News
Information professions could
become disconnected from users
ALPsP awards
Ian Rowlands of the CIBER
publishing prizes
group at University College at the publisher he served for
London, UK. almost all of his career, in the
Digital Consumers, published community and in his work
by Facet Publishing, is based for ALPSP as treasurer and
on research by the CIBER editor of the journal Learned
Group. It states that the Publishing.
digital transition has led to The ALPSP Award for
disintermediation, easy access Publishing Innovation was
and massive information The Association of Learned awarded to CrossCheck, from
choice. Professional skills are and Professional Society CrossRef and iParadigms.
increasingly being performed Publishers (ALPSP) has In addition, a highly
without the necessary context, announced the winners of its commended certificate was
rationale and understanding. 2008 awards. awarded to Bioscience Horizons
Information professions The book states there The Award for Service from Oxford Journals.
including librarianship, is a need for a new belief to Scholarly Publishing was The ALPSP Award for
archives, publishing and system to help information awarded to Kurt Paulus. Best New Journal was
journalism could become professionals survive and engage He was described by the awarded to Elsevier’s Journal
increasingly disconnected from in a ubiquitous information judges as a great ‘unsung of Informetrics. A Highly
their users. This is one of the environment where they are no hero’ of scholarly publishing Commended Certificate was
conclusions of a new book longer the dominant players nor who has quietly made an given to ACS Nano from the
edited by David Nicholas and the first-choice suppliers. enormous contribution both American Chemical Society.
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