Dear colleagues,
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) is delighted to
announce that Birgit Schmidt (Goettingen State and University
Library/COAR/OpenAIRE) and Kathleen Shearer (Canadian Association of
Research Libraries/COAR) are the recipients of the 2012 LIBER Award
for Library Innovation.
The prize was awarded for their paper, /Licensing Revisited: Open
Access Clauses in Practice. /The paper describes work being done
through COAR to advance open access implementation via content
licenses. The paper reviews the current landscape in terms of open
access clauses and discusses the opportunities available for expanding
open access via the use of licensing negotiations,
The abstract for the paper is available on the LIBER conference
website
(http://www.utlib.ee/liber2012/index.php?id=programme&item=acc_papers#7_3
<http://www.utlib.ee/liber2012/index.php?id=programme&item=acc_papers%237_3>)
and the full text will be published and made available open access in
the coming months.
Best wishes,
Alicia López Medina
COAR Executive Director
http://www.coar-repositories.org/
Katharina Müller (Head of Office)
Göttingen State and University Library
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 1
37073 Göttingen
Germany
Tel.: +49 551 39-22215
Fax: +49 551 39-5222
E-Mail: office[at]coar-repositories[dot]org
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