{"id":53248,"date":"2018-09-19T13:44:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T17:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=53248"},"modified":"2018-09-19T14:09:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T18:09:30","slug":"nominations-open-for-brocks-open-access-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/09\/nominations-open-for-brocks-open-access-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominations open for Brock\u2019s open access champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nominations are now open for the Brock University Award for Open Access.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Available to all Brock students, staff, faculty and librarians, the award recognizes a Brock community member who is as a champion of freely sharing scholarly publishing with audiences around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The honour includes a $2,500 grant, which may be used to pay for an article processing charge for an open access journal or to support a non-profit open platform for open scholarship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relevant qualifications could include a demonstrated record of openly sharing research, participating in projects or platforms that advance open access, or conducting research on open access.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Applications are due by Monday, Oct. 1 at noon and must include a nomination statement and supporting materials. Self-nominations are welcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A winner will be announced during International Open Access Week, Oct. 22 to 26. Last year\u2019s<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/10\/education-prof-named-brocks-first-open-access-champion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inaugural winner<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was Nicola Simmons, Assistant Professor in Graduate and Undergraduate Studies in the Faculty of Education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More information on the award, including the nomination form, can be found on the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/library\/teach-publish\/open-access\/award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock Library website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Questions can be directed to Elizabeth Yates, Liaison and Scholarly Communication Librarian, at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:eyates@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eyates@brocku.ca<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or x4469.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nominations are now open for the Brock University Award for Open Access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39,40,7,55,37,41,1,4,38],"tags":[5850,2701,3491,5849,25,4160,3484],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53249,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53248\/revisions\/53249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}