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
NIH to fund research workforce diversity program - January 3, 2014
The National Institutes of Health is releasing three new funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) to develop approaches to engage researchers, especially from backgrounds under-represented in biomedical sciences, and prepare them to thrive in NIH-funded research careers. The funding through the 'Enhancing the Diversity of the NIH-Funded Workforce'… Read More
Fifty percent grant now available for Knowledge Unlatched pilot fee - December 13, 2013
Jisc has announced that the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has agreed to make a grant of up to £550 to universities in England that participate in the Knowledge Unlatched pilot, from December 11. This grant contribution will be used to reduce the participation… Read More
University of California Libraries awarded Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to continue development of Western Regional Storage Trust - October 22, 2013
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University of California Libraries a three-year grant to continue development of the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST), a distributed shared print repository program for retrospective journal archives. More than 100 libraries participate in the trust, including libraries from… Read More
New web-based visualisation tool enables academic institutions to explore, analyse and understand international research funding - October 7, 2013
Digital Science, a technology company serving the needs of scientific research, and Symplectic, a developer of research information management systems, has announced the launch of Symplectic Dimensions at THE World Academic Summit in Singapore. Dimensions is a new web-based visualisation tool that enables academic research institutions… Read More
ORCID announces project partners for the ORCID A&I Program - October 2, 2013
ORCID, a non-profit organisation that provides an open registry of unique identifiers for researchers, has announced the nine project partners who will be participating in the ORCID Adoption and Integration (A&I) Program. The ORCID A&I Program provides external funding for North American universities and science and… Read More
Jisc proposes refinements to funding model - September 13, 2013
Jisc is writing to UK universities to outline proposed refinements to the organisation's funding model. Since the publication of Sir Alan Wilson's review of Jisc in February 2011 it has enhanced its integration with the sector to deliver products and services developed around its needs.… Read More
HathiTrust Research Center awarded Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant for WCSA project - August 26, 2013
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $437,000 grant to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in partnership with Indiana University for a new project in the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). The 'Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis: Prototyping Project' (WCSA) will be directed by HTRC… Read More
