2015 ALPSP Awards honor Kudos and Michael Jubb

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) is an

international trade association of non-profit organizations and institutions that publish
scholarly content. Established in 1972, it is currently the largest association of scholarly
and professional publishers in the world with more than 300 members in 40 countries.
The annual ALPSP Awards for 2015 were announced at the ALPSP Conference on
Thursday, September 10. The awards were presented in the following categories:
The ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing
These awards highlight any new development, product, or service that demonstrates
excellence in innovation and is of significant value to scholarly communication. The
winners for this year were selected from 9 finalists based on the highest levels of
innovation, benefits to the scholarly community, and a sustainable business model.
The winner of the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing was Kudos, a web-based
toolkit that helps researchers and publishers increase the impact and visibility of
published research. The judges particularly appreciated the fact that Kudos is not a
closed community, and can be used for any publication with a CrossRef DOi and works
across all publishers and platforms.
Also, the Highly Commended awards for this category were given to:

JSTOR Daily, a magazine that makes scholarly research available to a wider audience
by publishing news that draws on scholarly research and offers open access to research
available on JSTOR.org
Overleaf, a collaborative cloud based tool which makes the process of writing, editing
and publishing scientific manuscripts easier and quicker, and facilitates collaboration
among researchers
The other finalists were:
1. Bookmetrix: A collection of performance metrics for books from Altmetric and
Springer SBM

2. CHORUS: A non-profit membership organization offering sustainable public access

to research
3. eLife Lens: An open-source reading tool from eLife
4. Impact Vizor: A product of HighWire Press that helps editors and publishers see the
research impact of the articles they publish and the ones they reject.
5. RightFind XML: A tool for mining from the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)
6. The Xvolution board game from the
Development Agency (NSTDA), Thailand.

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The ALPSP Award for Contribution to Scholarly Publishing

Each year, this award honors a scholar for his/her longstanding achievements and
commitment towards or service to the scholarly publishing community.
The recipient of this award was Michael Jubb, the Director of Research Information
Network (RIN) since 2005. Jubb has had a distinguished career in research policy,
funding, and administration and is regarded as one of the UKs leading experts in
scholarly communications. He was secretary to the group that produced the original
Finch report in 2012 and the subsequent report in 2013. He is currently heading a team
that will present a report later this year on the transition to open access in the UK and
the rest of the world. Prior to RIN, Michael Jubb was the deputy secretary of the British
Academy and the deputy chief executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Board.
Congratulations to the winners!