NIH to invest $58M to catalyse data science and health research discoveries across Africa - July 27, 2020
The National Institutes of Health has launched a $58 million initiative to advance data science, catalyse innovation and spur health discoveries across Africa. The new five-year program, Harnessing Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa (DS-I Africa), will leverage existing… Read More
American Cancer Society, Emerson Collective grants support collaborative online research - July 22, 2020
The American Cancer Society and Emerson Collective have launched a partnership to support innovative, collaborative research projects using TheoryLab®, the American Cancer Society's online platform for funded researchers. The TheoryLab Collaborative (TLC) Grant mechanism is designed to support new and transdisciplinary collaborations among TheoryLab users to… Read More
Ex Libris launches Funding Insights dashboard, offering unique insights into status of Global Research Funding - July 17, 2020
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced the launch of a new website with free access, the Funding Insights dashboard, which offers unique insights into the state of global research funding opportunities. With the research funding landscape changing rapidly as a result of the COVID-19… Read More
UKRI confirms COVID-19 grant extension allocation to ensure crucial world-leading research - June 29, 2020
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has announced deployment of £180 million of funding for organisations to sustain UKRI grant-funded research and fellowships affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is part of a wider package announced by the Government to support the continuation… Read More
SAGE Publishing announces winners of 2020 SAGE Ocean Concept Grant - May 11, 2020
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced the winners of the 2020 SAGE Ocean Concept Grant, with £15,000 awarded to Knowsir, a GDPR-compliant portal for researchers and participants to manage their consent relationship. Five further grants of £2,000 are… Read More
Knowledge Unlatched launches new global open access funding round - May 4, 2020
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the international initiative for Open Access (OA), has announced the launch of the seventh round of funding. It includes the KU Select Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) collection of books familiar to libraries, as well as nearly 20 discipline-specific collections developed in partnerships… Read More
Emerald Publishing launches publishing fund to cover APCs, supporting Social Scientists to make their research on health emergencies such as Covid-19 rapidly available - March 17, 2020
Academic publisher Emerald Publishing has launched a publishing fund of £20,000 to cover the article publishing charges (APCs) for any research that relates to societal impacts as a result of the outbreak of Coronavirus (Covid-19) and similar health emergencies. As the Covid-19 outbreak continues to… Read More
Digital Science announces SciSwipe and SciFlow as winners of its Catalyst Grant award - March 12, 2020
Research industry technology company Digital Science has revealed the latest winners of its prestigious Catalyst Grant award: SciSwipe and SciFlow have each been awarded a grant. An international initiative to develop innovative projects and technologies The Catalyst Grant offers an award of up to £25,000… Read More
French National Fund for Open Science support to three international infrastructures - March 10, 2020
The French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) has decided to support three international open science infrastructures as part of SCOSS, the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services initiative. As announced when the fund was created, the Steering Committee for Open Science has decided… Read More
Ex Libris announces enhancements to the Ex Libris Pivot research funding database - February 26, 2020
Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has announced enhancements to the Ex Libris Pivot® research funding database, a comprehensive resource for global funding opportunities sources. The new Awarded Grants feature in Pivot enables researchers and research offices to gain valuable insights by searching millions of previously… Read More
