From: "Schemm, Ylann (ELS-AMS)" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:54:59 +0100
On behalf of the Elsevier Foundation, I’d like to share our 2011
library grants. The summaries of the project grants are included
below. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments.
Best regards, Ylann Schemm, The Elsevier Foundation
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Elsevier Foundation Awards 2011 Grants to Advance Women in Science and
Support Libraries in Developing Countries
$650,000 awarded to Innovative Libraries, New Scholars and Nurse
Faculty Programs
Amsterdam, January 10, 2012 – The Elsevier Foundation announced today
the 2011 grant recipients for the Innovative Libraries in Developing
Countries and New Scholars award programs. In total, $650,000 has been
committed to nine institutions around the world in addition to seven
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,
“Each of the diverse projects supported by the Elsevier Foundation has
the potential for an immediate and enduring impact on our health and
science communities,” said David Ruth, Executive Director of the
Elsevier Foundation and Senior Vice President Global Communications,
Elsevier. “We welcome the chance to support these organizations’
efforts to foster new ways to leverage science and health information
for development and to facilitate career development in STM fields.”
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. Past projects include: expanding
information resources through digitization and knowledge preservation;
training and education for librarians and researchers, and
developed-developing world partnerships providing longer term
technical assistance and training.
The 2011 library grant recipients address real developing world issues
through the use of STM information resources and include:
*A Solution in Sight: Eight Developing Country Resource Centers
Improve Access to the World’s Ophthalmic Information, Seva Foundation,
US
* Strengthening Agricultural Researchers and Extension Staff‘s Skills
for Access to, Use and sharing of Agricultural Information Resources
in Tanzania, Sokoine National Agricultural Library, Tanzania
* Collaboration for Evidence Based Healthcare, Library Training, Royal
Tropical Institute (KIT), Netherlands
* Nuclear Claims Tribunal Records Preservation, Nuclear Claims
Tribunal, Republic of the Marshall Island
* Improving Library Resource Sharing Through the Union Catalogue Among
Laos Libraries Central Library, National University of Laos, Laos
"With access to scientific information revolutionized in the Global
South through diverse access initiatives, embedding the daily use of
high quality peer reviewed journals within universities, remains the
key challenge," said Jan Donner, President of the Royal Tropical
Institute in the Netherlands (KIT). "The Elsevier Foundation's library
grants are so important because they emphasize the critical role that
librarians play in supporting researchers, doctors and nurses in
implementing evidence based work.”
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. Recent grants have promoted institutional
research, advocacy, and policy development to retain, recruit and
develop women in science and have enabled researchers to attend
conferences critical to their careers by assisting with childcare,
mentorship and networking.
The 2011 grants include
* Scenario Toolkit for Advancing Careers in Science, Portia Ltd (EU)
* STEM CIC Writing Retreat Board of Regents, University of Nebraska,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US
* Get Ahead with Optics: Career Development for Women in Science,
University of Carthage, Engineering School of Communications, Tunisia
* Rethinking the Future of the STEM Workforce: Best Practices in
Work-Life Effectiveness, Association of Women in Science, US
"The attrition of top talent from the scientific workforce severely
hampers countries’ ability to lead in innovation and stay globally
competitive in these disciplines,” said Janet Bandows Koster,
Executive Director & CEO of the Association for Women in Science
(AWIS). “We know that professional women with the skills needed for
successful careers in these fields are available, yet often choose to
leave the workforce because of outmoded institutional structures. The
New Scholars program has been integral to exploring innovative
approaches for a more family friendly academia. We look forward to
working with the program to spearhead a fresh, forward-looking
dialogue with global thought leaders."
In 2011, the Elsevier Foundation’s Nurse Faculty Program also awarded
a multiyear grant to Sigma Theta Tau International Foundation for
Nursing to develop 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
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