The annual Pirelli Award is now seeking nominations for the 2004 award. Nominations are due by December 31, 2003. Pirelli (yes, the tire company) describes the prize as "the world's first Internet multimedia award aimed at the diffusion of scientific and technological culture worldwide". It even uses the headline, "Toward a Nobel Award for Scientific Communication". This year's prizes will total $100,000 Euros, or about US $115,000.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/30/2003 02:05:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
