE Conference, ensures the development of seminars, workshops and engaging events for early-career researchers and publishers.

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Purpose

The Berlin Institute for Scholarly Publishing (BISP) is a not-for-profit organization under German law dedicated to bringing publishers, researchers, funders, and policymakers together. BISP was founded in 2020 by the Walter de Gruyter Foundation, an independent, not-for-profit family foundation dedicated to the promotion of science and research, especially in the humanities and social sciences.

BISP is the organizer of the Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) Conference, which has been held in Berlin since 2006. BISP has taken on the organization of APE from its founder, Arnoud de Kemp, who was Chair of the APE Conference’s Program Committee until APE 2023.  The conference, which takes place in January, starts the annual exchange of information between publishers, researcher institutions, libraries, universities and decision-makers at local, national and EU level. It is the first major publishing conference of the year and is known for its lively debates and friendly, collegial atmosphere.

Additional income from the APE Conference will be invested in developing and running seminars and training courses for early-career researchers, early-career publishers, and early-career professionals at research funders. The objective for bringing these groups together is to ensure that key stakeholders in the research ecosystem develop a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities that they face together and separately. The courses, which will include topics such as peer review, publication ethics, discovery promotion, networking, career development, sharing, data policy and technology, will be taught by experts in the field who have significant, practical experience.

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