Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:11:27 +0200
From: Carmen Morlon <[log in to unmask]>
Dear colleagues,
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*SPARC Europe Call-for-Nominations for the Fifth Award for Outstanding
Achievements in Scholarly Communications*
*/Award to Honour Leaders in Field of Scholarly Communications, 29 April
2010 /*
For more information, contact the SPARC Europe Secretariat,
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/The Hague, The Netherlands/ SPARC Europe (Scholarly Publishing and
Academic Resources Coalition), a leading organization of European
research libraries, today announced the opening of nominations for the
Fifth SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly
Communications. Launched in 2006, this annual Award recognises an
individual or group within Europe that has made significant advances in
our understanding of the issues surrounding scholarly communications
and/or in developing practical means to address the problems with the
current systems. The First Award, in 2006, was presented to the Wellcome
Trust, with the second in 2007 going to the SHERPA group, the third in
2008 to Leo Waaijers and the fourth in 2009 to DOAJ, the Directory of
Open Access Journals.
Nominations are open to all who have made major contributions in the
field of scholarly communications, and the judging panel, formed from
members of the SPARC Europe Board of Directors, particularly wishes to
receive nominations for individuals or groups working in any of the
following areas:
ü Research that helps illuminate the scholarly communications landscape
ü Advocacy for new models of scholarly communications
ü Development of new tools to aid scholarly communication (e.g.
repository software)
ü Interesting new projects or products
ü Implementation of policies that promote new scholarly communication
models.
Nominations may come from any part of the world, but nominees should
work mainly within Europe (Self-nominations will not be accepted.)
Preference will be given to activity within the past two years.
Nominations, together with a short (approximately 500 words) outline of
the nominees work, should be sent to [log in to unmask] _no later than
28 May 2010_. The Award will be presented at the LIBER Annual Conference
in Aarhus, Denmark, 29 June - 3 July 2010.
SPARC Europe is an alliance of 110 research-led university libraries
from 14 European countries. It is affiliated with SPARC based in
Washington, D.C., which represents over 200 institutions, mainly in
North America. SPARC Europe and SPARC work to develop and promote new
models of scholarly communication that increase the access to and
utility of the research literature.
Carmen Morlon
Assistant to Executive Directors
LIBER/SPARC Europe
Koninklijke Bibliotheek
National Library of the Netherlands
PO Box 90407
2509 LK The Hague
The Netherlands
T: +31 70 314 07 67
F: +31 70 314 01 97
E: [log in to unmask]
http://www.libereurope.eu/
http://www.sparceurope.org/
http://www.oaspa.org/
/Together for the European Research Library Community/
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