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
DynaMed grant to allow free website to continue to provide infectious diseases specialists with beneficial educational resource - January 28, 2015
A grant from DynaMed will enable healthcare professionals to continue to have the opportunity to learn from interesting and instructive infectious disease cases. The EBSCO Health resource has made a donation to support the Partners Infectious Disease Images website, a free database… Read More
New grants awarded to OCLC to support joint strategy, research and prototypes initiated by the Coalition to Advance Learning in Archives, Libraries and Museums - January 21, 2015
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, has received grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services to advance and sustain professional development and continuing education for information workers across the United States. The grants… Read More
Stanford University Press awarded funding from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to accelerate integration of interactive scholarly works - January 14, 2015
Scholars of digital humanities and computational social sciences will soon have an academic publisher offering a validated, peer-reviewed process for their interactive scholarly research projects. Stanford University Press, with grant funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will accelerate the integration of interactive scholarly works, usually… Read More
Draft road map for Ebola vaccine development - January 14, 2015
A draft road map for the expedited development, testing, manufacture, delivery and financing of Ebola vaccines has been published by a global group of experts supported by the Wellcome Trust. The development and delivery of safe and effective vaccines would make a huge contribution to containing… Read More
ORCID, Hypothes.is and NIF partner on Helmsley Trust-supported open annotation project - January 13, 2015
The Hypothes.is Project together with partners at the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) and ORCID has been awarded a 3-year, $2.2M grant by the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to bring annotation to biomedicine. Web annotations, a new standard for… Read More
WVU receives $1 million grant to develop scholarly publishing platform - January 12, 2015
The West Virginia University has been awarded $1 million from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Scholarly Communications and Information Technology program to develop a new academic publishing platform for mixed-media and print-based scholarship materials. Dubbed Cairn, this editorial-management system will be a modular publishing platform for… Read More
Taylor & Francis rolls out CrossMark and FundRef across Taylor & Francis Online - January 6, 2015
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has rolled out CrossMark, a verifying tool from CrossRef, across Taylor & Francis Online. CrossMark helps users identify if they are reading the most recent and reliable version of an article, and if it is not the case, there will be… Read More
