[BOAI] Re: EPT OA Award Announcement 2011

[Sridhar Gutam]

On new year day i received this great news about the award.
Congratulations to all the awardees. Its indeed a pride moment to
india as the first award went to india. The open access india heartily
congratulates dr francis, eprints at IISc.

On 01/01/2012, Ept <ept at biostrat.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Press Release January 1st 2012
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> INAUGURAL EPT AWARD for OPEN ACCESS
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> The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development is pleased to announce the
> winners of a new annual award to be made to individuals working in
> developing countries who have made a significant personal contribution to
> advancing the cause of open access and the free exchange of research
> findings.
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> We received 30 proposals from organisations in 17 developing countries on
> four continents, naming individuals who have worked hard to promote Open
> Access and who have achieved substantial progress. The selection of a single
> winner was extremely difficult as we received nominations for so many
> individuals who have made impressive strides by any or all of the following
> means:-
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>   a.. establishing OA institutional repositories;
>   a.. setting up or encouraging conversion to OA journals;
>   b.. achieving establishment of OA mandates requiring research to be OA on
> publication, or other policy developments;
>   c.. advocating OA via seminars, publications, workshops, videos;
>   d.. training others in the technology of setting up IRs;
>   e..  preparing and establishing e-learning projects;
>   f.. working towards the acceptance of Creative Commons licensing
> arrangements for research publications;
>   g.. developing software for use in OA practices.
> Because of the high standard of the applicants, we have decided to name a
> single winner, but also to recognise three other individuals who were very
> close runners-up. All will receive a certificate and the winner will receive
> in addition an engraved plaque in the next few weeks.
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> We are very happy to announce that the winner of the inaugural award is Dr
> Francis Jayakanth of the National Centre for Scientific Information, Indian
> Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.  Dr Jayakanth played a significant
> role in the establishment of India's first institutional repository (IR)
> (http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in). He now manages the IR and has provided
> technical support for establishing IRs in many other universities and
> institutes in India. He has been the key resource person at many events to
> train people in setting up IRs and OA journals. He has delivered
> presentations on IRs, OA journals, the OAI protocol, OAI compliance, the
> benefits of OA to authors and institutions and the role of libraries. He has
> developed a free and open source software tool (CDSOAI), which is widely
> used.
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> The Indian Institute of Science is the most prestigious institute in India
> and its IR now holds >31,400 records, making the century-old institute's
> research far more globally visible than before. The University Grants
> Commission in India has been impressed by the IISC's IR and has directed all
> universities in India to replicate this effort.
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> Francis Jayakanth can indeed be considered an OA 'renaissance man', an
> advocate and technical expert in all aspect of Open Access development and
> an inspiration to all, both at the research and policy level.
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> The EPT is proud to congratulate Dr Jayakanth as our first Award winner. We
> believe this Award and the example of our first winner will inspire many
> others and lead to similarly impressive nominations  in 2012.
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> The runners-up for this award were (in alphabetical order):
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>   - Ina Smith, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa;
>   - Tatyan Zayseva, Khazar University, Azerbaijan;
>   - Xiaolin Zhang, National Science Library, Chinese Academy of  Science.
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> The EPT wishes to congratulate them and all who have been proposed, since
> without exception they have made a significant personal contribution to the
> sharing of research findings across the world.  We will be sharing some of
> their stories and successes on our blog over the next few weeks.
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> Electronic Publishing Trust for Development
> Web site http://www.epublishingtrust.org
> Ept Blog http://www.epublishingtrust.blogspot.com


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Thanks & Regards
Sridhar
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