Professional bodies of which I am a member:

• ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers)
• Institute of Management Consultancy
• South West Consultants
• Institute of Physics
• Royal Photographic Society

Other relevant bodies:

• The Publishers Association
• Periodical Publishers Association
• STM
• Society for Scholarly Publishing

Useful sites - I look at these most days

• BBC News
• Best Practice of the Day
• The Bookseller
• Booktrade Info
• elearningpost
• Financial Times
• NewsUnlimited (The Guardian)
• Peter Scott’s Library Blog
• Publishers Weekly
• Publishing News

And of the course, the antidote to management consultants

• Dilbert