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

- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:02:39 +0900

    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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