New white paper from ACS GCI focuses on development of green nanotechnology - August 11, 2011
Green Chemistry experts have developed a roadmap to ensure emerging nanotechnologies are safe for use by humans before they are introduced into the marketplace. A white paper, issued by the American Chemical Society's Green Chemistry Institute (ACS GCI) and the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechologies Institute, stresses… Read More
Springer and American Physiological Society announce book publishing agreement - August 11, 2011
STM publisher Springer has signed a book partnership agreement with the American Physiological Society (APS). Under the deal, Springer will publish titles in three APS book series as well as individual monographs and contributed volumes. The new publications are aimed primarily at researchers and will support… Read More
OCLC and ALISE invite proposals for 2012 Library and Information Science Research Grant Program - August 11, 2011
Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, and OCLC Research, in collaboration with the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), are inviting research proposals for the 2012 Library and Information Science Research Grant Program (LISRGP). Awards of up to $15,000 are… Read More
Indiana University’s Data To Insight Center to lead Sloan funded investigation of non-consumptive research - August 11, 2011
Indiana University's Data To Insight Center (D2I) will lead a $600,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to fund the first investigation of non-consumptive research for a major mass digitised collection of content. Partners with D2I on this include the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) and… Read More
Library Association of the Republic of China and Library Association of Barbados join Campaign for the World’s Libraries - August 11, 2011
The Library Association of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the Library Association of Barbados (LAB) recently became the latest members of the Campaign for the World's Libraries. The library associations join nearly 40 others that have previously joined the campaign and had the campaign's @… Read More
COS service for easy identification of research funding and collaboration opportunities - August 10, 2011
COS, a ProQuest brand that offers research tools, has unveiled a new service called COS Pivot. The service seeks to streamline the workflow in university research offices by unifying the COS Funding Opportunities database and the comprehensive profiles in the COS Scholar Universe database. COS Pivot… Read More
