[BOAI] SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications - 2009

[David Prosser]

*Apologies for Cross Posting*

Press Release 

SPARC Europe Announces Call-for-Nominations for the Fourth Award for
Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications

 

Award to Honour Leaders in Field of Scholarly Communications 

17th March, 2009

For more information, contact: David Prosser, david.prosser at bodley.ox.ac.uk 

 

Oxford, UK - 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),
(http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=48321) to be held in
Geneva, Switzerland, 17-19 June 2009.

 <http://www.sparceurope.org/> SPARC Europe is an alliance of 110
research-led university libraries from 14 European countries. It is
affiliated with  <http://www.arl.org/sparc/> SPARC based in Washington,
D.C., which represents over 200 institutions, mainly in North America. SPARC
Europe and SPARC work to develop and promote new models of scholarly
communication that increase the access to and utility of the research
literature.

 

 

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