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 --------------------- 鈴 木 宏 子 千葉大学附属図書館 情報部情報サービス課本館サービスグループ 〒263-8522 千葉市稲毛区弥生町1-33 tel:043-290-2262 fax:043-290-2266 suzuki @ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 図書館 http://www.ll.chiba-u.ac.jp 学術成果リポジトリCURATOR http://mitizane.ll.chiba-u.jp/curator/ -------------------------
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