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
OCLC awarded Mellon Foundation grant to develop infrastructure to support linked data management initiatives - January 10, 2020
OCLC has been awarded a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop a shared ‘Entity Management Infrastructure’ that will support linked data management initiatives underway in the library and scholarly communications community. When complete, this infrastructure will be jointly curated… Read More
National Academies’ Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science receives grant from arcadia fund - December 27, 2019
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have been awarded a grant for $100,000 from Arcadia — a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin — to support the work of the Academies’ Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science. The roundtable convenes critical… Read More
Public engagement grant funding renewed for 2020 - December 27, 2019
ASCB has announced that beginning in January 2020 it will be soliciting another round of applications for Public Engagement Grants. This opportunity for ASCB members interested in engaging with their community and gaining experience in public outreach has been made possible by Science Sandbox, an initiative… Read More
DOAB and OAPEN, PKP and OpenCitations latest services to earn SCOSS recommendation - December 6, 2019
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS), of which SPARC Europe is a founding member, is launching its second funding cycle. Three vetted ‘vital open infrastructure’ services are being presented to the international scholarly community for funding: The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)… Read More
