Announcing the Winners of the ALPSP and ALPSP/Charlesworth Awards2004

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Subject: Announcing the Winners of the ALPSP and ALPSP/Charlesworth Awards
    2004

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Announcing the Winners of the ALPSP and ALPSP/Charlesworth Awards 2004

At the Annual Dinner of The Association of Learned and Professional
Society Publishers in London on 16 September, the winners of the
prestigious ALPSP and ALPSP/Charlesworth Awards were presented. There were
five award categories, one of them new for 2004, and each recognising
significant achievement in the field of learned and professional
publishing.

The following awards were selected by a panel of independent experts from
over 50 international entries:

The ALPSP/Charlesworth Award for Learned Journals was won by the Journal
of the Royal Musical Association, published by Oxford University Press,
which was considered a particularly well designed scholarly publication
with excellent use of graphics and a cover design well suited to its
contents.  The Royal Society of Chemistry was highly commended for its
journal Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, which effectively uses
typography and colour to lighten the heavy scholarly content. British
Birds published by BB2000 Ltd also received a special mention.

The New ALPSP/Charlesworth Award for Best New Journal was won by Chemistry
World, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The judges believed
that this journal truly fulfils its aim to make chemistry attractive with
high quality graphics, and provides a broad range of materials for a wide
audience, including members.  A highly commended certificate was awarded
to Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader's Quarterly, co-edited by Gail Pirkis
and Hazel Wood, for its simple and innovative design well suited to its
audience.  European Management Review (Palgrave Macmillan) and the Turkish
Online Journal of Distance Education (Anadolu University) also received a
special mention.

The winner of the ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation was RICS Books,
the publishing arm of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, for
isurv, a web resource which combines trusted content with an impressively
easy to use navigation system to create a practical online information
service for chartered surveyors.  Oxford Scholarship Online (Oxford
University Press), Chemical Science (Royal Society of Chemistry) and
Europa World (Taylor and Francis) were also commended.

The judges had no hesitation in declaring COUNTER (Counting Online Usage
of Networked Electronic Resources) the winner of the ALPSP Award for
Service to Publisher/Library Relations, for its excellent collaborative
work in producing the 'COUNTER Code of Practice' for the recording and
exchange of online usage data, ensuring that all publishers, libraries and
intermediaries are speaking the same language when looking at usage data.

The ALPSP Award for Service to ALPSP went to Maurice Long for his
unstinting service to ALPSP over many years and most recently for his
dedicated services on Council.  His involvement with collective licensing
as an ALPSP representative has been outstanding; he is currently Chair of
the Publishers Licensing Society for the second time, having held the
Chair of the Copyright Licensing Agency in the interim. The judges also
value his contribution to the community as a whole through his work in
helping to develop the HINARI and AGORA journal access projects for less
developed countries.

Note for Editors

ALPSP represents the community of not-for-profit publishers and those who
work with them to disseminate academic and professional information.
Services include monitoring national and international issues and
representing members' interests to the wider world, as well as offering an
extensive programme of education, training and development. ALPSP has an
informative website www.alpsp.org <http://www.alpsp.org/> and also
publishes a quarterly journal, Learned Publishing and an electronic
newsletter, ALPSP Alert. More recently, ALPSP has launched the ALPSP
Learned Journals Collections (ALJC), a unique online collection of 430
journals from 44 diverse publishers.  The ALJC (www.alpsp-collection.org
<http://www.alpsp-collection.org/> ) enables small and medium-sized
publishers to package their journals with a single umbrella license,
pricing model and delivery platform.

The Charlesworth Group is dedicated to serving the authors, researchers,
publishers and readers of scientific, academic and scholarly publications
worldwide. Charlesworth provides data capture and conversion, typesetting,
printing and electronic delivery for many leading learned societies,
professional institutions and commercial publishers. www.charlesworth.com
<http://www.charlesworth.com/>
 
Laura Cox
(For ALPSP) 
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