JISC Advance to fund projects to enhance existing higher education resources - February 28, 2012
The UK’s JISC Advance is inviting proposals to enhance or repurpose existing resources for use in the further education and skills sectors. This £1.4 million funding will both improve the learner experience and increase efficiencies, it is expected. JISC Advance is looking for proposals which… Read More
ResearchGATE announces completion of Series B financing - February 23, 2012
ResearchGATE, a scientific network for scientists and researchers, has announced the completion of its Series B financing. The round is being led by Founders Fund partner Luke Nosek, co-founder of PayPal, with participation from Benchmark Capital, Accel Partners, Michael Birch (co-founder, Bebo), and David O.… Read More
OCLC Research and ALISE name recipients of 2012 Library and Information Science Research Grants - February 16, 2012
Library information provider OCLC Research, US, and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) have awarded research grants to Abdulhussain Mahdi and Arash Joorabchi of the University of Limerick, Laura Saunders and Mary Wilkins Jordan of Simmons College, and Carolyn Hank of McGill University… Read More
Genome Designs raises seed funding, commences operations - February 13, 2012
Contract research services company Genome Designs, Inc., US, has announced that it has received seed financing from undisclosed private investors, and started operation. Founded by veterans of Argonne National Lab, NCBI, Integrated Genomics and Ariadne, the company is taking on the challenge of functional annotation of… Read More
Elsevier Foundation announces 2011 grant recipients for Innovative Libraries and New Scholars award programmes - January 12, 2012
The Elsevier Foundation has announced the 2011 grant recipients for the Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries and New Scholars award programmes. In total, $650,000 has been committed to nine institutions around the world in addition to seven ongoing multiyear grants and the Nurse Faculty programme. The… Read More
Merck fund invests $17 million in Physicians Interactive - January 9, 2012
Physicians Interactive Holdings, a provider of mobile and web-based clinical resources and solutions for healthcare professionals, has entered into an agreement with Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, LLC (GHIF) to invest up to $17 million in the company. The financing includes an initial investment of $8.5… Read More
IMLS and partners award $4.8 million funding for ‘Digging Into Data’ projects - January 4, 2012
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and seven global partners have awarded about $4.8 million to international research teams investigating how computational techniques may be applied to ‘big data’ — the massive multisource datasets made possible by modern technology. Fourteen teams representing Canada,… Read More
EBSCO offers scholarships for librarians to attend 2012 ALA Midwinter Meeting - December 15, 2011
Information services provider EBSCO, US, in co-sponsorship with the American Library Association (ALA) has awarded five librarians $1,500 scholarships to attend the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Dallas, from January 20–24, 2012. As part of the application process, librarians were asked to write… Read More
NISO-Open Archives Initiative project receives Sloan grant - December 15, 2011
The US' National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the Open Archives Initiative have been awarded a $222,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The grant is for a joint project to develop a new open standard on the real-time synchronisation of web resources. Increasingly,… Read More
Amazon unveils KDP Select scheme for independent authors and publishers - December 9, 2011
Online books retailer Amazon.com, Inc., US, has announced KDP Select, a new option featuring a $6 million annual fund dedicated to independent authors and publishers. If a KDP author or publisher chooses to make any of their books exclusive to the Kindle Store for at least… Read More
