This month, November 2008, we will be releasing a Call for projects for grant funding. Outline details are on the Grant Funding Roadmap. UK [further education/higher education] institutions are eligible to bid, with some types of projects restricted to [Higher Education Funding Council for England]- and [Higher Education Funding Council for Wales]- funded institutions ...
We’re finalising the Call at the moment, but you won’t go far wrong if you start thinking about what you want to do in:
implementing automated metadata and textmining
starting up repositories for research data, research papers, learning materials
networking and enhancing repositories
preservation in relation to repositories
short technical projects to improve repository services
connections between services to support particular disciplines
Bidders will have until January to prepare proposals, and succesful projects will be expected to start by 1st April 2009.
For those of you most interested in supporting research, please note there will also be a Call for projects related to Virtual Research Environments.
If learning and teaching resources are of particular interest, in December there will also be a Call for the forthcoming HEA/JISC Open Educational Content programme.
Date for your diary: Monday 15th December will be a Briefing Day for anyone who would like to come and hear about the funding opportunities ...
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
