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Posted by Alan Carr on October 20th, 2015
Posted in: E-Science, Funding, Training
In October 2015, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Extramural Programs (EP) announced the 2015 Awards for NLM Administrative Supplements for Informationist Services in NIH-funded Research Projects. These awards bring informationists into research settings and measure the value of their contributions to the research. The Supplement provides funding for up to two years for an active NIH-funded researcher, in order to bring needed information expertise into the research team. Awardees include:
In September 2015, the NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Initiative Research Education announced the awardees for Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Data Management for Biomedical Big Data and Open Educational Resources for Sharing, Annotating and Curating Biomedical Big Data. The MOOC awards will develop a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that covers a comprehensive set of topics related to the management of biomedical Big Data, and the Open Education Resources awards will develop curriculum modules that can be used by librarians and other information specialists to prepare researchers, graduate students and research staff to be full participants in the global community that maintains and accesses digitally-stored biomedical Big Data. Awardees include: