Articles & Presentations

The following are a few of the presentations made by Alexander Street management to scholarly organizations, or by scholars speaking at Alexander Street customer events. If you would like to invite Alexander Street Press to present at your event, please contact us.

  • AMS-SEM New Orleans November 2012
    Chief Operating Officer, Tim Lloyd, gives his presentation at the AMS-SEM Conference in New Orleans on November 3, 2012.
  • Charting Vanishing Voices
    Stephen Rhind-Tutt, president of Alexander Street Press, gives his presentation from Charting Vanishing Voices: A Collaborative Workshop to Map Endangered Oral Cultures. Watch a video of this presentation here
  • Alexander Street Press 2012 News and Highlights

    Presented by Stephen Rhind-Tutt at the ALA Midwinter Conference in Dallas, TX during the 22nd annual Alexander Street Press Customer Appreciation Breakfast. Watch a video of this presentation here.
  • Ithaka Sustainable Scholarship Presentation
    Presented by Stephen Rhind-Tutt at the 2011 Ithaka Sustainable Scholarship Conference, September 2011 (PowerPoint)
  • E-Everything: Putting It All Together
    Presented by Stephen Rhind-Tutt at the Charleston Conference, October 26, 2010 (PowerPoint)
  • Video in the Library: Trends and Best Practices
    Featuring Stephen Rhind-Tutt, Arizona State University's deg farrelly, and Harvard University's Cheryl LaGuardia. A live webcast hosted by Alexander Street and Library Journal on May 4, 2010. Access the archived version of the webcast, download PowerPoint slides, read the Q and A transcript, and see a list of additional resources for libraries interested in video.
  • Music Library Association Customer Appreciation Breakfast
    Presented by Tim Lloyd to the Music Library Association, San Diego, CA, March 23, 2010 (PowerPoint). Tim Lloyd shares Alexander Street's expanded vision for Music Online at the annual MLA Customer Appreciation Breakfast.
  • Opportunity in a Time of Crisis: Crisis as a Catalyst
    Presented by Stephen Rhind-Tutt to CARLI, Champaign, IL, October 30, 2009 (PowerPoint)
  • Market Mania Presentation
    Presented by Stephen Rhind-Tutt at the 31st National Media Market , Lexington, KY, October 5, 2009 (PowerPoint)
  • Successful Models for Digital Content
    Presented by Stephen Rhind-Tutt at the Book Publishing Business Conference & Expo, New York City, March 23, 2009 (PowerPoint)
  • Tag! Are You It? Taxonomies and Folksonomies in Practice
    Presented by Stephen Rhind-Tutt at the Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting, Boston, May 28, 2008 (PowerPoint)
  • Say What You Mean: How Semantic Tagging Makes Content More Discoverable, More Useful, and More Valuable
    Presented by Stephen Rhind-Tutt at the Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting, Boston, May 28, 2008 (PowerPoint)
  • Where Are We? Where Are We Going? A Survey of the Electronic Publishing Landscape
    Presented at the Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 14, 2007 (PowerPoint) Stephen Rhind-Tutt discusses the ways in which electronic publishers add value through aggregation, mashing, linking, and licensing.
  • Is Reference Dead? Is Collecting Dead?
    Presented by Stephen Rhind-Tutt at The Charleston Conference, November 10, 2007 (PowerPoint)
  • An Interview with Stephen Rhind-Tutt, CEO, Alexander Street Press

    Published in The Charleston Advisor, January 2004

    You've brought some great products to market, but perhaps even beyond that, some unusual ways of thinking about customers and products. I think I will never forget Eileen Lawrence, at the Top Management Round Table for SSP this last fall telling publishers: "Hug your critics" I suspect that this means something for the whole company, can you tell us what it means for Alexander Street Press?

    We’re a small scholarly publisher of large collections of primary texts in the humanities and social sciences. We’re small, but our collections are very large! We absolutely have to get them right. Customer criticism has been one of the best ways to do this. If we don’t listen to our customers, how can we be sure we’re building products that they need?

    In 2000 when Alexander Street was founded, Eileen and I noticed...
  • Oh! What a Tangled Web We Weave - A Review of Pricing Models and the Forces that Drive Them.

    By Stephen Rhind-Tutt

    Published in Against the Grain, February 1999.

    This paper looks at the forces that drive prices in the electronic publishing marketplace. It suggests that pressure for lower prices is causing multiple pricing models as publishers attempt to maximize their revenues.