Posting Grant Press Release with News of 2nd Grant

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          ISI Selects Research Grant Recipient; 
          Announces Second Grant Offering
     
          Philadelphia, PA, USA - September 5, 1997 - The Institute 
          for Scientific Information(R)(ISI) today announced that it 
          has selected Dr. Jian Qin of the School of Library and 
          Information Science, University of Southern Mississippi, as 
          the recipient of the first of two 1997 ISI Research Grants. 
          ISI will award Dr. Qin a grant in the amount of $3,000 for 
          her research proposal, which studies the differences between 
          cognitive(citation) indexing and analytical(semantic) 
          indexing and the impacts of these differences on citation 
          and semantic searching.
     
          The ISI Research Grant Program was initiated by ISI in 1996 
          to support research based on citation analysis.  Two grants 
          will be awarded this year.  The deadline for submissions for 
          the second grant is Oct. 31, 1997.  The second award grantee 
          will be notified in December.
     
          "We are very pleased to be able to offer these valuable 
          research grants," said Keith MacGregor, Vice President and 
          General Manager of Citation Products, ISI.  "We hope these 
          grant awards will help to further encourage important 
          research projects involving citation analysis."
     
          Dr. Qin is currently working as an assistant professor at 
          the University of Southern Mississippi.  She recently 
          received the OCLC Library and Information Science Research 
          Grant Program award for her research proposal "Computation 
          Representation of Web Objects in an Interdisciplinary 
          Digital Library."  Dr. Qin was also awarded a Dissertation 
          Research Grant at the University of Illinois for the 
          bibliometric study and survey on interdisciplinary research 
          in science.  Within the past three years, Dr. Qin has been 
          published in the Journal of the American Society for 
          Information Science, Bulletin of the American Society for 
          Information Science, Scientometrics, Social Studies of 
          Science, and proceedings publications.
     
          Proposals for the second ISI Research Grant may be submitted 
          in hard copy, e-mail, or by fax using Microsoft Word(R). 
          Submissions must be double-spaced and not exceed a maximum of 
          1,000 words. Proposals should include the following 
          information:
     
               -Name, address, and brief biography of applicant(s) 
               -Brief statement of the research problem 
               -Description of the research design and methodology,
                including details of how citation data will be used
               -Discussion of the expected impact of the research
                results
     
          Submissions will be evaluated by an internal ISI committee 
          and will be judged on the proposed application of citation 
          analysis and the significance of the research problem.  The 
          winner of the award will be expected to pursue dissemination 
          of the results in an appropriate forum and to acknowledge 
          the support of ISI in any presentation or publication based 
          on the funded work.
     
          Two hard copies(or one electronic copy) of the proposal, 
          postmarked/dated no later than Oct. 31, 1997, should be sent 
          to:
     
               Barbara Nagy-Teti
               Marketing Manager
               Institute for Scientific Information 
               3501 Market Street
               Philadelphia, PA 19104-3302
               e-mail:  bnagy-teti at isinet.com
               fax:  (215)387-4706
     
          For more information about ISI, visit our site on the World 
          Wide Web at http://www.isinet.com.
     
          Note: The recipient of the 1996 ISI Research Grant was 
          Professor Charles Oppenheim, of the International Institute 
          for Electronic Library Research, de Montfort University.  The 
          research undertaken by Prof. Oppenheim is described in his 
          paper "The correlation between citation counts and the 1992 
          Research Assessment Exercise ratings for British research in 
          genetics, anatomy and archaeology", to be published in the 
          Journal of Documentation, Vol. 53, no. 5, December 1997