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NBER: Call for Proposals - Initial Access to Nanobank Data
Subject: Call for Proposals - Initial Access to Nanobank Data
From: Carl Beck (cbeck@nber.org)
Date: Thu Jan 18 2007 - 10:10:18 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
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