[Open-access] Fwd: [GOAL] Recognising Open Access Champions - inaugural AOASG Awards

Wed Oct 23 14:21:50 UTC 2013

Hey all,

Thought this might be of interest to you.

Michelle

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From: Danny Kingsley <Danny.Kingsley at anu.edu.au>
Date: 22 October 2013 02:47
Subject: Recognising Open Access Champions - inaugural AOASG Awards

  To celebrate Open Access Week 2013, the Australian Open Access Support
Group is recognising two ‘Open Access Champions’ – an individual and an
organisation.****

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The Open Access Champion 2013 – Individual Category – has been awarded to
Associate Professor Alex O. Holcombe, who is a psychologist studying human
visual perception and visual attention. He is based in the School of
Psychology at the University of Sydney. Alex spoke to Danny Kingsley about
his interest in open access and how he is spreading the open access message-
http://aoasg.org.au/2013/10/22/open-access-champion-2013-alex-holcombe/ ****

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The Open Access Champion 2013 - Organisation Category - has been awarded to
the not-for-profit international development organization Engineers Without
Borders Institute’s Open Journal
Project<http://www.openjournalproject.org/>. Julian
O’Shea, the Director of the EWB Institute, who is heading up the project,
spoke to Danny Kingsley about what has happened in the three months since
the AOASG featured a
story<http://aoasg.org.au/2013/07/02/accessibility-is-more-than-making-the-paper-oa>
about
the project in July -
http://aoasg.org.au/2013/10/22/open-access-champion-2013-open-journal-project/
****

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Congratulations to Alex and Engineers Without Borders on being the
AOASG's inaugural Open Access Champions.****

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Danny****

  Dr Danny Kingsley

Executive Officer

Australian Open Access Support Group

e: eo at aoasg.org.au

p: +612 6125 6839

w: wwww.aoasg.org.au

t: @openaccess_oz

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