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MSM Library Awarded Elsevier Foundation Grant
Elsevier Foundation Awards 2013 Grants to Champion Libraries in Developing Countries
and Women in Science
December 9th, 2013
$700,000 awarded to Innovative Libraries, New Scholars and Nurse Faculty Programs
Amsterdam, December 9, 2013
The Elsevier Foundation announced today the 2013 grant recipients for the Innovative
Libraries in Developing Countries and New Scholars award programs. In total, $700,000
has been committed to ten institutions around the world in addition to five ongoing
multiyear grants and the Nurse Faculty program. The Elsevier Foundation is funded
by Elsevier, a global provider of scientific, technical and medical information products
and services.
“We are always on the lookout for game-changing projects that can serve as models
with lasting impact on our health and science communities,” said David Ruth, Executive
Director of the Elsevier Foundation and Senior Vice President Global Communications,
Elsevier. “This year, we’ve identified some very compelling new opportunities to support
big data, research capacity building, transparency and evidence-based medicine in
the developing world. Our New Scholars grants focus on boosting team science diversity
and innovation, targeting STEM inclusion in community colleges and a unique tropical
health partnership between Portuguese speaking women scientists in Africa and their
Portuguese counterparts. We are excited to able to add these excellent projects to
the Foundation’s record of support for advancing science and health in new and innovative
ways.”
Innovative Libraries
The Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries program awards grants to libraries
for innovation in improving access and use of scientific, technical and medical information.
The 2013 library grant recipients address real developing world issues through the
use of STM information resources and include:
Author Capacity Building in Africa, Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University
Towards the Collaborative repository for Ethiopian academic and research institutions,
Consortium of Ethiopian Academic and Research Libraries (CEARL) and African Digital
Library Support Network (ADLSN).
Library Information Resources to Enhance the University of Ghana, School of Public
Health Program, Morehouse School of Medicine
Strengthening education, research and practice in emergency care: Information skills
integration in the Ghana Emergency Medicine Collaborative, Taubman Health Sciences
Library, University of Michigan Library
Developing a Globally Connected LIBRARY 4 SAFE SEAFARING (L4SS), Mariners Polytechnic
Colleges Foundation, Philippines
Joy Paulson, Director, TEEAL Project and International Projects Librarian, Cornell
University, remarked, “We are very excited to receive support from the Elsevier Foundation
for the development and implementation of our author capacity building program. Building
on the access to Research4Life and TEEAL and the e-resources training connected to
them, this new program will focus on developing the skills to enable young faculty
in Ethiopia, Nigeria and Malawi to publish the results of their research in international
journals. In the long run, this will ensure that the results of African agricultural
research are disseminated more widely.”
New Scholars
The New Scholars Program supports projects to help early- to mid-career women scientists
balance family responsibilities with demanding academic careers and addresses the
attrition rate of talented women scientists. The 2013 grants include:
Strengthening Team Science & Work Life Satisfaction in the UC System, University of
California Santa Barbara
African Network of Portuguese speaking women in Tropical Health, Institute of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine, Portugal
Cambridge Equality Collaboration: Advancing Women in Science within & beyond Cambridge,
University of Cambridge
Motivating Enrollment of Women into STEM Majors, LaGuardia Community College
Womens IS Network, Worcester Polytechnic University
Jeremy Sanders, the University of Cambridge’s Pro-Vice Chancellor said, “The New Scholars
funding from Elsevier is very welcome as it will enable us to expand and extend some
of our most exciting collaborative gender equality projects over the next two years.
The University of Cambridge is committed to supporting the advancement of women in
STEMM disciplines in recruitment, retention and promotion. Our aim is to develop the
best possible practice in this area and the funding from Elsevier will allow us to
continue this innovative and partnership work.”
In 2013, the Elsevier Foundation’s Nurse Faculty Program committed to an additional
multiyear grant (2014-2016) to Sigma Theta Tau International Foundation for Nursing
to continue developing an 18 month leadership academy and alleviate the nursing faculty
shortage through retaining and transitioning new nurse educators to the faculty role.
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About The Elsevier Foundation
The Elsevier Foundation is a corporate charity funded by Elsevier, a global provider
of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The Elsevier
Foundation provides grants to knowledge centered institutions around the world, with
a focus on developing world libraries, nurse faculty and scholars in the early stages
of their careers. Since its inception, the Foundation has awarded more than 60 grants
worth millions of dollars to non-profit organizations working in these fields. Through
gift-matching, the Foundation also supports the efforts of Elsevier employees to play
a positive role in their local and global communities. www.elsevierfoundation.org
About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information
products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and
health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet and Cell,
and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders.
Elsevier’s online solutions include ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciVal, Reaxys, ClinicalKey
and Mosby’s Suite, which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals,
helping research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.
A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier employs 7,000 people worldwide.
The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc, a world leading provider of professional
information solutions. The group employs more than 30,000 people, including more than
15,000 in North America. Reed Elsevier Group plc is owned equally by two parent companies,
Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. Their shares are traded on the London, Amsterdam
and New York Stock Exchanges using the following ticker symbols: London: REL; Amsterdam:
REN; New York: RUK and ENL.
Media contact
Ylann Schemm
Senior Corporate Responsibility Manager, Elsevier
+31 (0) 20 485 2025
newsroom@elsevier.com
Ylann Schemm
http://www.elsevierfoundation.org/elsevier-foundation-awards-2013-grants-to-champion-libraries-in-developing-countries-and-women-in-science/