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
UC Press and California Digital Library receive $750K Mellon grant to develop web-based, open source content and workflow management system - March 5, 2015
The University of California Press (UC Press) and the California Digital Library (CDL) have received a grant of $750,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop a web-based, open source content and workflow management system to support the publication of open access (OA) monographs in… Read More
Canadian funding agencies release coordinated public access policy - March 2, 2015
Three largest funding agencies in Canada have released a coordinated policy requiring researchers to provide access to articles resulting from their funded research. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Read More
Applications invited for CSA Trust Grant for 2015 - January 29, 2015
The Chemical Structure Association (CSA) Trust, an internationally recognised organisation established to promote the critical importance of chemical information to advances in chemical research, has created a unique Grant Program and is now inviting the submission of grant applications for 2015. The Grant Program has… Read More
