SavoirSoft, a micro-publishing marketplace that enables its members to securely distribute and profit from their digital works, has announced it will provide grants and no-fee licenses to its micro-licensing publication platform for public and private, not-for-profit academic libraries, university presses, and on-line teaching initiatives.
Institutions participating in SavoirSoft's grant and licensing programme will study new ways to connect with digital collections and demonstrate innovative collaboration and distribution tools for micro-publishing using openly available, non-proprietary computing formats freely accessible by all current and future computing devices. Results and findings will be made available to participants so best-practices in support of digital scholarly publishing, academic research, and on-line teaching may be further advanced by all.
SavoirSoft's grant programme is designed to help universities, libraries, and on-line education organisations build new digital micro-publication and distribution channels that enrich information access and digital literacy of their user communities. Up to $1.2 million in no-fee licenses and grants will be awarded.
Eligible organisations are those educating future writers and information professionals; developing on-line teaching aids, materials and curricula designed to be distributed digitally across the Internet; and those who are currently providing, managing, or studying access to digital library collections. Program applications are considered individually by SavoirSoft's Board of Directors on a first received, first reviewed basis.
More details on the programme can be found at: www.savoirsoft.com/universities.html
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