ALPSP Impact and Innovation Awards 2023: Shortlists Announced

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) is pleased to announce both shortlists for the two ALPSP Awards 2023.

New for this year, the ALPSP Impact Award celebrates significant initiatives, projects or collaborations within scholarly communication and academic research that are making a positive difference. The well-established ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing, recognises any new development, product, service, launch or project which is both innovative and of significant value to scholarly communication.

The ALPSP Impact Award finalists for 2023:  

• Africa Commons: As the global librarian community works to decolonize library collections, Africa Commons is one resource to help close the representation gap.
• eLife: A new publishing model has been officially launched by eLife, eliminating binary accept/reject decisions after peer review and instead focusing on providing quality public reviews and assessments.
• IOP Publishing (IOPP): The first society publisher to combine double anonymous peer review and transparent peer review.
• Original Études for the Developing Conductor: A peer-reviewed, freely-available, Creative Commons licensed collection of supplemental études designed to enhance contemporary conducting pedagogy by amplifying the voices of composers from historically excluded groups.

The ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing finalists for 2023:  

• BMJ Impact Analytics: The first research impact tool focused on health and social care.
• Cassyni Journal Seminar Series: The new product enables publishers and societies to participate in the rapidly growing research seminar ecosystem, opening up new channels to engage researchers and build online communities around research topics.
• Medwave and Kriyadocs: A technology-based workflow for bilingualism from submission to publication for a medical journal.
• Schol-AR: The innovation uses augmented reality (AR) and web-based technologies to ‘layer’ digital data directly onto articles, converting standard documents into fully interactive digital media.

David Sommer, Chair of the judging panel, and co-founder at Kudos commented:    
“We are really pleased to have received so many entries for both the brand new ALPSP Impact Award and the more well-known ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing. As ever, the standard of applications was very high and we extend our congratulations to all the finalists.”

All the entries have been reviewed by the judging panel who have drawn up the shortlists for both awards. For 2023, ALPSP has made changes to the judging process to allow ALPSP members the opportunity to vote for their favourite entries. You will be able to watch a five-minute video presentation for each finalist and then vote, with the results being combined with the judging panel’s scores to arrive at the final result. Watch out for an announcement about how to watch the videos and how to vote over the coming weeks.

The finalists will be showcased as part of the ALPSP Annual Conference at the Hilton Manchester Deansgate, UK on Wednesday 13 September with the winners announced on Thursday 14 September at the dinner.

Judging panel:

• David Sommer, Chief Product Officer & Co-founder, Kudos (Chair)
• Iain Craig, Senior Director of Market & Publishing Analytics, Wiley
• Richard Gedye, Scholarly and Professional Publishing Consultant
• Athena Hoeppner, Discovery Services Librarian, University of Central Florida
• Robert Iannello, Education Senior Product Manager, ARM Education Media
• Haseeb Md Irfanullah, Independent Consultant, Environment Climate Change & Research System
• Alice Meadows, Co-founder, MoreBrains
• Fabienne Michaud, Product Manager, Crossref
• Louise Russell, Director, Tutton Russell Consulting
• Steve Sharp, Head of Library Resources, Sheffield Hallam University
• David Smith, Head of Technology Strategy, The IET
• Elaine Sykes, Head of Open Research, Lancaster University
• Alexandra Winzeler, Product Manager for E-Services, OCLC

For more information about all the awards, please visit the ALPSP website.

ENDS

About ALPSP
ALPSP is the international trade association which supports and represents not-for-profit organizations that publish scholarly and professional content, and those that work with them. Membership of ALPSP is for the whole organization so all employees can take advantage of the benefits on offer. ALPSP is proud to have over 300 member organizations across 30 countries.

About the ALPSP Conference and Awards 2023
The ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards will be held at the Hilton Manchester Deansgate, Manchester, UK from 13-15 September 2023. This will be the first hybrid ALPSP Conference and we look forward to bringing the scholarly community together both in-person and virtually. This year’s programme will reflect topic submissions from the ALPSP community and will cover a range of topics such as Open Science and Open Access (covering angles including, open data, books, small societies, and equitable OA models), as well as sessions on researcher behaviour, diversity in commissioning, an Industry Leaders ‘Question Time’, and more. Bookings are now open via the ALPSP website.

For further information, please email jo.hutchinson@alpsp.org or lesley.ogg@alpsp.org or visit the awards page. 

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