Ray English, the Azariah Smith Root Director of Libraries at Oberlin College, is being recognized by his peers for more than two decades of dedication and hard work. English has been named the 2006 Association of College and Research Libraries' (ACRL) Academic/Research Librarian of the Year.
A division of the American Library Association, the ACRL represents 13,000 academic and research librarians. The annual award recognizes an outstanding member of the library profession who has made a significant national or international contribution to academic/research librarianship and library development....
English's advocacy for open access to the results of scholarly research impressed the selection committee, as did his leadership role in information policy-setting arenas. English has been an influential member of the ACRL scholarly communications program and an expert contributor to national policy on public access to federally funded research, including the recent National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy....
PS: See our many past posts on Ray, his OA work, and even his past awards. Also see the 2006 article he and I co-wrote on federal OA policy. Congratulations, Ray!
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/12/2009 04:20:00 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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
