BRII – Berkeley Research Impact Initiative
co-sponsored by UC Berkeley's Vice Chancellor for Research and the University Librarian
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What is BRII?
The Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) supports faculty members who want to make their journal articles free to all readers immediately upon publication. An 18-month pilot program, BRII will subsidize, in various degrees, fees charged to authors who select open access or paid access publication. The pilot will also yield data that can be used to gauge faculty interest in — as well as the budgetary impacts of — these new modes of scholarly communication on the Berkeley campus.
Welcome to ResearchGATE
ResearchGATE is a new free of charge Science 2.0 platform designed for the need of researchers. With this new platform we want to change the world of science by providing a global and powerful scientific web-based environment, in which scientists can interact, exchange knowledge and collaborate with researchers of different fields. Sign up and be part of the first scientific network.
* present yourself and your research projects
* enroll, expand, and broaden your science network globally
* exchange know-how and expertise
* initiate collaboration
* discuss your research limitation and get positive feedback
* use our innovative tools and work environments for online collaboration
Join the InnoCentive Open Innovation community to earn money while solving some of the toughest problems facing the world today
Open Innovation Challenges
In our Open Innovation Marketplace, we have Challenges in a wide variety of disciplines, from Business and Entrepreneurship to Engineering and Life Sciences
Solve any of our Challenges to win awards from $5,000 to $1,000,000. Challenges are posted by Seekers (corporations, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations) who are looking for your help with product development and other business and science problems.
You can use your knowledge and expertise to make a real difference. In addition to listing our Challenges by discipline, our Innovation Pavilions organize Challenges around specific causes or global issues:
* The Rockefeller Foundation
* Clean Tech and Renewable Energy
* Global Health
* Public Policy and Citizens in Action
Each Challenge has a significant cash award associated with it and Solvers have been earning money since 2001 - here's a list of our winning solvers.
Background The University at Buffalo (UB) has a unique concentration of faculty working on cutting-edge research in ontology in a number of interdisciplinary projects spanning a range of Schools and Departments. Ontologists at UB are involved in collaborative ventures with leading national and international institutions. They have received major funding for ontology-related projects from the NSF, NIH, US and Canadian defense agencies and defense industries, and from the European Union.
Goals BCOR is designed to provide a forum within which philosophical ontologists and those involved in ontology applications can work together in high-level interdisciplinary research. It serves the coordination and integration of a range of ontological projects currently being pursued in Buffalo.
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We are an information science research group developing software and methodologies to exploit Internet-based data sources for social sciences research, in addition to scientometrics, link analysis, cybermetrics and webometrics.
Deep Web Technologies redefines the federated search market with its powerful, flexible search solution, Explorit Research Accelerator. Organizations that use Explorit enjoy a custom solution that fits the specific needs of their end users, so searches are not only efficient, they're complete. By combining advanced, real-time search with sophisticated results retrieval, Explorit gives users precise, accurate results delivered with unrivaled agility.
Microsoft Live Labs: Accelerating Search in Academic Research 2006 RFP Awards
Microsoft Research announced the twelve recipients of the Microsoft Live Labs: Accelerating Search in Academic Research 2006 RFP awards, totaling $500,000 (USD) in funding. The objective of this RFP is to support Live Labs’ collaboration with the academic research community and is focused on the Internet Search research area. Specifically, this RFP directly addresses the need for more large-scale data by making additional real world search data available to academia. In doing so, Microsoft seeks to further encourage academic research and innovation in search by increasing the availability of relevant, large, and current data sets from MSN Search, new data analysis and algorithm development in Internet Search will be supported.
Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) is the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands.
CWI has presented its strategy for the period till 2012. The institute will concentrate the efforts on four broad, societally relevant themes:
Earth and life sciences The data explosion
Societal logistics Software as service
The Thomson Corporation
Researcher ID is a global, multi-disciplinary scholarly research community. Each researcher listed is assigned a unique identifier, to aid in solving the common problem of author misidentification. Search the registry to find citations, collaborators, and more.
WebCite®, a member of the International Internet Preservation Consortium, is an on-demand archiving system for webreferences (cited webpages and websites, or other kinds of Internet-accessible digital objects), which can be used by authors, editors, and publishers of scholarly papers and books, to ensure that cited webmaterial will remain available to readers in the future. If cited webreferences in journal articles, books etc. are not archived, future readers may encounter a "404 File Not Found" error when clicking on a cited URL. Try it! Archive a URL here. It's free and takes only 30 seconds.
A WebCite®-enhanced reference is a reference which contains - in addition to the original live URL (which can and probably will disappear in the future, or its content may change) - a link to an archived copy of the material, exactly as the citing author saw it when he accessed the cited material.