portal: Libraries and the Academy 2005 Johns Hopkins Press Award for Best Article

The Editorial Board is pleased to announce the first annual award for best article of the year appearing in the pages of portal:Libraries and the Academy and to ex-press its appreciation to the Johns Hopkins Press for supporting the award. The inaugural recipient is "A Survey of Business Trends at BioOne Publishing Partners and its Implications for BioOne," featured in the October 2004, Volume 4, Number 4 issue. The winning article was co-authored by Todd A. Carpenter, Heather Joseph and Mary Waltham and analyzed data on financial conditions for both profit and non-profit titles. The assessment provides precise impact on the effect of recent trends on publishers' revenue streams and costs. The award is available at http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/awards.html.

The criteria for the award selection process included: quality of research methodology, the extent to which the article places library issues in a broader academic or higher education context, the extent to which the article makes a significant contribution to the literature or the advancement of knowledge, timeliness and the overall quality of writing. A $500.00 cash prize accompanies the award.