Elsevier Foundation announces 2015 grant recipients - December 8, 2014
The Elsevier Foundation has announced its 2015 grant recipients for the Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries and New Scholars Programs. In total $600.000 has been committed for 2015 that will support various multiyear projects in over 20 countries in the developing world. The Elsevier Foundation is… Read More
ORCID launches Portuguese-language user interface - December 1, 2014
The Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) has announced that it is expanding the languages supported in the ORCID Registry with the launch of a Portuguese-language user interface. Users may now register for an ORCID identifier and manage their account in Portuguese. This augments the… Read More
Wellcome Trust partners with other European foundations to support the Europe and Global Challenges funding initiative - December 1, 2014
The Wellcome Trust has entered into a partnership with the Volkswagen Foundation in Germany and the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond in Sweden to support the Europe and Global Challenges funding initiative. The funding initiative is open to teams of researchers, working in European and non-European countries, which… Read More
Gates Foundation may call for immediate free access for journal articles - November 24, 2014
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a major funder of global health research, plans to require that the researchers it funds publish only in immediate open-access journals. The policy is expected to be initiated by January 2017. Until then, grantees can publish in subscription-based journals… Read More
CERN launches Open Data Portal, makes first data of LHC experiments public - November 24, 2014
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has launched its Open Data Portal where data from real collision events, produced by experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will for the first time be made openly available to all. It is expected that these data will… Read More
IPA and The London Book Fair announce third edition of What Works? Successful Education Policies, Resources and Technologies conference - November 20, 2014
The International Publishers Association (IPA) and The London Book Fair (LBF) have announced that the third edition of What Works? Successful Education Policies, Resources and Technologies will take place on April 16, 2015, in association with The Publishers Association. The World… Read More
