Loughborough University London receives research funding from UKIERI for development of healthcare Internet of Things platform - February 17, 2017
Loughborough University London has been awarded research funding from the UK-India Education Research Initiative (UKIERI) to build a secure Internet of Things (IoT) platform for use in healthcare. IoT platforms connect devices, allowing them to collect and use data. Examples include… Read More
Digital Science unveils new module of its global grants database, Dimensions - January 25, 2017
Digital Science, a technology company serving the needs of scientific and research communities, has unveiled a new module of its global grants database, Dimensions. The Dimensions database, containing information on millions of completed and ongoing research projects with over $1 trillion USD in global research… Read More
EBSCO Solar grant program 2017 – Two $100,000 grants available for libraries looking to go green - January 23, 2017
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has renewed its commitment to helping libraries 'go green' by bringing back an expanded version of its EBSCO Solar grant program for 2017. As part of the EBSCO Solar initiative, EBSCO is currently soliciting grant applications to help libraries fund solar installations.… Read More
Gates Foundation research announces open-access mandate, requires recipients to make findings publicly available - January 20, 2017
Research funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world’s most influential global health charities, cannot currently be published in several leading journals as these journals do not comply with its open-access policy. These journals include Nature, Science, the New England Journal of… Read More
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awards grant for arXiv upgrade - November 30, 2016
arXiv.org, the influential open access repository for global scientific research, will begin the first phase of a three-year overhaul and modernization with the help of a $445,000 grant by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Sloan Foundation grant will fund the… Read More
Consortium partners for new European Commission funded SCOPE Project announced - November 15, 2016
The European Science Foundation (ESF), l'École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) have been selected as Consortium partners for the new European Commission funded SCOPE project. The Grant Agreement has been signed by all partners and the project… Read More
Elsevier partners with Doctors Without Borders to help tackle Africa’s health challenges - October 26, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier and renowned international humanitarian-aid organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have agreed to cooperate in fighting the root causes of some of Africa's most vexing health challenges, including diarrhea and infectious diseases, which leave millions of people dying or severely diminished every… Read More
ÜberResearch unveils global grants database, Dimensions, for publishers - October 17, 2016
Data science company ÜberResearch has unveiled its global grants database, Dimensions, for scholarly publishers – to enable them to understand new trends in research as they emerge, and compare the most up-to-date activity in research funding with ongoing publication trends. Dimensions is the industry’s first searchable… Read More
bioRxiv receives additional financial support - September 7, 2016
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has announced that its free, not-for-profit preprint service bioRxiv has received generous additional financial support. In the three years since bioRxiv began, biomedical scientists have warmly embraced the sharing of results as preprints prior to formal publication. Submissions to bioRxiv… Read More
UC Davis and CDL complete ‘Pay It Forward’ project - August 12, 2016
The University of California, Davis and the California Digital Library recently completed the 18-month Pay It Forward project, an effort funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation. The project brought together research libraries at Harvard, Ohio State University, the University of British Columbia,… Read More
