Scholarly publisher Brill, Netherlands, and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) are inviting submissions for the 2014 IFLA/Brill Open Access award.
The IFLA/Brill Open Access award is created to reward initiatives that facilitate and/or promote Open Access Scholarly Monographs in the humanities or social sciences. This is in line with IFLA's stated position on Open Access, which aims to promote open access across its membership. This is also in line with Brill's open access policy. "Open Access" in the context of this award refers to any structural publication model, where the reader does not have to pay a fee to access the leading version of a monograph and where the content is made available without embargo.
The award will be given to the person/institute behind the initiative in recognition of outstanding work and effort in facilitating, promoting, advocating, raising awareness in regard to and/or disseminating Open Access Scholarly Monographs published with an open license.
Initiatives that facilitate and/or promote Open Access scholarly monographs such as projects or organisations and individuals who have authored, facilitated or promoted Open Access scholarly monographs are eligible. Nominees can be suggested by the owners of the project, and also by third parties, e.g. by authors, who published their monograph in the framework of the OA initiative.
Applications should be submitted to the identified contact persons. Applicants should include a text of max 1 A4 page which contains an explanation of how far the proposed initiative facilitates and/or promotes Open Access Scholarly Monographs; name and contact details of nominated project; and name and contact details of nominator (if different). Deadline for submissions is April 30, 2014.
