AAU, ARL, and AUPresses launch OpenMonographs.org in an effort to change the landscape of scholarly book publishing in the humanities and social sciences - December 5, 2019
The Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and Association of University Presses (AUPresses) have launched a new website, OpenMonographs.org, in a bold new effort to change the landscape of scholarly book publishing in the humanities and social sciences.… Read More
UpToDate receives $1 million educational grant from Ancestry to develop genetic testing information for medical providers - October 31, 2019
Ancestry®, the global leader in family history and consumer genomics, has made a $1 million educational grant to UpToDate®, a leading evidence-based clinical resource, to independently develop information for healthcare providers to help them interpret and act on the results of genetic testing. Announced during a… Read More
The MIT Press receives grant from the Arcadia Fund to develop and pilot a sustainable framework for open access monographs - October 4, 2019
The MIT Press has received a three-year $850,000 grant from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, to perform a broad-based monograph publishing cost analysis and to develop and openly disseminate a durable financial framework and business plan for open access (OA) monographs.… Read More
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
