Stanford University Press awarded funding from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to accelerate integration of interactive scholarly works - January 14, 2015
Scholars of digital humanities and computational social sciences will soon have an academic publisher offering a validated, peer-reviewed process for their interactive scholarly research projects. Stanford University Press, with grant funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will accelerate the integration of interactive scholarly works, usually… Read More
Draft road map for Ebola vaccine development - January 14, 2015
A draft road map for the expedited development, testing, manufacture, delivery and financing of Ebola vaccines has been published by a global group of experts supported by the Wellcome Trust. The development and delivery of safe and effective vaccines would make a huge contribution to containing… Read More
ORCID, Hypothes.is and NIF partner on Helmsley Trust-supported open annotation project - January 13, 2015
The Hypothes.is Project together with partners at the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) and ORCID has been awarded a 3-year, $2.2M grant by the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to bring annotation to biomedicine. Web annotations, a new standard for… Read More
Digital Publishing Interest Group publishes Group Note of DPUB IG Metadata Task Force Report - January 12, 2015
The Digital Publishing Interest Group has published a Group Note of DPUB IG Metadata Task Force Report. The Metadata Task Force of the DPUB IG found, through extensive interviews with representatives of various sectors and roles within the publishing ecosystem, that there are numerous pain points… Read More
WVU receives $1 million grant to develop scholarly publishing platform - January 12, 2015
The West Virginia University has been awarded $1 million from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Scholarly Communications and Information Technology program to develop a new academic publishing platform for mixed-media and print-based scholarship materials. Dubbed Cairn, this editorial-management system will be a modular publishing platform for… Read More
Applications for ARL/SAA Mosaic Program called for - January 6, 2015
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Society of American Archivists (SAA) are now accepting applications for the 2015–2017 cohort of the ARL/SAA Mosaic Program. This program, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), ARL, and SAA, provides… Read More
