The winners of the 2017 ALPSP Awards were announced at the ALPSP Conference Dinner on September 14.
The ALPSP Council presented the 2017 ALPSP Award for Contribution to Scholarly Publishing to Sara Miller McCune, Founder and Executive Chairman, SAGE Publishing.
Guided by an entrepreneurial spirit and an unwavering dedication to academia, the then-24-year-old Sara founded SAGE in 1965 in New York City. As well as growing a hugely successful publishing business, Sara is also a major philanthropist. She founded the charitable McCune Foundation in 1990 and has also funded schools in the developing world and made significant financial contributions to many other health and cultural causes. She's won several major business awards and was recently honoured by the Women's Campaign International at an event entitled: 'Shattering the Glass Ceiling, Honouring Inspirational Women Around the Globe'. All of this has been achieved while keeping the company independent.
Additionally, the judges announced two winners - Publons and SourceData from EMBO – for the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing.
Publons is harnessing the power of peer review to reshape scholarly communication. Its cross-publisher platform collects peer review activity and helps researchers to keep a verified record of their review and editorial work. Publons is also providing free, online training for reviewers and developing the tools that editors need to find, screen, contact and motivate reviewers. The judges welcomed this initiative from Publons which benefits the whole publishing community and recognise the scale of the undertaking involved to make their vision a reality.
SourceData is an open scientific discovery platform to browse, connect and search papers based on the data shown in their figures. It provides a suite of intuitive tools to find research data that are locked away in figures and scientific illustrations. By enabling scientists to find the data they need in publications easily and precisely, SourceData provides intelligent, data‐oriented navigation of the research literature. The judges recognised the high level of curation and complex development behind this platform and its significance to the dissemination of research.
Also shortlisted for the 2017 awards were: Delta Think Open Access Data Analysis Tool; Escalex® from IFIS Publishing and Molecular Connections; INASP AuthorAID; and Springer Nature SharedIt.
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