Frontiers and Heidelberg University announce institutional agreement - October 4, 2017
Heidelberg University has established an institutional membership agreement with Frontiers as part of its Open Access Publishing Fund. Publication fees / article processing charges for manuscripts submitted to Frontiers journals can be supported by Heidelberg University's Open Access Publishing Fund according to the Fund's funding… Read More
Proposals for 2018 OCLC/ALISE Library and Information Science Research Grant Program due by September 15 - August 29, 2017
Electronically submitted proposals for the 2018 OCLC/ALISE Library and Information Science Research Grant Program are due by midnight September 15, 2017. OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and OCLC Research, in collaboration with the Association for Library and Information Science Education… Read More
American Geophysical Union coalition receives grant to advance open and fair data standards in the earth and space sciences - August 29, 2017
Open, accessible, and high-quality data and related data products and software are critical to the integrity of published research. They ensure transparency and support reproducibility and are necessary for accelerating the advancement of science. In many cases, the data are one-time observations that cannot be repeated. Unfortunately, not all key… Read More
Applications for 2017 EBSCO Charleston Scholarship now open - August 16, 2017
Applications are now being accepted for the 2017 EBSCO Charleston Conference scholarship. Sponsored by EBSCO Information Services, the scholarship grants up to $1,000 for the winner to register for the Charleston Conference, as well as other expenses related to attending the conference. The Charleston Conference… Read More
RCUK confirms its Open Access block grant funding levels until 2020 - July 19, 2017
Research Councils UK (RCUK) has announced that the Open Access block grants will be continued at current levels for a further 2 years. The grants fund costs relating to articles published in peer reviewed journals that have resulted from RCUK funded research and which acknowledge Research… Read More
EBSCO Information Services announces 2017 EBSCO Solar grant winners - June 26, 2017
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is awarding its 2017 EBSCO Solar grant to the Athens-Clarke County Library in Athens, Georgia and The Indian Trails Public Library in Wheeling, Illinois. The grants will provide each library with $100,000 to pay for the installation of a solar array. The… Read More
ProQuest and InfoReady simplify grant workflow - May 5, 2017
ProQuest and technology company InfoReady Corporation are enabling research administrators to save time and improve the accuracy of grant application management by integrating the functionality of the ProQuest Pivot® solution and InfoReady's InfoReady Review™ platform. The combination creates one seamless workflow from funding opportunity discovery to… Read More
UH Press wins $90K grant for open-access publishing - April 13, 2017
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University of Hawai'i a $90,000 grant to digitise 100 out-of-print University of Hawai'i Press books for open access. The project is part of the Humanities Open Book Program, a joint initiative between the Mellon… Read More
Cornell University Press awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant for second consecutive year - April 6, 2017
Cornell University Press has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant worth nearly $100,000 to fund the open access initiative, Cornell Open for the second year in a row. Cornell is one of four presses to receive a second… Read More
Submissions open for Altmetric annual research grant 2017 - March 23, 2017
Data Science company Altmetric has announced that applications for its annual research grant are now open. First launched in 2016, the grant provides up to £1,500 ($1,900 USD) to fund research that facilitates the development and understanding of alternative research metrics (altmetrics) as part of the… Read More
