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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/>











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