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
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
