Overleaf and Bookmetrix, the joint project between Altmetric and Springer, have both been announced as finalists in the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2015.
The ALPSP awards are open to any new development, product, service, launch or project which is both innovative and of significant value to the scholarly communication arena. In order to win finalists must demonstrate excellence in terms of originality and innovation, significance and value to the community, utility and long-term viability.
Overleaf is the new collaborative writing and publishing system from the team behind writeLaTeX. Bookmetrix is essentially 'altmetrics for books' and has been rolled out across Springer's entire library, offering authors and publishers new insights into how their books are being discussed, cited, and used.
The finalists will be given the opportunity to showcase their products in a rapid fire session at the ALPSP Conference on September 9. The winners will then be announced at the Conference Awards Dinner on Thursday 10 September.
