[FC-discuss] Students recognized as new SPARC Innovators

[Brian Rowe]

Grats!

On Dec 11, 2007 6:19 PM, Timothy Vollmer <tim at creativecommons.org> wrote:

> congrats to all. this is seriously awesome.
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> On Dec 11, 2007 4:31 PM, Gavin Baker <gavin at gavinbaker.com> wrote:
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> > Not to toot our own horns, but..
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> > http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/07-1211.html
> > http://www.arl.org/sparc/innovator/
> >
> > SPARC highlights five students for leadership and activism on open
> > access
> >
> > Washington, DC -- December 11, 2007 -- SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing
> > and Academic Resources Coalition) has recognized five student leaders as
> >
> > the new SPARC Innovators. Hailed as "Agents of Change," students point
> > to the promise of a more open system for information sharing.
> >
> > December's SPARC Innovators include:
> >
> > * "The Technologist," Benjamin Mako Hill, Graduate of the MIT Media Lab,
> >
> > current Researcher at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, Fellow in
> > the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, and engineer of the 2007
> > "Overprice Tags" project at the MIT library.
> >
> > * "The Professional," Gavin Baker. Political Studies graduate of the
> > University of Florida, Open Access Director for Students for Free
> > Culture, and co-mastermind of the National Day of Action for Open
> > Access, February 2007.
> >
> > * "The Politician," Nick Shockey. Current undergraduate and Student
> > Senator at Trinity University in San Antonio and author of the
> > second-ever student senate resolution in favor of public access to
> > publicly funded research results.
> >
> > * "The Diplomat," Elizabeth Stark. Student of Law at Harvard University,
> >
> > Affiliate of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, founder of
> > Harvard Free Culture, and architect of one of the first student free
> > thesis repositories.
> >
> > * "The Evangelist," Nelson Pavlosky. Law student at George Mason
> > University, co-founder of Students for Free Culture, and ally of the
> > Student Global AIDS Campaign and Universities Allied for Essential
> > Medicines.
> >
> > "Despite different backgrounds and interests, these students share a
> > common interest in ensuring ease of access and use of electronic
> > information," said SPARC Director Heather Joseph. "As members of a
> > generation raised with the Internet, sharing is second nature to them.
> > When it comes to open access, they just get it."
> >
> > The December SPARC Innovator profile is the first of several
> > student-centered initiatives from SPARC. The January SPARC-ACRL forum at
> > ALA will explore "Working with the Facebook Generation: Student
> > Engagement on Access to Scholarship" and will feature the winners of the
> > first SPARKY awards for student videos illustrating the value of
> > sharing. The forum will also mark the introduction of a dedicated SPARC
> > campaign to engage students on the topic of open access.
> >
> > "The more we have the opportunity to work with students, the more we see
> > their creativity and commitment to opening access not only to research,
> > but to textbooks, software, and information of all kinds," said Diane
> > Graves, University Librarian at Trinity University. "It's a pleasure as
> > well as a learning experience to collaborate with these Innovators and
> > their peers on these issues."
> >
> > The SPARC Innovator program recognizes advances in scholarly
> > communication realized by an individual, institution, or group.
> > Typically, these advances exemplify SPARC principles by challenging the
> > status quo in scholarly communication for the benefit of researchers,
> > libraries, universities, and the public. SPARC Innovators are featured
> > on the SPARC Web site semi-annually and have included Ted and Carl
> > Bergstrom; Melissa Hagemann of the Open Society Institute; the
> > University of California; and Herbert Van de Sompel of the Los Alamos
> > National Laboratory. SPARC Innovators are named by the SPARC staff in
> > consultation with the SPARC Steering Committee.
> >
> >
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> > Gavin Baker
> > http://www.gavinbaker.com/
> > gavin at gavinbaker.com
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