Thought this might be of interest to the list.
Warm regards
Catherine
Emerald Group Publishing has announced the winners of the 2006 Emerald
Literati Network Awards for Excellence.
Membership of the Emerald Literati Network brings a host of benefits
including access to the world’s leading collection of online resources for
editors and authors. Members can view a conference diary, obtain guidance
on writing for publication, view members’ homepages and get a regular
newsletter. Founded in 1992, the Network has 38,000 active members
worldwide.
Awards are presented in six categories:
Outstanding papers
All papers which are submitted for awards are peer-reviewed. To be
selected for publication in an Emerald journal, a paper must:
• Contribute something new to the body of knowledge in its
specialist field;
• Have excellent structure and be well written;
• Contain a rigorous argument or analysis;
• Further debate and discussion in its field;
• Cite relevant academic works and publications.
This year’s outstanding papers included ‘Blogging as a tool: Innovative
Approaches to Information Access’, which was published in Library Hi Tech
News, and ‘What the hare can teach the tortoise about make-buy strategies
for radical innovations’, which appeared in the journal, Management
Decision. The former examines how libraries can use blogs in an
imaginative and informative way, while the latter is an investigation of
the complex relationship between suppliers and customers.
Papers that were highly commended by the judges this year included an
investigation into consumers’ attitudes to organic food, which was
published in the British Food Journal; a review of nuclear energy, which
featured in foresight; and an overview of European business activity in
China in European Business Review.
Leading editors
Acknowledge the high commitment editors have to their journals and their
efforts to raise and maintain the standards of the journals through
nurturing new authors, networking and sharing ideas with other journal
editors and promoting the journal at conferences.
Amongst the 150+ editors singled out for awards were Linda Ashcroft,
Editor of New Library World and Tom Redman, Editor of Personnel Review.
Linda is a Reader in Information Management and has an MA in Information
and Library Management from John Moores University in Liverpool. Tom is a
Professor at Durham Business School, which is part of the University of
Durham.
The Outstanding Service Award winners this year included Dr Ilene Rockman
in recognition of her long-standing support and consistently high
contributions to Reference Services Review. Dr Rockman passed away on
November 26, 2005 and Emerald conferred this award with a mix of sadness
and celebration of her life and work.
The Outstanding Special Issues Award recognises excellence in a journal’s
special issue. This year’s winner is the European Journal of Marketing,
Vol. 39 No. 3/4, for The state of research in marketing.
The Emerald Management Reviews Citations of Excellence recognises
outstanding contributions from authors of exceptional papers covered in
its article-review database with a Citation of Excellence Award. Just 50
articles from 15,000 article reviews added to the whole database annually
are singled out for special praise and awarded a Citation of Excellence.
The ASLIB-Emerald Award, now in its fourth year, recognises the most
outstanding contribution to information management good practice published
during 2005 in any of the six Aslib-Emerald journals. This year’s winner
is: Fast surfing, broad scanning and deep diving: The influence of
personality and study approach on students' information-seeking behaviour
by Jannica Heinström in the Journal of Documentation Vol 61 No. 2.
The Emerald Literati Network was formed (as the Literati Club) in 1991. It
consists of all authors, editors and editorial board members who have
contributed to Emerald journals since that time. Membership of the Emerald
Literati Network currently amounts to over 45,000 people.
For more information, please visit: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/authors
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