It's time to send SPARC Europe your nominations for its 2009 Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications. From today's announcement:
SPARC Europe (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), a leading organization of European research libraries, today announced the opening of nominations for the Fourth SPARC 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, with the second in 2007 going to the SHERPA group and the third in 2008 to Leo Waaijers.
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 (approximately 500 words) outline of the nominee’s work, should be sent to David Prosser, Director of SPARC Europe no later than 20th April 2009. The Award will be present at the CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI6), to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, 17-19 June 2009.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/17/2009 05:28:00 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.
