Knovel Library Receives Highly Commended Award for Publishing Innovation from ALPSP

["Laura Cox" <laura.cox@frontlinegms.com>]

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For Immediate Release: 15th September 2006

Knovel Library Receives Highly Commended Award for Publishing 
Innovation from ALPSP

Knovel receives award for publishing innovation at last night's 
annual ALPSP awards dinner in London.

London, 15th September 2006 - Knovel Corporation had the pleasure 
of receiving a highly commended award in publishing innovation 
from the Association of Learned and Professional Society 
Publishers at last night's awards ceremony held at the historic 
Armourers' Hall in central London.  On acceptance of the award 
Paul Walker of Knovel UK said "Innovation has been the key to 
Knovel's successes to date, and we are delighted to receive 
recognition of this from ALPSP. Major new developments in 
Knovel's publishing platform are due over the next 12 months and 
we intend to continue developing the publishing platform with 
pioneering enhancements."

The Knovel Library was trialled and reviewed by the ALPSP panel 
of judges and has been given the honour of receiving this award 
which is for a significantly innovative approach to any aspect of 
publication - in this case 'a novel type of electronic 
publication or service'.

Chris Forbes, CEO of Knovel Corporation said "We at Knovel are 
honoured by ALPSP's recognition of winning a Highly Commended 
Award in Publishing Innovation. Our vision is to have Knovel's 
data rich information technology used by all scientists and 
engineers worldwide. To be recognized by the ALPSP, who play such 
an important role of communication to its community and members, 
speaks volumes."

About the Knovel Library

The Knovel Library (www.knovel.com <http://www.knovel.com/> ) is 
unique in that it, not only enables scientists and engineers to 
find and use authoritative Science and Technology reference 
works, but use the data contained within them via embedded 
analytical tools.  These tools include 'live' tables, graph 
plotters, equation plotters and digitized graphs which allow 
users to customize data in tables as you would in an Excel 
spreadsheet; extract data built on equations and plot graphs 
using the coefficients; capture coordinates; and plot graphs from 
the raw data to compare variables and perform 'what if' 
experiments.

Knovel is the only online library that has added value by taking 
tables and graphs from reference works and creating easy to use 
interactive tools, increasing the productivity and saving time 
for researchers and engineers by enabling them to apply 
experiments and data directly to their own work.

About ALPSP

ALPSP is the international trade association for the community of 
not-for-profit publishers and those who work with them to 
disseminate academic and professional information. It was founded 
in 1972, and currently has over 335 members in 37 countries. 
ALPSP carries out research and other projects, establishes good 
practice guidelines, monitors national and international issues 
and represents members' interests to the wider world. It offers 
an extensive programme of seminars and training as well as an 
informative website (www.alpsp.org <http://www.alpsp.org/> ), a 
quarterly journal, Learned Publishing, and a monthly electronic 
newsletter, ALPSP Alert.  The ALPSP Learned Journals Collection 
(ALJC) is a unique online collection which enables small and 
medium sized publishers to package their journals with a single 
umbrella licence, pricing model and delivery platform.  In 2007 
it will comprise 618 journals from 48 publishers.

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