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SPARC Europe Announces Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications

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SPARC Europe Announces Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly 
Communications

Oxford, UK - SPARC Europe (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources 
Coalition), a leading organization of European research libraries, today 
announced the inauguration of the SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding 
Achievements in Scholarly Communications.  The new annual Award will be 
presented to 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 judging panel, formed from 
members of the SPARC Europe Board of Directors, has issued a call for 
nominations for the Award.  Nominations are open to all who have made 
major contributions in the field of scholarly communications, and the 
judging panel particularly wishes to receive nominations of individuals of 
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 (together with a short outline of the nominee's work) should 
be sent to David Prosser, Director of SPARC Europe no later than 10th 
February 2006. The Award will be present at the Third Nordic Conference on 
Scholarly Communication, to be held at Lund, Sweden 24 - 25 April 2006.

SPARC Europe is an alliance of 110 research-led university libraries from 
14 European countries. It is affiliated with <http://www.arl.org/sparc/> 
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.

David C Prosser PhD
Director
SPARC Europe

E-mail:  david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk
Tel:       +44 (0) 1865 277 614
Mobile:  +44 (0) 7974 673 888
http://www.sparceurope.org <http://www.sparceurope.org/>