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
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
