Happy New Year! A reminder...
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The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) invites institutions to submit funding
proposals for projects under three separate strands of the Managing Research Data
Programme. JISC wishes to fund projects across three strands:
1) Strand A: Citing, Integrating and Linking Research Data: To demonstrate the innovative
potential for research and scholarly communications of improving methods for citing,
integrating and linking research data.
2) Strand B: Enhanced Research Data Publications: To explore innovative technical and
organisational models for data publication by scoping and piloting enhanced publications
for research data in the form of ‘data journals’, ‘overlay journals’, or similar.
3) Strand C: Research Data Management Training: To promote research data
management skills in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) through designing and piloting
training units for undergraduate or postgraduate courses, for librarians or research
support staff, or in the form of summer schools or roadshows.
The deadline for receipt of proposals in response to this call is 12:00 noon UK time on
Friday, 12 February 2010.
Funding is available for projects starting from 1 April 2010 for any duration up to 12
months. All projects must complete by 31 March 2011.
Proposals may be submitted by Higher Education (HE) Institutions funded by HEFCE or
HEFCW. HE and FE institutions in Northern Ireland and Scotland and FE institutions in
England and Wales are not eligible to bid but may be involved as partners in proposals
led by HE institutions funded by HEFCE or HEFCW.
Proposals may be from single institutions or consortia. Partnership arrangements may be
developed outside the sector (for example with research council sites, publishers,
commercial suppliers), but the lead partner must meet the criteria outlined above. Funds
can only be allocated through the lead partner.
The JISC is holding a community briefing event where potential bidders will be given
information about the background to the call, its objectives and the bidding process.
Attendees will also have an opportunity to ask questions of JISC executive staff and
relevant JISC committee members. This meeting will take place on Monday 11 January
2010. Members of the community are invited to register for the meeting online:
http://survey.jisc.ac.uk/11012010. If you have any queries about the briefing day, you
can contact Sounds Commercial by email ([log in to unmask]) or by phone
(0117 958 0282).
Please use this tag for discussions of the call on Twitter: #jiscmrd (i.e. JISC Managing
Research Data).
Further information can be found in the full call document here:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/funding/2009/12/grant%20funding%20call%2014
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