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<p><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>*Apologies for Cross Posting*<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Press Release </span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:18.0pt'>SPARC <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>
Announces Call-for-Nominations for the Fourth Award for Outstanding
Achievements in Scholarly Communications</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Award to Honour Leaders in Field of Scholarly
Communications </span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt'>17<sup>th</sup> March, 2009</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt'>For more information, contact: David Prosser, <a
href="mailto:david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk"
title="mailto:david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk">david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk</a></span></font><span
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<p><strong><b><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Oxford, UK</span></font></b></strong><span lang=EN-GB>
— SPARC Europe (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), a
leading organization of European research libraries, today announced the
opening of nominations for the <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Fourth SPARC
Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications</span></i>.
Launched in 2006, this annual Award recognises an individual or group within <st1:place
w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>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:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Research that
helps illuminate the scholarly communications landscape <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Advocacy for
new models of scholarly communications<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Development of
new tools to aid scholarly communication (e.g. repository software)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Interesting
new projects or products<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Implementation
of policies that promote new scholarly communication models.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Nominations may come from any part of the world, but
nominees should work mainly within <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>.
(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 20<sup>th</sup> April 2009. The
Award will be present at the CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly
Communication (OAI6), (<a
href="http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=48321"
title="http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=48321">http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=48321</a>)
to be held in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Geneva</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Switzerland</st1:country-region></st1:place>, 17-19 June <font
color=black><span style='color:black'>2009.</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a
href="http://www.sparceurope.org/" title="http://www.sparceurope.org/"><span
lang=EN-GB><span title="http://www.sparceurope.org/"><span
title="http://www.sparceurope.org/">SPARC Europe</span></span></span></a> is an
alliance of 110 research-led university libraries from 14 European countries.
It is affiliated with <a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/"
title="http://www.arl.org/sparc/"><span lang=EN-GB><span
title="http://www.arl.org/sparc/"><span title="http://www.arl.org/sparc/">SPARC</span></span></span></a>
based in <st1:City w:st="on">Washington</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">D.C.</st1:State>,
which represents over 200 institutions, mainly in <st1:place w:st="on">North
America</st1:place>. 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.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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