Emerald and Royal Society of Chemistry shortlisted for ALPSP Innovation Awards

Publisher Emerald and learned society The Royal Society of Chemistry are among the organisations with initiatives shortlisted for the latest Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) Awards for Innovation in Publishing.

The awards are open to projects, products or services that have significant value to scholarly communication and can demonstrate originality, usefulness and long-term viability.

Emerald is shortlisted for its Impact Services programme, which offers tools and techniques to help researchers measure the provable benefits of their work in the real world. Meanwhile The Royal Society of Chemistry is shortlisted for initiating the Joint Commitment for Action on Inclusion & Diversity in Publishing, which has brought together 53 publishing organisations to ensure a more inclusive culture within scholarly publishing.

Also shortlisted is The Charlesworth Group for its Paper Status Notification Service, which sends notifications to China-based authors on the status of their manuscript submissions; GigaScience Press’ GigaByte, which promotes the publication of short, focused, data-driven articles on a publishing platform which allows nearly immediate publication on acceptance, plus the ability to update published articles, so that scientists can rapidly and easily share their outputs; and Hum, a Silverchair company, which helps publishers and associations to use the data they are already collecting to better understand and serve their audience.

Case Genie, an AI-powered tool for legal research from the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) and 67 Bricks, and pre-print peer-review platform Review Commons, from the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) and non-profit Accelerating Science & Publication in Biology (ASAPbio), complete the shortlist.

Kudos co-founder David Sommer, chair of the judging committee, said the shortlist "reflects the pace of change and innovation across all areas of scholarly publishing and communication."

The finalists will present their projects to the judges in July, and then showcase their work to industry peers at the ALPSP annual conference on 14th September, with the winners announced at the awards dinner the following night.