The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT) has announced the winner
of its inaugural award to individuals in developing and emerging countries that
have made a significant impact on the development of Open Access. The 2011 award
went to Dr Francis Jayakanth, of the National Centre for Scientific Information,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, who has worked tirelessly helping
organisations in India set up institutional repositories, training others,
lecturing about the benefits of OA, helping researchers archive their articles
and developing OAI compliant software tools. This modest man was presented with
his award by Professor Swaminathan of the MSSRF in India. The following link is
to a video made of the
occasion:http://www.mssrfnva.in/Events/EPT-Award-function-at-MSSRF/21552958_nSdsMP#!i=17
18491385&k=32CgbfH.
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The EPT received many excellent nominations from 17 countries and the worthy
runners up were from South Africa, Azerbaijan and China. It was very encouraging
to hear of the vigorous and effective work being carried out to establish OA in
these regions - reinforcing our understanding of the importance that access to
OA research has for economically restricted countries. It is not always
recognized by OA advocates in the North that as well as providing access to
essential research findings, OA also allows the global distribution of research
arising from the developing countries themselves, thus strengthening their
research base and opening opportunities for collaboration and N/S partnerships.
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