Congratulations to the winners of the first annual SPARKY Awards. The SPARK(IES) challenge entrants “to imaginatively illustrate in a short video the value of sharing ideas and information.” Check out the winning videos over at Blip.tv.

• “Share” – Habib Yazdi, CC BY
  
• “Pri Vetai: Private Eye” – Tommy McCauley and Max Silver, CC BY
  
• “An Open Access Manifesto” – Romel Espinel and Josh Hadro, CC BY-NC-SA

SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is an international alliance of more than 800 academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication.

Press release here.