Bill Hubbard has announced the winner of the SHERPA "Spirit of Open Access" competition: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/guidance/Haiku.html
Set your research free As flowers offer nectar To the passing bee Miggie Pickton, University of Northampton, UK (My own (losing!) entries, submitted under the pseudonym of "Matt Bashore," are at: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/643-guid.html ) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bill Hubbard <Bill.Hubbard -- nottingham.ac.uk> List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org Date: Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:48 AM Subject: Winner of the SHERPA Haiku "Spirit of Open Access" competition To: JISC-REPOSITORIES -- jiscmail.ac.uk Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the winner of the SHERPA Haiku "Spirit of Open Access" competition! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Set your research free As flowers offer nectar To the passing bee Miggie Pickton of the University of Northampton. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ We thought this was witty, well structured and evoked a strong and positive impression of the spirit of open access and a well-deserved winner. We were delighted with the response - well over 100 entries from around the world. Our thanks go to all that entered! We very much enjoyed reading through these, which varied from the witty, through the descriptive, to the quite strange :-) Our thanks also to those who sent left-field entries not for competititon, but for the fun of it. All of the entries were read and considered in a blind judgement by the SHERPA Team at the Centre for Research Communications at the University of Nottingham, who voted for the winning entry: Miggie will be getting her Winner's Certificate from us and a SHERPA goody bag. We hope that the Haiku will amuse and inspire others! In addition there were many runners-up! The standard of entries was very high: we have a web page which includes some which particularly appealed to us - do take a look! http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/guidance/Haiku.html All of the entries were invited under a CC by-nc-sa licence, so do feel free to use any of the Haiku, with attribution and in line with the licence, in any advocacy work that you do. Regards, Bill -- Bill Hubbard JISC Research Communications Strategist Head of Centre for Research Communications SHERPA - www.sherpa.ac.uk RSP - www.rsp.ac.uk RoMEO - www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo JULIET - www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet OpenDOAR - www.opendoar.org Centre for Research Communications Greenfield Medical Library University of Nottingham Queens Medical Centre Nottingham NG7 2UH UK Email crc -- nottingham.ac.uk Tel +44(0) 115 846 7657 Fax +44(0) 115 846 8244 * * * * * * * *