[GOAL] Recognising Open Access Champions - inaugural AOASG Awards

[Danny Kingsley]

To celebrate Open Access Week 2013, the Australian Open Access Support Group is recognising two ‘Open Access Champions’ – an individual and an organisation.

The Open Access Champion 2013 – Individual Category – has been awarded to Associate Professor Alex O. Holcombe, who is a psychologist studying human visual perception and visual attention. He is based in the School of Psychology at the University of Sydney. Alex spoke to Danny Kingsley about his interest in open access and how he is spreading the open access message -http://aoasg.org.au/2013/10/22/open-access-champion-2013-alex-holcombe/

The Open Access Champion 2013 - Organisation Category - has been awarded to the not-for-profit international development organization Engineers Without Borders Institute’s Open Journal Project<http://www.openjournalproject.org/>. Julian O’Shea, the Director of the EWB Institute, who is heading up the project, spoke to Danny Kingsley about what has happened in the three months since the AOASG featured a story<http://aoasg.org.au/2013/07/02/accessibility-is-more-than-making-the-paper-oa> about the project in July - http://aoasg.org.au/2013/10/22/open-access-champion-2013-open-journal-project/<http://aoasg.org.au/2013/10/22/open-access-champion-2013-open-journal-project>

Congratulations to Alex and Engineers Without Borders on being the AOASG's inaugural Open Access Champions.

Danny

Dr Danny Kingsley
Executive Officer
Australian Open Access Support Group
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