SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications - 2009

["David Prosser" <david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk>]

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Press Release

SPARC Europe Announces Call-for-Nominations for the Fourth Award 
for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications

Award to Honour Leaders in Field of Scholarly Communications
17th March, 2009

For more information, contact: David Prosser, 
david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk

Oxford, UK - SPARC Europe (Scholarly Publishing and Academic 
Resources Coalition), a leading organization of European research 
libraries, today announced the opening of nominations for the 
Fourth 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 and the third 
in 2008 to Leo Waaijers.

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:

*Research that helps illuminate the scholarly communications 
landscape

*Advocacy for new models of scholarly communications

*Development of new tools to aid scholarly communication (e.g. 
repository software)

*Interesting new projects or products

*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 nominee's work, should be sent to David 
Prosser, Director of SPARC Europe no later than 20th April 2009. 
The Award will be present at the CERN Workshop on Innovations in 
Scholarly Communication (OAI6), to be held in Geneva, 
Switzerland, 17-19 June 2009.

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.

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