Jisc launches collaborative initiative for UK research - November 19, 2014
Teams across universities and others that support research in the UK are being offered the opportunity to submit their ideas to a collaborative funding initiative being launched by Jisc. Called research data spring, the project aims to engage all individuals and groups with an interest… Read More
NIH invests about $32 million to increase utility of biomedical research data - October 10, 2014
The National Institutes of Health recently announced grants to develop new strategies to analyze and leverage the explosion of increasingly complex biomedical data sets, often referred to as Big Data. These NIH multi-institute awards constitute an initial investment of nearly $32 million in fiscal year 2014… Read More
NSF grants $1 million to MU to expand supercomputer equipment and expertise for big data analytics - October 3, 2014
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $1 million in two grants to the University of Missouri to install a supercomputer enabling data-intensive research and education at MU in fields such as bioinformatics, geoinformatics, high performance computing and engineering applications. The grants also will fund the… Read More
IMLS awards $9.2 million to improve library services in the US - September 12, 2014
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has announced grants for 51 library projects, totalling $9,291,441, that will advance library and archives practice by addressing challenges in the field and by testing and evaluating innovations. The projects were selected from 212 applications through the… Read More
OCLC awarded IMLS grant to help libraries continue to support community health initiatives - September 8, 2014
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded OCLC a grant to continue work helping libraries support health information initiatives in their communities. In July 2013, OCLC received an IMLS grant to increase libraries' ability to respond to customer… Read More
HathiTrust Research Center awarded grant from National Endowment for the Humanities - July 31, 2014
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) has announced a new project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The NEH awarded $324,841 for 'Exploring the Billions and Billions of Words in the HathiTrust Corpus with Bookworm: HathiTrust + Bookworm' (HT+BW) a two-year project that begins September… Read More
H.W. Wilson Foundation in deal with EBSCO to fund digitisation of the Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities - June 30, 2014
The H.W. Wilson Foundation has announced that it will fund the digitization of the print index Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities (DDAAU) under a new agreement with EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO). EBSCO will digitise the content and build a free database… Read More
Applications for Paul Evan Peters fellowship called for - June 16, 2014
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and EDUCAUSE have called for applications for the Paul Evan Peters Fellowship. Sponsored by CNI, ARL and EDUCAUSE, this fellowship was established to honour and perpetuate the memory of CNI's founding executive director. … Read More
National Funding Agency for Science and Technology in Portugal selects Elsevier’s Analytical Services to support evaluation of R&D units - June 11, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has been selected by the national funding agency for science and technology in Portugal, Fundação para a Ciência e aTecnologia (FCT), to provide bibliometric analyses that will support its 2013/14 national review assessment of R&D units. For the first time, FCT's review… Read More
ALA Office for Diversity extends deadline for research grant proposals - May 8, 2014
The American Library Association (ALA) Office for Diversity has extended its deadline for proposals for its 2014 Diversity Research Grants from April 30 to May 16, 2014. Applicants must be current ALA members, and 2014 proposals may concentrate on any diversity topic that addresses critical gaps… Read More
