Contact: Kathlin Smith 202-939-4754 Washington, DC, April 2, 2013-Seventeen graduate students have been selected to receive awards this year under the Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources, which CLIR administers. The fellowships are intended to help graduate students in the humanities and related social science fields pursue research wherever relevant sources are...

Contact: Kathlin Smith 202-939-4754 Washington, DC, April 1, 2013-The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) $1.3 million to expand its efforts to develop leaders in the profession of data curation in higher education, and to develop new models of institutional support for data curation. Funds will help...