SAGE continues its support for Campaign for Social Sciences initiative with new contribution - April 12, 2012
The Academy of Social Sciences marked the one-year anniversary of its Campaign for Social Science with over £100,000 in total donations. The objective of the Campaign is to be raising £250,000 per annum by 2016. Academic and professional publisher SAGE has promoted the Campaign since its… Read More
National Library of Medicine awards $67 million for informatics research training - April 11, 2012
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has announced that the NLM is awarding 14 five-year grants, totalling more than $67 million, for research training in biomedical informatics, the discipline that seeks to apply computer and communications technology… Read More
LibQUAL+ seeks applicants for in-kind grant programme 2013 - March 8, 2012
LibQUAL+ has announced that five institutions will be selected to receive in-kind grants to participate in the 2013 LibQUAL+ survey. This will be the eighth year LibQUAL+ has sponsored an in-kind grant programme. There are two application deadlines for the 2013 grant programme: June 17, 2012,… Read More
European Commission allocates additional EUR 10 million to COST - March 8, 2012
The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) and the European Science Foundation (ESF) have been informed by the European Commission Directorate-General for Research & Innovation of their decision to allocate an additional EUR 10 million to COST. This allocation raises the total budget for COST… Read More
UCLA Library receives $3.4 million grant for project focused on ephemeral media of Middle East - March 2, 2012
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has announced that the UCLA Library has received a grant of $3.4 million from the Arcadia Fund to launch an initiative to digitise, preserve and provide broad public access to print items, images, and multimedia and social networking resources… Read More
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
