Enthusiastic congratulations to Dr. Jayakanth, as well as to EPT and OS
movement for these archievements.
Regards,
Sely
Citando Ept <ept at biostrat.demon.co.uk>:
> Press Release January 1st 2012
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> INAUGURAL EPT AWARD for OPEN ACCESS
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> The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development is pleased to
> announce the winners of a new annual award to be made to individuals
> working in developing countries who have made a significant personal
> contribution to advancing the cause of open access and the free
> exchange of research findings.
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> We received 30 proposals from organisations in 17 developing
> countries on four continents, naming individuals who have worked
> hard to promote Open Access and who have achieved substantial
> progress. The selection of a single winner was extremely difficult
> as we received nominations for so many individuals who have made
> impressive strides by any or all of the following means:-
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> a.. establishing OA institutional repositories;setting up or
> encouraging conversion to OA journals;
> b.. achieving establishment of OA mandates requiring research to
> be OA on? publication, or other policy developments;
> c.. advocating OA via seminars, publications, workshops, videos;
> d.. training others in the technology of setting up IRs;
> e..? preparing and establishing e-learning projects;
> f.. working towards the acceptance of Creative Commons licensing
> arrangements for research publications;
> g.. developing software for use in OA practices.
> Because of the high standard of the applicants, we have decided to
> name a single winner, but also to recognise three other individuals
> who were very close runners-up. All will receive a certificate and
> the winner will receive in addition an engraved plaque in the next
> few weeks.
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> We are very happy to announce that the winner of the inaugural
> award is Dr Francis Jayakanth of the National Centre for Scientific
> Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.? Dr
> Jayakanth played a significant role in the establishment of India's
> first institutional repository (IR) (http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in).
> He now manages the IR and has provided technical support for
> establishing IRs in many other universities and institutes in India.
> He has been the key resource person at many events to train people
> in setting up IRs and OA journals. He has delivered presentations on
> IRs, OA journals, the OAI protocol, OAI compliance, the benefits of
> OA to authors and institutions and the role of libraries. He has
> developed a free and open source software tool (CDSOAI), which is
> widely used.
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> The Indian Institute of Science is the most prestigious institute
> in India and its IR now holds >31,400 records, making the
> century-old institute's research far more globally visible than
> before. The University Grants Commission in India has been impressed
> by the IISC's IR and has directed all universities in India to
> replicate this effort.
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> Francis Jayakanth can indeed be considered an OA 'renaissance
> man', an advocate and technical expert in all aspect of Open Access
> development and an inspiration to all, both at the research and
> policy level.
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> The EPT is proud to congratulate Dr Jayakanth as our first Award
> winner. We believe this Award and the example of our first winner
> will inspire many others and lead to similarly impressive
> nominations? in 2012.
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>
> The runners-up for this award were (in alphabetical order):
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> - Ina Smith, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa;
> - Tatyan Zayseva, Khazar University, Azerbaijan;
> - Xiaolin Zhang, National Science Library, Chinese Academy of? Science.
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> The EPT wishes to congratulate them and all who have been
> proposed, since without exception they have made a significant
> personal contribution to the sharing of research findings across the
> world.? We will be sharing some of their stories and successes on
> our blog over the next few weeks.
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> Electronic Publishing Trust for Development
> Web site http://www.epublishingtrust.orgEpt Blog
> http://www.epublishingtrust.blogspot.com
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