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
Eight $10,000 grants to be awarded as part of the John Cotton Dana Award - November 16, 2011
The John Cotton Dana Award (JCD) is being expanded to include eight $10,000 grants. The award is provided in conjunction with the H.W. Wilson Foundation, the American Library Association (ALA) and EBSCO Publishing. The award, which is managed by the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA)… Read More
IMLS awards grant to WebJunction for US digital inclusion project - November 7, 2011
The US' Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded a grant of $249,871 to OCLC's WebJunction for a project aimed at helping communities across the country get started on the path to digital inclusion. The project is projected to complement IMLS' efforts to help… Read More
UK digitisation programme to take medical archives, historical records online - October 27, 2011
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced that learners, educators and citizen scientists can expect to benefit from a recently launched, 18-month digitisation programme for scientific medical archives, historical records and health reports. JISC will be investing £5.6 million in 24 projects across… Read More
IMLS issues grant for further collaborative study of Virtual Reference Services - October 10, 2011
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded a National Leadership Grant for a collaborative research project between OCLC Research and the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information (SC&I) to investigate library-based Virtual Reference Services (VRS). OCLC Senior Research Scientist Lynn Silipigni… Read More
EMRC white paper assesses current status of biomedical research in Europe - September 29, 2011
The European Science Foundation’s European Medical Research Councils (EMRC) has published a new white paper assessing the current status of biomedical research in Europe in a global context. EMRC is the Foundation’s membership organisation for all medical research councils in Europe. Titled ‘A Stronger Biomedical… Read More
