AERA SIG CR 2008 Annual Award
March 24 - 28, 2008, New York, New York

In an effort to recognize the responsibility of scholars to improve the communication of research by making their work freely available to readers on a global scale, AERA's Communication of Research SIG has established an annual award for education research articles that are published in open access journals.

The Communication of Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association did NOT make an award for the

Nomination Criteria

To be considered for the "Best Education Research Article in an Open Access Journal, 2007" award, articles must have been published between January 1, 2007, and December 31, 2007, in a peer-reviewed, scholarly open-access journal in the field of education that makes its contents available without cost across the Internet. A listing of many such journals is available online at http://aera-cr.ed.asu.edu/ejournals. For the purposes of this award, “Open Access Journal” refers to a journal that offers readers free online access to its full contents, within at least 12 months of publication if not immediately.

Nominations must include the following:

• name of author(s), title of article, and title of electronic journal;
• a description of the article's general quality and impact on the academic or professional community;
• a description (if applicable) of the way(s) in which the author(s) or journal publisher(s) have made use of the electronic medium to enhance the article's content, supporting materials, or method of dissemination;
• article's location (URL); and,
• contact information for the nominator(s)

Complete nominations should be e-mailed to Robert Labaree at labaree@usc.edu and must be received by February 29, 2008. Nominees will be informed that their work is being considered for the award. All nominations will be reviewed by a Communication of Research SIG awards panel. The award recipient will be recognized at the Communication of Research SIG business meeting in March 2008 in New York.

SIG and Award Chair:
Robert V. Labaree
University of Southern California, Applied Social Sciences Librarian
ISD - Doheny/Research Services
Phone: 213.740.5824
Email: labaree@usc.edu

2008-09 SIG Officers:
SIG Chairs:
Kate Corby
Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh
Immediate Past SIG Chair: Robert Labaree
Secretary/Treasurer: Paul Baker

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