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
Scribd to expand ebook subscription service, raises $22 million in financing - January 5, 2015
Subscription book service Scribd has closed a $22 million financing led by Khosla Ventures with reinvestment from existing backers including Redpoint Ventures, Charles River Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank. Seasoned entrepreneur Keith Rabois will join Scribd's board as a board observer. This brings Scribd's total funding… Read More
IOP Publishing is now CrossMark and FundRef compliant - December 12, 2014
IOP Publishing as announced that it is now compliant with two CrossRef initiatives, FundRef and CrossMark. FundRef provides an easy way for funders to see the articles that have been published from the research they funded. Supporting a standard way of reporting across the scholarly… Read More
‘Measuring Up: Assessing Use of Digital Repositories and the Resulting Impact’ project receives IMLS grant - December 10, 2014
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded a $500,000, three-year National Leadership Grant to four partner organisations - the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Montana State University, OCLC Research, and the University of New Mexico - to perform research… Read More
Elsevier Foundation announces 2015 grant recipients - December 8, 2014
The Elsevier Foundation has announced its 2015 grant recipients for the Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries and New Scholars Programs. In total $600.000 has been committed for 2015 that will support various multiyear projects in over 20 countries in the developing world. The Elsevier Foundation is… Read More
Wellcome Trust partners with other European foundations to support the Europe and Global Challenges funding initiative - December 1, 2014
The Wellcome Trust has entered into a partnership with the Volkswagen Foundation in Germany and the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond in Sweden to support the Europe and Global Challenges funding initiative. The funding initiative is open to teams of researchers, working in European and non-European countries, which… Read More
