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19 October 2022
ALPSP Awards 2022 Winners Announced

  The winners of the 2022 ALPSP Awards were announced at the Conference Dinner on 15 September.

  ALPSP Award for Contribution to Scholarly Publishing

  ALPSP Council was delighted to present this year’s award to Lorraine Estelle.

  Lorraine has contributed significantly to the publishing and wider information communities over the last 20 years. She began her career in publishing before moving to lead the Jisc Collections Team in 2002, becoming CEO when it became a standalone organisation in 2006.

  At Jisc she spearheaded the procurement of digital content for education and research in the UK. Her team created the Journals Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP) which libraries have found so valuable in evaluating their usage metrics. In 2015 Lorraine moved to COUNTER, bringing with her a deep understanding of the challenges faced by librarians and data analysts from her experience with setting up JUSP. Under her guidance, COUNTER developed into the organisation it is today, setting the standard for usage data which is relied upon by libraries and publishers across the globe.

  Lorraine is a great leader and very well respected by her peers. She has always generously volunteered time, contributing to events and publications but also serving as a Trustee for UKSG and Editor for the UKSG journal Insights. She has also made a point of mentoring others, helping them to identify their strengths and make their own contributions to our community.

  ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2022

  Charlesworth Gateway and Gigabyte have been named the winners of the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2022. The announcement was made by David Sommer, Chair of the Judging Panel.

  Also shortlisted for 2022 were:

  Hum

  ICLR Case Genie built by 67 Bricks

  Impact Services from Emerald Publishing

  Joint Commitment for action on inclusion and diversity in publishing, initiated and facilitated by Royal Society of Chemistry

  Review Commons from EMBO and ASAPbio

  Winner: Charlesworth Gateway

  Gateway provides a solution to a pain-point shared by both publishers and Chinese authors – how to communicate quickly and effectively with each other throughout the submission workflow and beyond. Gateway improves author experience by facilitating speedy communication between editors and their authors/reviewers direct to their personal mobile devices, creating a 24/7 two-way conversation. Gateway negates the need for email (not widely used in China). It introduces efficiencies and cost saving into publisher workflows by reducing customer service time in dealing with author queries. Improving the quality of author interaction has increased the publisher’s WeChat followers, author returnees and brand build. https://cwbot.com.cn/

  Winner: GigaByte

  GigaByte provides a way to rapidly and cost-effectively share research, making the scientific process more inclusive and accessible to the broader community. It uses an exclusively XML-based publishing system that automates the production process and makes it effortless to change views, languages and embed interactive content. Enabling readers to directly interact with the underlying data and software allows immediate use of published research, improves reproducibility, and increases trust. Upon acceptance this system converts manuscripts to online - and PDF-ready articles within hours with minimal human intervention, dramatically reducing production time and cost to provide an equitable solution to publish open science. https://gigabytejournal.com/

  David Sommer, Chair of the judging panel, and co-founder at Kudos commented:

  ‘This year’s winners highlight how our industry is responding to the changing needs of authors and researchers together with the move towards making the scholarly record accessible to a broader audience worldwide. Both Charlesworth Gateway and Gigabyte recognise and support the differing needs of their communities and are well deserved winners.’

  About the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing

  The ALPSP Awards serve to highlight and celebrate the creativity and development that abounds in our industry with new projects and tools to meet the needs of today’s researchers, authors and publishers. This year’s finalists all took part in the Awards Lightning Session at the Conference. Read the guest posts from the finalists on the ALPSP Blog.

  The ALPSP awards are open to any new development, product, service, launch or project which is both innovative and of significant value to scholarly communication. The winners must demonstrate excellence in terms of originality and innovation, significance and value to the community, utility and long-term viability.