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From Martha Anderson, NDIIPP, Library of Congress

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to announce the launch of the Digital Preservation Awards 2012.

The application pack is available online at: http://www.dpconline.org/advocacy/awards

From William Nixon and Stuart Macdonald, On behalf of OR2012 Programme Committee

Edinburgh, Scotland We are counting down to the Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2012) on 9-13 July, 2012 and are delighted to announce that we are able to extend the Early Booking rate until Monday 18 June. The Early Booking rate is £295 with a full-price rate of £350 thereafter. There is also a day rate of £115.

Diane Goldenberg-Hart, Communications Coordinator, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)

Washington, DC In the latest CNI Conversations podcast (http://wp.me/p1LncT-2oE), CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch speaks with James Hilton, Chief Information Officer at the University of Virginia, about the Digital Preservation Network (DPN), an initiative which aims to create a federated approach to preservation of academic content:

Ithaca, NY The University of Maryland Health and Human Services Library celebrated the one year anniversary of establishing the UM Digital Archive on May 4, 2012. In an article in the Connective Issues newsletter M. J.

New partners, expanded communities mean more learning opportunities for librarians, repository managers, researchers, and technologists

Edinburgh, Scotland The Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories will take place July 9-13, 2012. The OR2012 Programme Committee has announced that the draft program is now available at: https://www.conftool.net/or2012/sessions.php

From Imma Subirats Knowledge and Information Management Officer, OEKC - FAO of the United Nations

Rome, Italy A Special Track on Metadata & Semantics for Open Access Repositories, Research Information Systems and Infrastructures will be offered as part of the Sixth International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR'12) November 28-30, 2012 in Cádiz (Spain)
http://mtsr2012.uca.es/.

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From Bram Luyten, @mire

Ithaca, NY The World Bank recently announced adoption of an Open Access policy thereby joining institutions, organizations and advocates around the world who are making research outputs broadly accessible. The policy will go into effect on July 1, 2012.

From Rebecca Fairbairn, Public Relations Manager, BioMed Central

London, UK Open access publisher BioMed Central presented the Open Access Advocate of the Year award at their recent 6th Annual Research Awards ceremony held at Emirates Stadium, UK on Thursday 17th May. Dr Helena Asamoah-Hassan, University Librarian of the Kwame University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana and a Fellow of the Ghana Library Association was only the second individual winner of this prestigious award.