[GOAL] Re: EPT announces the winner of its 2011 Award

[sely maria de souza costa]

Enthusiastic congratulations to Dr. Jayakanth, as well as to EPT and OS
movement for these archievements.

    Regards,

    Sely

    Citando Ept <ept at biostrat.demon.co.uk>:
> 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;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.orgEpt Blog  
> http://www.epublishingtrust.blogspot.com
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