Indiana University’s Data To Insight Center to lead Sloan funded investigation of non-consumptive research - August 11, 2011
Indiana University's Data To Insight Center (D2I) will lead a $600,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to fund the first investigation of non-consumptive research for a major mass digitised collection of content. Partners with D2I on this include the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) and… Read More
SPIE objects to House subcommittee decision to end James Webb Space Telescope - August 8, 2011
SPIE, an international society for optics and photonics, is objecting to a decision by the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Space to terminate the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Ending the JWST project would waste billions of taxpayer dollars that have already been invested,… Read More
Digital Science launches new funding programme to encourage innovation - August 3, 2011
Digital Science, a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd., unveiled its Catalyst Prize, an initiative to support innovators who wish to develop new software tools or technologies for scientific research. The programme will provide a series of awards up to £15,000 each (about $24,000) to the most… Read More
ACS President offers congressional testimony on NSF merit review - July 27, 2011
The President of the American Chemical Society (ACS), Dr. Nancy B. Jackson, testified before the House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Research and Science Education on July 26, 2011, about the effectiveness of the merit review process used by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to… Read More
Florida State University and University of Florida receive $10 million NSF grant to digitise nation’s biological collections - July 11, 2011
The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $10 million grant to Florida State University (FSU) and the University of Florida (UF) to coordinate 92 institutions in 45 states working to digitise the nation's biological collections. The grant is part of the… Read More
NISO awarded Mellon Foundation grant for two standards incubation workshops - July 7, 2011
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has been awarded a $48,500 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund two standards incubation workshops, which it will lead with the Internet Archive, on the topic of E-Book Annotation Sharing and Social Reading. These meetings will be… Read More
Final call for 2011 Emerald/CLADEA Latin American Management Research Fund Award - July 4, 2011
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, in collaboration with Consejo Latinoamericano de Escuelas de Administracion (CLADEA), has announced the final deadline for submissions to the 2011 Emerald/CLADEA Latin American Management Research Fund Award. The closing date for receipt of applications is August… Read More
Elsevier announces expansion of SciVal Funding to regions outside the US - June 27, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the expansion of SciVal Funding to regions outside of the US, enabling institutions to identify international funding opportunities. Through the international expansion of SciVal Funding, researchers, research administrators and research development professionals in Canada, the UK and the European… Read More
TEMIS raises funds to expand markets and boost development - June 17, 2011
Text analytics solutions provider TEMIS, US, has announced a significant capital increase through a new reserved round of fund-raising. Participants are both existing investors in TEMIS, and, for the first time, the company staff. The company provides content enrichment solutions to scores of customers throughout… Read More
Elsevier Foundation calls for new grant proposals for the 2011 Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries programme - May 26, 2011
The Elsevier Foundation is seeking new grant proposals for the 2011 Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries programme. Providing grants to libraries in the developing world, the programme aims to improve access to scientific, technical and medical information through innovative systems and services. During the past… Read More
