Re-posted from Peter Suber's Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2005_05_15_fosblogarchive.html#a111659810896902256
Gutteridge wins award for Eprints software
Christopher Gutteridge has won the 2005 UKUUG Open Source Award
http://www.ukuug.org/pr/osa2005.shtml
for his work on GNU Eprints
http://software.eprints.org/
the open-source software for open-access
archives and repositories. From the University
of Southampton press release:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/news/737
'UKUUG (UK Unix and Open Systems User Group) has made its 2005 Award
to Christopher Gutteridge of the School of Electronics and Computer
Science, University of Southampton, for his work on the Open Archive
Software: GNU EPrints. Christopher, who has been a systems programmer
and web developer since 1997, has been developing and supporting
GNU EPrints 2 package over the last four years. The package is
now used worldwide in universities and research institutions to
enable researchers to share their research effectively, via the
web, and to provide accessibility to scientific findings. "EPrints
is both a practical tool and the crystallization of a philosophy,"
said Christopher. "It enables research to be accessible to all, and
provides the foundation for all academic institutions to create their
own research repositories." The School of Electronics and Computer
Science has been one of the prime movers in the global movement
towards open access... The University of Southampton is the
first UK university to announce that it would be establishing its
own institutional repository and requiring all its academic staff
to self-archive their research.' Congratulations, Christopher!
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