[GOAL] EPT's 2nd Annual Award Recipient Iryna Kuchma, Ukraine

[Richard Poynder]

[Forwarding from the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development.  –via
Peter Suber and BOIA.]

http://epublishingtrust.net/ept-2nd-annual-oa-award/

 

Electronic Publishing Trust for Development's 2nd Annual Award for
individual effort in support of Open Access

 

The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT [i]) is pleased to
announce the winner of its 2nd Annual Award in recognition of the effort
made by individuals working in the developing and emerging countries in the
furtherance of Open Access (OA) to scholarly publications. The panel of 5
EPT Trustees unanimously agreed that the Award should be made to Iryna
Kuchma, Ukraine. Iryna is the Programme Manager of the EIFL-OA Programme
[ii] (Electronic Information for Libraries), that advocates nationally and
internationally for the adoption of OA policies and mandates and provides
training and support in the establishment of appropriate activities. In this
capacity Iryna has achieved astonishing results, far beyond any expectation.
Since the establishment in 2003 of the EIFL-OA progamme, Iryna has been the
first full-time programme manager, thus she is largely responsible for
EIFL¹s accomplishments in the field of Open Access, which include:

 

* The establishment of more than 490 Open Repositories in the 45 developing
and transition countries which form the EIFL region of work 

* The development of more than 3,400 Open Access Journals in the EIFL region

* The development of 34 OA policies in the EIFL region (for a list of the
policies which have been adopted, please see:
http://www.eifl.net/oa-policy).

 

Iryna first became engaged with the OA movement in 2002 while working in the
Ukraine for the Soros Foundation and has subsequently, in addition to the
highly productive EIFL-OA work listed above,  become EIFL representative on
many OA initiatives, such as the EU¹s OpenAIRE [iii] project to provide
infrastructure support across the EU countries, where Iryna covers the
Middle and Eastern EU nations; or serving on the IFLA [iv]
<http://epublishingtrust.net/ept-2nd-annual-oa-award/#_edn4> OA Task Force.
The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development received some eighteen
nominations from four continents. The sheer range of activities and the
strong sense of purpose and commitment shown by all the nominees, in all
sorts of circumstances and roles made it very hard to judge a winner. It
also reinforced our wish to recognise the work of so many unsung champions
of the OA movement.

 

The EPT is also very pleased to announce that the panel wished to recognise
the work of Susan Veldsman, South Africa, with the award of a certificate of
commendation. She has been responsible for much advocacy and training work
in her region. We are happy to provide this certificate of special
recognition to Susan for all her efforts in the progress of OA. She is the
manager of the SciELO-SA [v]
<http://epublishingtrust.net/ept-2nd-annual-oa-award/#_edn5> programme (an
excellent example of south-south collaboration ­ between Latin American
countries and South Africa). Susan has also been responsible for setting up
an Institutional Repository, has been involved in training, and conference
organisation throughout southern Africa and ­ in addition to the activities
of many other excellent nominations received by the EPT ­ has contributed to
many advocacy initiatives. It can be seen that both Iryna Kuchma and Susan
Veldsman have made highly significant contributions to the progress of
global and open access to knowledge, covering the areas of advocacy, policy
developments, mandates, OA journals and OA repositories, training,
best-practice and infrastructure support. Their work has undoubtedly made an
enormous difference to the free and fair access to scholarly knowledge
across the world and the EPT is proud to acknowledge their Contributions.

 

We anticipate an Award ceremony will be held in the near future and will
announce this subsequently through the EPT Blog at
http://epublishingtrust.net/

 

Very many congratulations to Iryna and to Susan.

 

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[i] <http://epublishingtrust.net/ept-2nd-annual-oa-award/#_ednref1> EPT ­
http://www.epublishingtrust.org

 

[ii] <http://epublishingtrust.net/ept-2nd-annual-oa-award/#_ednref2> EIFL-OA
programme ­ http://www.eifl.net/openaccess

 

[iii] <http://epublishingtrust.net/ept-2nd-annual-oa-award/#_ednref3>
OpenAire programme ­ http://www.openaire.eu/

 

[iv] <http://epublishingtrust.net/ept-2nd-annual-oa-award/#_ednref4> IFLA

- http://www.ifla.org/ <http://www.ifla.org/>

 

[v] <http://epublishingtrust.net/ept-2nd-annual-oa-award/#_ednref5>
SciELO-SA- http://www.scielo.org.za/

 

 

 

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