Bill Hubbard has announced the winner of the SHERPA "Spirit of Open
Access" competition:
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/guidance/Haiku.html
Set your research free
As flowers offer nectar
To the passing bee
Miggie Pickton, University of Northampton, UK
(My own (losing!) entries, submitted under the pseudonym of "Matt
Bashore," are at:
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/643-guid.html )
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From: Bill Hubbard <Bill.Hubbard -- nottingham.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:48 AM
Subject: Winner of the SHERPA Haiku "Spirit of Open Access" competition
To: JISC-REPOSITORIES -- jiscmail.ac.uk
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the winner of the SHERPA Haiku "Spirit of
Open Access" competition!
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Set your research free
As flowers offer nectar
To the passing bee
Miggie Pickton of the University of Northampton.
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We thought this was witty, well structured and evoked a strong and
positive impression of the spirit of open access and a well-deserved
winner.
We were delighted with the response - well over 100 entries from around
the world. Our thanks go to all that entered!
We very much enjoyed reading through these, which varied from the witty,
through the descriptive, to the quite strange :-) Our thanks also to
those who sent left-field entries not for competititon, but for the fun
of it.
All of the entries were read and considered in a blind judgement by the
SHERPA Team at the Centre for Research Communications at the University
of Nottingham, who voted for the winning entry:
Miggie will be getting her Winner's Certificate from us and a SHERPA
goody bag. We hope that the Haiku will amuse and inspire others!
In addition there were many runners-up! The standard of entries was very
high: we have a web page which includes some which particularly appealed
to us - do take a look!
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/guidance/Haiku.html
All of the entries were invited under a CC by-nc-sa licence, so do feel
free to use any of the Haiku, with attribution and in line with the
licence, in any advocacy work that you do.
Regards,
Bill
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Bill Hubbard
JISC Research Communications Strategist
Head of Centre for Research Communications
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