Grants will be awarded up to a total value of £2m, plus up to six 4-year postgraduate studentships.
This is the main part of a joint initiative of the three funders which extends the national e-Science programme to arts and humanities research. A scoping survey, nine workshops and demonstrators, and an Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre have already been funded.
e-Science stands for a specific set of advanced technologies for collaboration and sharing resources across the Internet: so-called grid technologies, and technologies integrated with them, for instance for authentication, data-mining and visualization.
'This is an important new initiative by the three key players in the field,' says David Robey, Director of the AHRC's ICT Programme. 'e-Science has already had a transforming impact on U.K. science, technology, and medicine. It is increasingly important for the social sciences, and its impact on the arts and humanities is potentially just as great.'
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.
