[Sigmed-l] 2007 Awards Winners Announced

[Richard Hill]

2007 Awards Winners Announced   http://www.asis.org/awards.html

Congratulations to all our 2007 Award Winners.  Those announced to date include:

Award of Merit - Donald H. Kraft
Research Award - Ophir Frieder
Watson Davis Award - Paula Galbraith
Thomson ISI Information Science Teacher of the Year - Peter Ingwersen

Best JASIST Paper - Catherine Blake and Wanda Pratt, Collaborative information synthesis, Pt. 1. and Collaborative Information Synthesis, Part 2: Recommendations for information systems to support synthesis. 

ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award - W. John MacMullen, University of North Carolina. “Contextual Analysis of Variation and Quality in Human-curated Gene Ontology Annotations.”

Thomson ISI Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Phillip Edwards, University of Washington, for “MAPPING SCHOLARS' DECISION PROCESSES AND FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE
HOW THEY PUBLISH AND DISTRIBUTE THEIR WORK.”

Thomson ISI Citation Analysis Research Grant - Philip M. Davis, Cornell University.  “Does free-access to scholarly articles increase readership and citation impact?: A randomized controlled, multi- publisher, multi-journal study”

CHAPTER AWARDS
Chapter Member of the Year - Caryn Anderson (NE) and Down Pointer McCleskey (PVC)
Chapter Publication - LACASIS (OASIS)
Chapter Innovation - Indiana and LACASIS
Chapter Event of the Year - LACASIS - “Working with Wiki's”



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