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
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
