Briefs: The myth of short attention spans on the Web; SHERPA Receives SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications, 2007; Two Upcoming IR Workshops

+ SHERPA Receives SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications, 2007

The SHERPA partnership is the recipient of the Second SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications. The decision to present the Award to SHERPA was made in recognition of their advocacy for the adoption of institutional repositories and their development of a suite of tools in support of Open Access, including OpenDOAR, JULIET, and RoMEO.

+ The myth of short attention spans on the Web (via OCLC and Poynter)
More info here (PDF).

Two Upcoming Workshops
++ Call for Papers: Web Information-Seeking and Interaction (WISI)
++ Call for Papers: Workshop on Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech

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