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> Dear colleagues, > > The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) is delighted to > announce that Birgit Schmidt (Goettingen State and University > Library/COAR/OpenAIRE) and Kathleen Shearer (Canadian Association of > Research Libraries/COAR) are the recipients of the 2012 LIBER Award > for Library Innovation. > > The prize was awarded for their paper, /Licensing Revisited: Open > Access Clauses in Practice. /The paper describes work being done > through COAR to advance open access implementation via content > licenses. The paper reviews the current landscape in terms of open > access clauses and discusses the opportunities available for expanding > open access via the use of licensing negotiations, > > The abstract for the paper is available on the LIBER conference > website > (http://www.utlib.ee/liber2012/index.php?id=programme&item=acc_papers#7_3 > <http://www.utlib.ee/liber2012/index.php?id=programme&item=acc_papers%237_3>) > and the full text will be published and made available open access in > the coming months. > > Best wishes, > > Alicia López Medina > COAR Executive Director > http://www.coar-repositories.org/ > > > Katharina Müller (Head of Office) > Göttingen State and University Library > Platz der Göttinger Sieben 1 > 37073 Göttingen > Germany > Tel.: +49 551 39-22215 > Fax: +49 551 39-5222 > E-Mail: office[at]coar-repositories[dot]org > >