And the winner is ...

14 September 2007

Months of hard work were rewarded recently as RSC Project Prospect was named as winner of the 2007 ALPSP/Charlesworth Award for Publishing Innovation. 

In making the award, which recognises a significantly innovative approach to any aspect of scholarly publication, the judges described RSC Project Prospect as "the clear winner. [The] journals incorporate standard metadata within the full text of articles and combine this with an elegant and intuitive on screen manifestation of the advantages of including this metadata. 

 

 

"As a result, sophisticated and effective searching of the literature is greatly improved and the value gained from reading each article is significantly enhanced. It is delightfully simple to use and benefits to authors and readers are immediately obvious."

 

Richard Kidd (left) receives the award from Richard Gedye (centre), chair of the judging panel and Bernard Donovan, ALPSP President © Image courtesy of ALPSP and Barney Jones Photography

Receiving the award at the ALPSP Annual Dinner in London on September 13th, Project Manager Richard Kidd declared: "RSC Publishing is proud to win the 2007 award, which is great recognition for the work our publishing staff and academic partners have put into the development and evolution of RSC Project Prospect." 

The winning team (l to r): Jeff White, Colin Batchelor, Richard Kidd and Neil Hunter © Image courtesy of ALPSP and Barney Jones Photography

This is the first time that RSC Publishing has received the award for Publishing Innovation. 

A shortlist of four applicants, selected from the original fifteen, gave presentations to the judges, who considered the originality and innovative qualities of each, together with their utility and benefit to their community and long term development prospects. 

ALPSP (The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) together with The Charlesworth Group make awards annually to recognise significant achievement in the field of learned and professional publishing. The awards are international, and are open to all publishers, societies and journal owners worldwide, whether not-for-profit or commercial and regardless of size.