Gutteridge wins award for Eprints software

Christopher Gutteridge has won the 2005 UKUUG Open Source Award for his work on GNU Eprints, the open-source software for open-access archives and repositories. From the University of Southampton press release: 'UKUUG (UK Unix and Open Systems User Group) has made its 2005 Award to Christopher Gutteridge of the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, for his work on the Open Archive Software: GNU EPrints. Christopher, who has been a systems programmer and web developer since 1997, has been developing and supporting GNU EPrints 2 package over the last four years. The package is now used worldwide in universities and research institutions to enable researchers to share their research effectively, via the web, and to provide accessibility to scientific findings. "EPrints is both a practical tool and the crystallization of a philosophy," said Christopher. "It enables research to be accessible to all, and provides the foundation for all academic institutions to create their own research repositories." The School of Electronics and Computer Science has been one of the prime movers in the global movement towards open access publishing. The University of Southampton is the first UK university to announce that it would be establishing its own institutional repository and requiring all its academic staff to self-archive their research.' Congratulations, Christopher!