Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:06:37 +0800
From: "Muralidharan, Padma (ELS-DEL)"
The Board of The Elsevier Foundation has approved two new grant programs
that may be of interest to your colleagues and stakeholders the academic
and library communities:=20=20=20=20
The Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries program will make grants
to improve the capacity of developing world libraries through training
,infrastructure, technology, digitization and preservation of STM
information. The Foundation will focus in particular on supporting
partnerships in these areas between libraries in the developing countries
and institutions in the developed countries.=20=20=20=20=20=20
The New Scholars program is designed to encourage the participation of
women in academic science and technology through programs that address the
challenges associated with managing career and family responsibilities.
We are focusing in particular on supporting the efforts of academic
institutions and scholarly societies to help scientists with family
responsibilities attend conferences and meetings that are important to
establishing a career in science.=20=20
For more detailed descriptions and guidelines for both programs, which you
should feel free to send any contacts in the academic, society, and
library communities who might find this of interest, please visit
http://asia.elsevier.com/ELfoundation.htm or
http://www.elsevierfoundation.org. Grants for both programs will be
awarded competitively, based on an independent review and the guidelines.
Submission by Elsevier customers and stakeholders is very much encouraged.
Grant proposals are requested by no later than October 1, 2007. Grants
will be awarded in December 2007.
Please let me know if you have any questions on this or ideas of others
who should receive this information.
Padma Muralidharan
Account Development Manager
Elsevier India (Science & Technology)
e-mail : p.muralidharan@elsevier.com=20
