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<DIV>Congratulations to Ina Smith from Stellenbosch University, who was announced as one of the runners-up of the Open Access Award for Developing countries! See EIFL e-mail below for more details. </DIV>
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<DIV>The winner of the inaugural award is Dr Francis Jayakanth of the National Centre for Scientific Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.</DIV>
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<DIV style="BORDER-LEFT: #050505 1px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 7px">Message: 1<BR>Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 15:12:47 +0200<BR>From: Iryna Kuchma <iryna.kuchma@eifl.net><BR>Subject: [EIFLoa] EPT OA Award Announcement 2011<BR>To: eifloa <eifloa@lists.eifl.net><BR>Message-ID:<BR><CAHZoB7Zne-YR8fQjtb1SEVaSfj3p+wWi27Ws-ejyuJnY0=L8rQ@mail.gmail.com><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"<BR><BR>Congratulations!<BR><BR>[Forwarded message from Ept ept@biostrat.demon.co.uk]<BR><BR><BR><BR>**<BR>*Press Release January 1st 2012*<BR><BR>INAUGURAL EPT AWARD for OPEN ACCESS<BR><BR>*The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development is pleased to announce the<BR>winners of a new annual award to be made to individuals working in<BR>developing countries who have made a significant personal contribution to<BR>advancing the cause of open access and the free exchange of research<BR>findings. *<BR><BR>We received 30 proposals from organisations in 17 developing countries on<BR>four continents, naming individuals who have worked hard to promote Open<BR>Access and who have achieved substantial progress. The selection of a<BR>single winner was extremely difficult as we received nominations for so<BR>many individuals who have made impressive strides by any or all of the<BR>following means:-<BR><BR> - establishing OA institutional repositories;<BR><BR><BR> - setting up or encouraging conversion to OA journals;<BR> - achieving establishment of OA mandates requiring research to be OA on<BR> publication, or other policy developments;<BR> - advocating OA via seminars, publications, workshops, videos;<BR> - training others in the technology of setting up IRs;<BR> - preparing and establishing e-learning projects;<BR> - working towards the acceptance of Creative Commons licensing<BR> arrangements for research publications;<BR> - developing software for use in OA practices.<BR><BR>Because of the high standard of the applicants, we have decided to name a<BR>single winner, but also to recognise three other individuals who were very<BR>close runners-up. All will receive a certificate and the winner will<BR>receive in addition an engraved plaque in the next few weeks.<BR><BR>We are very happy to announce that the winner of the inaugural award is *Dr<BR>Francis Jayakanth* of the National Centre for Scientific Information,<BR>Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Dr Jayakanth played a<BR>significant role in the establishment of India?s first institutional<BR>repository (IR) (http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in). He now manages the IR and<BR>has provided technical support for establishing IRs in many other<BR>universities and institutes in India. He has been the key resource person<BR>at many events to train people in setting up IRs and OA journals. He has<BR>delivered presentations on IRs, OA journals, the OAI protocol, OAI<BR>compliance, the benefits of OA to authors and institutions and the role of<BR>libraries. He has developed a free and open source software tool (CDSOAI),<BR>which is widely used.<BR><BR>*The Indian Institute of Science is the most prestigious institute in **<BR>India** and its IR now holds >31,400 records, making the century-old<BR>institute's research far more globally visible than before. The University<BR>Grants Commission in **India** has been impressed by the IISC?s IR and has<BR>directed all universities in **India** to replicate this effort*.<BR><BR>Francis Jayakanth can indeed be considered an OA ?renaissance man?, an<BR>advocate and technical expert in all aspect of Open Access development and<BR>an inspiration to all, both at the research and policy level.<BR><BR>The EPT is proud to congratulate Dr Jayakanth as our first Award winner. We<BR>believe this Award and the example of our first winner will inspire many<BR>others and lead to similarly impressive nominations in 2012.<BR><BR>The runners-up for this award were (in alphabetical order):<BR><BR> - *Ina Smith*, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa;<BR> - *Tatyan Zayseva*, Khazar University, Azerbaijan;*<BR> - Xiaolin Zhang*, National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Science.<BR><BR>The EPT wishes to congratulate them and *all* who have been proposed, since<BR>without exception they have made a significant personal contribution to the<BR>sharing of research findings across the world. We will be sharing some of<BR>their stories and successes on our blog over the next few weeks.<BR><BR>Electronic Publishing Trust for Development<BR>Web site <A href="http://www.epublishingtrust.org">http://www.epublishingtrust.org</A><BR>Ept Blog <A href="http://www.epublishingtrust.blogspot.com">http://www.epublishingtrust.blogspot.com</A><BR>-------------- next part --------------<BR>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<BR>URL: <A href="http://www.eifl.net/pipermail/eifloa/attachments/20120101/0806652a/attachment-0001.html">http://www.eifl.net/pipermail/eifloa/attachments/20120101/0806652a/attachment-0001.html</A> <BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>eifloa mailing list<BR>eifloa@lists.eifl.net<BR><A href="http://www.eifl.net">http://www.eifl.net</A><BR><BR>End of eifloa Digest, Vol 50, Issue 1<BR>*************************************<BR></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></BODY></HTML>