Russian Mineralogical Society (RMS) launches competitions in mineralogy, petrology, mineralogical
crystallography, economical geology and geochemistry.
1. GENERAL INFORMATION AND ELIGIBILITY
In 2009 the RMS
launches two Competitions: 1) Outstanding scientific articles
by young researchers; 2) Best scientific photo images and
drawings. Any author of a scientific
publication, photo image or drawing (the “Author”) can participate in the
Competition independently of his/her scientific degree and position in an
educational, research or other institution. In case of the Best scientific
photo images and drawings Competition the Author must be the copyright
owner of the photographic work or drawing (the “Work”). Competition
experts are NOT eligible to participate in the
Competition. Depending on the Author’s affiliation,
the Author participate in either nominations for specialists from the Russian
Federation (nominations are designated with the letter R) or
nominations for specialists from the other world (nominations are
designated with the letter W). Works submitted for Competition and the corresponding proposals may
be written in English or in Russian.
2. SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS
In order to enter
the competition, the online submission form must be completed. Before
filling the competition form, the Author must register on the Russian
Mineralogical Society website (http://www.minsoc.ru/registration.php)
and submit using the registration form his/her personal contact data
(including the valid personal email, postal address and phone number).
After the registration, the password will be sent on the designated
personal email address of the Author. Using the personal login and
password, the Author must complete the online submission form for the
corresponding Competition (the submission form is located at http://www.minsoc.ru/award/, then follow the link
“On-line submission system”). The proposal may be edited before the
registration deadline. The opening date of the RMS Competitions 2009 is
March 30, 2009. Only submissions through the RMS Internet-based
on-line submission system are accepted. Proposals sent by post, e-mail,
telex or facsimile will be rejected without
notice. Every Work subjected for the Competition must
be submitted within a separate proposal. Correctly submitted proposals
will be accepted after verification by an Award Commission representative.
Accepted proposal cannot be replaced or edited by the applicant. The
applicant will be informed about the acceptance of the proposal through
his/her email address. Entry deadline is September
15, 2009. All printed materials if they must be presented by the
Author (see Preparation of Proposals) must reach the Russian Mineralogical
Society before September 15, 2009. Russian
Mineralogical Society Competitions 2009 contacts: Address: 21st
line 2; 199026 St. Petersburg, Russia. Phone/Fax: +7 (812) 328-86-40.
Email: rmo@minsoc.ru – for
organizational questions, admin@minsoc.ru – for technical
questions. Website: http://www.minsoc.ru/.
3. PREPARATION OF PROPOSALS FOR DIFFERENT CALLS
a) Outstanding
scientific articles by young researchers. The subject of
a proposal should be an original scientific article published in
any reviewed scientific journal from 2007 to 2009 and not participated in
other RMS Competitions. The applicant should be the first author of the
article. The age of the applicant should not exceed 33 full years by the
submission date. Every Author can submit only one proposal. Authors submit
proposals for the nomination YR2009 (specialists from the Russian
Federation) and YW2009 (specialists from the other
world). The proposal is organized in four
fields, each to be filled in: (1) year of birth of the
Author, (2) scanned passport pages with photo and principal information
by the Author (including full names, nationality and date of birth) as a
JPEG image file, (3) the full bibliographic data of the article
subjected in proposal, and (4) the fulltext electronic version of the
article in the PDF file format or in form of separate scanned article pages in
a ZIP archive. Electronic versions of articles will not be published on
the RMS website and will be deleted after the evaluation
procedure. b) Best scientific photo images and
drawings. The subject of the proposal should be a photograph or a
drawing of a geological object. The subject of the Work should correspond
to one of the following nominations: 1) «Ontogeny»
(nomination is dedicated to the 100th year anniversary of Prof. Dmitry
Grigoriev) – images of minerals, crystals and their intergrowths
illustrating their evolution and genetic relations (nominations
FOR2009 and FOW2009); 2) «Panorama» – images
should demonstrate the objects of geological or mineralogical studies or
the process of investigation as in the field as in the laboratory
(nominations FPR2009 and
FPW2009); 3) «Nanoworld» – images of
geological/mineralogical objects demonstrating informative details on the
nanoscale, i. e. which dimension(s) is less than 1 micrometer
(nominations FNR2009 and
FNW2009). Works that have earned any award,
honorable mention or prize in any other commercially-sponsored competition
are NOT eligible. The RMS reserve the right to ask the confirmation of the
authorship, e.g., to submit the image with the alternative view of the
sample, the image in original (not processed) form, the detailed
description of the recording parameters etc. Every Author can submit up to
three Works for every nomination. Besides the online
submission of a proposal, a printed copy of the Work in original size and
professional quality must be sent to the Russian Mineralogical
Society. The fields of the electronic submission form
are listed below: 1) the original image in JPEG format,
suitable for printing in A4 or A3 quality (resolution not less than 300
dpi); 2) small-size preview of the Work in JPEG format
(max. 150 kb; e.g., 640*480 pixels, 16 Mio colors); 3) Author’s
title of the Work reflecting its content or artistic
message; 4) information about the co-authorship (if
present); 5) short description of the scientific and technical
work the image was obtained within (including measurements of imaged
objects, geographical placement etc.); 6) detailed equipment
and techniques information; 7) official name of the
laboratory/institution, where the image was
obtained. The Author must consent to the use of
his/her name and likeness, and the use of his/her Works, without
additional compensation in any media or format for any purposes deemed
appropriate by the RMS in the promotion of the Competition. The Author
must attest to the fact that these Works are his/her original work and
that he/she owns the rights to his/her submitted
images. Persons found tampering with or abusing any
aspect of this Competition or the RMS or Competition website, as solely
determined by RMS, will be disqualified and RMS reserves its right to seek
damages from any persons to the fullest extent of the law. By entering the
Competition or participating in any Competition or prize-related activity,
participants agree to release, discharge and hold harmless the RMS, their
respective officers, directors and employees, from any injury, claim, loss
or damages of any kind that may arise out of participation in the
Competition or out of the acceptance, use, misuse or possession of Prizes.
By participating, you agree to these Official Rules and to the decisions
of RMS and the judges which are final and binding in all respects. Void
where prohibited by law, rule or regulation. All federal, state and local
laws and regulations apply. Each winner must sign an affidavit of
eligibility and compliance with the rules and a publicity release within
thirty (30) days after the attempted notification. Failure to do so will
result in disqualification and the selection of an alternate winner.
Unless prohibited by law, each winner consents to the use by the RMS of
the winner's name and images for publicity purposes, without additional
compensation. All taxes, fees and surcharges on prizes won are the sole
responsibility of the winner. Prizes are not transferable. This
Competition is conducted in English and Russian (which will be given its
everyday ordinary meaning) and any and all disputes will be resolved in
the appropriate courts in the Russian Federation. Should there be a
conflict between the laws of the Russian Federation and any other laws,
the conflict will be resolved in favor of the laws of the Russian Federation.
4. EVALUATION OF PROPOSALS AND
COMPETITION JUDGING
Evaluation of
proposals is organized by the RMS Award Commission consisting of RMS
Presidium members. The resolutions of the Award Commission must be
approved by the RMS Presidium before inuring. The Award Commission is
responsible for distribution of the Competition Call announcements, control over
the on-line Submission System, distribution of proposals between
peer-reviewers, collection of the evaluation results and determination of
Award winners. For each proposal, evaluators are selected and appointed by
the Commission from its independent experts’ database, with a view to
achieve maximum competence for the evaluation. Every proposal will be
evaluated by three evaluators. The criteria governing the evaluation of
proposals are given in the Evaluation forms for the RMS Competitions 2009
(Appendixes 1 and 2). Best proposals will be defined according to
number of given points. The evaluation procedure is strongly confidential.
The evaluators and members of the Award Commission cannot distribute this
information. RMS does not inform applicants about the details of the
evaluation process.
The Award Commission will be created
during June, 2009. The Award Commission delivers the proposals to the
evaluators before 20.09.2009. The evaluation of applications and determination of winners will
be completed before 25.09.2009. Winners will receive their prize-winning notification via electronic mail
(e-mail).
5. AWARDING PROCEDURE
Three best Works
in the nominations YR2009 and YW2009 and the best Work in every nomination
within FOR2009, FOW2009, FPR2009, FPW2009, FNR2009 and FNW2009 nomination
will be awarded with the RMS Diploma. Depending on sponsoring the
financial support for the Competitions winners are constituted. The
details of the awarding (prices etc.) will be published on the RMS website
before May 15,
2009. The awarding procedure
will take place on the plenary session of the RMS Annual
Session 2009 (Russia, Saint Petersburg Mining Institute, 8-10.10.2009).
Awarded applicants are invited to the awarding. Three winners for every YR2009
and YW2009 nominations are invited to make plenary presentations and
publish the extended abstracts at a RMS conference to be held in Saint Petersburg,
Russia in 2010. The selection of the corresponding conference depends
on the scientific topic of the both awarded Work and the
planned RMS conference.
6. INFORMATION SUPPORT
The Rules and all
supplementary information are published on the website of the Russian
Mineralogical Society. Technical questions have to be referred to admin@minsoc.ru. The
list of Competition participants and winners will be published on the RMS
website. The list of Competition winners will be published in the
scientific journal “Zapiski RMO (Proceedings of the Russian Mineralogical
Society)” within the RMS Year Report for 2009.
Appendix 1. Evaluation
form for the RMS Competition 2009 — Outstanding scientific articles by young researchers.
1. Merit of the innovation
level of the studied problem: □ very high
(3 points) □ significant (2 points) □ not significant (1 point) □
absent (0 points)
2. Merit of the scientific level of the work: □ results are consistent to
the world best developments (3 points) □ results are
consistent to national best developments (2 points) □ ordinary work
carried out on the modern level (1 point) □ level of the work
fall behind the modern level (0 points)
3. Merit of the scientific
novelty and fundamental importance of results: □ very high
(an unique advanced work) (3 points) □ high (work corresponds
to the modern world level) (2 points) □ medium (significant new
knowledges are generated within the work) (1 point)
□ law (ordinary work) (0 points)
4. Merit of the economic and social impact (possible implementation of
results): □ very high (implementation is very
expected and results are ready for it) (3 points) □
high (results are ready for implementation) (2 points) □ middle (implementation is
possible) (1 point) □ low (only
hypothetic implementation) (0 points)
5. Literary perfection of the
text: □ high (2 points)
□ middle (1 point)
□ low (0
points)
6. Relevancy of the work to
Russia: □ all study is relevant in
Russia (2 points) □ some parts of study are relevant to Russia (1
point) □ no relevancy (0 points)
7.
Impact factor of the journal. □ >2 (3
points) □ 1-2 (2 points) □ <1 (1 point) □ not defined (0 points)
8. RMS membership of the
principal author (to be filled by a RMS
Presidium member): □ Full member, Honorary member or
corresponding member (1 point) □ no membership (0 points)
Maximum number of points is 20.
Appendix 2. Evaluation
form for the RMS Competition 2009 — Best scientific photo images and drawings.
1. Scientific and
innovation merit
(scientific topic, technique level, relevance): □ very high
(3 points) □ significant (2 points) □ ordinary
work (0 points)
2. Technical merit (technical quality of the image, photographic excellence):
□ high (2 points) □
ordinary, high-quality printing is possible (1 point) □ amateur (0 points)
3. Aesthetics (artistic beauty or impact of the image):
□ very high (3 points)
□ high (2 points)
□ middle (1 point) □ low (0 points)
4. Relevancy of the work or the object to
Russia: □ work is made in Russia or object is obtained in Russia (1 point) □ no (0 points)
5. RMS membership of the
principal author (to be filled by a RMS
Presidium member): □ Full member, Honorary member or
corresponding member (1 point) □ no membership (0 points)
Maximum number of points is 10.
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