Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, has announced the call for nominations for the 2nd Annual Karen Hunter Memorial Award. The award recognises demonstrated evidence of the desire to encourage collaborations between librarians and publishers, or exemplar experience with advancing information dissemination via technology. Awardees receive $5000 and travel support to attend the Hunter Forum at the annual ALA Mid-Winter Meeting in Philadelphia, from January 24-28, 2020.
The Elsevier Karen Hunter Memorial Award was established in 2018 to honour Karen’s legacy. In her four decades at Elsevier, Karen led groundbreaking initiatives in scholarly communications in partnership with the research community.
The inaugural award was presented to the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries team during the 2018 ALA Mid-Winter Meeting. A team of librarians worked on applying APIs to provide full-text journal articles - both version of record and author manuscripts - via its institutional repository (IR) to highlight the over 8,000 publications per year of the faculty of the University of Florida. The project saved faculty time and helped them with meeting funder compliance requirements, as it eliminated the need for them to individually contribute their publications to the IR. The project also saved library staff time as they did not have to solicit the articles from the faculty.
Demonstrated evidence can be a project, a product, a publication, a program event, a testimony, or another form of collaboration between librarians and publishers or a technological advancement. The collaboration or technological development does not need to be related to Elsevier.
The awardee is selected by Elsevier’s North American Library Advisory Board (NALAB), and it is issued at the Hunter Forum, American Library Association (ALA) Mid-Winter meeting. Nominations are due by July 31, 2019.
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