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<div>Hearty congratulations to both the recepients <strong><font size="5" face="Arial">of the EPT Open Access Awards 2013.</font></strong></div>
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<div>Dr.Vikram V Agadi<br>
NISCAIR-CSIR , Pusa Campus<br>
New Delhi-110012 </div>
<div>India</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> 06 February 2014 PM 02:11:37<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] {Disarmed} Recipients of the EPT Open Access Awards 2013<br>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 15.6pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Recipients of the EPT Open Access Awards 2013</span></b></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><a href="http://epublishingtrust.net/recipients-of-the-ept-open-access-awards-2013" target="_blank">http://epublishingtrust.net/recipients-of-the-ept-open-access-awards-2013</a></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (<a href="http://epublishingtrust.net/" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR: #743399">EPT</span></a>)
is pleased to announce the winner of its 3rd 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.</span></p>
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">This year, the trust received 10 nominations from a broad spread of countries (Armenia, Egypt, India, Kenya) and covering a very varied range of work. The panel members were impressed
by the high standard of nominations, and in the end were unable to decide between two, so declaredMuthu Madhan, India, and Rosemary Otando, Kenya, as joint winners.</span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">Muthu Madhan is Manager, Library and information Services, ICRISAT, Hyderabad 502324, India,and has been highly
influential in promoting Open Access within the Indian research community and been heavily involved in setting up many open access repositories – to date he has been instrumental in setting up at least 10 repositories including one for data, and in developing
mandatory repository deposition for all Institute publications in two institutions [see for example <a href="https://mail.niscair.res.in/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx" target="_blank"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from
"oar.icrisat.org,http" claiming to be</b></font> <span style="COLOR: #743399">http://oar.icrisat.org, http://ethesis.nitrkl.ac.in/</span></a>]. His solid achievements in driving the establishment of ‘green’ open access in India make him a worthy recipient
of the award.</span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">Rosemary Otando is Systems Librarian, and EIFL Country and Open Access Coordinator in the University of Nairobi
Library , Nairobi, Kenya. She has led OA activities in Kenya, raising awareness among different academic groups, and been instrumental in establishing the University of Nairobi Open Access Policy and repository [see<a href="http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR: #743399">http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/</span></a>].
In addition she has been active in training, and in facilitating an initiative which has led to the establishment of 20 institutional repositories.</span></p>
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">In their own different ways, both Muthu Madan and Rosemary Otando are playing critical roles in establishing OA in their different academic environments.</span></p>
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">The award will be presented to each of them at a suitable event later in the year.<br>
The panel also awarded certificates of commendation to two further applicants, Mandy Taha, Egypt,and (jointly) to Tigran Zargaryan and Tigran Zakaryan, Armenia.</span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">Mandy Taha, Senior Librarian and Project Leader, IFLA Center for Arabic Speaking Libraries in the Library of
Alexandria, Egypt, has taken a leading role in supporting and publicising Open Access in Egypt and Tunisia , work which is already having an impact on OA in her region [see <a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/MandyTaha" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR: #743399">http://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/MandyTaha</span></a>].
She has participated in training in Tunisia and Egypt [<a href="http://alexlibrarians2.wordpress.com/course-program/congratulations/" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR: #743399">http://alexlibrarians2.wordpress.com/course-program/congratulations/</span></a>],
and established a series of seminars and talks to popularise OA among University students and staff.</span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">Tigran Zargaryan and Tigran Zakaryan, National Library of Armenia, Armenia, have been active in raising awareness
and advocating Open Access in Armenia and have set up an Open Access journals’ portal linked to a National Research Repository containing all of the Armenian scholarly journals published by the <a href="http://www.flib.sci.am/eng/node/3" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR: #743399">Armenian
Academy of Sciences</span></a> as well as repositories at other institutes.</span></p>
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