ARL and Ithaka S+R awarded IMLS Grant to study digitised special collections - October 1, 2010
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants Program has awarded the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and Ithaka S+R, the strategy and research arm of ITHAKA, a grant amount of $464,286 to study how libraries, archives, and museums are sustaining digitised special… Read More
Rice University to shut down digital academic press in September - September 24, 2010
Rice University in the US has announced its decision to close its digital academic press, the Rice University Press (RUP). The Press will stop receiving university funding at the end of the month. The decision to cut RUP's funding, which has consisted of $150,000-$200,000 a year… Read More
IMLS releases guidelines for Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums grant programme - September 10, 2010
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), US, has announced the release of grant guidelines for Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums. This new grant programme will provide one-year grants of $10,000 to $25,000 for innovative projects that respond to the challenges and opportunities… Read More
RSC welcomes British Business Secretary’s call for greater focus on ‘useful’ research - September 9, 2010
The UK's Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced that it supports Business Secretary Vince Cable in his decision to focus on 'excellent research' as it reveals huge financial shortfalls in UK science funding. In his first major speech on science and research, Cable called for… Read More
Sheffield Hallam team secures European Commission funding for CUBIST project - August 24, 2010
A team from Sheffield Hallam University, working on data search technology, has secured €370,000 funding from the European Commission with help from Enterprise Europe Yorkshire. The funding is part of a €4 million collaborative project lead by German technology leaders, SAP, that will focus on how… Read More
‘Geek the Library’ campaign now available to libraries in the US - August 24, 2010
A community-based public awareness campaign, Geek the Library, is now available for adoption by any US public library. The campaign is designed to highlight the vital role of public libraries in today's challenging economic environment and to increase local library support. Geek the Library has proven… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry moots increase in R&D spending - August 16, 2010
As the UK Government's autumn CSR (Comprehensive Spending Review) approaches, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has entered the recent debate over research and development funding, via a letter sent to Prof. Adrian Smith of the department for Business Innovation and Skills. In the letter, RSC… Read More
University Press Ebook Consortium gets Mellon Foundation grant - August 9, 2010
The team of directors spearheading University Press Ebook Consortium - a university press-branded consortium to sell collections of e-books to academic libraries - has announced a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for $47,000. The grant will be used to advance the venture toward its Fall 2011 launch. Fifty-five… Read More
OCLC and ALISE invite proposals for 2011 Library and Information Science Research Grant Program - August 5, 2010
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 2011 Library and Information Science Research Grant Program (LISRGP). Awards of up to $15,000 are… Read More
Long-term investment in science critical for UK’s economic health, says RSC - July 27, 2010
Reducing Britain's science budget will have a paralysing effect on economic growth, the jobs market and the nation's ability to produce the world-class scientists of the future, according to the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). The UK risks combining mediocre funding in research with one of… Read More
