eLife Lens, a novel tool providing a two-pane view of research articles online, has been shortlisted for the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers Award.
Lens was first proposed by PhD student Ivan Grubisic and then co-developed by eLife and Substance into a product, which makes it far easier for researchers to draw connections between text, figures, and references than any other online reading tool.
eLife Lens is open-source, and its architecture is extensible, allowing other publishers not only to adopt it freely, but also to modify the style and functionality of the tool. For example the American Mathematical Society have created a resource pane customised to display mathematical proofs.
The ALPSP award aim is to recognise a new development, product, service, launch or project which is both innovative and of significant value to scholarly communication. The winners must demonstrate excellence in terms of originality and innovation, significance and value to the community, utility and long-term viability.
Panel of Judges
Richard Gedye, Director of Outreach Programmes, STM
Andrew Barker, Head of Academic Liaison, Special Collections & Archives, University of Liverpool Library
Tim Devenport, Lead Consultant, Serials & Subscriptions Standards, EDItEUR
Jane Harvell, Head of Library Academic Services & Special Collections, University of Sussex
Robert Iannello, University Programme Manager EMEA, ARM
David Smith, Head of Product Solutions, The IET
The winners will then be announced at the Conference Awards Dinner on Thursday 10 September ( www.alpspconference.org).
Audrey McCulloch, Chief Executive of ALPSP noted:
“The ALPSP Awards allow us to shine the spotlight on some of the best new initiatives in our industry and demonstrate how rapidly publishing is evolving in line with the needs of today’s scholarly community.”
Ian Mulvany, eLife Head of Technology, said:
“We’re delighted to be shortlisted for the ALPSP Award, just as we are at the enthusiastic feedback from users. We’re now working in collaboration with interested publishers to help continue to evolve the product. I’m hopeful that our nomination will attract attention of more publishers to adopt Lens, to benefit their readers’ experience.”
To find out more about Lens, read the recent article from Michael Aufreiter, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Substance.
Finalists include:
Bookmetrix from Altmetric and Springer SBM
CHORUS – advancing public access to research
eLife Lens open-source reading tool from eLife
Impact Vizor from HighWire Press
JSTOR Daily online magazine
Kudos toolkit for researchers and their publishers
Overleaf authorship tool
RightFind XML for Mining from the Copyright Clearance Center
The Xvolution board game from NSTDA
