Digital Science announces winners of its prestigious Catalyst Grant award - September 26, 2019
Research industry technology company Digital Science has revealed the latest winners of its prestigious Catalyst Grant award: BPT Analytics, Intoolab and MLprior have been awarded a grant. An international initiative to develop innovative projects and technologies The Catalyst Grant offers an award of up to… Read More
Stanford University Press Digital Publishing Initiative receives $1.15 million to implement phase 2 of the program - July 10, 2019
A proposal to continue the development of a digital publishing initiative at Stanford University has been awarded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Modeling how humanistic and social science research is presented and disseminated online, the Stanford University Press initiative is rethinking… Read More
DOAJ reaches its funding target to cover operational costs - May 20, 2019
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) has reached its funding target to cover its operational costs as outlined in its SCOSS application. Eight consortia and 175 institutions/organisations from 18 different countries have committed support to DOAJ. There are organisations that have already made the… Read More
The MIT Press announces creation of MIT Press Fund for Diverse Voices - May 13, 2019
The MIT Press has announced the creation of the MIT Press Fund for Diverse Voices. This fund will provide monetary support to acquire or develop book projects by and about women and other underrepresented groups in the STEM fields. The first books published with support… Read More
Applications for CARL Research in Librarianship Grant called for - May 10, 2019
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) is now accepting applications from established and newly appointed librarians working in a CARL member library. When merited, up to $4,000 is awarded annually to one or more of the applicants, to help achieve the following objectives: to… Read More
Open Science essential for new Horizon Europe funding programme - May 10, 2019
SPARC Europe is satisfied with the endorsement, on April 17, by the European Parliament (EP) of the Political Partial Agreement on Horizon Europe, the next research and innovation framework programme. Back in March 2019, the EP and Council of the European Union had reached a provisional… Read More
American Institute of Physics awards UMD $1M to endow professorship in history of natural sciences - April 26, 2019
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has confirmed a $1 million pledge to the University of Maryland’s College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) to help uncover stories of scientific discovery while illuminating complex societal issues that scientists and scholars in the humanities both face. The… Read More
Ex Libris’ Research Professional Funding Insight service adds five sources - April 23, 2019
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that its Research Professional Funding Insight service has added five sources to the database of awarded research grants. Funding Insight is a subscription service that offers editorially curated news and data aimed at helping researchers decide which funding… Read More
New York University receives $527,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - April 22, 2019
New York University has received a grant of $527,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project to help ensure the preservation of complex new forms of digital scholarship. In the collaborative project, ‘Enhancing Services to Preserve New Forms of Scholarship,’… Read More
Altmetric and Nature receive funding from Google Digital News Innovation - March 22, 2019
Data science company Altmetric and multidisciplinary science journal Nature will receive funding from the Google Digital News Innovation Fund to build a novel tool for measuring the impact of journalism. Journalism has an impact: news stories can drive policy change, trigger… Read More
