NASIG Newsletter

ASSOCIATION OF LEARNED AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY PUBLISHERS ANNOUNCES SHORTLISTS FOR BEST NEW JOURNAL AND PUBLISHING INNOVATION AWARDS

The judges for the 2008 ALPSP Awards have announced the finalists for this year’s ALPSP Awards. The winners will be announced on 11 September at the ALPSP International Conference Dinner at Beaumont House (www.alpspconference.org).

ALPSP AWARD FOR BEST NEW JOURNAL 2008 SHORTLIST
•    ACS Nano, published by American Chemical Society
•    Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice
(IOP), published by Wiley-Blackwell for the Society for Industrial and Organizational
Pyschology
•    International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, published by Emerald Group
Publishing
•    Journal of Informetrics, published by Elsevier

ALPSP AWARD FOR PUBLISHING INNOVATION 2008 SHORTLIST
•    Bioscience Horizons from Oxford Journals
•    CrossCheck from the CrossRef/iParadigms Partnership
•    OECD.Stat from the Organisation for Economic and Co-operation Development
•    Ringgold Institutional Identifier from Ringgold Ltd
•    Routine authoring and publication of enhanced figures from the International Union of
Crystallography

ABOUT THE ALPSP AWARDS

PANEL OF JUDGES
Richard Gedye, Research Director, Oxford Journals (Chair)
Geoffrey Bilder, Director of Strategic Initiatives, CrossRef
Sue Corbett, General Manager for Medicine, Wiley-Blackwell
Mark Ware, Director, Mark Ware Consulting
Hugh Look, Senior Consultant, Rightscom
Hazel Woodward, University Librarian & Director of Cranfield Press

ALPSP Award for PUBLISHING INNOVATION – in recognition of a truly innovative approach to any aspect of publication.

Applications are judged on their originality and innovative qualities, together with their utility, benefit to their community and long term prospects. Any area of innovation is eligible – it could, for example, be a novel type of print or online publication or service, or even a radically different approach to a marketing campaign.

ALPSP Award for BEST NEW JOURNAL – open to any journal launched within the past 3 years.

The judges consider four main aspects of the journal and its launch: market research, editorial strategy, marketing and commercial success. The journal should include a substantial number of peer reviewed articles.

ABOUT THE ALPSP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
2008 sees a new conference for ALPSP members and everyone involved in scholarly publishing. It’s the perfect opportunity to discuss issues of common interest and to share information and best practice in an informal setting. There are sessions for books and journals publishers, with keynotes from Timo Hannay (Nature Publishing Group) and Paul Evans (Elsevier). The conference begins on the Wednesday evening with a cocktail reception and buffet and the guest speaker at the Awards Dinner is Ben Goldacre, author of The Guardian’s ‘Bad Science’ column.

FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information, please contact Lesley Ogg (events@alpsp.org; +44 (0)1245 260571)
or Nick Evans (nick.evans@alpsp.org; +44 (0)8789 2384).