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
Elsevier Foundation seeks new grant proposals for 2014 New Scholars and Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries programs - May 7, 2014
The Elsevier Foundation is seeking new grant proposals for the 2014 New Scholars and Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries programs. The deadline for applications is June 17, 2014. Grants will be awarded in December 2014 and provide one, two or three year awards between US$ 5,000… Read More
Kudos receives grant of £164,000 by UK Governments’s Technology Strategy Board - April 11, 2014
Kudos, which helps authors and institutions maximise the impact and visibility of their publications, has been awarded a grant of £164,000 by the UK Government's Technology Strategy Board. The grant will help Kudos to further develop and test its service, and explore additional routes to market.… Read More
IMLS, Sloan Foundation jointly award ARL $1 million grant to develop and launch SHARE Notification Service - March 31, 2014
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has been awarded a joint $1 million grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to develop and launch the SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE) Notification Service. SHARE is a collaborative initiative… Read More
The ER&L/EBSCO Library Research Fellowship supports library professionals interested in informing librarians worldwide - March 18, 2014
Library resources provider EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L) will once again join together to offer a fellowship to support valuable research on trending topics of interest in the information industry. The ER&L/EBSCO Library Research Fellowship will provide up to $4,000 to… Read More
ÜberResearch launches free funding wizard for ORCID - March 4, 2014
ÜberResearch, a provider of software solutions for research funders, has announced the launch of their free funding wizard for ORCID, under the name ÜberWizard. The wizard allows ORCID users to import and associate their funding data with their ORCID record, through a… Read More
European Archival Records and Knowledge Preservation project awarded £6 million to save digital data - February 10, 2014
The European Commission has awarded £6M to archiving and digital preservation specialists to create E-ARK (European Archival Records and Knowledge Preservation), a method of archiving data that is set to become the gold standard across Europe. The system will ensure current digital archives, including 'big data,'… Read More
New open access funding pilot for Austria - February 6, 2014
IOP Publishing (IOP), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Institute of Physics, has announced a new pilot project together with the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Austrian Academic Consortium (Kooperation E-Medien Österreich) and the Austrian Central Library for Physics at the University of Vienna. The new… Read More
Mellon Foundation to fund CRL Archive Analysis - January 17, 2014
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded the Center for Research Libraries major funding to expand analysis and planning on an international level for archiving and strategic digitisation in two areas of library collecting - print journals and newspapers. Funding of $848,000 over a two-year period… Read More
