BioMed Central looking to work with Dutch researchers keen to establish OA journals - August 15, 2011
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the main Dutch science funding body, has launched a €1 million open access (OA) fund to help Dutch scientists establish new OA journals or convert existing journals to OA. Publisher BioMed Central has stated that it would be interested… Read More
OCLC and ALISE invite proposals for 2012 Library and Information Science Research Grant Program - August 11, 2011
Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, and OCLC Research, in collaboration with the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), are inviting research proposals for the 2012 Library and Information Science Research Grant Program (LISRGP). Awards of up to $15,000 are… Read More
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
