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
Department of Energy announces $26 million for research on next-generation data management and scientific data visualization - April 15, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $26 million for research to advance scientific data management and visualization. Foundational research in data management will address challenges stemming from the increasingly massive data sets produced by scientific experiments and supercomputers. Innovative and intuitive data visualization approaches will… Read More
Elsevier Foundation invests in early career researchers - April 13, 2022
The Elsevier Foundation, funded by Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, is investing more than half a million dollars this year to support inclusive career progression through a series of innovative partnerships, which will nurture early-career researchers’ (ECRs’) ability to secure funding, expand… Read More
DOAJ receives funding from the French National Fund for Open Science - April 7, 2022
DOAJ, a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high-quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals, will be receiving €70,000 EUR in funding from the French National Fund for Open Science. The decision to allocate the funds was taken by the Steering Committee for… Read More
Figshare awarded NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative grant to enhance functionality - January 27, 2022
Figshare is participating in a new NIH initiative, the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI). GREI is led by the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) and provides a grant for repositories to grow their functionality and better meet the needs… Read More
eLife’s funder-partners to invest in ‘publish, then review’ model for science publishing - December 10, 2021
eLife has announced that its four funders, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the Max Planck Society and Wellcome, are extending their support for the non-profit organisation. The new investment will boost eLife’s efforts to openly review and curate research published as… Read More
NISO awarded Mellon funding for Controlled Digital Lending project - September 21, 2021
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has received a grant of $125,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the development of a consensus framework for implementing controlled digital lending (CDL) of book content by libraries, which has been approved by NISO members as a new… Read More
OCLC awarded IMLS grant to support libraries responding to the opioid crisis - August 6, 2021
OCLC, a non-profit global library organization, has been awarded an IMLS National Leadership Grant to develop a set of free online resources that staff at public libraries can use to determine how their library can address opioid use disorder in their local communities. … Read More
