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Friday, September 16, 2005

ALPSP/Charlesworth awards for 2005

The ALPSP/Charlesworth awards for 2005 were announced yesterday. Two items were of OA interest.
  1. The journal Antiquity was "highly commended" in the category of learned journals. While Antiquity is not OA, it includes an OA Project Gallery to give wide and rapid access to news from archaeological sites.

  2. The award for publishing innovation went to Connotea, from the Nature Publishing Group. Connotea is an OA folksonomy tool for sharing bookmarks and organizing them with user-generated tags or keywords. Highly commended in the same category was the OECD's StatLink, which lets users click on a chart or table and download a spreadsheet of the underlying data. If non-OA articles or books print DOIs with their charts, then users can have OA to the data even without OA to the surrounding publication.