2011 Emerald Digital Usage Award, in partnership with Student Competitions

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Results are in!

Emerald Group Publishing Limited, in association with Student Competitions, is awarding three cash prizes for business plans that contribute to the development of library electronic resources by analysing and developing practices which will increase online usage.

There will be one award of £1,000 for the winning business plan, and two awards of £500 each for highly-commended runners up.

Winners will also receive a certificate and a winners’ logo to attach to correspondence. Ideas from the winning business plan will be disseminated to libraries globally to support the management of electronic holdings and the communities which use them.

Congratulations to the winner!

Miss Jing Wu
Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Science, Norway
"Improve the Usage of Library E-Resources of the Department of Economics in Loughborough University"

Congratulations to the runners up!

Miss Agnes Csörge
University of Pécs, Hungary
"Academic Publication Source Service – Informative Surface"

Miss Csörge commented "I am delighted and really happy on having highly commended ranking for my business plan to the 2011 Emerald Digital Usage Award, in partnership with Student Competitions. I want to thank to Emerald, Student Competitions and the review committee for their efforts and for selecting my submitted work. This is the right time when I can share this honour with group of collegues who supported me in an inspirating way and contributed by their guidance."

Dr Anup Kumar Das
Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
"Enhancing Digital Usage of E-Journals by Researchers and Scholars at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India"

Judging Criteria

Entries should:

• Recommended strategies for increasing low usage;
• Include ideas for promotion at journal and/or database level;
• Outline replicable strategies to increase usage of electronic holdings within college/university libraries and corporate and public sector organizations;
• Demonstrate originality and innovation;
• Specify the expected timescales;
• Outline projected costs.
• Consider a range of traditional and non-traditional marketing techniques.

Key Dates

• The closing date for applications was 27 January 2012.

Contact

For further information please contact:

Emma Stevenson
External Relations Executive
Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Howard House
Wagon Lane
Bingley BD16 1WA
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1274 785198
Fax: +44 (0)1274 785200
E-mail: estevenson@emeraldinsight.com

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