Innovation in scholarly publishing - ALPSP award shortlist

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has revealed the shortlist for its Innovation in Publishing awards.

Nine initiatives in scholarly publishing have been shortlisted:

• Bookmetrix, - Altmetric and Springer’s newly launched book metrics platform
• CHORUS - the American Open Access service
• eLife Lens - eLife's open-source reading tool
• Impact Vizor - from Stanford University's electronic journal development and hosting service
• JSTOR Daily - an online blog site tapping into the academic journals on JSTOR
• Kudos – an online toolkit for researchers
• Overleaf – an online platform for scientific writing
• RightFind XML for Mining from the Copyright Clearance Center
• Xvolution – an edutainment board game from Thailand's National Science and Technology Development Agency.

The winners will be announced at the ALPSP conference awards dinner in September.

Source: The Bookseller.