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
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
