University of Illinois students claim Sparky Awards People’s Choice Prize

“Washington, DC – A team led by Bryan Killian, a Junior Biological Sciences student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has won the 2011 Sparky Awards Peoples’ Choice prize for the short film, “Open Access.” The video was selected in an open online vote held earlier this year.  The Sparky Awards were created by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and have been widely adopted by campuses across the U.S. The contest calls on entrants to innovatively exemplify in a short video the value of openly sharing ideas. “Open Access” humorously displays the constructive possibilities that open access allows researchers. The clip is available online at youtube..."