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
NIH to fund development of K-12 neuroscience education programmes - September 28, 2011
Eight investigators across the US will receive funding over the next five years to develop innovative neuroscience education programmes for K-12 students and their teachers. Activities described within some proposals include using touch tablet technology to teach neurobiology, and the creation of a 1,400-square-foot interactive learning center. These grants… Read More
RSC raises queries on EPSRC’s Shaping Capability programme - September 15, 2011
The UK's Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has stated that in recent weeks, since the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) made its first announcement in connection with its Shaping Capability programme, there have been many questions raised. These centre on how decisions were reached… Read More
NHGRI grant to help eMERGE network move closer to tailored treatments based on patients’ genomic information - August 18, 2011
Researchers in the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) network will receive $25 million over the next four years to demonstrate that patients' genomic information linked to disease characteristics and symptoms in their electronic medical records can be used to improve their care. The grants are from the National Human… Read More
