Subject: Call for Proposals- Initial Access to Nanobank Data
From: Lita Kimble (lkimble@nber.org)
Date: Fri Jan 19 2007 - 12:37:08 EST
Call for Proposals - Initial Access to Nanobank Data
Be One of the First to Tap into the Nanobank!
Nanobank is nearing completion under NSF funding as a public digital
library comprising data on nano-science-and-technology articles, U.S.
patents, and federal grants, as well as firms engaged in using
nanotechnology commercially. This call is for research proposals to use
preliminary (beta test) Nanobank during the next year as the database and
public interface are completed for public release. A three-page maximum
proposal submitted as described below to zucker@ucla.edu by Monday,
January 22, 2007, will be reviewed. Only the first 3 pages of any proposal
will be forwarded to the Nanobank Advisory Board, chaired by Roger Noll,
for review and selection of initial users. Successful applicants will be
given access to the first ("alpha") database described below in both text
and Stata formats by Wednesday, February 28, 2007. An expanded ("beta")
database will be similarly available late in June 2007.
A research conference will be held in mid-November 2007 at UCLA for
presentation of results from these projects. The authors of papers which
are successfully revised, peer reviewed, and published in the conference
volume or journal special issue will receive an honorarium of $2,500 per
paper. There is also some special funding with the same honorarium and
terms earmarked for papers dealing with not-for-profit organizations and
on California-specific topics. We encourage proposals making innovative
use of the Nanobank data, for example as a survey sampling frame or to
identify respondents for a history of the birth of nanotechnology, or in
other ways not imagined by its creators.
The initial or alpha version of the Nanobank data base will include
nano-S&T article citations in Thomson Scientific (formerly ISI or the
Institute for Scientific Information) Web of Knowledge format, U.S.
patents data, and NSF and NIH nano S&T grants. Organizations appearing in
authors' addresses, as patent assignees, or as NSF/NIH grantee
institutions will be coded by organization type. The codebook for this
alpha version is available on the Nanobank website at the following web
address:
http://www.nanobank.org/research/data.php
The second or beta version of the Nanobank data base will add to these
data unique IDs for persons and organizations which are the same wherever
a given person or organization appears in Nanobank and data on firms
working in nanotechnology.
All proposals should be submitted via Email with the subject line "Beta
Nanobank Use Proposal" to the Nanobank PI Lynne Zucker at zucker@ucla.edu
as an attachment in Acrobat pdf format. Any inquiries should be sent to
the same address with the subject line "Beta Nanobank Use Question" - note
that these exact subject lines will be used to identify submissions and
queries.
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Professor Lynne G. Zucker
Sociology & Public Policy, UCLA
Director, Center for International Science, Technology & Cultural Policy
Center Phone: 310-825-3227; Center Fax: 310-206-0318
School of Public Affairs, UCLA
e-mail: zucker@nicco.sscnet.ucla.edu
Sociology Phone: 310-825-9155; Fax: 310-454-2748
