MLA Doctoral Fellowship

The MLA Doctoral Fellowship fosters and encourages superior students to conduct doctoral work in an area of health sciences librarianship or information sciences and to provide support to individuals who have been admitted to candidacy. The award supports research or travel applicable to the candidate’s study within a twelve-month period. The award and may not be used for tuition.

The fellowship is granted biannually in even-numbered years since 1994. First awarded in 1986, the fellowship was initially sponsored by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), later by Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science, and briefly by Clarivate Analytics, a division of Onex Corporation and Baring Private Equity Asia. 

The fellowship is currently unavailable due to a lack of sponsorship.