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[drf:503] Fwd: PRESS RELEASE: SPARC Europe Award 2008 for Leo Waaijers



DRFのみなさま

千葉大の鈴木です。
JISCのMLに流れていたメールですので、
目にされた方もいらっしゃると思いますが、
SPARC Europe Award 2008 がオランダSURFの Leo Waaijers氏に
送られたことがプレスリリースされました。

賞は、Leo Waaijers氏のここ4年にわたるオープンアクセスへのアドボカシィ活動や、
高等教育機関等との連携等の努力に対して贈られています。
また、彼が主導してきたDARENetや、Cream of Science, Promise of Science,
SURFShare 等の活動も高く評価されています。

鈴木と千葉大の武内・金山の3名は、昨年3月にSURFを訪問し、Leo Waaijers氏や、
DirectorのWim Liebrand氏、Martin Feijen氏にお会いしてきました。
SURFの方々は、オランダ国内の学術情報と教育に関する徹底したインフラ整備を考えておられて、
それで、大学のリポジトリ⇒DARENet⇒国立図書館(KB)のE-Dept(電子資源の集中化)
というフローを確立されており、そのシンプルで無駄のない流れにいたく感心しました。
もちろん、オランダという国の大きさは日本の九州程度といわれ、規模がまったく違いますが、
SURFの方たちは、それをヨーロッパに広める努力をされていました。

レオさん(と帰国後勝手に呼んでいますが)は、とても気さくで優しいユーモアたっぷりの方で、
ほかのSURFの偉い方々もとても親切でした。
(すみません、思い出話になってしまいました)

SPARC Europe Award は、第1回2006年が、WelcomeTrust,
第2回2007年が、SHERPAグループだそうです。
個人受賞は初めてですね。


Kuil, van der Annemiek さんのコメントを転送します:
 

 

P R E S S  R E L E A S E                                       

Utrecht, 23 April 2008

SPARC Europe Award 2008 for Leo Waaijers 

Dr Leo Waaijers has won the 2008 SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding
Achievements in Scholarly Communications. The award was presented to him
this week during the fourth Nordic Conference on Scholarly
Communications at the University of Lund, Sweden. The past four years
Leo Waaijers proved himself an advocate for open access to research
results via the Internet for SURF, the collaborative organisation for
higher education institutions and research institutes aimed at
breakthrough innovations in ICT.

SPARC encourages better communication between researchers and between
the scientific community and the public. By presenting Leo Waaijers with
this award, the jury has acknowledged his unceasing efforts to promote
open access to research results via the Internet. It was under his
leadership that SURF's DARE programme created DAREnet, which provides
access to the 150,000 publications contained in the repositories of all
the Dutch universities. More than a hundred publications are added every
day. 

 

Leo Waaijers is a firm believer in knowledge-sharing. "Knowledge-sharing
makes us richer" and "Knowledge-sharing is one of mankind's critical
survival strategies" are two of his best-known assertions. He is not
someone to be daunted by obstacles. "Let's just get started and then
we'll come up with solutions," is his motto. He has given a major boost
to repositories with such original initiatives as "Cream of Science"
(digital repository of publications by the top 200 Dutch researchers),
"Promise of Science" (digital repository of dissertations by
up-and-coming Dutch researchers), and honDAREduizend (project to expand
the number of documents available in Dutch digital repositories by
100,000). His work has been continued in the SURFshare programme, which
provides access to research data, databases, algorithms, and audio and
video files linked to text publications.

 

Waaijers' influence is not limited to the Netherlands. DAREnet has made
the country a frontrunner in Europe and has served as the model for the
European DRIVER programme. Waaijers also initiated the successful
petition asking the European Commission to guarantee public access to
publicly financed research results. The petition garnered worldwide
support.

 

"Leo Waaijers deserves this recognition for his work in the world of
libraries, IT and Open Access," said Wim Liebrand, director of SURF.
"His energetic efforts to promote the dissemination of knowledge have
been highly effective. We all know that this has direct benefits for
research, education and enterprise. Leo has put the Netherlands in the
lead in the fast-changing world of scientific communication, and we at
SURF are very proud of his achievement." 

 

In his acceptance speech, Waaijers said that he considered himself a
disciple of Eve, the first human being to understand the importance of
knowledge-sharing.

 

This is the third SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in
Scholarly Communications. The first Award, in 2006, went to the UK's
Wellcome Trust (which finances medical research provided that the
results are published via Open Access) and the second, in 2007, went to
the SHERPA Group (the University of Nottingham's Open Access programme).
This is the first time that the Award has been presented to an
individual. 

 

SURF <http://www.surf.nl/en>  unites research universities, universities
of applied sciences, and research institutions in creating pioneering
ICT innovations. Their efforts enable these institutions to exploit the
many opportunities offered by ICT in order to improve the quality of
education and research. 

SPARC Europe <http://www.sparceurope.org/>  is an alliance of 110
university libraries in fourteen European countries. It is allied to 
SPARC <http://www.arl.org/sparc/>  in Washington, D.C, which represents
200 (mainly North American) institutions. SPARC Europe and SPARC develop
and promote new models of collective communication that improve access
to research literature and increase its use. 

For more information:

SURFshare programme: www.surf.nl/surfshare
<http://www.surf.nl/surfshare>  

SURF's view on Open: www.surf.nl/en/OverSURF/Pages/SURFenOpen.aspx 

SPARC Europe: www.sparceurope.nl <http://www.sparceurope.nl> 

DRIVER: www.driver-community.eu <http://www.driver-community.eu> 

EC Open Access petition: http://www.ec-petition.eu/
<http://www.ec-petition.eu/> 

 

For further information (not for publication)

 

For further information please contact:

 

SURFfoundation

Gerard van Westrienen

 

T: +31 30 234 66 40

E: vanwestrienen @ xxxxxxx 

 

 

 

 

 

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