Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) – 15 January 2013

Brill and IFLA are pleased to announce the new Brill/IFLA 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/organization 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.

The award ceremony will take place during IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) 2013 in Singapore. The winner will be invited to attend WLIC, represented by one person.

The prize consists of:
• Cash prize (€ 1000)
• Registration of one person for IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) 2013 (€ 500)
• Travel to and accommodation to the IFLA WLIC in Singapore for one person (up to a maximum of € 1500)
• The winner is responsible for registering for the congress, and booking own travel and accommodation. Reimbursement of the above-mentioned costs will be arranged between the winner and the Brill/IFLA contact persons.

The following groups are eligible:
• Initiatives that facilitate and/or promote Open Access scholarly monographs such as projects or organisations
• Individuals who have authored, facilitated or promoted Open Access scholarly monographs

Nominees can be suggested by the owners of the project, but also by third parties, e.g. by authors, who published their monograph in the framework of the OA initiative.

Application procedure: Applications should be submitted to the identified contact person below. They 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
• Name and contact details of nominator (if different)

Deadline for submissions: 30 April 2013

Decision communicated to winner on: 31 May 2013

Applications to be sent to: stuart.hamilton@ifla.org

About IFLA (ifla.org)
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession.

Founded in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1927 at an international conference, IFLA celebrated its 75th birthday at its annual conference in Glasgow, Scotland in 2002. IFLA has over 1500 Members in approximately 150 countries around the world. The Royal Library, the national library of the Netherlands, in The Hague, generously provides the facilities for the IFLA headquarters.

About Brill (brill.com)
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, BRILL is a leading international academic publisher in the fields of Ancient Near East and Egypt, Middle East and Islamic Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, contemporary History and History of War studies, Biblical and Religious Studies, Slavic Studies, Language & Linguistics, Biology, Human Rights and Public International Law. With offices in Leiden and Boston, BRILL today publishes more than 175 journals and around 600 new books and reference works each year. All publications are available in both print and electronic form. BRILL also markets a large number of research collections and databases with primary source material. The company’s key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. BRILL is a publicly traded company and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For further information please visit www.brill.com.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Duluth, GA —January 14, 2013

Worch Memorial Public Library has gone live on Evergreen as part of the Consortium of Ohio Libraries (COOL). They are the sixth of nine founding members of the new state wide program bringing 37,000 bibliographic items and almost 9,000 new patrons to the consortium. The final libraries are expected to be live by the summer of 2013. For more information, the COOL combined catalog can be viewed online at http://www.cool-cat.org/.

Equinox Software oversaw data migration and will continue to provide advanced technical support. OHIONET will partner with Equinox to provide hosting and primary system administration. The COOL project received initial funding from the local libraries and an LSTA grant from the State Library of Ohio.

Equinox President, Brad LaJeunesse, says, “We are pleased to begin 2013 by welcoming another great library to the COOL Consortium. As more libraries go live, patrons and staff members are really going to notice the huge benefits of resource sharing and having a combined catalog.”

About Equinox Software, Inc.

Founded by the original Evergreen designers and developers, Equinox Software is a leader in open source solutions for libraries. Their goal is to engage and support a rapidly growing open source community while assisting libraries in moving away from expensive proprietary vendors and products.

For more information on Equinox Software, please visit http://www.esilibrary.com.

About Evergreen

Evergreen is a robust, open-source integrated library system best known for its unique ability to meet the needs of very large, high-transaction, multi-site consortia. However, it has also proven equally successful scaled down for even the smallest libraries. Evergreen now supports almost 1,200 libraries of every type-public, academic, special, and school media centers across 4 countries, 31 U.S. states, and 8 Canadian provinces. King County Public Library System, SCLENDS, and the NC Cardinal consortiums are all currently running Evergreen. For more information about Evergreen, including a list of all known Evergreen installations, see http://evergreen-ils.org.

Press contact: Corinne Hall, corinne@esilibrary.com, 770-709-5571