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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>*<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Apologies for
cross-posting</span></b>*<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Press Release<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=highlightedsearchterm><b><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:
bold'>The Directory of Open Access Journals </span></font></b></span><b><font
size=4><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Receives
SPARC <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> Award for Outstanding
Achievements in Scholarly Communications, 2009</span></font></b><font size=4><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>2 July 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 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><b><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><st1:City w:st="on"><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Toulouse</span></font></b></st1:City><b><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-weight:bold'>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></span></b><span
lang=EN-GB> – As part of the <i><span style='font-style:italic'>LIBER 38<sup>th</sup>
Annual General Conference</span></i>, held at the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Toulouse</st1:PlaceName> 1 in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place>, the Directory of Open
Access Journals has been presented with the 2009 SPARC Europe Award for
Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>SPARC
(the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) Europe initiated
the Award in 2006 to recognize the work of 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 problems within the current systems. In
making the Award to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) the judging
panel noted their ground-breaking promotion of open access journals, their work
on setting copyright, metadata, and preservation standards, and their
development of a sustainable model of support. Since its launch in 2003
the DOAJ has become a vital part of the OA infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Presenting
the Award, Bas Savenije, Chair of the SPARC Europe Board, said ‘The DOAJ
is one of the most successful projects within the OA movement, globally recognized
and used, which also has developed a sustainability model.’<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Lars
Björnshauge, Director of the Lund University Libraries and head of the DOAJ
received the Award. He commented that the SPARC award ‘is a
recognition of the outstanding work of the DOAJ team at the Head Office of Lund
University Libraries and a much welcomed encouragement for the further
operation and development of services for the constantly increasing support for
worldwide free access to research results for the benefit of research. We are
very proud of receiving the award and we will do our outmost to continue to
support the open access movement in the future as we have done it in the
past.’<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>This
is the fourth time the SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in
Scholarly Communications has been made. The first Award, in 2006, went to the
Wellcome Trust, the second in 2007 to the SHERPA Group, and the third in 2008
to <st1:PersonName w:st="on"><span class=highlightedsearchterm>Leo</span>
Waaijers</st1:PersonName>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=discreet><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>About the Directory of Open Access
Journals</span></font></b><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is service provided by the Head
Office, Lund University Libraries in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Sweden</st1:country-region></st1:place>. It was launched in
2003 with the aim of increasing the visibility and ease of use of open access
scientific and scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and
impact. DOAJ is the authoritative source for open access scientific and
scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Today,
DOAJ lists over 4250 journals published in 100 countries in more than 50
languages covering all scientific subjects with more than 1575 titles
searchable at article level (covering almost 300,000 articles). In
addition, through partnerships the DOAJ works to set standards in copyright,
metadata, and preservation issues.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
operations of DOAJ are dependent on contributions from the community. Current
sponsors are the National Library of Sweden and the Swedish Library
Association. Kommercial aggregators, library consortia and academic &
corporate libraries are contributing via the DOAJ membership programme.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=discreet><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>More information on the DOAJ: <span
class=link-external><a href="http://www.doaj.org/">www.doaj.org</a> </span></span><span
class=link-external><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=discreet><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>About SPARC <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place></span></font></b><span
class=link-external><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=discreet><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>SPARC Europe is an alliance of over 110 European
research libraries, library <span class=highlightedsearchterm>org</span>anisations
and research institutions in 14 European countries. SPARC Europe provides a
voice for the academic and library communities, and the support and tools they
need in order to bring about positive change to the system of scholarly
communications.<span class=link-external><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></p>
<p class=discreet><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>More information on SPARC</span> Europe: <span
class=link-external><a href="http://www.sparceurope.org/"><span lang=EN-GB>http://www.sparceurope.org/</span></a></span></font><span
class=link-external><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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