PRI’s NHANES holdings are now current through May 2008. All updates and new files have been downloaded. PRI Researchers using this data are encouraged to look at SodaPop, PRI’s Data Archive for updated holdings.

The American Psychological Association is reconsidering a policy to charge authors a $2,500 fee for depositing papers in PubMed Central in order to comply with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy, as reported on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s News Blog.

Two major publishers have new policies relating to the NIH Public Access Policy, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

The Nature Publishing Group (including the journal Nature) has announced that it will deposit its authors’ manuscripts in PubMed Central for free with a 6-month embargo period.

The American Psychological Association will also deposit papers in PubMed Central – for a $2,500 fee, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s News Blog.

The following grant announcements are new this week on the Population Research Institute Funding Announcements web page.

AAS China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC) Small Grants – Association for Asian Studies

AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) Japan Studies Grants – Association for Asian Studies

AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) Korean Studies Grants – Association for Asian Studies

ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships – American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

ACLS Fellowships – American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

Active Living Research: Investigating Policies and Environments to Support Active Communities – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Alan T. Waterman Award – National Science Foundation (NSF)

American Academy in Berlin Fellowships – American Academy in Berlin

Centers on Research and Capacity Building to Improve Outcomes for Individuals With Disabilities from Traditionally Underserved Racial and Ethnic Populations – U.S. Department of Education (ED)

Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships – American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

Franklin Research Grants – American Philosophical Society

Frederick Burkhartd Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars – American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

Japan Program: JSPS Fellowship Program – Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

Newton International Fellowships – British Academy – Research Councils UK – Royal Society

Paul B. Beeson Career Development Awards in Aging (K08 & K23) – National Institute on Aging (NIA) – Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program – Radcliffe Institute

Sabbatical Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences – American Philosophical Society

Social Neuroscience of Aging (R01) – National Institute on Aging (NIA)

Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in Women’s Studies – Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

The PRI Library has received announcements from:

• Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington for a  Post-Graduate Fellowship position.
• Providence College for an Assistant Professor of Sociology .

The PRI Library has received an announcement for a Professor in Social Disparities and Health at Northwestern University.

Wireless internet access is now available in Oswald Tower, including the PRI Library. Use the wireless the same way you do at other campus wireless locations – for instructions, see help.pop.psu.edu.

The world population reached 6 billion in 1999 and is on track to reach 7 billion by 2012, according to new estimates from the Census Bureau.

The following grant announcements are new this week on the Population Research Institute Funding Announcements web page.

Abe Fellowships – Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

Geographic and Contextual Influences on Energy Balance-Related Health Behaviors (R01) – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) – National Cancer Institute (NCI) – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute – National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) – Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)

Geographic and Contextual Influences on Energy Balance-Related Health Behaviors (R21) – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) – National Cancer Institute (NCI) – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute – National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) – Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)

Integrating Biobehavioral and Sociocultural Research to Prevent HIV Transmission and Infection (R01) – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) – National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) – National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Integrating Biobehavioral and Sociocultural Research to Prevent HIV Transmission and Infection (R21) – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) – National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) – National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Measures and Determinants of Smokeless Tobacco Use, Prevention, and Cessation (R01) – National Cancer Institute (NCI) – National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)

Measures and Determinants of Smokeless Tobacco Use, Prevention, and Cessation (R21) – National Cancer Institute (NCI) – National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)

Open Solicitation (Older Americans Act) – Administration on Aging (AoA)

Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research – National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Silvio O. Conte Centers for Basic and Translational Mental Health Research (P50) – National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Supplements to Promote Reentry into Biomedical and Behavioral Research Careers – National Institutes of Health (NIH)