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Quoted from the SPARC press release,

"CERN, Geneva, Switzerland - As part of OAI5 - the 5th Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, held at the CERN Laboratories in Geneva, Switzerland, the SHERPA partnership was presented with the 2007 SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications.

SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) Europe initiated the Award in 2006 to recognise the work of 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. In making the Award to SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access) the judging panel noted their advocacy for the adoption of institutional repositories and their development of a suite of tools in support of Open Access, including OpenDOAR (a world-wide directory of repositories hosting freely available peer-reviewed publications), JULIET (a listing of funding bodies' policies regarding deposit mandates) and RoMEO (listing publishers' copyright policies in relation to articles deposit)."

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/

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

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Open Access and Scientific Research: Are Digital Repositories A Solution?

Monday, April 23, 4:00 pm
Virginia Dale Room/University Club
Lory Student Center, CSU Campus

Presented by Dr. Peter Murray-Rust
Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK

Digital repository tools are now being widely promoted for the capture and preservation of primary academic research output, in fact, many institutions and funding agencies are starting to mandate such processes. Such repositories enable faculty, students, and researchers to deposit their research into an openly accessible digital environment. In principle, digital repository efforts can be extended to the data on which scientific research rests and have the potential of generating a huge resource for data-driven practice. When data are properly reposited enormous new opportunities in data-driven science arise. Dr. Murray-Rust will report and demonstrate some of the exciting new developments in this dynamic and rapidly evolving arena.

Wine and Cheese reception to follow. Sponsored by Colorado State University Libraries.

More Information can be found at: http://lib.colostate.edu/about/news/openaccess/

Questions should be directed to:
Jan.Gilligan@Colostate.edu (970.491.4085)
Michelle.Wilde@Colostate.edu (970.491.1860)

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CSU Libraries recently acquired the Gale Virtual Reference Library. This is a searchable collection of over 200 full-text reference titles. Articles from the collection are available in PDF format and researchers can search and download images. The collection is multi-disciplinary and includes sub-collections for Medicine, Environment, and General Science. Some of the notable science titles include Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, and Water: Science and Issues. This collection is accessible from the libraries Research Databases page.

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A Blog Carnival is a compilation of blog entries from several sources on a particular theme. The Carnival host usually relies on readers to submit relevant entries and summarizes a list of links. A list of Blog Carnivals in the Sciences can be found at Blog Carnival - this website lists Carnivals by subject and lists the date of the next issue.

Some of the Carnival topics include Ecology, Neuroscience, and Genetics.

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