Applications called for EBSCO Charleston Scholarship - July 22, 2015
Applications are now being accepted for a scholarship to attend the Charleston Conference through a grant sponsored by EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO). The EBSCO Charleston Conference Scholarship awards up to $1000 for conference registration and other expenses related to attending the conference. The Charleston Conference… Read More
JHUP awarded grant to develop ‘MUSE Open’ - June 9, 2015
Johns Hopkins University Press has been awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the development of MUSE Open, a distribution channel for open access monographs through Project MUSE, a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community.… Read More
UK-China collaboration for data sharing in metabolomics - May 13, 2015
A partnership between the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the Universities of Birmingham, Manchester and Oxford, The Sainsbury Laboratory and TGAC with BGI and its open-access journal, GigaScience, has received funding from the UK's Biotechnology and Biological Research Council (BBSRC) to support the sharing of data and… Read More
Google to spend EUR150 million in Europe on grants for digital journalism experimentation - May 4, 2015
Amid increasing tensions with EU regulators and publishers, internet giant Google announced that it will spend EUR150 million ($164 million) in Europe on grants for digital journalism experimentation. Additionally, the organisation said it will work with European newspapers and journalism organisations to create items and… Read More
NLM announces funding opportunity for small projects - April 29, 2015
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced a funding opportunity for small projects to improve access to disaster medicine and public health information for health care professionals, first responders and others that play a role in health-related disaster preparedness, response and recovery. Beginning in 2011,… Read More
Kudos announces completion of its first funding round - April 13, 2015
Kudos, which helps researchers maximise the reach and impact of their publications, has announced the completion of its first funding round. The company's services intersect with several topical issues including research impact, evaluation and metrics, citizen science, open access, social media and the globalisation of research.… Read More
Biomedical researchers look to post-publication peer review to build grant funding case - March 26, 2015
Jason McDermott, a Senior Research Scientist in computational biology and bioinformatics at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA, USA, has become one of the first to publish online his preliminary research methodology and data to gain peer reviews that he hopes will strengthen his R01 grant application to the… Read More
IU Libraries and partners receive two grants totalling $931,000 from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - March 16, 2015
Indiana University has received two grants totalling $931,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support further development of the Avalon Media System and a study of new business models for scholarly publishing. The first of these grants provides $750,000 to the IU Libraries and… Read More
NISO awarded Mellon Grant to explore patron privacy in library and publisher systems - March 12, 2015
The National Information Standards Organization has been awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop a Consensus Framework to Support Patron Privacy in Digital Library and Information Systems. The grant will support a series of community discussions on how libraries, publishers, and information… Read More
African leaders and global funders endorse new science funding platform for Africa - March 10, 2015
The Wellcome Trust will support the African Union's recent call to establish the Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA), to be led by the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). The announcement marks a major… Read More
