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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-ZA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-family:inherit;color:black'><a href="http://12hoy26budd28l29v3kl2fq1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/GRID_rgb1.png"><span style='color:#008CBA;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=578 height=177 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://12hoy26budd28l29v3kl2fq1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/GRID_rgb1.png" alt="GRID_rgb"></span></a><a href="http://12hoy26budd28l29v3kl2fq1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/GRID_w_rgb_150dpi1.png"><span style='color:#008CBA;text-decoration:none'><br></span></a>GRID (<a href="http://www.grid.ac/"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>www.grid.ac</span></a>) is an openly accessible dataset of information on world-wide research organisations</span></i></b><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#666666'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:black'>Today, we are proud to announce the launch of the<a href="https://www.grid.ac/"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'> Global Research Identifier Database (GRID)</span></a>, a free, easy-to-use online database that opens up information about research organisations around the world to data scientists, developers and innovators within academic and commercial organisations. The GRID dataset addresses the problem of messy and inconsistent data on research institutions, ensuring that each entity is included correctly and only once.</span><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#666666'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:black'>Built in-house, the online database contains 50,000 manually curated institutional names, along with unique identifiers and geo-location information across 212 countries. The data are derived from openly accessible funder and publication sources such as the NIH reporter, PubMed and the UK Gateway to Research.</span><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#666666'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:black'>It includes the majority of institutions worldwide that have received research funding and is openly available under a CC-BY Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 international <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>licence</span></a>, which allows the user to share or adapt the content available for any purpose, even commercially.</span><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#666666'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem'><strong><u><span style='font-family:inherit;color:black'>GRID’s aims</span></u></strong><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#666666'><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm;margin:1.25rem 1.1rem;font-size:1rem;list-style-position:outside' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#666666;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:black'>Spark innovation by providing data scientists, developers and entrepreneurs with a base of open, standardised information about organisations, which will be interoperable with existing technologies and platforms, and which can act as a gateway between many different datasets; </span><span style='font-family:inherit'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#666666;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:black'>Open up insight, transparency and accuracy by allowing anyone to efficiently map data to a common, well-formed, international list of research organisations;</span><span style='font-family:inherit'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#666666;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:black'>Create accessibility by enabling data visualisation of datasets related to research organisations around the world.</span><span style='font-family:inherit'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:black'>At present, developers, researchers, companies, governments, civil societies, publishers and academic institutions frequently conduct analysis using ‘unclean’ data, where, for example, institutions are listed with multiple aliases and in different formats. GRID provides a central reference point for research work and ensures that future studies will be built on accurate underlying data.</span><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#666666'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem'><strong><u><span style='font-family:inherit;color:black'>We are already using GRID and can help you too</span></u></strong><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#666666'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:black'>GRID has been developed in collaboration with <a href="http://www.uberresearch.com/"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>ÜberResearch</span></a>, a Digital Science portfolio company which has implemented GRID in its <a href="http://www.uberresearch.com/dimensions-for-funders/"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>Dimensions</span></a> product for funders and research organizations. GRID data is helping to align the funding portfolios of both research funders and research organisations for portfolio insights and competitive insights.</span><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#666666'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:black'><a href="http://www.figshare.com/"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>Figshare</span></a> and <a href="http://www.altmetric.com/"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>Altmetric</span></a> both use GRID to capture and represent accurate institutional data.</span><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#666666'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:black'>Digital Science will also provide guidance, support and consultancy to our users to ensure GRID meets the technical requirements of your work.</span><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#666666'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem'><b><span style='font-family:inherit;color:black'>Daniel Hook our Managing Director comments on the launch of GRID:</span></b><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#666666'><o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin:1.25rem;padding:0.5625rem 1.25rem 0px 1.1875rem'><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem;font-size:1.4rem'><i><span style='font-family:inherit;color:black'>‘GRID is a fresh, new, data-driven approach to sparking innovation, insight and accessibility on issues like institutional funding. It can help open up data and information about organisations across the world that was previously locked away. We have built GRID and made it free for the world to use because we believe in the power of open data-driven analyses and transparency. We think that by opening up data and tools to everyone, it empowers people to interact with numbers and datasets in more interesting, useful and innovative ways.</span></i><i><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#666366'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem;font-size:1.4rem'><i><span style='font-family:inherit;color:black'>‘Any analysis of research trends is only as good as the underlying data – if you can’t be sure whether you’re referring to the University of Washington in Seattle, George Washington University in DC or Washington University in St Louis, then there’s a problem. We set out to solve that and to build the definitive database of worldwide research institutions that anyone can use as the basis for their own studies of the research landscape.’</span></i><i><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#666366'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></blockquote><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:black'>GRID is the second global dataset that Digital Science has made openly available, following the donation of the SureChem patent chemistry structure database to the European Bioinformatics Institute in December 2013.</span><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#666666'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem'><strong><span style='font-family:inherit;color:red'>If you want to keep up-to-date with the latest GRID news, you can follow along on Twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/grid_ac"><span style='color:red;text-decoration:none'>@GRID_ac</span></a>. You can read the official press release <a href="http://www.digital-science.com/press-releases/new-open-database-opens-up-unique-insight-into-institutional-research-funding-across-the-world/"><span style='color:red;text-decoration:none'>here</span></a>. </span></strong><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#666666'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Adrian Stanley</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Vice President, </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Publisher Business Development</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1026" src="http://blogfiles.figshare.com/digitalscience.png"></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>Tel:</span><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> +1 215 853 2966</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>Mobile:</span><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> +1 215 490 6584</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>E-mail:</span><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:a.stanley@digital-science.com" target="_blank">a.stanley@digital-science.com</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>Web:</span><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="http://www.digital-science.com/" target="_blank">www.digital-science.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Proudly supporting the following companies:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Altmetric</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>: Deliver real value and insights to your authors and readers through powerful article level metrics: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.altmetric.com/publishers.php" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>http://www.altmetric.com/publishers</span></a> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>figshare</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>: Bring your articles to life with the easiest way to host and visualize your article data: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://figshare.com/services/publishers" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>http://figshare.com/services/publishers</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>ReadCube</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>: Increase engagement and expand visibility</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <span style='color:black'>with instant article innovations: </span><a href="https://www.readcube.com/publishers" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>https://www.readcube.com/publishers</span></a> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Overleaf </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>: A collaborate writing and authoring tool </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="https://www.overleaf.com/publishers" target="_blank">https://www.overleaf.com/publishers</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'>******************************<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>