Gold Leaf opened its laptops on September 1st 2001. Today we are proud to announce our 25th birthday!
We invite you to celebrate with us. Over the next 12 months, we shall contact you with details of free white papers and case studies, bespoke advice, special research offers and more. We are looking forward to working with you for the next twenty-five years!
- 2001: Linda Bennett founded Gold Leaf
- 2001 – 2002: Chris Bennett supported with technology and research (gap year)
- 2009: Jim Bennett joined (journals editor)
- 2014: Annika Bennett joined. Linda and Annika work together on most projects
- 2023 – 2026: Brigitte Shull worked as senior researcher, North America.
From e-books to AI: a brief tour of some of Gold Leaf’s research
- E-books (big news in 2001 … 2002 … 2003 … 2004)
- Publishers’ bespoke platforms
- Discovery platforms
- Textbooks (price, formats, value for money, who pays)
- Print on Demand
- Library supply
- Open Access (rationale, experiments)
- Not-for-profit university presses
- New business models … for everything! What works?
- Technology partners and tenders
- Nuts and bolts stuff … metadata!
- Open Access (mandates, business models)
- Making ends meet (librarians AND publishers)
- Mergers (companies and institutions)
- The value of imprints
- Open Access (global views, transparency, who pays)
- Library budgets
- New ways of teaching
- New ways of learning
- The changing face of the student
- Crystal ball gazing: the future of the publisher … the library … the university
- Artificial Intelligence: the good, the bad and the ugly!
Heartfelt thanks to all our clients for your support for the last quarter century.
You include:
- AlexanderStreet Press
- ALPSP
- American Physical Society
- Atypon
- AuthorHouse
- Bilbary
- The Biochemical Society
- Blackwell’s Bookshops
- The Booksellers Association of Great Britain and Ireland
- British Educational Research Association
- Cambridge University Press
- CEU Press
- Child Poverty Action Group
- Clarivate
- Cognizant
- Continuum (now part of Bloomsbury Academic)
- Copyright Licensing Agency
- Coutts (now part of Ingram)
- De Gruyter Brill
- Diabetes UK
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- ebooks.com
- EITECH
- Ellibs
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- ETH Zurich
- European Investment Bank
- Faber & Faber
- Hodder Education
- Infosys
- Ingram
- IWA Publishing
- Jisc
- John Smith’s Bookshops
- Lightning Source (now part of Ingram)
- Lion Publishing
- The London Book Fair
- Lorensbergs
- Lulu Press Inc.
- Manchester University Press
- Microsoft (Publishing Division)
- Mohr Siebeck
- MyiLibrary (now part of Ingram)
- Nielsen BookData
- The Open University
- Oxford University Press
- Pearson
- Population Council
- Portland Customer Services
- Princeton University Press
- Print on Demand
- Project MUSE
- ProQuest
- The Publishers Association
- Rowman & Littlefield
- The Royal College of Physicians
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Sage
- Salt Publishing
- SCURL
- Silverchair
- SPARC Europe
- Springer Nature
- Stamford Literary Festival
- Supadu
- University College London
- University of Cambridge, Squire Law Library
- University of Greenwich
- University of Huddersfield
- University of the West of England
- University of Westminster
- University of Winchester
- White Rose University Press
- Yale University Press
Librarian meetings
Gold Leaf values its special relationship with librarians. We have organised and facilitated upwards of 100 face-to-face formal librarian advisory board meetings, on behalf of publishers, technology companies, library suppliers, booksellers, trade associations and sometimes groups of librarians themselves.
Some locations: Amsterdam, Ann Arbor, Bangkok, Barcelona, Beijing, Bengaluru, Bournemouth, Berlin, Cambridge, Copenhagen, Dubai, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Jakarta, Krakow, Kuala Lumpur, La Vergne, Leuven, Lille, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Manchester, Poole, Melbourne, New Delhi, New York, Quito, Seattle, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Vienna.
We have also facilitated many more webinars and virtual advisory board meetings.
We should be delighted to welcome you to our next webinar:
Linda, Annika and Jim would like to thank you from the bottom of our hearts … and say
WATCH THIS SPACE!
Or please feel free to contact us now:
This blog post was written by Linda Bennett.
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