The Mellon Foundation awards HathiTrust $1 million grant to enhance core operations - February 9, 2023
HathiTrust, a member-based organization hosted by the University of Michigan, has received a 5-year, $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to fund a multi-year effort to strengthen its preservation and access mission. The funding will initially finance three new positions to develop an integrated program… Read More
Mellon Foundation provide $1.1 million support for Project LEND, a two-year project - January 13, 2023
The University of California libraries — which comprise the largest university research library in the world — are launching a landmark research project to investigate the potential for expanded lawful use of digitized books held by academic and research libraries. The Mellon Foundation… Read More
PREreview and eLife receive grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to boost community engagement in public preprint review - November 9, 2022
PREreview and eLife have announced that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has awarded a grant to non-profit organizations for boosting their efforts to enable more diverse communities of researchers to participate in the open peer review of preprints. PREreview and eLife… Read More
NISO and UIUC awarded Sloan grant to prevent the spread of retracted research - October 27, 2022
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO), and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), have been awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant of $249,998 to prevent the spread of retracted research. The CREC (Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern) project was approved last year… Read More
Digital Research Alliance of Canada funding for the canadian Persistent Identifier consortia - October 12, 2022
The ORCID-CA, DataCite Canada Consortium Governing Committees, and Canadian Persistent Identifier Advisory Committee (CPIDAC), have announced funding from the Digital Research Alliance of Canada for the 2022-2023 fiscal year. These funds will offset ORCID-CA and DataCite Canada Consortium member fees and support the ongoing development and… Read More
SAGE Publishing announces winners of 2022 SAGE Concept Grant - September 16, 2022
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced the winners of the 2022 SAGE Concept Grant, with £15,000 awarded to Causal Map, a tool that identifies and visualizes causal connections in speech and writing. Five further grants of £2,000 were awarded to early-stage software ideas that… Read More
Canada Foundation for Innovation reaffirms its commitment to Coalition Publica - August 26, 2022
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) is awarding a $10 million grant to Coalition Publica under the Major Science Initiatives Fund 2023-2029. Through this program, CFI contributes to the ongoing operation and maintenance needs of research facilities of national importance in order to enable… Read More
NISO Awarded IMLS Grant for Collaborative Collections Lifecycle project - August 3, 2022
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO), the Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration & Innovation (PALCI), and Lehigh University Libraries, along with 27 other partner organizations, have been awarded a National Leadership Grant for Libraries by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for… Read More
COAR awarded US $4 million grant for the Notify Project - May 18, 2022
COAR has been awarded a US$4 million grant from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. The 4 year grant will go towards the COAR Notify Project, which is developing and implementing a standard protocol for connecting the content in the… Read More
Knowledge Unlatched launches 2022 funding round, introduces new OA collections and innovative pledging options for libraries - May 4, 2022
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the international initiative for Open Access (OA), has announced the launch of the ninth round of funding, which has, to date, helped publish over 3,000 scholarly books and 50 journals OA in a wide range of HSS and STEM fields. This year’s pledging options… Read More
