It's time to send SPARC Europe your nominations for the Second Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications. From today's announcement:
SPARC Europe..., a leading organization of European research libraries, today announced the opening of nominations for the SecondSPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications. Launched in 2006, this annual Award recognises an individual or group within Europe that has made significant advances in our understanding of the issues surrounding scholarly communications and/or in developing practical means to address the problems with the current systems. The First Award, in 2006, was presented to the Wellcome Trust. Nominations are open to all who have made major contributions in the field of scholarly communications, and the judging panel, formed from members of the SPARC Europe Board of Directors, particularly wishes to receive nominations for individuals or groups working in any of the following areas:
Research that helps illuminate the scholarly communications landscape
Advocacy for new models of scholarly communications
Development of new tools to aid scholarly communication (e.g. repository software)
Interesting new projects or products
Implementation of policies that promote new scholarly communication models.
Nominations may come from any part of the world, but nominees should work mainly within Europe. (Self-nominations will not be accepted.) Preference will be given to activity within the past two years. Nominations (together with a short outline of the nominee’s work) should be sent to David Prosser, Director of SPARC Europe no later than 23 February 2007. The Award will be present at OAI5 - the 5th Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, to be held at CERN, Switzerland 18-20 April 2007.
PS: Note that the deadline for nominations (February 23) is only 11 days from today.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/12/2007 04:27:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
