McGraw-Hill Education, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., US, has announced that McGraw-Hill networks, the company's digital social studies program for the middle and high school markets, received two honours at the 2013 Association of Educational Publishers' Annual Awards. Announced at the Association of American Publishers' (AEP) annual conference, Content in Context, these awards recognise McGraw-Hill Education's leadership in delivering innovative digital solutions for students and teachers that improve teaching and learning in classrooms around the country.

For the second year in a row, McGraw-Hill networks won a Golden Lamp Award, one of educational publishing's longest-running and most prestigious honours, and a Distinguished Achievement Award, both in the Whole Curriculum Programs category. The Golden Lamp Awards highlight the 'best of the best' products for teaching and learning each year. The Distinguished Achievement Awards honour the best in a range of product types and resources used by teachers, parents and students.

Each of the awards recognises winners in four categories - Periodicals, Professional Development, Supplemental Resources, and Whole Curriculum Programs. Additionally, McGraw-Hill Education's McGraw-Hill My Math and McGraw-Hill Reading Wonders were nominated for the Golden Lamp Award this year.

McGraw-Hill networks combines engaging digital and print resources to help students discover and learn essential social studies content. The program, which can be personalized and customized for each student to support differentiated instruction, transforms social studies instruction and learning into an exciting and interactive experience through audio, video and other collaborative multimedia features.

Honoring excellence and innovation in the education community, the Association of Educational Publishers' Annual Awards represent the longest-running and most highly regarded recognition program in the industry. Products were judged in a three-tier process (educator review, professional review and certification) with only the best materials advancing to the higher rounds. Having products judged first and foremost by educators is critically important because they know best which products will succeed or fail directly in the classroom and ensures that the winners are truly leaders in the field.

Pubget, a Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) company, has announced the launch of its Influential Paper Challenge.

The contest, which will run until June 25, 2013, encourages members of the research community to use Pubget's search engine to select the research paper they believe to be most influential. The one entrant who selects the most influential paper will win a $1,500 conference travel scholarship to the research conference of his or her choice. Pubget will determine influence by selecting the paper most frequently accessed on pubget.com.

Pubget offers a robust and popular life science research search engine with 6.1 million search queries per day. Between January 2012 and April 2013, over 1.4 million scholarly papers were added to pubget.com.

Entrants must be a full-time employee, graduate student or post-graduate student at a non-profit university, hospital or research center. If more than one entrant submits the name of the most accessed paper, the user who takes the additional step of Tweeting the link to the submission to @pubget, with the hashtag #InfluentialPaper, will be selected as the winner.

Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has awarded the 2013 Roger K. Summit Scholarship to Allana Mayer, an MLIS student at McGill University in Montreal. The scholarship – named in honour of Dialog founder Roger K. Summit, a pioneer in developing online information retrieval services – was presented June 9 at the Special Libraries Association's annual conference in San Diego.

Mayer is focusing her graduate work on archiving, with plans to apply her skills in art and media, particularly digitisation, born-digital content, and the maintenance of archival context for artistic works in digital environments. She would like to develop systems that can collect and preserve the reviews, discussion and references to other works that are generated by public art experiences.

The Roger K. Summit Scholarship is awarded annually to a graduate student enrolled in an accredited library or information sciences programme. Scholarship winners must demonstrate understanding of digital information services, academic achievement, and interest in the field of electronic information services. The Scholarship is part of ProQuest's Graduate Education Program for Library and Information Sciences. The GEP programme encompasses the full range of ProQuest products, including Dialog and the new ProQuest research environment, and provides free access for classroom use by qualifying programmes.

Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, and Library Journal magazine have announced that Howard County Library System in Columbia, Maryland is the 2013 Library of the Year.

Each year this recognition goes to a public library that most profoundly demonstrates service to community, creativity, leadership and innovation in developing community programs, particularly programs that can be emulated by others. In addition to a cash award of $10,000, the Howard County Library System (HCLS) will be featured as the cover story for the June 15 issue of the Library Journal.

Established in 1940, HCLS is comprised of six branch libraries serving a population of more than 280,000 residents. Usage is up in the past decade. Items borrowed from HCLS branches doubled to 7.1 million (the highest borrowing per capita in Maryland), as did research assistance interactions with HCLS instructors (2 million), while physical visits tripled to 3 million along with virtual visits (6 million) and class and event attendance (more than a quarter of a million).

The 2013 Library of the Year Award will be presented formally at a gala reception at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago, IL on June 30, 2013.

Publishing services provider Allen Press, Inc., US, has announced that co-publishing client the American Cleft Palate–Craniofacial Association has been awarded the Gold EXCEL Award for a Journal Featured Article. The winning article, 'Cleft Lip and Palate in the Arts: A Critical Reflection,' was authored by Drs. Masoud Saman, Justin Gross, Alexander Ovchinsky, and Donald Wood-Smith. The article was published in The Cleft Palate–Craniofacial Journal, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2013.

EXCEL Awards are given by Association Media & Publishing (AM&P), a professional organisation serving the needs of association publishers, communications professionals, and the media they create. This year nearly 1,000 association publications were submitted and 166 awards were presented to 83 non-profit organisations for exemplary work in editorial quality, design, advertising and marketing, online publishing, mobile applications, digital editions, and electronic newsletter categories.

"Cleft Lip and Palate in the Arts: A Critical Reflection," was submitted to the Featured Article category because of its unique approach to the study of orofacial clefts. This article shows how social attitudes toward those with cleft lip and/or palate varied through the ages and by location.

Award recipients will be recognized at the 33rd Annual EXCEL Awards Gala on June 10, 2013, in Washington, D.C. The Gala is held in conjunction with the annual meeting of Association Media & Publishing.

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2013 Platts Global Energy Awards. The awards recognize corporate and individual excellence across the entire energy complex. A total of 18 awards will be given in five sections - Strategic Vision, Industry Leadership, Stewardship, Premier Projects and Leading Technologies. All nominations must be received by September 16, 2013.

The Awards programme, often described as 'the Oscars of Energy' and now in its 15th year, routinely draws hundreds of nominations from energy and non-energy companies alike.

This year, Platts has updated its Industry Leadership awards to include recognition for excellence in operations in 'Electricity Generation,' 'Exploration & Production,' 'Grid Optimization,' and 'Midstream.'

Traditional awards include 'CEO of the Year,' 'Corporate Social Responsibility,' 'Efficiency Program,' 'Green Energy Supplier' and 'Lifetime Achievement.' As in the past, an independent panel of judges will select the 'Energy Company of the Year' from the entire list of finalists across all categories.

Eligible for nomination are any companies doing business in or in close association with the energy industry. Nominations may be submitted by the energy companies themselves, their clients, their vendors and/or other industry associates. Interested parties may visit the Platts Global Energy Awards website to submit a nomination, learn more about the award categories and see a full listing of past winners and photos.

The winners of this year's Platts Global Energy Awards will be selected by the judging panel later this year and announced at a black-tie dinner in midtown Manhattan on December 12.

The Royal Society of Chemistry has launched the nomination process for the 2014 AkzoNobel UK Science Award. The recipient will receive an award of £50,000.

To be presented in March 2014, this prestigious UK science award recognises the vital role that scientists play in advancing chemistry and material sciences research, with proven or potential significant benefits for society.

Royal Society of Chemistry President Professor Lesley Yellowlees is chair of the prize selection committee.

According to Graeme Armstrong, AkzoNobel's Corporate Director of Research, Development and Innovation, AkzoNobel is providing the scientific scope, nomination guidelines and funding for the award programme, while the RSC is independently managing the nomination process and selection of the recipient to establish integrity for the award.

Nominations for the 2014 AkzoNobel UK Science Award are being sought online via the RSC website (closing date October 15, 2013). The award recipient will be announced in March 2014, and honoured during a special event at the RSC's Chemistry Centre in Burlington House, London.

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and academic publisher Brill have announced the winner of the IFLA/Brill Open Access Award for initiatives in the area of open access monograph publishing. The winner is Open Book Publishers, Cambridge (United Kingdom).

Open Book Publishers (OBP) is a not-for-profit independent publisher of Open Access, peer-reviewed monographs in the humanities and social sciences. Founded in 2008 by a small group of academics at the University of Cambridge and London who believed in a fairer access to research results, OBP is now the leading Open Access publisher in the humanities and social sciences in the UK.

The jury was impressed by OBP's serious effort to publish high quality monographs on an open access basis. In spite of their wide subject coverage, OBP has been able to attract high quality material in a number of very distinct subject areas. The number of books published in five years (30) is growing and indicates that OBP's activities are based on a sustainable business model. OBP encourages authors to use the Creative Commons Attribution License within their author guidelines, although they do allow authors to select a more restrictive license if the authors wish to do so. The jury also recognised OBP's professional and transparent website that makes it easy for readers to browse the open access monographs.

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has presented seven awards recognizing technical achievement and distinguished service in the field of petroleum-related mechanical engineering. Benton F. Baugh, the president of Baugh Consulting Engineers, Inc., received the 2013 Geoca Mechanical Engineering Achievement Award during a recognition ceremony held recently at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston.

The Society also bestowed the 2013 Arthur Lubinski Award recognizing the best technical paper delivered during ASME-sponsored technical sessions at OTC. Three engineers at FMC Technologies – H. Brian Skeels, Kwok Lun Lee and Anand Venkatesh – shared the honours for the paper, Design Guideline Strategies for HPHT Equipment.

Aker Solutions won the 30th Annual Woelfel Best Mechanical Engineering Award (BMEA) for a riser safety system that controls wellbore fluids during oil and gas offshore drilling. Four BMEA Awards of Merit were presented to Baker Hughes, Inc., (two awards), Cam Tech Products, Inc., and Subsea 7.

The 2013 awards program was sponsored by the ASME Petroleum Division, which works in conjunction with the ASME International Petroleum Technology Institute to provide continuing education and other services to engineers and other technical professionals in the oil and gas and related industries.

Academic publisher SAGE is delighted to announce the winner of the European Educational Research Association (EERA)/SAGE conference travel award.

The award sponsors an early career researcher to attend the Emerging Researchers Conference, taking place this year between September 9-10 and the annual ECER 2013 conference, taking place this year between September 10-13. The conferences take place this year in Istanbul, Turkey.

The winner of this year's travel grant is Ana Inés Renta Davids, selected by EERA for her paper on 'Transfer of learning: Effects of Motivation, Training Coherence and Workplace Features'.

Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of information, business intelligence and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced that its Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) published journals won 13 ASHPE awards in 10 categories. ASHPE’s annual awards competition recognises member articles and publications for editorial, design, print and online award categories.

This year, LWW received four gold awards: Best Peer-Reviewed Journal – Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, published on behalf of the American Society of Plastic Surgeon; Best New Department – Emergency Medicine News; Best Profile – Neurology Now, published on behalf of the American Academy of Neurology; and Best Regular Department – OR Nurse.

The American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (ASHPE) is dedicated to enhancing the knowledge and skills of healthcare publication editors, and thereby expanding their value to, and contribution of, the publications they serve. ASHPE is committed to fostering the highest ethical standards in management; rewarding excellence in publications development and editorial performance; and serving as an authority on evolving trends in the healthcare publishing sector.

The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that its Chemistry World publication has joined a glittering list of finalists for this year's Online Media Awards. The shortlist reads as a who's who of the journalism world, including Channel 4, Sky, the New York Times, USA Today, CNN, MSN, The Guardian, The Times, BBC, al-Jazeera and the Huffington Post.

The awards, now in their third year, are organised by The Drum, sponsored by iomart Group, IE School of Communications and supported by the National Union of Journalists, the Society of Editors and the British Journalism Review.

Chemistry World is the print and online magazine of the RSC, one of the largest organisations in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences. The publication features news, feature articles, opinion, podcasts and latest job advertisements.

UBM Medica, the medical division of United Business Media (UBM), has announced that its Physicians Practice, a leading practice management resource, has been recognised by the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (ASHPE) with four national honours recognising editorial excellence and achievement in healthcare publishing.

Dedicated to helping physicians focus on patient care by providing content on the business, financial, and managerial aspects of medicine, Physicians Practice was awarded the Bronze Award: Best Feature Article – "You've Been Served: Now What?" by Aubrey Westgate; Bronze Award: Best Original Research – "Place Your Bets: The Great American Physician Survey" by Aubrey Westgate; Bronze Award: Best Website – PhysiciansPractice.com; and Bronze Award: Best Legislative / Government Article – "Meaningful Use Progress Report" by Marisa Torrieri.

Addressing today's healthcare information needs, UBM Medica US, delivers strategic, integrated communications solutions and comprehensive reach - online, in print, and via custom programs. Improving the effectiveness of healthcare through information and education, UBM Medica US provides unbiased clinical, practical, and business information for physicians, providers, payers, and patients around the world.

Library resources provider EBSCO, US, has announced that Shannon Regan, licensed content librarian at Mercer University in Macon, Ga., has been awarded the 2013 North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) Horizon Award. The award, sponsored by EBSCO, recognises a promising new information professional. It covers the cost of travel, registration, and lodging for three nights while the recipient attends the NASIG Annual Conference in Buffalo, N.Y., June 6–9.

Each year, the Horizon Award gives a first-time NASIG conference attendee the opportunity to advance within his or her profession by networking with other attendees from a wide range of fields within the serials information chain, including vendors, publishers, and non-traditional serialists. The award encourages continued participation in NASIG conferences and events, and also includes a one-year membership to NASIG.

Applicants must be first-time attendees of the NASIG Annual Conference and hold a position working with some aspect of serials within the information profession. This year's applicants submitted essays addressing the 2013 NASIG conference theme: "The Art of Information/The Architecture of Knowledge."

EBSCO, which has helped to sponsor NASIG conferences and events for more than 10 years, is participating in the Vendor Expo at the 2013 NASIG Annual Conference on Thursday, June 6.

Cengage Learning, a US-based provider of teaching, learning and research solutions, has received two Software & Information Industry Associations (SIIA) Education CODiE Awards. MindTap was named Best Postsecondary Personalised Learning Solution and myNGconnect was honoured as the Best Science and Health Instructional Solution. The 28th Annual SIIA CODiE Awards, stated to be the only peer-reviewed honour in the industry, celebrate achievement and vision in software, education technology and digital content.

An SIIA CODiE Award win for educational technology companies is seen as an especially prestigious honour, as each award winner has been selected by a combination of educators, who act as initial judges by selecting finalists from among all nominees, and SIIA member-company peers, who vote to select the winners from among the finalists.

MindTap is an online, personalised learning experience built upon Cengage Learning content. By combining readings, multimedia, activities and assessments into a singular Learning Path, MindTap seeks to guide students through their course with ease and engagement. Instructors personalise the Learning Path by customising Cengage Learning resources and adding their own content and other solutions via apps. The MindTap framework seamlessly integrates with all major Learning Management Systems.

National Geographic Learning's myNGconnect is an online portal for students and educators providing access to interactive National Geographic content and resources that engage students while helping teachers create a digital learning environment.

Licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has announced the winners of its Conference Scholarship Programme for Academic Librarians. The winners include Bridgett Birmingham of Florida State University, Katie Hutchinson of Walsh University, Jennifer L. Kegler of SUNY Brockport, and Bing Wang of Georgia Tech University. Each received a travel stipend of $1,500 to attend the Association of College and Research Libraries' ACRL 2013 conference recently held in Indianapolis.

Due to the high number of submissions received prior to ACRL 2013, CCC is currently offering the same programme for academic librarians to attend the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference from June 27 to July 2 in Chicago. Applicants must be full-time, permanent staff members or academic librarians currently employed by a US-based academic institution of higher learning. A full list of requirements can be found at http://goto.copyright.com/LP=222.

To apply for the scholarship programme, librarians need to submit a response of up to 300 words to a short question. The application deadline is May 20, 2013. Winners will be notified May 31, and scholarship stipends will be issued on June 10. CCC encourages librarians who applied for an ACRL scholarship to resubmit their entries for the ALA programme.

The Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP) has honoured American Chemical Society's (ACS) past president Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, Ph.D., for decades of efforts in promoting public understanding of science. The group has named Shakhashiri as recipient of the 2013 Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science. CSSP is an organisation of leaders of 60 scientific societies representing more than 1.4 million members.

Shakhashiri, 2012 president of ACS, is the William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His most recent effort in fostering public understanding of science involves leading development of the ACS Climate Science Toolkit, available at www.acs.org/climatescience. That online resource encourages scientists to communicate the objective scientific facts about global climate change to the public.

The award cites Shakhashiri for 'Outstanding contributions and accomplishments as a recognised magnifier of the public's understanding of science.' Established in 1993, the award is named for the late Carl Sagan, Ph.D., who was also the first recipient. Shakhashiri is noted internationally for pioneering the use of demonstrations in the teaching of chemistry in classrooms, as well as to the public in museums, convention centres, shopping malls and retirement homes — and at his Science is Fun website. The Encyclopædia Britannica termed Shakhashiri the 'dean of lecture demonstrators in America.' He received the National Science Board’s Public Service Award in 2007 for pioneering new ways to encourage public understanding of science.

CSSP consists of presidents, presidents-elect and recent past presidents of the US’ main scientific societies. It is a leader in promoting science policy and science education and serves as a resource on major issues to the US government, as well as news media, policy groups, and civic and professional organisations.

Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced its ongoing support for the academic community through the 2013 Award of Excellence in Clinical Communication, an annual honour for exceptional pharmacy students. Recognising the ever-growing importance of strong communication skills in clinicians, Wolters Kluwer Health is currently accepting nominations from pharmacy schools of high-achieving 2013 graduates with outstanding aptitude in written and verbal communication.

The 2013 award is facilitated by Wolters Kluwer Health brands Facts & Comparisons and Lexicomp. The award is available to one qualifying student per US-based, ACPE-accredited school of pharmacy. Eligible students must be a 2013 graduate in the top 25 percent of his or her graduating class who has demonstrated superior verbal and written communication skills.

Each confirmed award recipient will receive a personalised award certificate, a complimentary 1-year subscription to Facts & Comparisons eAnswers online drug reference, and a complimentary 1-year subscription to Lexi-COMPLETE drug information mobile app. Submissions will only be accepted via an online form.

Various deadlines apply, based on a school's chosen date for presentation of the award. To submit a nomination, visit http://www.factsandcomparisons.com/common/PDF/award-of-excellence-in-clinical-communications.pdf.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has joined major sponsors Public Library of Science (PLOS), Wellcome Trust and Google to launch the Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP), which recognises the use of scientific research, published through open access, which has led to innovations in any field that benefits society.

The goal of the ASAP programme is to build awareness and encourage the use of open access scientific research and, through these stories, inspire greater support for open access.

This new, innovative programme recognises individuals who have used, applied, or remixed scientific research - published through open access - to innovate and make a difference in science, medicine, business, technology, or society as a whole. Potential nominees include individuals, teams, or groups of collaborators - such as scientists, researchers, educators, social service workers, technology leaders, entrepreneurs, policy makers, patient advocates, public health workers and students - who have used scientific research in transformative ways.

Three top awards of $30,000 each will be presented. The nomination period is open from May 1 to June 15, 2013. Winners will be announced in Washington, DC, in October 2013, at an Open Access Week kick-off event hosted by SPARC and the World Bank.

The ASAP program is sponsored by 24 global organisations that value the transformative impact of applying scientific research, published through open access, to extend the reach of science and medicine.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of its third annual Mosby's 'Superheroes of Nursing' contest, aimed at recognising the work and dedication of individual nursing professionals.

The contest is officially opening for 2013 applicants on May 1, as a kick-off to Nurses Week (May 6-12), and will be announcing the winners in October. The contest will be accepting nominations for applicants who fit into five categories – The Achiever, Protector, Educator, Validator, and introducing the newest hero, the Connector.

Videos, photos, and essays can be uploaded starting from May to August to nominate deserving nurses in any of the five categories on the Mosby's Suite Facebook page. Elsevier will narrow down the nominations to a select number of submissions that best represent one of the key five categories, and the winner will be chosen from these applicants by the fans on Facebook.

Elsevier offers evidence-based tools and staff development resources that can help organisations manage performance, improve workflow and coordination of care, reduce patient care errors, and increase satisfaction to boost staff retention rates. The 'Superheroes of Nursing' campaign illustrates how the utilisation of these solutions helps develop real-life nursing superheroes to provide unmatched, selfless care and to lead their peers by example.

Additional information can be found by "liking" the Mosby's Suite Facebook page, which offers current news and announcements. The winners will be announced at the Elsevier booth during the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) National Magnet Conference, October 2-4, 2013, in Orlando.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that six of its books will receive awards from the Text and Academic Authors Association. Four titles will receive the Textbook Excellence Award, better known as a ‘Texty,’ and two titles will receive the Most Promising New Textbook Award. The awards will be presented during a luncheon at the Text and Academic Authors Association 26th Annual Conference in Reno, NV, June 22, 2013.

The Text and Academic Authors Association announced a total of 16 award winners in three categories, including: the 2013 Most Promising New Textbook Award, which recognises excellence in first year edition textbooks and learning materials and the 2013 Textbook Excellence Award, which recognises excellence in current textbook and learning materials in their second edition or later.

These books, all published by Elsevier or under the Academic Cell, Academic Press and Morgan Kaufman imprint, are available on the Elsevier Store or on ScienceDirect.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and IEDA (Integrated Earth Data Applications), an NSF-funded data facility in the geosciences at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, are jointly launching a new competition, the International Data Rescue Competition, which aims to improve preservation and access of research data in the earth sciences discipline. The challenge invites members of the international geosciences community who have worked on efforts that advance preservation and access of research data, particularly dark data, to share their work and the varied ways that these data are being processed, stored and used.

In launching the competition, Elsevier and IEDA hope to showcase the breadth, depth and diversity of existing initiatives for disclosing research data within the field of geosciences, to promote recognition of these efforts and to encourage new developments in this direction. In addition, they hope to encourage the establishment of a multi-disciplinary community across all areas of geosciences to discuss the multitude of tools and methods that are being developed to rescue data from oblivion and stimulate the sharing of knowledge, tools and standards pertaining to making research data reusable across various earth and environmental sciences domains.

As part of the submission process each participant must describe different aspects of their data rescue project, including examples of the data as it looked before and after the rescue process; a description of ways in which the data could be or is used after being made available electronically; a description of metadata, models and standards and the data repository or collection used to make the data available to be accessed and used; and a description of the rescue process, whether it be manual, automated, or a combination of both.

A cross-disciplinary panel of judges will assess the submissions and invite the top ten proposals to a special award ceremony to be held in December 2013. The award will consist of a Data Rescue trophy and $ 5000.

Researcher proposals are welcome to be submitted until October 10, 2013. Details of the competition criteria and a link to a submission template can be found on the Data Rescue Award website: http://researchdata.elsevier.com/datachallenge.

APEC member economies have announced that they will honour a young scientist in 2013 whose collaborative work in the region has made an outstanding contribution to sustainable ocean development. Publishers John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and Elsevier are sponsors for the APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education (ASPIRE Prize).

'Sustainable Ocean Development', the theme of this year's ASPIRE Prize, is seen to reflect members' focus on boosting cooperation that can help to generate innovative, environmentally and economically sustainable management solutions for the region's oceans and waterways. It targets young scientists from APEC economies who specialise in fields such as oceanography and marine sciences, aquaculture and fisheries science, hydrology, hydrography and costal geography. The merit of their collaborative accomplishments must be evidenced by scholarly publication.

Each APEC member economy may nominate one individual under 40 years of age for the 2013 ASPIRE Prize which is sponsored by Wiley and Elsevier, and carries $25,000 in prize money. The submission deadline is May, 3 2013.

The eBooks on Demand (EOD) project of the EOD Network is one of three projects selected to receive the 2013 American Library Association (ALA) Presidential Citation for Innovative International Library Projects.

The EOD Library Network aims to digitise the public domain books on users' request. It was nominated for the ALA award by a network member, Alenka Kavčič-Čolić from the National and University Library in Slovenia. Among other things, the nomination letter drew attention to EOD network has enlarged by 10 libraries since last three years; the EOD search engine, which was launched in 2011, comprises more than 3.5 million items by now; and the digitised books are made available to the public through the repositories of the participating libraries.

The Citation will be presented on July 1 by Maureen Sullivan, ALA President at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. It will be received by the coordinator of the EOD network, Silvia Gstrein and a network member, Guy Cobolet from Academic Health Library in Paris.

The ALA Presidential Citation for Innovative International Library Projects began as an ALA Presidential initiative of Dr. Loriene Roy, ALA President in 2007-2008. Recipients are selected by a committee of the International Relations Round Table through a nomination process.

The EOD service provides e-books on demand in a single PDF file mostly with full-text search option. The service was launched by 13 libraries in 8 European countries in 2006 and is currently provided by 35 libraries in 12 countries.

Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced the winner of the 7th Annual Research Awards. The awards honour the very best research published in one of BioMed Central's 250 plus open access journals in 2012.

The winners of the BioMed Central Research Award, supported by antibodies-online.com, were selected from a shortlist consisting of the winners of the ten subject categories. Geoffrey S Diemer and Kenneth M Stedman, from Portland State University, won the award for their article A novel virus genome discovered in an extreme environment suggests recombination between unrelated groups of RNA and DNA viruses, which was published in Biology Direct. The article won accolades not only for the method used to uncover the virus, but for its biological insights into the novel viral genome.

The awards were commemorated as part of an evening celebrating BioMed Central and open access, including the tenth anniversary of the initial publication of BMC Biology, the flagship biology journal of BioMed Central, and the launch of the new medical and biology online magazine Biome. The evening also included a panel discussion on the hotly-debated topic of how to avoid the 'tyranny' of current peer review practices, which was fitting since Biology Direct, which published the award-winning article, has pioneered a novel form of peer review.

The winners were selected by a panel of top scientists and clinicians picked from the editorial boards of BioMed Central's portfolio of over 250 journals, which has published over 150,000 peer-reviewed open access articles to date.

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is celebrating being awarded the UK's highest accolade for business success - the 2013 Queen's Award for Enterprise. This award recognises outstanding business achievement by UK organisations. The RSC has been honoured in the International Trade category for its sustained and impressive international growth.

The recommendations committee, chaired by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, commended particularly the RSC's overseas earnings growth of 45 per cent over six years. Also commended were the RSC's exports to 86 countries worldwide, with recent high increases in sales to the US, India and China, and its world class portfolio of high-profile scientific conferences.

The RSC's success will be recognisable by the Queen's Award emblem, which can be used on its products and materials for five years.

Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced antibodies-online.com as the overall BioMed Central Research Award Sponsor for the 7th Annual Research Awards. This prestigious award celebrates the very best in open access research across all disciplines published in BioMed Central's 250 journals for 2012.

antibodies-online.com is the biggest independent distributor for proteomics (eg. ELISA kits, antibodies, proteins) research worldwide, serving universities and biotech companies in 53 different countries. antibodies-online claims to have the fastest life sciences product search on the web, smart filters and a comparison list to make the life of scientists easier.

Founded in 2006 as a university spin-off, antibodies-online.com now employs over 60 people. These include PhD biologists, IT-developers and entrepreneurs, all working closely together to bring transparency into the proteomics market.

The overall winner of the BioMed Central Research Award, which carries a £5000 prize, will be announced and presented at a ceremony to be held on April 21, at the Seaport Hotel in Boston, USA.

The Elsevier Foundation, the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) and TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world have called for award nominations for the 2014 Elsevier Foundation Awards recognising talented early career women scientists from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. This year's awards programme will focus on chemistry.

The five winning scientists will be celebrated for their research excellence, and receive a cash prize of US$5,000 in addition to a year's complementary access to ScienceDirect and all-expenses paid attendance at the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference in February 2014. Nominations will be accepted from April 10 - September 15, 2013. The award winners will be announced in February 2014 at the AAAS annual conference.

Each year, the Elsevier Foundation Award Program, in collaboration with OWSD and TWAS rotates between disciplines (medical/life sciences, chemistry and physics/math) to ensure optimal exposure and networking synergies. The 2013 awards issued in Boston in February, awarded five medical and life sciences researchers from Bangladesh, Yemen, Peru, Nigeria and Mongolia for their research excellence.

Nominations for the awards will be accepted from early career scientists (within ten years of graduating with a PhD degree) from the 81 scientifically-lagging countries as defined by TWAS. All nominations will be reviewed by a committee of eminent scientists representing the five regions in the discipline selected, including members of TWAS and OWSD, and chaired by OWSD president, Prof. Fang Xin.

Award Nomination forms may be downloaded from the OWSD website.

Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that its Global Customer Support team supporting the Ovid and LWW Journals business has received the NorthFace ScoreBoard Award from Omega Management Group Corp for achieving excellence in customer service and support in 2012. The award is presented annually to companies that exceed expectations in customer satisfaction scores - based solely on direct customer feedback.

Omega is an expert in customer experience management (CEM) strategy, and helps companies boost revenue and profits by consistently exceeding customer expectations for service quality. Wolters Kluwer Health received a top score of 4.7 (out of 5.0) in receiving its second consecutive NorthFace ScoreBoard Award.

This award recognises excellence in customer satisfaction scores over the last calendar year across the Ovid and LWW customer service, technical support, training, sales engineering, and integration support services teams assisting customers in 117 countries. The audit includes a quarterly review of customer survey process and ratings. Companies must achieve a customer satisfaction rating of 4.0+ out of a possible 5.0 score (or equivalent rating system), over a 12-month calendar period.

Omega's methodology measures customer satisfaction and loyalty levels on a 5-point scale (or equivalent) regularly during the year in such categories as technical support, field service, customer service and account management.

BookBrunch, an information site and daily news service for the book industry, is joining the London Book Fair to launch the BookBrunch Award for Supply Chain Customer Service.

The Award aims to highlight ways in which supply chain companies have transformed their working methods to benefit their customers. It will go to the company that in the past year (March 2012-March 2013) has identified an area for improvement in its customer service and addressed it in a manner that has most impressively demonstrated customer focus, innovative thinking, excellent execution and measurable results.

All companies exhibiting at the London Book Fair are eligible to make a nomination for the award. Supply chain companies can nominate themselves where appropriate.

Each nomination should include 500 words explaining the business challenge and its resolution, along with an endorsement from one of the company's largest customers including details of how the customer has benefited from the nominee's transformation.

All entries will be judged by a panel of industry experts, with the winner being announced at The London Book Fair 2013. Interested parties may visit http://www.londonbookfair.co.uk/Forms1/PS-Awards-Question/ for more info.

EBSCO, in co-sponsorship with the American Library Association (ALA), has awarded seven librarians $1,000 scholarships to attend the ALA Annual Meeting in Chicago, to be held from June 27– July 2, 2013. As part of the application process, librarians were asked to write an essay on the topic of how attending the conference will contribute to the librarians' professional development.

The EBSCO ALA Annual Conference Sponsorship is an annual award consisting of $1,000 for actual reimbursed expenses designed to allow librarians to attend the ALA Annual Conference. The scholarship recipients will be honoured by EBSCO and ALA representatives during the conference at a breakfast on June 30, 2013.

Applications were judged by an ALA-designated jury chaired by Julius C. Jefferson Jr., information research specialist, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Other jury members included Stacy L. Creel, assistant professor, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Miss.; Elizabeth Nelson, knowledge analyst, UOP LLC, Woodstock, Ill.; Elizabeth M. Williams, information literacy librarian, Belk Library, Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C.; and Courtney L. Young, head librarian and associate professor, Kelly Library, Penn State Greater Allegheny.

Gale, part of Cengage Learning, and Library Media Connection magazine are calling all media specialists and educators at K-12 public and private schools in the US and Canada to share their collaboration success stories and submit for the 2013 TEAMS Award – Teachers and Media Specialists Influencing Student Achievement. The TEAMS Award recognises teacher–media specialist teams in elementary, middle and high school settings for their critical collaboration to promote learning and achievement.

Examples of efforts that have been recognised include: a collaborative school-wide project involving the art, music, physical education and computer teachers; a program to improve student research skills using authenticated, credible websites; and an integrating digital curriculum with Google Docs. The three winning teams will each receive a cash award, Gale products, a one-year subscription to Library Media Connection and the Educator’s Professional Bookshelf from Linworth Publishing/Libraries Unlimited. In addition, the winners will be featured in an article in Library Media Connection. Awards will be presented at a special reception held in conjunction with this year’s American Association of School Librarians annual conference.

Nominations may be submitted by a library media specialist, teacher, principal, student or parent for work done in the 2011-12 or 2012-13 school year. There is no entry fee; however each nomination packet must include six copies of each: completed submission form with appropriate attachments; one-page letter of recommendation from school’s principal or assistant principal on school letterhead; signed release form (available at www.galeschools.com/TEAMS) for each person involved; and photograph of the collaborating media specialist/teaching team.

All entries must be post-marked by July 1, 2013. Winners will be announced in November 2013 at the American Association of School Librarians annual conference in Hartford, CT.

Credo, a provider of information and digital literacy solutions for libraries, has announced that Literati Academic was named a finalist for the 2013 SIIA Education CODiE Awards for Best Education Reference Solution. The SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier awards for the software and information industries, and have been recognizing product excellence for 27 years. The awards have over 75 categories and are organised by industry focus of Content, Education and Software.

This year's program features 23 Education categories, several of which are new or updated to reflect the latest industry trends and business models. Winners will be announced during a special awards dinner at the nation's leading education technology conference, the Ed Tech Industry Summit, in San Francisco on May 6.

Literati Academic combines authoritative scholarly content, innovative technologies and customisable services to help libraries and educational institutions make the most of limited resources. The company has also developed solutions to meet the unique needs of secondary school students, college students, student athletes and public library patrons. Literati Public recently received a CODiE Award for Best General Reference Service.

Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of content enhancement and knowledge services, was among the top 5 nominees at the prestigious IT Innovation Awards presented by Lenovo and powered by NASSCOM and CNBC-TV18. Scope was nominated under the 'Most Innovative Enterprise Project in Inclusive IT' category for its Business Process Management Solutions (BPMS) and other innovative business applications, especially platform-based service delivery.

The other nominees in the final list of 5 contenders included large, reputed Indian companies such as Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd; Larsen & Toubro Power; Surat District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd (SUMUL); and TATA Power Delhi Distribution Limited.

The IT Innovation Awards recognise enterprises for innovation, thought leadership and excellence in adoption of IT to achieve strategic goals and objectives. Scope's IT philosophy has been to standardise process, enable technology, platformise for multi-tenancy and enhance transaction velocity. In terms of IT in business processes, Scope has focused on generating real time metrics from workflow data for real time process management, digital dashboards with slice and dice reports and access to clients for project governance.

Commenting on Scope's entry among the final nominees, Tram Venkatraman, Scope's President, said, "It's a proud moment that we shared space with the giants in their respective industry. This encourages Scope to continue its focus on inclusive IT initiatives that ensure scalability, enhance process velocity, governance to manage the global delivery ecosystem, and a non linear business model."

Earlier in January this year, Scope won the Most Innovative Program Award at the NASSCOM Corporate Awards for Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion - 2012. Scope won the award for its unique implementation of a path-breaking initiative that signalled the empowerment and inclusion of India's educated rural populace. It also delivered on an ambitious diversity agenda that enabled a significant percentile of educated rural women to establish a career in the Indian BPO-KPO Industry.

IEEE Spectrum, the flagship publication of the IEEE, has received the coveted Grand Neal Award during the recently held Association of Business Information & Media Companies' (ABM) 59th Annual Jesse H. Neal Awards ceremony at Pier Sixty in New York City.

This is IEEE Spectrum's third Grand Neal Award, and it is the only publication in the last 20 years to have achieved this distinction. Known as the "Pulitzer Prizes" of the business press, the Neal Awards were established in 1955 and have continuously recognised editorial excellence since their inception.

IEEE Spectrum also won the Neal Award for 'Best Use of Mobile' for its innovative 'Robots for iPad' app. The critically acclaimed app features more than 100 real-world robots, with photos, videos, and interactive animations. IEEE Spectrum plans to release an update for the app, adding even more robots this spring.

Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has been named Publisher of the Year at a Booksellers Association award ceremony on March 13, 2013. It was the eighth time in nine years that OUP collected the Publisher of the Year award at the Conference for Academic, Professional & Specialist Booksellers Awards Ceremony.

The awards are judged by booksellers and Bookseller Association members working in the UK who score publishers throughout the year.

Categories focus specifically on the services being offered to booksellers by publishers such as rep support, engagement with bookshops, which publishers give reasonable terms to booksellers, publishers' websites, support from central or head office services, delivery turnaround times, and publishing.

Academic publisher SAGE has announced that SAGE Reference titles and online library resources continue to receive recognition for their excellence. This year, Library Journal has selected a key SAGE/CQ Press database and eight SAGE titles to be included in its annual Best Reference 2012 feature.

The annual Library Journal Best Reference list recognises the top reference titles that have been reviewed in the journal during the previous year. The honoured titles reflect a diversity of subjects, clearly representing the growing and varied list of significant reference resources available to researchers from SAGE and CQ Press.

Calling it 'sleek' and 'dynamic' and the 'first stop for statistics about the United States,' Library Journal recognised State Stats, (SAGE/CQ Press) as one of the best databases of 2012. The SAGE Reference titles that are being honoured for the Library Journal Best Reference 2012 list include The Encyclopedia of Housing, by Andrew T. Carswell; Encyclopedia of New Venture Management, by Matthew R. Marvel; Encyclopedia of Global Studies, by Helmut K. Anheier & Mark Juergensmeyer; Encyclopedia of U.S. - Latin American Relations, by Thomas M. Leonard; The African American Electorate: A Statistical History, by Walton, Hanes, Jr. & others; Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage, by Carl A. Zimring & William L. Rathje; Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education, by James A. Banks; and The Social History of Crime & Punishment in America: An Encyclopedia, by Wilbur R. Miller.

The London Book Fair has announced that the tenth annual Lifetime Achievement Award in International Publishing, will be awarded to Michael Krüger, CEO of Hanser Verlag. Michael, who began working at Hanser in 1968, is credited with making the publishing house one of the most important literary groups in Germany.

Hanser has published an impressive 16 literary Nobel Prize winners. Of these, Michael is the editor of Milosz, Eugenio Montale, Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Elias Canetti, Thomas Tranströmer and Herta Müller. Michael's impeccable list of award-winning English language writers (both fiction and non-fiction) includes Barack Obama, Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, Michael Ondaatje, Lisa Moore, Nik Cohn, Michael Frayn, Colm Toíbín, Edmund de Waal, Philipp Blom and Robert Harrison.

The Lifetime Achievement Award recognises an individual who has made a truly significant mark in the sphere of global publishing. It is open to publishers, agents, editors, scouts and anyone else involved in international publishing from any country in the world. The award is judged by The London Book Fair Advisory Board, made up of senior figures in the international publishing industry, under the inaugural chairmanship of David Roche, Non-Executive Chair, The London Book Fair.

The London Book Fair's Advisory Board voted on Michael Krüger after debating the merits of a shortlist of international publishing figures.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that six of its works have been included in the 2012 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles List.

Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, published by the American Library Association, is a source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education. Each year in January, Choice publishes a selective list of Outstanding Academic Titles that were reviewed during the previous calendar year. The list includes about ten percent of the 7,000 works reviewed in Choice and is based on criteria such as overall excellence in presentation and scholarship; importance relative to other literature in the field; distinction as a first treatment of a given subject in book or electronic form; originality or uniqueness of treatment; and value to undergraduate students.

The Elsevier titles included in the Outstanding Academic Titles list for 2012 are: Distributed and Cloud Computing by Kai Hwang, Jack Dongarra, Geoffrey Fox; Encyclopedia of Adolescence, Three-Volume Set, by B. Bradford Brown, Mitchell Prinstein; Encyclopedia of Creativity by Mark Runco, Steven Pritzker; Inspec: Engineering Village, an abstracting and indexing database for physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computer science, mechanical, production and manufacturing information; Netter's Neurology by H. Royden Jones, Jayashri Srinivasan, Gregory Allam, Richard Baker, Lahey Clinic, Inc; and The Copenhagen Diagnosis by Ian Allison et al.

Academic publisher SAGE and the British Educational Research Association (BERA) have announced the opening of submissions for the 2013 BERA/SAGE Practitioner Research Awards.

The awards support and encourage excellence in the application of research in practice. They are open to anyone who has used research to develop practice in the UK within the past five years, and working in any sector of education, from nursery to higher education. The awards aim to support and encourage excellence in the application of research in practice; disseminate the results of practitioner research and practice; and help practitioners to improve the quality of their work by example.

There are two separate awards: an award for research-based practice in under 18 settings, and an award for research-based practice in over 18 settings. Submissions can be in a variety of forms, such as an action research project; examples of curriculum or assessment materials; documents highlighting the use of particular pedagogies; a programme of staff development; or any other accounts of research-based practice.

The closing date is May 10, 2013. Winning entries will be awarded a cheque for £500, plus a selection of SAGE books to the value of £200, for the best accounts of research into practice in an educational setting. Winners will also receive access to the BERA conference to receive their prize.

STM publisher Elsevier has announced that it has been recognised with three American Journal of Nursing (AJN) 2012 Book of the Year awards, including two for first place. Elsevier's books were honoured in the Gerontologic Nursing, Maternal and Child Health, and Critical Care-Emergency Nursing categories.

The AJN has published an annual best-of list in nursing publishing since 1969. The judges who review the submissions in the Book of the Year programme are experts in their categories and select and write reviews of the top three.

Ebersole and Hess' Toward Healthy Aging: Human Needs and Nursing Response, edited by Theris A. Touhy and Kathleen Jett (Mosby Elsevier), is stated to be the only gerontological nursing text that follows a wellness-based, holistic approach to older adult care. This title was awarded first place in the Gerontologic Nursing category, which recognises publications focused on understanding older adults and their complex physical, emotional and social needs in all healthcare settings.

Nursing Care of Children: Principles and Practice, edited by Susan Rowen, James, Kristine Ann Nelson and Jean Weiler Ashwill (Saunders Elsevier), takes on a family focus, and teaches growth, development and information on the major body system alterations needed. This title also received first place in the Maternal and Child Health category, which concerns family health and paediatrics.

Sheehy's Manual of Emergency Care, by the Emergency Nurses Association, edited by Belinda B. Hammond and Polly Gerber Zimmermann (Mosby Elsevier), seeks to offer complete, current coverage of the essentials emergency nurses need to know. These include conditions commonly seen in the emergency setting, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, developmental considerations and patient education. This title received third place in the Critical Care-Emergency Nursing category, which recognises publications that address patients in critical care environments and their complex acute and emergent care needs.

Five medical and life science researchers from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean Basin have received the 2013 Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early Career Women Scientists in the Developing World. The recognition was for work that could contribute to life-saving knowledge and therapies worldwide.

The prizes were awarded by the Elsevier Foundation, the Organisation for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) and TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world, to build research capacity and advance scientific knowledge throughout the developing world.

The 2013 winners are being recognised for their research excellence. The prize includes $5,000 and all-expenses paid attendance at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in Boston in February 2013. The winners received their prizes on February 16.

The winners included Central & South Asia: Dr. Nasima Akhter, Center for Nuclear Medicine and Ultrasound, Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, Dhaka Medical College Hospital Campus; East and South-East Asia & the Pacific: Dr. Namjil Erdenechimeg, Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences; Latin America & the Caribbean: Dr. Dionicia Gamboa, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Department of Cellular and Molecular Sciences, Lima; Arab region: Dr. Huda Omer Basaleem, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Aden University, Yemen; and Sub-Saharan Africa: Dr. Adediwura Fred-Jaiyesimi, Department of Pharmacognosy, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria

The 2014 awards will be launched on April 2, 2013 and the theme will be Chemistry.

Scientific and technical publisher Woodhead Publishing Limited, UK, has been announced as a contender for the Frankfurt Book Fair Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year award at this year's Independent Publishing Awards.

The judging panel listed Woodhead's consistently strong sales and incomparable knowledge of the field among its reasons for being shortlisted. 'Woodhead Publishing achieved record sales in 2012 for the 12th successive year. It followed substantial growth in many key export territories and across Woodhead's online business. Judges considered it a textbook example of owner-run publishing.

Also shortlisted for the award are Bloomsbury Publishing's Academic and Professional Division, Edward Elgar Publishing and Liverpool University Press. The winners of all 13 awards will be announced at a Gala Dinner during the IPG's Annual Conference on March 7, 2013 at Heythrop Park in Oxfordshire.

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that its journal ACS Catalysis has been awarded the Association of American Publishers' (AAP) prestigious PROSE Award for "Best New Journal in Science, Technology & Medicine." Launched in January 2011, the journal has already had a tremendous impact on both science and the world by fostering and publishing research that is helping to solve urgent global challenges such as the development of sustainable sources of energy and chemicals.

ACS Catalysis responds to the increasing importance of catalysis across all fields of chemistry and the need for stronger collaboration among chemists using different forms of catalysis. The journal has taken the lead in defining the scope of the entire field, enabling researchers to discover common ground and make new discoveries by drawing from the three traditionally distinct disciplines of heterogeneous, homogeneous and enzymatic catalysis.

ACS Catalysis is led by Editor-in-Chief Christopher W. Jones, New-Vision Professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Adjunct Professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, both at Georgia Institute of Technology. Jones is supported by Associate Editors T. Brent Gunnoe, Philippe Sautet, Huimin Zhao and Susannah Scott. The journal is also guided by a global Editorial Advisory Board consisting of 27 men and women.

Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of content enhancement and knowledge services, has been honoured as the winner of the Most Innovative Program Award at the NASSCOM Corporate Awards for Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion - 2012. The jury, comprising eminent members from NASSCOM and the Industry, followed an extremely rigorous process for evaluating the participants across categories and selecting the final winners.

Scope won the award for its unique implementation of a path-breaking initiative that signalled the empowerment and inclusion of India's educated rural populace. It also delivered on an ambitious diversity agenda that enabled a significant percentile of educated rural women to establish a career in the Indian BPO-KPO Industry. The Scope 3R – Rigorous, Replicable, Rural – empowerment model leverages the huge unharnessed potential of the educated rural talent pool in the country. Powered by innovative engagement and governance, proven & repeatable hiring and training processes, and a technology-enabled service delivery, this 3R model enabled Scope to stabilise and scale its inclusivity & diversity initiatives. The model utilized benchmarked processes for hiring and training deployed at the Indian metro city centers of Scope. The innovation came in the form of cloud hosting the technology engine enabler of the delivery process.

While the Industry perceives rural India as a solution to perform low-end work, Scope's 3R model ensures that educated rural talent has a chance to be engaged in knowledge intensive work, promoting a sense of fulfillment without displacement from their native locations.

Commenting on this accomplishment, Tram Venkatraman, Scope's President, said, "By utilizing a talented rural workforce, Scope has transformed the traditional rural BPO model. Apart from inclusivity, a healthy gender ratio of 50:50 is maintained across our rural locations, promoting economic independence of women in the rural areas. We are delighted to have our program be recognized by NASSCOM."

The American Psychological Association is seeking nominations for the 2013 APA Excellence in Librarianship Award, to be presented at the Educational & Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS) Research Forum at the June 2013 American Library Association Annual Meeting in Chicago.

The APA Excellence in Librarianship Award recognises an outstanding contribution to psychology and behavioural sciences librarianship within the past five years, and consists of a $2,500 cheque and an inscribed plaque. The award is open to both librarians and allied professionals with at least five years of professional experience. It recognises a contribution to psychology and behavioural sciences librarianship including instructions, project development, publications, research or service.

Nominations are now being accepted, and should include a nomination statement which describes the contribution and its significance within and outside of the institution; a current curriculum vitae; and optional supporting documentation may be included with nomination (digital copies or URLs leading to online documentation). Letters of support (no more than three; at least one letter from a direct beneficiary of the services provided by the nominee is strongly encouraged).

The application deadline is April 19, 2013. All materials should be submitted electronically.

Credo, a provider of information and digital literacy solutions for libraries, has announced that Literati Public was named a winner for the 2013 SIIA CODiE Awards for Best General Reference Service. Winners represent the information industry's best products, technologies and services created by or for media, publishers and information services providers.

The Literati solution includes a combination of authoritative reference content, technology that enhances discovery and connects learners with librarians and educators and customisable services that help promote digital and information literacy.

The SIIA CODiE Awards claim to be the industry's only peer-reviewed awards program. The first round review of all nominees is conducted by media, publishing, and information services executives with considerable industry expertise, including members of the industry, analysts, media and bloggers, and bankers and investors. The judges are responsible for selecting the CODiE Awards finalists. SIIA members then vote on the finalist products and scores from both rounds are tabulated to select the winners.

Winners were announced during a special Awards luncheon on January 31 in New York City during the SIIA's annual flagship conference for information industry leaders, IIS 2013: Breakthrough.

The American Journal of Nursing (AJN) has awarded its prestigious AJN Book of the Year award to three nursing textbooks published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health. The LWW publications were honoured in the categories of information technology and informatics, critical care emergency nursing, and community public health.

AJN claims to be the nation's oldest and largest circulating nursing journal and one of the most highly respected in its field. For more than 40 years, AJN's Book of the Year Award competition draws annually hundreds of submissions by authors from various fields in the nursing profession. A distinguished panel of judges select those considered the most valuable texts in a range of categories each year.

Informatics and Nursing: Opportunities and Challenges, by Jeanne Sewell and Linda Q. Thede, was named Information Technology and Informatics Book of the Year. This comprehensive text reviews the concepts and applications of nursing informatics, from computer basics to data usage skills and techniques.

Simulation Simplified: Student Lab Manual for Critical Care Nursing by Sandra Goldsworthy and Leslie Graham, bagged the second place in the Critical Care–Emergency Nursing Book of the Year category. The Student Lab Manual supports students in the completion of electronic patient case simulations, and works in concert with electronic resources and the instructor manual. It provides step by step guidance for complex, open-ended simulations, and takes the mystery, guess work and the difficulty out of completing patient simulations.

Introduction to Community-Based Nursing by Roberta Hunt also bagged the second place in the Community–Public Health Book of the Year category. This text presents foundational concepts pivotal to delivering nursing care in the community setting, with specific attention to the NLN competencies for community-based nursing care. The author examines the variety of settings and situations in which the community-based nurse provides care, highlighting cultural diversities in the patient populations, and emphasising interactions between the individual and the family.

Internet search services provider Google and science magazine Scientific American has announced the launch of the second annual $50,000 Scientific American Science in Action award, powered by the Google Science Fair. The Scientific American Science in Action award honours a project that can make a practical difference by addressing an environmental, health or resources challenge. The Google Science Fair is open to young students aged 13 to 18 and entries are due April 30, 2013.

The finalists and winner of the Scientific American Science in Action award will be drawn from the entry pool of the Google Science Fair by a committee of esteemed judges. In addition to the $50,000 cash prize, the winner will receive one year of mentoring to help realize the goal of her or his project and will be recognized at the 2013 Google Science Fair finalist event in September.

Scientific American has been a partner with the Google Science Fair, an annual international online competition, since it launched in 2011. For the third consecutive year, DiChristina will be the chief judge of the competition. Other partners of the Google Science Fair include CERN near Geneva, LEGO and National Geographic.

RSuite CMS, a content management system for publishers, is an official sponsor of the 2012 PROSE Awards, which will take place at the AAP 2013 Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Annual Conference in Washington, DC from February 6 to 8. Jeff Wood, vice president, business development, RSI Content Solutions will be in attendance.

The PSP Division is part of the Association of American Publishers (AAP). The Division represents the common interests of its members who publish for professional, scholarly, research and commercial markets in such areas as business, law, science, technology, medicine, social and behavioral sciences, and the humanities.

RSuite CMS is an enterprise content management system for publishers and is used by some of the world's largest publishers such as Elsevier Health Sciences, LexisNexis Pacific, and Macmillan Higher Education to create, store, manage, transform, and deliver content.

Scholarly publisher Brill, Netherlands, and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) have announced the new Brill/IFLA Open Access award.

The IFLA/Brill Open Access award is created to reward initiatives that facilitate and/or promote Open Access Scholarly Monographs in the humanities or social sciences. This is in line with IFLA’s stated position on Open Access, which aims to promote open access across its membership. This is also in line with Brill’s open access policy. ‘Open Access’ in the context of this award refers to any structural publication model, where the reader does not have to pay a fee to access the leading version of a monograph and where the content is made available without embargo.

The award will be given to the person/institute behind the initiative in recognition of outstanding work and effort in facilitating, promoting, advocating, raising awareness in regard to and/or disseminating Open Access Scholarly Monographs published with an open license.

Deadline for submissions is April 30, 2013. Decision will be communicated to the winner on May 31, 2013.

Academic publisher SAGE announced that SAGE Knowledge, the social science online library, is a finalist for the 2013 SIIA Content CODiE Awards for Best General Reference Service.

Serving as the pre-eminent awards programme for the software and information industries, the SIIA CODiE Awards have been honouring excellence for 27 years. This year's programme has 75 categories organised by industry focus in Content, Education and Software.

Launched in July of 2012 with more than 2,500 titles, SAGE Knowledge is SAGE's premier social science eBook platform containing an expansive range of SAGE eBooks and eReference content including encyclopaedias, handbooks, advanced textbooks, scholarly monographs, professional development titles, and other selected works from Corwin and CQ Press. The SAGE Knowledge platform is easily navigated, allowing researchers to cross-search and seamlessly access all of its content from one source.

CODiE finalists represent the best products, technologies, and services created by or for media, publishers, and information services providers. CODiE Award winners will be announced during a special luncheon on January 31 in New York City during the SIIA's annual flagship conference for information industry leaders, IIS 2013: Breakthrough.

TEMIS, a US-based provider of Semantic Content Enrichment Solutions for the Enterprise, has announced that its flagship Luxid Content Enrichment Platform was named a finalist for the 2013 SIIA Content CODiE Awards for "Best Semantic Technology Solution."

Serving as the pre-eminent awards programme for the software and information industries, the SIIA CODiE Awards have been honouring excellence for 27 years. This year's programme has 75 categories organised by industry focus in Content, Education and Software.

Finalists in the Content categories represent the best products, technologies, and services created by or for media, publishers, and information services providers. CODiE Award winners will be announced during a special luncheon on January 31 in New York City during the SIIA's annual flagship conference for information industry leaders, IIS 2013: Breakthrough.

In 2010, TEMIS won the CODiE Award for "Best Business Intelligence or Knowledge Management Solution." This year, TEMIS was selected for its excellence in the "Best Semantic Technology Solution" category. This award recognises the Best Semantic Technology Platform specifically designed for media, publishers & information providers. Nominees include solutions that range from automated tagging and analysis to semantic advertising and content enrichment that can be industry focused (e.g. scientific) or designed for general or broad information.

Pearson's Online Learning Exchange (OLE) – an innovative web- and mobile-ready learning platform – earned top honours in the 2012 'Tech & Learning' Awards of Excellence. Celebrating its 30th year, this recognition programme honours K-12 technology products that break new ground, as well as those that added significant enhancements to proven education tools.

With Online Learning Exchange, high-quality content combined with flexible tools enable teachers and students to exchange ideas, collaborate and enhance the learning experience. Supporting any curriculum, OLE brings together tools for teachers to aggregate their own content, quality third-party resources, and numerous digital assets from Pearson's research-based instructional materials – all tagged by subject, grade and educational standard.

With Online Learning Exchange, teachers can build customised lessons; search for content by keyword, course and standard; upload their own content right alongside Pearson content; track student progress via homework and tests; and access eTexts.

This is the first 'Tech & Learning' Award of Excellence for OLE, which launched in June 2011. Online Learning Exchange is featured in the December 2012 issue of 'Tech & Learning' magazine, as well as on the website.

EBSCO Information Services, US, has announced that the deadline is approaching for libraries interested in submitting entries for the first ever LibraryAware Community Award. Submissions must be postmarked by February 1. The award recognises cities and towns and their libraries, or library systems, that have demonstrated their ability to make the community aware of what the library can do for them—and have delivered on that promise. The award is given by Library Journal and underwritten by LibraryAware, a product of the NoveList division of EBSCO Publishing.

The LibraryAware Community Award highlights the value that communities throughout the US and Canada derive from their libraries and focuses on the outcomes of work by libraries—through the development of effective programmes, services, partnerships and communications—that result in better communities and an increased understanding of how libraries contribute to a community's well-being.

The award will be given annually to a community of any size and its library during National Library Week. It will be presented to the city or town officials and the library director. The city or town will receive a plaque identifying it as a 'LibraryAware' community. The winning library will receive $10,000, with second place receiving $7500, and third place receiving $5000. The first winners will be announced in April 2013 and the winning library will be featured in an article in Library Journal that same month.

Additional information about the submission guidelines is available on the Library Journal website at: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/awards/libraryaware-community-award/.

Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, was ranked by KLAS as the top order set software in its annual report on the clinical decision support solutions market. The report, "Clinical Decision Support 2012: Order Sets, Care Plans, Drug Databases", also ranked Medi-Span highest among drug database vendors for configurability and a close second in alert types enabled.

ProVation Order Sets outscored the competition on several key indicators, including overall satisfaction, product quality, ease of use and quality of phone/web support, as well as delivery of new technology and ability to support integration goals. It also scored highest on the question of whether or not users were getting their money's worth. Further, 100 percent of users surveyed indicated that ProVation Order Sets was part of their organisation's long-term plans and 97 percent indicated they would purchase the solution again.

KLAS, an independent healthcare IT vendor research firm that recognises healthcare vendors for their leadership in working with customers to ensure satisfaction, compiled the 2012 report based on interviews with 249 providers about their approach to CDS and level of success overcoming key problems including workflow and EMR integration and alert fatigue management.

ProVation Order Sets received above-average ratings for the ease with which order sets can be maintained and updated, in particular for its One Click Updates tool that alerts users to new evidence and enables changes to be applied across multiple order sets in a single step. Also scoring high was the ability to manage governance and consensus around order sets, reportedly due in large part to the software's direct links to UpToDate, the resource of choice for more than 600,000 clinicians worldwide.

Though no overall rankings were established for drug databases, Medi-Span received solid performance scores in most areas. Clients reported a good overall experience and were more satisfied with Medi-Span than were clients of other drug databases with the progress made in managing alerts.

Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that it has been ranked second overall among software vendors in the 2012 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software and Professional Services report. Only Epic outranked the company in the annual report from KLAS, an independent healthcare IT vendor research firm that recognises healthcare vendors for their leadership in working with customers to ensure satisfaction.

Six Wolters Kluwer Health solutions were included in the 2012 Awards. ProVation MD received top ranking in the Clinical Procedure Documentation category for the sixth consecutive year, while ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, received the highest product quality rating in the Clinical Decision Support-Order Sets and Care Plans category. At 97 percent, ProVation Order Sets also had the highest percentage of users indicating they would purchase the product again.

In the Clinical Decision Support-Referential category, 96 percent of UpToDate users and 91 percent of Lexicomp Online users said they would buy the products again. In the Infection Control and Monitoring category, 92 percent of Sentri7 Infection Prevention users indicated they would purchase the patient surveillance technology again. MediRegs ComplyTrack Suite received top ranking in the RAC Management category.

The annual Best in KLAS Awards seeks to measure performance based on customer surveys and in-depth interviews and gauges insight into specific strengths, weaknesses and future expectations for companies and their products. For the 2012 report, KLAS conducted more than 20,000 total interviews with providers to determine the performance of hundreds of software and professional services firms and their offerings.

Technology media company TechTarget, Inc. has been awarded winner of Best of B-to-B Video Campaign in the annual Digiday Video Awards for its 'Embracing Mobile Chaos' campaign designed for its client BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion. The Digiday Video Awards, held December 13th in New York City by Digiday Media, honour overall excellence and breakthrough achievement in video media, marketing and advertising. Other finalists in the category were Motorola and Casale Media.

The "Embracing Mobile Chaos" programme was developed and executed by TechTarget Custom Media to elevate awareness of mobile device management and consumerization of IT (BYOD) challenges, while simultaneously highlighting how the BlackBerry portfolio solves those challenges. Produced in conjunction with in-house technology guru, Brian Madden, TechTarget Custom Media delivered an ongoing series of over 20 video vignettes featured within a custom branded microsite, Embracing Mobile Chaos, and via Custom Brand Engage rich media ad units across relevant sites in the TechTarget network.

Leveraging unique and humorous video content that highlights user and IT pain points paired with in-depth content on BlackBerry mobile device management solutions, allowed TechTarget to drive a significant increase in both awareness and consideration for BlackBerry.

Medical information provider The BMJ Group, UK, has announced that entries for the BMJ Group Improving Health Awards 2013 are now open with a range of new categories designed to recognise excellence in medical practice.

A total of 14 categories are up for grabs and this year's high-profile judges include Chair of Council at the Royal College of General Practitioners, Dr Clare Gerada and Clinical Vice President of the Royal College of Physicians Dr Linda Patterson. Plus, star of CBeebies Get Well Soon and paediatrician Dr Raj Singh.

The winners will be announced at a ceremony held at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge on May 9, 2013. For the fourth year, medical insurer, the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS) will be the headline sponsor of the awards.

New categories for 2013 reflect the changing world of healthcare and include teams of the year for: Diabetes, Cardiovascular medicine, Cancer Care, Child Health, Emergency Medicine, Renal medicine and Mental Health. Also new for 2013 is the Doctor of the Year award, the winner of which will be selected from all short-listed entries following a nomination from their team.

These new categories are in addition to the usual: Research Paper, Improvement in Patient Safety, Primary Care Team, Excellence in Healthcare Education and Transforming Patient Care Using Technology.

A previous category, Clinical Leader of the Year has been amended to reflect clinical leadership teams and the Karen Woo award (introduced in 2012) will go to the best surgical team of the year. This award was set up in memory of Karen Woo, a general surgeon killed in Afghanistan in 2010 while working for a relief charity.

Entrants have until February 1, 2013 to enter.

McGraw-Hill Construction, a US-based provider of project and product information on the construction industry, has announced that Dodge BuildShare was named a finalist for the 2013 SIIA Content CODiE Awards for Best Business Information Solution.

Dodge BuildShare is a web-based diagnostic platform that identifies key relationships between industry firms and connects them to the construction projects they have worked on, delivering competitive market share analysis and driving business growth. BuildShare's digital dashboards analyse existing relationships among over 250,000 active owners, contractors, and design and engineering firms.

Serving as the pre-eminent awards programme for the software and information industries, the SIIA CODiE Awards have been honouring excellence for 27 years. This year's programme has 75 categories organised by industry focus in Content, Education and Software.

Finalists in the Content categories represent the best products, technologies, and services created by or for media, publishers, and information services providers. CODiE Award winners will be announced during a special luncheon on January 31 in New York City during the SIIA's annual flagship conference for information industry leaders, IIS 2013: Breakthrough.

Credo, a provider of information and digital literacy solutions for libraries, has announced that Literati Public has been named a finalist for the 2013 SIIA Content CODiE Awards for Best General Reference Service.

Serving as the pre-eminent awards programme for the software and information industries, the SIIA CODiE Awards have been honouring excellence for 27 years. This year's programme has 75 categories organised by industry focus in Content, Education and Software. Finalists in the Content categories represent the best products, technologies, and services created by or for media, publishers, and information services providers.

Literati Public, developed in close partnership with public librarians, is a customisable solution that promotes the mission of public libraries by combining Credo's content with newly developed platform technology. Its combination of innovative technology, engaging content and customised services promote digital and information literacy. More than 100 libraries have subscribed to Literati Public since it launched less than three months ago.

CODiE Award winners will be announced during a special luncheon on January 31 in New York City during the SIIA's annual flagship conference for information industry leaders, IIS 2013: Breakthrough.

The American Library Association (ALA) is now accepting submissions for the John Cotton Dana Award (JCD). The award, which is managed by the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) division of ALA, honours outstanding library public relations. Eight $10,000 grants are awarded each year by the H.W. Wilson Foundation and the annual Awards Tea is sponsored by the ALA and EBSCO Publishing.

The award is named after John Cotton Dana, the father of the modern library, credited with helping transition libraries from reading rooms to community centers. JCD submissions include strategic library communication campaigns from all sizes and types of libraries. Submissions include re-branding efforts, promoting unique archives, awareness campaigns and community partnerships. Entries may be submitted by any library, Friends group, consulting agency or service provider, excluding libraries represented by the JCD Committee members.

JCD entries are organised around the areas such as needs assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation. Libraries submit samples of their processes, research, media releases, media coverage or other results received plus evaluation of the results and other documentation and supporting materials that show the scope and effectiveness of the library's strategic communication effort.

In recognition of their achievement, JCD award winners receive a cash development grant from the H.W. Wilson Foundation. The John Cotton Dana Awards are presented during an Awards Tea hosted by EBSCO Publishing held during the American Library Association annual conference. Entry documents are available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/jcd. All entries must be submitted by February 1, 2013.

Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has announced the winners of the 2012 Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science (Nordic countries). Three scientists - Staffan Normark, Anders Hagfeldt and Jens Nielsen - all based in Sweden, were honoured for their outstanding efforts to mentor young researchers, during a seminar at the Nobel Forum, Karolinska Institutet, in Stockholm, Sweden.

The prizes were presented by Dr Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief of Nature, and Professor Hans Wigzell, chair of judges for the 2012 Awards, and former President of Karolinska Institutet.

Launched in 2005, the annual Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science recognise outstanding scientific mentorship and focus on a specific country or countries each year. 2012 focused on the Nordic countries.

The American Institute of Physics has called for entries for the 2013 American Institute of Physics (AIP) Science Communication Awards. The Awards recognise effective science communication in print and new media in order to improve the general public's appreciation of physics, astronomy, and allied science fields.

Winners will receive a prize of $3,000, an engraved presentation piece, and a certificate of recognition. The publisher of the winning entries will also receive a certificate of recognition.

Candidates may nominate their own work or be nominated by someone else. This year, entrants can compete in three categories - Science writing, Writing for children and New media.

Candidates must specify the category in which they are competing for each submitted work. No more than three entries may be submitted by a single author or group of authors per year. Authors may elect to have multiple (up to three) submissions judged as a single entry if they are part of a coherent story arc. Collaborative efforts on a single project will be considered a single entry, and prize money will be split accordingly.

Entries must be postmarked or received by February 22, 2013.

Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that it has won awards in three categories at the 2012 FOLIO: Eddie & Ozzie Awards. Sponsored by FOLIO: Magazine, the Eddie & Ozzie awards represent one of the industry's largest, most prestigious awards competitions for magazine and digital editorial and design excellence.

Four LWW journals took home silver and bronze awards in 3 categories. The April 2012 issue of Neurology Now, an official publication of the American Academy of Neurology, was declared Bronze winner in the Best App, Business to Business category. The July 2011 issue of Nursing2011 bagged the Silver award in the Full Issue, Business to Business, Healthcare/Medical/Nursing category. The Nurse Practitioner, November 2011 issue was announced Bronze Winner in the Full Issue, Business to Business, Healthcare/Medical/Nursing category. AJN: American Journal of Nursing, "Deactivation of ICDs at the End of Life", October 2011 issue won the silver award in the Single Article, Business to Business, Healthcare/Medical/Nursing category.

The LWW winners were among the 355 finalists narrowed down from more than 2,000 entries. Finalists received gold, silver or bronze awards. The annual Eddie and Ozzie awards competition is the largest of its kind for magazine publishers and is open to national and regional magazines in various categories, including consumer, B-to-B, society and non-profit associations.

The Eddies honour the best in editorial; the Ozzies, the best in design. Magazines are judged on how well they fulfill their stated mission, the quality of their content, and their overall design and production.

Knovel, provider of a Web-based application integrating technical information with analytical and search tools, has announced that it has been named to the 2012-2013 EContent 100.

The 2012-2013 EContent 100 list identifies the top 100 companies in the digital content industry. Companies are selected by a panel of eight judges. This is the third consecutive year Knovel has been selected for this list, totalling seven appearances since 2003.

Knovel offers an unmatched depth and breadth of validated engineering content, as well as optimised search and data analysis tools, giving engineers convenient access and the ability to analyze, document and incorporate data into their everyday work.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the winners of the 2012 Semantic Web Challenge (SWC). Determined by a jury of leading experts from both academia and industry, winners were announced at the International Semantic Web Conference recently held in Boston, MA. The challenge and allocated prizes were sponsored by Elsevier.

SWC contestants competed in any of two challenge categories - 'Open Track' and 'Billion Triples Track'. Open Track contestants are required to submit applications that utilise the semantics (meaning) of data and applications are designed to operate in an open web environment where information sources are under diverse ownership and control. Billion Triples Track contestants had to reason with a pre-supplied, very big data set of mixed quality.

Of this year's 24 submissions, the panel of experts selected 4 Open Track Challenge winners and 1 Billion Triples Track winner.

The SWC was set up in 2003 to showcase the very latest in semantic web technology. Over the years the challenge has attracted over 165 submissions from across the globe. Every year the final rounds of this competition take place at the annual International Semantic Web Conference. The continuing maturity of the tools and components used to build applications has resulted in increasingly more compelling demonstrations.

Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that the Technical Services team for its Ovid and LWW journals business recently received the coveted NorthFace ScoreBoard Award from Omega Management Group Corp for achieving excellence in customer service and support in 2011. A pioneer in innovative customer experience management (CEM) strategies, Omega initiated the award in 2000 to recognise world-class customer service organisations based exclusively on customer ratings.

Earlier in the year, Wolters Kluwer Technical Services was awarded both a Top 100 Center of Excellence designation and a Center of Excellence certification from Benchmark Portal.

As part of the NorthFace ScoreBoard Award Audit Program, Omega reviews and rates a company's entire customer service process on a quarterly basis, including areas such as technical support, customer services, training, and other aspects. Omega's ratings are based on survey responses from the company's customers. Companies that achieve a customer satisfaction rating of 4.0 or above - out of a possible 5.0 - over a 12-month period receive the award. Wolters Kluwer achieved a top score of 4.8 to be considered in best in class.

Thomson Reuters, a leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, has announced that four organisations have been recognised as India's most innovative and named as the recipients of the Thomson Reuters India Innovation Awards 2012. First established in 2007, the Awards recognise the most innovative academic institutions and commercial enterprises headquartered in India for their spirit of innovation in Research & Development (R&D).

The four Award recipients were selected based on research and analysis using Thomson Reuters Derwent World Patents Index, Derwent Patent Citations Index and Thomson Innovation. The 2012 Award recipients are decided by analysing their innovation through patented technology as recorded in Thomson Reuters patent information services.

Criteria for the 2012 Awards include the number of Basic Inventions each organisation published from 2010-2011; its ratio of granted patents to Basic Inventions; the global reach of the portfolio (protecting an invention in major world markets is an indication that an organisation places a significant value on those pieces of their intellectual property); and the overall influence of the portfolio as determined by international citations of its research. The Award recipients of the past two years are excluded from consideration for the award although they are still included in this year's analysis.

Ten of Taiwan's most innovative companies and academic institutions were recently honoured at an award presentation during the inaugural 'Thomson Reuters Taiwan Innovation Awards 2012'. This is the first time that the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters is organising the Awards to recognize the most innovative commercial enterprises and academic institutions headquartered in Taiwan for their spirit of innovation in Research & Development (R&D).

Ten organisations received recognition in one of two sectors: Corporate and Academic. The recipients were selected based on research and analysis using Thomson Reuters Derwent World Patents Index (DWPISM), Derwent Patents Citation Index and Thomson Innovation. Their innovation was assessed according to a series of proprietary, patent-based metrics, including the level of patented technology originating in Taiwan (Taiwan as priority market).

Criteria for the 2012 Taiwan Innovation Awards included the size of the patent portfolio, success rate (ratio of applications to granted patents), global protection of the invention and influence of the innovation (as determined by the number of citations to the original invention).

Derwent World Patents Index (DWPISM) claims to be the world's most trusted source of patent information, expertly indexed and featuring enhanced titles and comprehensive abstracts. Highly qualified editorial staff produce English-language titles and abstracts for over 47 major patent-issuing authorities, enabling insight that otherwise would be missed. There are over 20.7 million unique inventions covering more than 45.2 million patent records in DWPI; the invention-based documentation allows users to see worldwide protection for a single invention. DWPI provides access to established and emerging innovation centers globally, covering agricultural and veterinary medicine, electronic/ electrical engineering, chemistry, pharmaceuticals and polymers, high technology and much more.

McGraw-Hill Education, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., US, has announced that LearnSmart has surpassed one million student users since the product launched in fall 2009. The announcement was made at the 2012 EDUCAUSE conference being held from November 6-9 in Denver.

In 2012, adaptive learning became one of the most important and exciting trends in education technology, and in that year McGraw-Hill Education cemented its status as the adaptive learning leader, celebrating a number of milestones for McGraw-Hill LearnSmart™ – the company's industry-leading adaptive study tool – as it helped colleges and instructors improve student performance.

At the conference, McGraw-Hill Education is showcasing LearnSmart and previewing how it is introducing the adaptive technology behind LearnSmart to other areas of the course lifecycle where students are likely to benefit from a more personalised learning experience.

McGraw-Hill Education was one of the first learning companies to enter the adaptive learning arena with the introduction of the LearnSmart personal digital tutor in 2009. LearnSmart continuously assesses students' knowledge on a given subject and delivers highly personalised recommendations to create a study path that meets students' individual learning needs. The milestone of one million student users bears special significance for LearnSmart - as students answer more questions within LearnSmart, the system becomes more familiar with student learning patterns and becomes better able to assess each student's knowledge and skills to provide personalized study recommendations.

McGraw-Hill Education's new adaptive learning solutions, to be previewed at EDUCAUSE, combine with LearnSmart to provide a more comprehensive adaptive and personalised approach to the entire learning experience. The new solutions will serve McGraw-Hill Education's larger goal of improving student performance by ensuring that students are knowledgeable and confident about the baseline concepts and information they need to succeed prior to starting higher-level courses, as well as by enabling meaningful scientific exploration and learning within a photo-realistic virtual lab environment.

McGraw-Hill Education continues to explore new and expanded distribution models to increase student access to LearnSmart.

Gale, part of Cengage Learning and publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, has announced that its eBook platform, Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL), has been voted 'Best Overall Database' by the readers of Library Journal magazine. The company plans to commemorate the win with an unprecedented giveaway.

Non-GVRL customers - all U.S. school, public and academic libraries, as well as Canadian public and academic libraries - will be receiving a collection of 15 of the most popular eBooks. As a thank you for their support, existing GVRL customers can select one free eBook from a list of yet unpublished titles. Current customers can contact their Gale sales representative to select their title, and new customers can sign up at http://galesupport.com/giveaway/.

The November 1st issue of Library Journal presents the list of 'Best Databases' as voted by readers in several categories. GVRL was selected as the "Best Overall" for its depth and features - it hosts more than 9,000 full-text titles from Gale and more than 80 other publishers. GVRL's user-friendly features include an interface that is available in more than 30 languages, ReadSpeaker technology (text-to-speech functionality) for 19 languages, article translation capability, a multi-page viewer for a book-like experience, and the ability to download articles as PDFs to ereaders or MP3 players. Gale also offers promotional help for customers including widgets, MARC records and other tools.

Cengage Learning's Questia, the premier online research and paper-writing tool for students, also secured a position on the 'Best Databases' List. It was voted 'Best Upgrade' for the latest enhancements to its website. Questia recently expanded its online library, added an interactive reader and improved navigation to cut down on research time.

ebrary, a ProQuest business, has announced that its flagship e-book subscription collection, Academic Complete, has been awarded the title of Library Journal's Best E-book Database. The award, which was voted on by numerous reference librarians, further strengthens Academic Complete's position as the best valued e-book database in the industry and marks the second highly esteemed title for Academic Complete in addition to the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title (OAT) designation.

Academic Complete is a key component to ebrary's strategic approach to e-book acquisition based on three steps - Transition, Diversify, and Streamline. Many ebrary customers use Academic Complete as an affordable, high quality base collection of academic e-books with coverage in all disciplines, then examine their usage statistics to determine where to apply additional budget in patron driven acquisition, short-term loan, and perpetual archive.

Library Journal also awarded ProQuest's CultureGrams the title of Best for Reports. With its aim to foster understanding and appreciation of the world's peoples by documenting the unique details of their customs, traditions, and daily life, CultureGrams has consistently struck a chord with librarians and educators in the education, government, and non-profit arenas.

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced the winner of its 2012 Charleston Conference Scholarship - Zeeshan Ullah, assistant librarian at Central Library, Islamia College Peshawar, Pakistan. This year's event - the 32nd Annual Charleston Conference, titled 'Accentuate the Positive' - will be held November 7 – 10, 2012, in Charleston, S.C.

Applicants for the scholarship were asked to consider the topic 'Looking for the Silver Lining: Positive Outcomes from Troubled Times' and submit a short essay detailing how a potentially negative situation could yield or has yielded a positive outcome as a result of implementing resourceful strategies in the library.

This is EBSCO's fourth year sponsoring a Charleston Conference scholarship; funds must be used by the winning librarian for conference registration and related expenses. Judges for this year's scholarship were Katina Strauch, head of collection development, College of Charleston; Rick Anderson, associate director for scholarly resources and collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah; and Kittie Henderson, director of academic and law divisions, EBSCO Information Services.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, in partnership with the Federal Coordination of Improvement of Personnel in Higher Education (Capes / MEC), has announced the winners of the second edition of SciVal Award Brazil 2012, honouring higher education and research institutions for their contribution to the scientific development of the country.

According to Scopus data, Brazil holds the 13th position globally in research output per country. The award honours Brazilian education and research institutions that stand out for their excellence in research performance. The ten winners were selected according to research performance indicators drawn from Elsevier's tool SciVal Spotlight, such as collaboration with Brazilian and foreign institutions and citations per document.

The SciVal Award also takes place in other countries, as a way of honouring representatives of several scientific communities.

Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that eight Nobel Prize winners have published their work with Wiley. To celebrate the achievements of all Nobel winners, Wiley is making a selection of content from this and past year's winners of Nobel Prizes in all areas free to access until the end of the year.

Sir John B. Gurdon, UK, and Professor Shinya Yamanaka, Japan, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent. Both winners are published Wiley authors. Sir John Gurdon has authored several book chapters on genetics and stem cells, as well as articles in four journals. Professor Yamanaka has written articles in six journals as well as an article to be published in the Encyclopedia of Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine, coming in spring 2013.

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Professor Robert J. Lefkowitz and Professor Brian K. Kobilka, of the USA, for studies of G-protein–coupled receptors. Both Professors Lefkowitz and Kobilka have published articles in many Wiley journals. Professor Lefkowitz has also authored the introductory chapters of two books, including G Protein-Coupled Receptors as Drug Targets: Analysis of Activation and Constitutive Activity, Volume 24.

Professor Serge Haroche, France and Dr. David J. Wineland, USA, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems. Both winners have authored articles for Wiley journals including Fortschritte der Physik and Annalen Der Physik as well as several book chapters.

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2012 has been awarded jointly to Professors Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley, of the USA, for their work on the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design. Professor Roth has published articles in Wiley's economic journals, as well as contributing to a series of papers on kidney donation in the American Journal of Transplantation. Professor Shapley has published articles in five journals including four papers in Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, which Professor Roth has also published three papers in.

Interested parties may visit the Nobel Prize pages on Wiley Online Library for access to free content by Nobel winning authors until the end of the year.

Scientific and medical publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has won the first prize in the Radiology category and Highly Commended in the Internal Medicine and Surgical Specialties categories at the 2012 British Medical Association's (BMA) Medical Book Awards ceremony held recently in London.

The first prize in the Radiology category went to Teaching Atlas of Mammography, Fourth Edition by László Tabár and Peter B. Dean. It contains revised and expanded case studies that provide instructive long-term follow-up of patients over a period of up to 25 years.

Endoscopic Ultrasound, Second Edition by Christoph Frank Dietrich won Highly Commended in the Internal Medicine category. This combined textbook and atlas contains chapters on contrast-enhanced EUS techniques, SonoElastography and Hot Spots of Interventional EUS and Portal Hypertension. It is also said to include precise clinical descriptions and valuable tips and techniques for diagnosis and treatment.

Other titles have also won Highly Commended in the Surgical Specialties category. They include Handbook of Spine Surgery by Ali A. Baaj, Praveen V. Mummaneni, Juan S. Uribe, Alexander R. Vaccaro, and Mark S. Greenberg. Authoritative, concise and portable, this handbook is designed for use in a fast-paced clinical setting, according to Thieme.

Also included is Salivary Gland Disorders and Diseases: Diagnosis and Management by Patrick J. Bradley and Orlando Guntinas-Lichius. From new findings at the molecular level, to diagnostic advances in cytopathology, histopathology, biochemistry and imaging studies, this book covers various diagnostic and therapeutic developments and innovations in the field. Its clear, concise and heavily illustrated approach is stated to make it ideal for use by both beginners and more experienced surgeons and physicians.

Established in 1996, the BMA Medical Book Awards encourages and rewards excellence in medical publishing. All entries are judged by physicians and educators.

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced that Dr Antony Williams, VP for Strategic Development and Head of the Cheminformatics group, for the RSC has been honoured by Microsoft Research for his outstanding contribution to the field of data-intensive computing, especially for his work on the ChemSpider platform.

Williams received the 2012 Jim Gray eScience Award at a banquet marking the end of this year's Microsoft eScience Workshop in Chicago, Illinois.

The award - named after Jim Gray, a Technical Fellow for Microsoft Research and a Turing Award winner - recognises innovators whose work makes science easier for scientists.

ChemSpider is a freely available chemical structure database that provides fast text and structure search access to data and links for over 28 million chemicals, from hundreds of data sources. Data on the ChemSpider platform can be deposited, annotated and curated by the chemical sciences community and claims to be one of the richest sources of integrated chemistry information available online.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the winners of the Mosby's Suite "Superheroes of Nursing" contest, designed for peers to single out real-life superheroes in the nursing profession. Created by Elsevier in 2011, the contest is part of a nationwide campaign to recognise nurses who represent four key categories – The Validators, The Achievers, The Educators and The Protectors – and identify how they address the issues they face daily.

The winners will be recognised at the Elsevier booth, Booth 1201, during the 2012 American Nurses Credentialing Center Magnet Conference, Los Angeles, Calif., October 10-12.

Elsevier will also demonstrate its new Elsevier Infobutton, a service that provides context-specific links to content within Elsevier products that are licensed by an institution. Mosby's Nursing Consult and Skills customers that link their EHR (electronic health record) to the Elsevier Infobutton service will be able to connect to relevant content from clinical terms within the patient record.

Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that Roitt's Essential Immunology, 12th Edition, has won the British Medical Association (BMA) Book of the Year Award. The BMA Medical Book Awards aim to encourage and reward excellence in medical publishing. Prizes are awarded in 21 categories, with the overall Book of the Year selected from the category winners.

Chosen from over 700 published titles, Roitt's Essential Immunology was commended as an excellent example of a modern textbook. The book also won first prize in the Basic and Clinical Sciences section of the awards.

Sherlock's Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System, also in its 12th edition, won first prize in the Internal Medicine section as did The Concise Guide to Pediatric Arrhythmias in the Cardiology section.

Fourteen other Wiley titles were also highly commended in the awards.

Not-for-profit life sciences publisher CABI has announced that the Plantwise Knowledge Bank, a new initiative from the company, has been highly commended in the Publishing Innovation category at the 2012 ALPSP awards.

Part of the wider Plantwise programme, the Knowledge Bank helps extension workers, government organisations and researchers support farmers by providing vital information on essential crops and the pests and diseases which attack them. The awarding panel noted that the resource is intuitive and disarmingly simple with clear practical benefits. They also recognised the geospatially indexed content and field observations, which connect farmers in developing countries to reliable plant health information.

A key challenge for any global resource is to deliver locally applicable results and this is particularly true in agriculture. Knowledge Bank users can start their search from a homepage tailored to their country to ensure they are seeing geographically relevant information. They can also explore interactive distribution maps if they need a more regional or worldwide view. The diagnostic tool then identifies plant diseases and pests from pictures of symptoms and a range of factsheets provide information on possible treatments.

Access to validated science-based information helps farmers and those who support them bring more crops to maturity. These crops feed farmers and their families, as well as contributing to the wider food security of countries across the world. The Plantwise Knowledge Bank currently holds over 1600 factsheets to help extension workers, government organizations and researchers identify solutions and the resource is continuing to grow.

The Association of American Publishers has announced that entries are now being accepted through October 31 for the 2012 PROSE Awards, the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence.

The PROSE Awards, one of the most prestigious programs honoring works in professional and scholarly publishing, launches its 37th season having enjoyed record numbers of submissions for the past four years including 512 entries from 65 different publishing organisations in 2011.

The PROSE Awards accepts submissions in more than 40 categories for books, reference works, journals and electronic products. Publishers that are members of AAP or the Association of American University Presses are eligible to enter. Submissions are judged by a 14-person panel of peer publishers, librarians and academics and are evaluated based on depth of scholarship, contribution to the field of study, significance of the work and excellence in content and design. Complete entry information is on the PROSE Awards website.

Winners will be announced at a luncheon ceremony during the AAP Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Annual Conference on February 7, 2013 in Washington, DC. The ceremony will be live-streamed and feature many new elements recognising the diversity of the professional and scholarly publishing community.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the Australasian Research Management Society (ARMS) have awarded the winners of the 3rd annual Scopus Young Researcher of the Year Awards 2012, at the ARMS 14th annual conference at Australia, Gold Coast.

The Scopus Young Researcher of the Year Awards is part of a global initiative by Elsevier recognising outstanding young scientists and researchers. The Awards support early career researchers in their quest to advance the frontiers of science across a broad range of disciplines.

One hundred and forty-nine young researchers, employed at institutions of higher education across Australia and New Zealand, submitted their research for consideration for the respective award categories: Humanities and Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Life Sciences and Biological Sciences and Medicine and Medical Sciences.

The winners and finalists were selected by an independent panel of three experts per category. Applicants were evaluated largely based on the key criteria: research impact (taking into account the average number of citations per paper and H-index derived from Scopus), external impact and esteem contribution.

The Young Researcher Awards has been designed to recognise outstanding young scientists and researchers in Australasia who have made significant contributions in their areas of research. The winners and finalists for the Awards are selected by an independent panel of three experts per category. The Young Researcher Awards has been launched across several countries including India, China, Brazil, South East Asia and Spain.

Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has been named the Bronze winner at the Chief Learning Officer (CLO) Learning in Practice Awards for Excellence in Content Category.

EBSCO, a provider of online resources for research and corporate training, has made online information resources available to millions of users around the world for more than 20 years. EBSCO provides premium learning content mapped to core competencies.

The CLO Excellence in Content Award recognises vendors that have created superior customised or off-the-shelf learning content. Chief Learning Officer’s panel of judges, composed of industry experts and executives from some of the world's largest and most-respected companies, received a record number of nominations this year. EBSCO Publishing was one of the top entries in the Excellence in Content category.

EBSCO’s learning resources provide customers with easy access to content that match the company’s core competencies and fit into the corporate workflow. The content in Business Source Corporate helps customers find relevant results fast, from sources not found on the Web, and reduces the amount of time employees spend searching for information. BSC content provides each employee with an unprecedented collection of business periodicals designed to meet the diverse information and learning needs of today’s companies.

Content in EBSCO's Leadership & Management Source was also instrumental in achieving the award. Leadership & Management Source is a turnkey solution that supports formal and informal learning programmes and encourages contextual learning. Leadership & Management Source provides pre-populated, highly relevant content from thought leaders on leadership and management best practices and benchmarks and can be accessed through LMS, Sharepoint, mobile devices and more. The resource offers access to business book summaries, magazine and journal articles from more than 300 periodicals covering the essentials of management and leadership, e-books, videos, competency testing and more — continually updated content that is mapped to the most requested organizational competencies.

The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced its 2012 'Nobel-class' Citation Laureates. Annually, Thomson Reuters citation analysts mine proprietary data from the company's research platform, Web of Knowledge, to identify the most influential researchers in the categories of chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, and economics. Based on a thorough review of citations to their research, the company names these high-impact researchers as Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates and predicts them to be Nobel Prize winners, either this year or in the future.

The Citation Laureates rank among the top one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) of researchers in their fields in terms of citation impact, based on citations of their published papers over the last three decades. The 2012 Laureates include 21 influential researchers whose high-profile discoveries cover pioneering work such as quantum teleportation (Charles H. Bennett of IBM Corporation, Gilles Brassard of the University of Montreal and William K. Wootters of Williams College); the experimental demonstration of "slow light" (Stephen E. Harris of Stanford University and Lene V. Hau of Harvard University); and fundamental discoveries in genetic regulation (C. David Allis of Rockefeller University and Michael Grunstein of University of California, Los Angeles).

Also among the high-profile achievements of this year's picks is the pioneering work in financial market volatility and the dynamics of asset prices by Robert Shiller of Yale University. Shiller is known as the author of the best-selling book Irrational Exuberance, which warned of the damaging stock and housing market bubbles.

Thirteen of the 2012 Citation Laureates hail from American institutions, two are from Canada, three from Japan and three from the United Kingdom. Now in its eleventh consecutive year of predictions, Thomson Reuters has successfully predicted 26 Nobel Prize recipients to date.

ProQuest, an information company central to global research, has been named in the 2012 InformationWeek 500, an annual listing of the nation's most innovative users of business technology. ProQuest is known for its creation of information and technology tools that support research.

InformationWeek is a premier source of news and analysis of leading-edge products and vendors in the business IT industry. Its InformationWeek 500 list is considered unique among industry rankings for its spotlight on the power of innovation in information technology.

This is ProQuest's fourth consecutive appearance in the InfoWeek 500. The company is being recognised for its ability to navigate in a highly competitive industry, where new market entrants come from non-traditional sources and where customers are overwhelmed, at times, by the exponential growth in information. Particularly noted is the company's creation of an efficient, unified resource management system for libraries.

Being developed through ProQuest business unit Serials Solutions, this web-scale venture called Intota provides the library market with a single, centrally-provisioned solution to manage the entire resource lifecycle, regardless of format. Intota captures and manages each element of the library’s collection, enabling librarians to focus on the important business of evolving their library during a time of rapidly changing user expectations and information growth.

InformationWeek identifies and honours the nation's most innovative users of information technology with its annual 500 listing, and also tracks the technology, strategies, investments, and administrative practices of America's best-known companies.

Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has been named to this year's InformationWeek 500, an annual listing of the nation's most innovative users of business technology. This is the second year in a row that EBSCO has achieved this recognition. The annual list was revealed earlier this week at a gala awards ceremony at the exclusive InformationWeek 500 Conference which took place at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort, Dana Point, CA.

EBSCO was ranked 203rd on this year's InformationWeek 500 – a list of the top technology innovators in the US. EBSCO Publishing provides online research databases -more than 350 learning and reference products - to corporations, universities, libraries and other institutions worldwide.

EBSCO earned its ranking on this year's InformationWeek 500 for a development enabling libraries to benefit from the improved integration of content through a unified interface. EBSCO released e-books and audiobooks via EBSCOhost in order to better serve the needs of library end users and also offer end users ease of access along with a familiar, powerful user experience.

By integrating e-books into EBSCOhost, EBSCO brought these essential resources to a familiar and easy to use interface to meet the needs of any library - from the serious academic researcher looking for the latest information on a subject who will now see e-books integrated with periodical content to the public library patron looking for an e-book or audiobook to download to the latest mobile device. EBSCO will continue its goal to develop an e-book service that provides the best user experience and unparalleled content along with the most flexible acquisition and licensing arrangements.

InformationWeek identifies and honours the nation's most innovative users of information technology with its annual 500 listing, and also tracks the technology, strategies, investments, and administrative practices of America’s best-known companies. The InformationWeek 500 rankings are unique among corporate rankings as it spotlights the power of innovation in information technology, rather than simply identifying the biggest IT spenders.

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, US, has noted India's continuing influence on global scientific research. Ten of India’s leading researchers were honoured during the 'Thomson Reuters Research Excellence – India Citation Awards 2012' presentation event held at the Park Hotel in New Delhi. The 10 award recipients were selected based on citation impact analysis conducted by Thomson Reuters.

The award recipients represent diverse fields spanning chemistry, physics, materials science and nanotechnology. They include Dr. Anunay Samanta, (Physical Chemistry and Photochemistry) - J. C. Bose National Fellow and Professor of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Dr. Murali Sastry (Nanobiotechnology) – Director, India Innovation Center of DSM India Pvt. Ltd., Gurgaon, Prof. Rabin Banerjee (Theoretical Physics and Cosmology) – Senior Professor, Department of Theoretical Sciences, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, Prof. Sandip P Trivedi (Theoretical Physics and Cosmology) – Professor, Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, and Dr. Sarit Kumar Das (Mechanical Engineering, Heat Transfer, Fluid Dynamics and Nanotechnology) – Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

The other award recipients include Prof. Thanu Padmanabhan (Theoretical Physics and Cosmology) – Research Scientist, Core Academic Programmes, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, Prof. Umesh Vasudeo Waghmare (Applied Physics and Materials Science, Computational Methods) – Professor, Theoretical Science Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, Dr. Varun Sahni (Theoretical Physics and Cosmology) – Professor, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, Prof. Velayutham Murugesan (Physical, Organic, and Environmental Chemistry) – Professor of Chemistry (Eminence) & Advisor, Centre of Research, Department of Chemistry, Anna University, Chennai, and Dr. Vinod Kumar Garg (Chemistry, Environmental Sciences, and Bioresource Technology) – Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar.

The Guest-of-Honour was Dr. Thirumalachari Ramasami, Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Science & Technology. The Guest Speaker was Prof. Gautam R Desiraju, Structural Chemist, Indian Institute of Science, who has played a major role in the development and growth of the subject of crystal engineering. Prof. Gautam was also a Thomson Reuters Award recipient in 2006. His topic for the evening was citations in research evaluation. The award ceremony was attended by more than 150 of the awardees’ industry peers from leading research institutions and libraries, companies and members of the government and policy institutions in India.

According to Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators data, India is ranked among the top 20 nations (number 16) worldwide by total citations attributed to its scientific papers published in Thomson Reuters-indexed journals from January 2001 through 31 August 2011. This is presented by ScienceWatch.com, the bi-monthly newsletter by Thomson Reuters for the international research community.

Knovel, the leading provider of a Web-based application integrating technical information with analytical and search tools, started off the Knovel University Challenge with a new twist - additional prizes will be awarded on a weekly basis, giving students 12 more opportunities to win.

The annual Knovel University Challenge, now in its seventh year, continues to grow in popularity among engineering students globally. Faculty increasingly use it as a tool to introduce future engineers to top-notch resources available in the library as students learn how to research, problem-solve and prepare for a competitive workforce. Engineers at more than 300 companies worldwide incorporate Knovel into their workflow, so the University Challenge helps students to jumpstart their use of a resource that will be relevant throughout their careers.

More than 400 of the world's top universities provide access to Knovel. Current engineering and science students from any of these universities can learn more, register and participate at www.knoveluniversitychallenge.com. Participation spans the globe and many professors incorporate the challenge into their curriculum.

The Knovel University Challenge presents a series of questions on engineering-related topics, and students are encouraged to use Knovel and related features to find the correct answers. Prizes are awarded weekly to students of top-participating universities and at the conclusion of the contest.

The deadline for Grand Prize entries is Midnight on December 1, 2012.

STM publisher Springer recently concluded its API Challenge 2.0, and announced the winners of the competition. The challenge asked programmers to create new and original non-commercial applications that use Springer's metadata and content APIs. The goal is to offer users new and novel ways of finding, visualising and/or manipulating relevant data drawn from Springer’s large and growing content database.

After submissions were made, an interdisciplinary panel of judges evaluated the submitted works, ranking them on three categories: creativity and originality, user experience and design, and value and benefit. Winners took home $8,000, $4,000 and $2,000, for first, second and third place, respectively.

Metadata for more than 4.8 million documents from Springer journals, books and protocols was made available to the participants. Also available were full-text content, metadata and images for approximately 80,000 open access articles from BioMed Central and SpringerOpen journals. The awarded applications are now freely available to end users for one year.

Springer APIs make Springer data available to approved third parties via a secure software interface, enabling third parties to build applications with Springer data.

Professional information solutions provider Reed Elsevier has announced the winners of the Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge, which seeks to award innovative solutions to improve sustainable access to safe water and sanitation. The $50,000 first and $25,000 second prize winners were awarded during the annual World Water Week in Stockholm, which convenes water researchers, policymakers, journalists, companies and nonprofits addressing the key water challenges of the 21st century.

The winner of the first prize is the "Iron-amended Biosand Water Filter in Nepal" developed by Tommy Ngai, Director, Research Learning at the Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST). Ngai's project modifies conventional biosand filters with iron particles to remove all three classes of water contaminants, including viruses, and bring safe drinking water to two impoverished villages in Nepal.

The second prize was awarded to "Sustainable Sanitation in Urban Slums of Africa" developed by Lindsay Stradley of Sanergy. The project will expand a pilot project in Nairobi to ensure that hygienic sanitation becomes accessible and affordable through a network of small-scale, high-quality sanitation centres close to homes.

Chosen from a shortlist of five candidates and 140 original applicants, the winning projects were considered replicable, scalable, sustainable and innovative, emphasising solutions with practical applicability. Both projects will be featured in the Elsevier Journal of Water Research.

STM publisher Elsevier has launched its third global CodeForScience (CFS) competition in collaboration with The National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Singapore Management University (SMU). CodeForScience is a global series of application development competitions for scientists, researchers and developers.

CFS Singapore is a four-week online application development competition. Participants have the opportunity to compete for first, second, and third place prizes, each requiring unique thinking, programming, and design skill sets. Another award, sponsored by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (iDA), grants a prize for the application that makes the best use of government data.

Submitted entries will be evaluated based on novelty, usability and value-add to researchers in specific domains or to the general research workflow. Submissions will be judged by a panel of experts from NUS, SMU, NTU and iDA, and Elsevier.

The CodeForScience developer competition runs from August 27 through September 24, 2012. Winning applications will be announced at the CFS Talk & Awards event on September 29, 2012 at NUS, Singapore.

The competition is open to residents of Singapore. Participation guidelines are available at www.codeforscience.com/singapore.

UBM Electronics, a US-based provider of media and marketing solutions for the design engineering and the electronics industry, and the Electronics Components Industry Association (ECIA) have called for entries for the 2012 Electronics Choice Industry Awards (ECIA's). The awards celebrate excellence in marketing by honoring ECIA members who have displayed exceptional branding and marketing programmes in the past year.

The ECIA's feature an entry field of 12 award categories, including Best Brand/Image Advertising; Best Co-Op Advertising; Best Corporate Promotional Publication; Best Corporate Newsletter; Best Media Innovation – Product; Best Media Innovation — Special Promotion Video (non-product); Best Social Media Outreach; Best Special Web Promotion; Best Customer Engagement/Training Event; Best Online Campaign; Best Integrated Marketing; and Best Industry Testimony. In addition, judges will award a ‘Best of Show’ designation to the single entry with the highest score.

Entries will be reviewed by a panel of business-to-business marketing experts and award winners will be announced during a special session at the 2012 Executive Conference on October 29, 2012. The ECIA 2012 Executive Conference, which will take place October 28-30, 2012 at the InterContinental Chicago O'Hare Hotel, is the premier networking and educational event for the electronics distribution industry.

The deadline for entry submission is Friday, August 31, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. PDT. Interested parties may visit www.eciawards.com to submit entries for the competition.

Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has won 23 APEX awards in categories ranging from layout, writing, overall excellence and, for the first time, Website content, writing, and design. Wiley received more awards overall than any other publishing house, company or association.

APEX 2012, the 24th Annual awards for Publication Excellence, is an international competition that attracted 3400 entries to compete in 130 categories. Wiley's awards were based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content, and success in achieving overall communications effectiveness and excellence.

Wiley's awards included the APEX 2012 Grand Award for the Journal of Leadership Studies, edited by Jeremy Moreland and published on behalf of the School of Advanced Studies of the University of Phoenix.

Frances Hesselbein, Editor-in-Chief of Leader to Leader, was honored for regular departments and columns. The Journal of Healthcare Risk Management, published on behalf of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management, was recognised for excellence in health and medical writing.

National Civic Review, now in its 101st year and published with the National Civic League, was recognised in the Magazines and Journals print category for titles over 32 pages.

New Directions for Youth Development and Editor-in-Chief Gil G. Noam received an award for custom publishing for its special issue with the National Afterschool Association.

Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture, recently launched with the University of the Rockies, received recognition for its design and layout.

Editor Russ Bleemer and Alternatives to the Higher Cost of Litigation, published on behalf of the CPR Institute, won in the category of print newsletters.

Awards in the Website category, a first for Wiley, went to www.Boardandadministrator.com and Editor Jeff Stratton who won recognition for site content and writing, while the newly launched www.Federalgrantsandcontracts.com, curated by Editor Kelly Sullivan, was awarded for site design and illustration.

The growing online presence of Wiley Web sites was further recognised with awards of excellence given to Departmentchairs.org, edited by Carolyn Allard, for its individual webpage of sample articles and Valerie Canady, Editor of Mentalhealthweeklynews.com, for excellence in site content and writing.

In recognition for excellence in newsletter writing Robert E. Willett, editor of Natural Gas & Electricity, received the award for excellence in technology and science writing.

Joan Hope and The Successful Registar were honored for excellence in a newsletter produced by one or more persons. Trudy Banta, Editor of Assessment Update, was recognised for excellence in editorial and advocacy writing. Editor Gregory K. Fritz and The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter achieved recognition in the category of newsletter writing.

Within the Magazine and Journals category, Jean M. Henscheid, executive editor of About Campus, received recognition for excellence in print publications up to 32 pages.

Editor-in-Chief Jane M DeHaven and Bell Labs Technical Journal were honored for achievement in technical writing in the custom-published category, and 2011 winner Environment Quality Management received an award in excellence for “green� publishing.

Three medical newsmagazines - The Hospitalist, The Rheumatologist and ENT Today - earned five awards for custom content and design excellence.

UBM Medica US, part of UBM Connect, has announced that Physicians Practice has been recognised for its editorial excellence by the ASBPE Awards ("Azbee") with a gold, silver, and honorable mention in their 2012 editorial awards.

Physicians Practice, which provides practice management advice to physicians across the United States through an innovative multi-media platform, was honoured with both regional and national awards for its excellence in coordinating print and digital media to provide quality content to medical practices.

The ASBPE Awards of Excellence programme is one of the most competitive for business-to-business, trade, association, and professional publications. The awards recognise outstanding work in over 60 categories by US-based publications including magazines, newsletters, and digital media. Physicians Practice's three awards are in the categories of Best Feature Story, Best Trade Show/Conference Coverage, and Best Multi-Platform Presentation.

Cengage Learning, a US-based provider of innovative teaching, learning and research solutions, has announced that its Aplia line of digital products has been selected for an eSchool Media 2012-2013 Readers’ Choice Award. The award is given annually to K-12 and higher education technology products that make a difference in the classroom.

Aplia is an interactive homework solution developed by teachers to increase student effort and engagement. Aplia’s content is authored specifically for the digital medium and features immediate, detailed and actionable feedback. The auto-grading saves instructor time and lets them focus on value-add activities that further improve student learning. In addition, real-time performance data allows instructors to customise lesson plans as needed based on trouble spots individually or class-wide.

Available in over 21 different course areas including Biology, Political Science and Economics, Aplia has gained popularity for its ability to increase student preparedness and drive better learning outcomes in the classroom. Aplia is also well-known for its simplicity of design, ease of use, reliability and customer support.

Aplia technology and solutions will soon be made available as part of the MindTap platform. Customers of Aplia electing to migrate to MindTap will benefit from the added Learning Path, LMS and services features (or functionality) provided by the MindTap solution. This integration of technologies will further advance the quality of learning and teaching solutions in the higher education market.

The winners of the Readers' Choice Awards were chosen by the editors of eSchool Media from almost 1,300 nominations. eSchool Media (eSchoolNews.com, eCampusNews.com, and eClassroomNews.com) asked readers to nominate their favourite technology products to use in the classroom and to describe how they improve teaching and learning. The winners were narrowed down to 50 and then grouped into two categories – K-12 and higher education.

McGraw-Hill Higher Education, a unit of McGraw-Hill Education, US, has announced that its industry-leading adaptive learning solution, McGraw-Hill LearnSmart, has been selected as a winner of eSchool Media's 2012-2013 Readers' Choice Awards in the category of Higher Education.

The recipients of the Readers' Choice Awards, which honour the best products and services in education technology, are selected based on nominations from school and college administrators across North America. eSchool Media's Readers' Choice Awards claim to be the only such consumer-determined awards to be bestowed by a leading education trade publication.

McGraw-Hill LearnSmart is an adaptive learning programme that tailors the learning experience to students' individual needs by continuously assessing students' knowledge and providing personalised recommendations that help them master core concepts and retain knowledge over time. Because of McGraw-Hill LearnSmart's adaptive nature and the ability for students to use it outside of class, students come to class better prepared, allowing instructors to spend less time covering the basics and more time covering advanced topics and leading rich discussions.

McGraw-Hill LearnSmart facilitates 'just-in-time teaching' by providing professors with insight into which topics students are struggling with, enabling them to adjust their lectures accordingly. In a study released last year, LearnSmart was shown to turn C students into B students, and B students into A students.

Earlier this week, McGraw-Hill Education announced plans to expand LearnSmart's reach by making it available direct to students in time for fall classes. This marks the first time that McGraw-Hill Higher Education, traditionally a business-to-business company that sells to instructors and institutions, has marketed its technology resources directly to students.

The Elsevier Foundation, the academy of sciences for the developing world (TWAS) and the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) have announced the launch of an awards programme recognising talented early career women scientists from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Each winner will be celebrated for their research excellence and will receive a cash prize of US$5,000 at the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference in February 2013. In addition, winners will be reimbursed the full cost of attending the conference (including travel, accommodation and registration). The 2013 awards focus on life scientists and nominations will be accepted through September 30, 2012.

The awards programme builds on the 2010 - 2011 Elsevier Foundation OWSD awards programme providing a deeper focus on discipline and professional visibility. The five region-specific annual prizes will rotate between the life sciences, chemistry and physics/math disciplines to ensure optimal exposure and networking synergies. Nominations will be accepted from early career scientists (within ten years of graduating with a PhD degree) from the 81 scientifically-lagging countries as defined by TWAS.

All nominations will be reviewed by a committee of eminent life scientists from the five regions involved, including members of TWAS and OWSD, and chaired by OWSD president, Prof. Fang Xin. The 2013 award winners will receive their awards at the AAAS’ annual Gender and Minorities Networking Event.

Aesthetic Surgery Journal, published by SAGE, was recently honoured by the editors of Writer’s Web Watch with an Annual Awards for Publication Excellence Competition (APEX) award in the category of Magazines & Journals – Electronic & Web. APEX awards are open to communicators in corporate, non-profit and independent settings across 11 different categories.

The 2012 APEX Awards received a total of 3,382 entries of which seven were chosen for recognition in the category of electronic magazines and journals. Entries are judged based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content, and the ability of the publication to communicate effectively in the opinion of the judges.

The Aesthetic Surgery Journal (AES) is an official publication of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. It publishes original peer-reviewed research relevant to the safe and effective practice of aesthetic surgery and its relationship to the full range of medical and health care fields.

APEX is sponsored by the editors of Writer’s Web Watch, an e-newsletter published by Communications Concepts, Inc. that targets communicators that are associated with business publications. The panel of judges includes editors and publishers from both Communications Concepts, Inc. and Writer’s Web Watch.

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that 11 LWW published journals have won 17 highly regarded awards in the 24th annual APEX Awards for Publication Excellence Competition.

Notable achievements were awarded to LWW-published journals - Emergency Medicine News and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Emergency Medicine News was awarded the Grand Award for Excellence for the third consecutive year. The award recognises outstanding work in the category of Magapapers & Newspapers. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery won in the multimedia category for its journal iPad app edition and website.

APEX Awards are based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content and the ability to achieve overall communications excellence. Grand Awards honour the outstanding works in each main category, while Awards of Excellence recognise exceptional entries in each of the individual subcategories. Of the more than 3,400 entries in the competition, just 100 Grand Award Winners were selected.

The Apex Annual Awards for Publication Excellence Competition is open to communicators in corporate, nonprofit and independent settings. Sponsored by the Editors of Writer’s Web Watch, an e-newsletter on print, Web, electronic and social media, and the Writing That Works Archives, a resource for business communicators, the APEX Awards programme has been recognising publishing excellence since 1988.

Cengage Learning, a US-based provider of innovative teaching, learning and research solutions, has announced that eight of its titles were nominated by the Bookbuilders of Boston at the 55th annual New England Book Show. Among the eight titles nominated, two received the top honour of ‘Best in Category’ in the College, Single Entry – Book and College – Cover/Jacket categories.

Milady Standard Cosmetology, the title honored as ‘Best in Category’ for College, Single Entry – Book, has reportedly been the premier textbook for cosmetology education since 1938. Each subsequent edition has evolved with the changing styles of the current era while maintaining a firm foundation in the basic procedures and applications of beauty culture that have endured for generations.

The Essential Listening to Music, honored as ‘Best in Category’ for College – Cover/Jacket, features scholar and teacher Craig Wright’s signature comparisons of classical and pop music. The writing style is said to be clear and conversational, designed to inspire a lifelong appreciation of music.

Other Cengage Learning titles that are nominated at the New England Book Show include The Essential Listening to Music, Exploring Art: A Global, Thematic Approach, Liaisons, iPad Multiplayer Magic, A Creative Approach to Music Fundamentals, and Introduction to Comparative Politics.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that, together with the Geological Society of London, it has won the award for best Education/Industry Partnership at the 2012 Getenergy awards ceremony.

Celebrating excellence in education and training in the upstream oil and gas industry, the Getenergy awards help to validate the significance and sustainable quality of work that benefits the wider oil and gas energy industry. The Education / Industry Partnership award, determined by over 11,000 individual votes on Getenergy’s website, recognises the success of Elsevier and the Geological Society of London’s collaboration in developing a new module for Elsevier’s Geofacets research tool.

The module adds over 48,000 maps (70 percent of which are available for download as.geotiffs) sourced from 11 journals from the Geological Society of London’s Lyell Collection.

The Getenergy Award ceremony was held on the evening of June 13 at One Whitehall Place in London, UK. Entries were voted for from a shortlist, with over 11,000 individuals taking part in voting.

The Getenergy Awards recognise excellence in learning, education and training for the global oil and gas industry. The awards are part of the annual Getenergy exhibition and workshops which bring together providers of education and training together with national and international oil, gas and services companies from 40 countries. Award recipients are nominated by peers before formally being selected by an Awards panel. The final stage is an industry-wide vote which attracts more than 10,000 votes each year.

The Frankfurt Book Fair and MEF, the global community for mobile content and commerce, have entered into a co-operative agreement. Under the deal, MEF will be an official partner of the Mobile Hot Spot at the Frankfurt Book Fair, scheduled for October 10 – 14, 2012. The Frankfurt Book Fair will be an official supporting organisation and judge of this year’s Meffys Awards.

The Mobile Hot Spot in Hall 6.1 at the book fair is a dedicated area that will be showcasing hardware suppliers, app developers, service providers and technology vendors associated with mobile reading and publishing.

MEF has been running the Meffys for nine years, and in that time the awards have become widely regarded as the ‘Oscars’ of the mobile industry. This year a new ‘Best Publisher on Mobile’ category has been launched and Caroline Vogel, Head of Digital & Creative Content at the Frankfurt Book Fair, will be one of the international judges.

Publishers from all over the world can enter the Meffys and for a limited time will receive a 30 per cent discount on the registration fee. Companies are invited to submit entries in 13 categories until the deadline of July 9th. The 2012 winners will be announced at a gala dinner on September 12, 2012 at the prestigious Park Lane Hotel in Mayfair.

Judged by an independent and uniquely international panel of journalists, academics, analysts and VCs, the Meffys are the global benchmark for measuring success and rewarding innovation in mobile content and commerce. Last year, more than 350 industry leaders from over 30 countries gathered in London to attend the Meffys, reflecting their stature as the premier global awards for the mobile content and commerce industry.

New categories for 2012 include the Consumer Trust and Social Responsibility & Development Awards, reflecting key focus areas for MEF in 2012 and mobile’s ever-expanding role in consumers’ lives. Other new categories include Publisher on Mobile, Life Tools App and Brand on Mobile, recognising the breadth and scale of mobile content and commerce.

In addition to the new awards, all nominees in each of the four innovation categories will be given the opportunity to pitch to the C-level executives at the MEF CEO Summit to be held at City Hall, on the evening preceding the Meffys. The CEOs will then vote to determine the most innovative mobile product or service and the winner of this ‘CEO Summit Award for Innovation’ will be honoured at the Meffys Gala Awards Dinner.

McGraw-Hill School Education has announced that two of its digital solutions have taken home several awards – including one of the highest distinctions in educational publishing – at the 2012 Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) Awards. Announced at a special awards banquet and gala earlier this week, these awards further validate McGraw-Hill's leadership in education innovation and the company's commitment to developing engaging solutions to support teachers and drive student achievement.

McGraw-Hill Education won four awards across three categories. The Distinguished Achievement Awards honour the best in a range of product types and resources used by teachers, parents and students. In the category of Whole Curriculum Program – which includes individual awards for Reading, Mathematics, Social Studies, among other programs – McGraw-Hill networks' Discovering Our Past: A History of the United States & United States History and Geography won for Social Studies.

The Golden Lamp Awards, known to be one of the most prestigious honours in the education industry, highlight the 'best of the best' products for teaching and learning each year in four categories - Periodicals, Professional Development, Supplemental Resources, and Whole Curriculum Programs. McGraw-Hill networks' Discovering Our Past: A History of the United States & United States History and Geography won the Golden Lamp Award for best Whole Curriculum Program.

The Beacon Awards recognise outstanding marketing of educational products. McGraw-Hill iScience Fact or Fool Videos won across two categories: The Gold Beacon and Digital Marketing awards for outstanding Marketing.

Honoring excellence and innovation in the education community, the awards represent the longest-running and most highly regarded recognition programme in the industry. Products were judged in a three-tier process (educator review, professional review, and certification) with only the best materials advancing to the higher rounds. Having products judged first and foremost by educators is critically important because they know best which products will succeed or fail directly in the classroom and ensures that the winners are truly leaders in the field.

Each year the Society for Scholarly Publishing's Nominating and Awards Committee considers highly dedicated members for special recognition. The winners were recognised on June 1, 2012, during the 34th Annual Meeting in Alexandria, Virginia.

The Emerging Leader Award is the Society’s latest recognition. It honours a member who is relatively new to the scholarly communication field and who has demonstrated considerable leadership acumen on SSP committees. This year’s winner, Michelle Norell, has played a key role as Co-Chair of the Marketing Committee.

The 2012 Appreciation Award, which recognises a volunteer who has made noteworthy contributions that advance the Society’s strategic goals, was awarded to Will Wakeling for leading the increasingly busy Travel Grant Award Subcommittee since 2007.

The SSP Distinguished Service Award honours a member who has made sustained, significant contributions to the Society and the scholarly communication field over a period of many years. Norman Frankel received the 2012 award for his service as a past president, past chair of multiple committees, current Co-Chair of the Organizational Collaborations Committee, and an SSP rep to the Chicago Collaborative.

Business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, has recognised Australia’s continuing influence on international scientific research and innovation. Thomson Reuters announced a total of 19 Australian-affiliated recipients including 12 of the most influential researchers and seven most innovative organisations during the 2012 Thomson Reuters Australia Citation & Innovation Awards event held at the National Press Club. The recipients were selected based on citation impact and patent analysis completed by Thomson Reuters.

This event is part of a series of Asia Pacific Research Days hosted by Thomson Reuters to recognise research excellence in the region demonstrating how various communities are leading the world through innovation in their respective fields. Similar events have taken place previously in China, India, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

In selecting the Citation Awardees, a shortlist of candidates for each field was established using the h-index indicator which measures both the volume and impact of a researcher’s contribution to his or her field. The 12 Citation Awardees were then selected from the candidates using a quantitative process which identifies the average number of citations per paper their published research has over a period of time as indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science multidisciplinary citation database. This covers a 10-year period from January 2002 to October 2011 for published research with at least one author affiliated to an Australian organisation. The average number of citations per paper reflects the scientific influence of the published research in the given field.

The fields from which the Citation Awardees were drawn represent national strengths – either because of the size of Australia’s contribution to the global body of knowledge or because of its impact. The wide range of subject areas covered - astronomy & astrophysics, ecology, environmental studies, economics, neurosciences and psychology - illustrates the strength and diversity of academic research within Australia and the innovation inherent among its scientists.

Apart from the 12 Australian Citation Awardees, seven institutional recipients of the 2012 Thomson Reuters Innovation Awards in seven categories were also recognised during the award ceremony.

All academic institutions and enterprises headquartered in Australia were included for consideration for the 2012 Thomson Reuters Innovation Award. The award recipients were selected based on analysis using Thomson Reuters Derwent World Patents Index data, Thomson Innovation, the premier IP intelligence and collaboration platform, and Thomson Data Analyzer.

Criteria used to assess the level of innovation of candidate institutions and companies include the size of patent portfolio, success rate, extent of globalisation and influence of the innovation. The most patent prolific collaborations between the top 10 ranked universities and companies were analysed using the methodology outlined above to determine the Best Collaboration Award recipient.

Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, presented the Open Access Advocate of the Year award at the recent 6th Annual Research Awards ceremony held at Emirates Stadium, UK. Dr Helena Asamoah-Hassan, University Librarian of the Kwame University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana and a Fellow of the Ghana Library Association was only the second individual winner of this award.

The award recognises institutions or individuals who have done the most to show leadership in taking steps to expand access to the published results of scholarly research.

Helena has been instrumental in creating the Open Access mandate at KNUST, ensuring they became BioMed Central's first Southern Foundation Member, and she has been tireless in her support for the Open Access Africa event, including acting as host for the OAA conference in 2011.

ACM, which presents the A.M. Turing Award each year, the highest honor in computing and computer science, will join with the societies that confer two prestigious awards in mathematics to enable these laureates to interact with young researchers from around the world. In an annual forum initiated by the Klaus Tschira Foundation and the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, ACM Turing Award winners as well as recipients of the Abel Prize and the Fields Medal will meet with a select group of highly talented young researchers. The meeting, to be known as the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, is modeled after the annual meetings of Nobel laureates in Lindau, Germany.

ACM Europe Council Chair Fabrizio Gagliardi lauded the opportunity for young researchers to come in contact with prominent innovators in computing. Gagliardi will represent ACM at a signing ceremony in Oslo, Norway on May 22 to officially create the Heidelberg Laureate Forum.

The thematic focus of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum will alternate each year between mathematics and computer science. Recipients of the Abel Prize (from the Norwegian Academy for Science and Letters), the Fields Medal (from the International Mathematical Union), and the Turing Award will be invited. The first Heidelberg Forum is scheduled for September 2013, and the second is planned for September 2014. The meetings will be supported by a newly established foundation, the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation, to be created by the Klaus Tschira Foundation.

The ACM A.M Turing Award, widely considered the ‘Nobel Prize in Computing,’ carries a $250,000 prize, with financial support provided by Intel Corporation and Google Inc. It is named for the British mathematician Alan M. Turing, whose 100th birthday anniversary will be celebrated in June at the ACM Turing Centenary Celebration that includes 34 past Turing Award winners.

The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) has been awarded the Council of Science Editors (CSE) highest honour for its significant contribution to improving scientific communication by promoting high editorial standards.

The award was presented to Dr Virginia Barbour, Chair of the COPE council, in a ceremony held during the CSE Annual Meeting, which was recently held in Seattle, Washington.

COPE was established in 1997 by a small group of medical journal editors in the UK and now has more than 7,000 members worldwide, from all disciplines. Membership is open to editors of academic journals and others interested in publication ethics. Many of the world’s largest international publishers have signed up their journals as COPE members.

The Council of Science Editors is a community of editorial professionals dedicated to the responsible and effective communication of science. Its mission is to serve editorial professionals in the sciences by creating a supportive network for career development, providing educational opportunities and developing resources for identifying and implementing high quality editorial practices.

McGraw-Hill School Education has announced that several of its digital solutions have been named finalists for the 2012 Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) Awards. Honouring excellence and innovation in the education community, the awards represent the longest-running and most highly regarded recognition programme in the industry.

For 2012, the AEP Awards were updated to ensure that they remain relevant, recognising the challenges and needs of education in the 21st century. Three key principles – quality content, age appropriateness and innovation –drove the judging criteria and evaluation process for selecting finalists and winners.

McGraw-Hill Education has been named a finalist across three of four categories. Products were judged in a three-tier process (educator review, professional review, and certification) with only the best materials advancing to the higher rounds. Having products judged first and foremost by educators is critically important because they know best which products will succeed or fail directly in the classroom and ensures that the winners are truly leaders in the field. All entrants will receive judges' feedback to help them improve their materials.

AEP Award finalists and winners earn the right to display the AEP Award Seal, nationally recognised by educators, administrators, and parents as a mark of outstanding quality and achievement. Winners will be announced at AEP's Content in Context Conference in Washington, D.C. on June 5, 2012.

Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, recently revealed the winners of their 6th Annual Research Awards at Emirates Stadium, London, UK. Celebrating the very best research that has been made available by open access publishing, more than 100 guests attended the prestigious ceremony including leading researchers, short-listed authors and science journalists from around the world.

The winners were selected by internationally renowned judges from over 230 BioMed Central journals which published more than 18,000 peer-reviewed open access articles over the last 12 months.

The overall winner of the prestigious BioMed Central Research Award, selected from a shortlist consisting of the winners of the 10 subject categories, was �ine McKnight, Professor of Viral Pathology at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London (Microbiology, Immunology, Infection and Inflammation Prize) for her work ‘A whole genome screen for HIV restriction factors’ Retrovirology 2011, 8:94 (14 November 2011).

CRC Press, a US-based publisher of technical and scientific works, has announced that Library Journal has selected its eBook platform, CRCnetBASE, to be included in the journal’s Best Reference 2011 feature. The annual Library Journal Best Reference list recognises the top references that have been reviewed in the journal during the previous year.

CRCnetBASE delivers more than 8,000 reference volumes, in over 350 subject areas and more than 40 collections in Science and Technology. Librarians can build eBook collections that best fit their patrons’ needs and their institution’s budget, giving them authoritative references with the latest content. With the new mobile app, CRCnetBASE provides anywhere, anytime access to an increasingly mobile academic community.

CRC Press serves the needs of scientists and the community at large by working with capable researchers and professionals to produce accurate and up-to-date scientific and technical resources. It is a member of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business.

Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has been named the silver winner in Most Innovative Company of the Year in Best in Biz Awards 2012 EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa). This is the only independent international business awards programme judged by members of the press and industry analysts.

EBSCO is the content provider for libraries and other institutions, offering more than 350 research databases and more than 300,000 e-books via the EBSCOhost platform plus EBSCO Discovery Service - providing access to world-renowned content in all subject areas, for researchers at every level.

EBSCO’s recent acquisitions and partnerships have augmented the company’s database offerings and extended its content leadership into new areas. Through these acquisitions and partnerships EBSCO is able to offer a superior user experience for customers.

EBSCO also provides key database content free of charge as a service to its users and libraries worldwide. Free resources are available to those interested in libraries and information technology, education and environmental efforts.

Best in Biz Awards 2012 EMEA honours were presented in a variety of categories, including Best Overall Company of the Year, Most Innovative Company of the Year, Enterprise Product of the Year, Small/Medium Business Product of the Year and PR Campaign of the Year. An impressive array of public and private companies representing all sectors of the economy from over 20 countries entered bid to compete in Best in Biz Awards’ inaugural EMEA programme.

Winners of Best in Biz Awards 2012 EMEA were determined by scores from a panel of high-calibre judges from top-tier newspapers, business and technology publications, as well as broadcast outlets from 11 countries. Combined, the 22 judges on this year’s panel have more than 450 years of experience and have written for a total of more than 160 consumer, business, financial, trade and technology publications worldwide.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the winners of the 2012 Algeria Scopus Awards and the institutional winners of the SciVal Awards. The Scopus and SciVal Awards bring international recognition to the scientific achievements of researchers and institutions, respectively.

The Scopus Awards are a celebration of the knowledge and scientific contributions of Algeria’s researchers and institutions. Winners of the Scopus awards were selected based on quantity of publications, citations, and H-index.

Elsevier provided quantitative analysis using data from SciVerse Scopus, claimed to be the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.

Print and digital education materials provider Pearson has announced that its CourseConnect has been announced the winner of the 2012 Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Award for Best Postsecondary Instructional Solution.

CourseConnect offers more than 115 courses spanning a broad range of disciplines of postsecondary study. This is the second time that CourseConnect has been honoured with a CODiE Award - in 2010 the courseware was recognised as Best Postsecondary Course or Learning Management Solution.

Established in 1986, the CODiE Awards celebrate outstanding achievement across the software, digital information and education technology industries. This year, nominated ed-tech products underwent an intensive review by educator judges from around the nation, and the finalists were selected by SIIA members.

To support the growth of mobile learning in higher education, CourseConnect recently launched mobile device solutions, CourseConnect on iPad and CourseConnect Study. Developed by leading eLearning instructional and user interface designers, CourseConnect on iPad enables courses and topics to be navigated using simple taps and swipes, creating an easy-to-use web experience in students’ hands. In addition, CourseConnect Study is available for compatible browsers and iOS/Android devices.

The European Science Foundation (ESF) is inviting nominations for the European Latsis Prize 2012. The Prize, of a value of 100 000 Swiss Francs (€80,000), is presented each year by the Latsis Foundation, through the ESF, to a scientist or research group in recognition of outstanding and innovative contributions in a selected field of research. The research field for the 2012 Prize is ‘Mathematics’.

Now in its 14th year, the European Latsis Prize seeks nominations for outstanding contributions to research in mathematics. Nominations are encouraged from all parts of the field, both pure and applied. The prize will be awarded for an outstanding contribution and impact to the development of interdisciplinary research in this domain.

The criteria used in the selection procedure will be scientific excellence, the enhancement of knowledge, societal impact and contribution to the understanding and solution of European problems. The nominations will be evaluated by a high-level committee of experts in the field. The date and venue of the prize ceremony will be announced later.

Nominations may be received for individual scholars or for research groups, but no self nominations will be accepted. All nomination forms should be clearly presented and include a detailed nomination statement (maximum 2 pages). Nominations are to be submitted online at www.esf.org/index.php. The deadline for nominations is July 15, 2012.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of its second annual Mosby's Nursing Suite ‘Superheroes of Nursing’ contest, aimed at recognising the work and dedication of individual nursing professionals. The contest officially opened for 2012 applicants during Nurses Week (May 6-12), and calls for applicants who fit into four categories - The Validators, The Achievers, The Educators, and The Protectors, to battle the villainous Obstructo.

To add another element to the four superheroes, Elsevier has introduced a villain in this year's contest, Obstructo, who represents anything that can get in the way of effective patient care, including inconsistent information, uncertain answers, and uninformed patients.

Videos, photos, and essays can be used from May through August to nominate a deserving nurse on Mosby's Nursing Suite's Facebook. A key issue defining the nominator submission topic will be featured each month. Elsevier will narrow down the nominations to a select few submissions that best represent one of the key four categories and the winner will be chosen from these applicants by the fans on Facebook.

The Mosby Nursing Suite offers four powerful online nursing resources that provide education, reference, research tools, and support at the point of care. The ‘Superheroes of Nursing’ campaign illustrates how the utilisation of these solutions helps develop real-life nursing superheroes to combat the ever present villain, Obstructo.

The winners will be announced during the ANCC Magnet Conference, scheduled for October 10-12, 2012, in Los Angeles.

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced that it has won 21 awards in 15 categories from the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (ASHPE). This is a record number of wins in a single year for LWW overall.

ASHPE’s 12th annual awards competition recognised member articles and publications for editorial, design, print, and online award categories.

This year, LWW received 7 gold awards: both Emergency Medicine News and Neurology Now won two each, and MCN: The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, AJN: American Journal of Nursing and Nursing2011 Care each received one. In addition, LWW Journals swept all three awards in two categories: Best New Department and Best Regular Column.

Bloomberg BNA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bloomberg, has received two 2012 awards for healthcare reporting from The American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (ASHPE).

Pharmaceutical Law & Industry Report, edited by Brian Broderick, won a Gold Award in the Best Single Issue (Newsletter) category, for its issue published Oct. 21, 2011. In addition, an article from the weekly Health Insurance Report, written by Sara Hansard, won a Bronze Award in the Best Special Report / Section category. Hansard's award-winning report, on smaller states' request for an adjustment to the medical loss ratio requirement of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), was titled, ‘States Line Up for MLR Adjustments as Insurers Cut Brokerage Commissions.’ It was published on March 23, 2011.

ASHPE recognises editorial excellence and achievement in the field of healthcare publishing. The annual awards competition provides an opportunity for editors to measure their efforts against the very best the healthcare sector has to offer.

UBM Medica, the medical division of United Business Media (UBM), has announced that its Physicians Practice, America's leading practice management source, has been recognised by the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (ASHPE) for its innovative content and design.

Physicians Practice is dedicated to helping doctors focus on patient care by providing content on how to run a practice. Physicians Practice captured four national honours in the ASHPE 2012 Annual Awards competition.

Founded in 1989, Physicians Practice is distributed 10 times a year to more than 150,000 physicians around the US, and PhysiciansPractice.com attracts an average of more than 210,000 page views per month.

Enterprise software firm MarkLogic Corporation, US, has announced the 2012 winners of the MarkLogic Excellence Awards, the Lindblad Award, and the Partner of the Year Award. The awards were recently presented at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. Recipients were honored for trailblazing through Big Data challenges with MarkLogic-based applications.

The MarkLogic Excellence Award is presented to three customers and/or partners that have implemented MarkLogic in innovative ways for a substantial impact on the business or organisation. This includes, but is not limited to, new deployments, advancements on existing deployments, and added features. The 2012 award winners in this category were British Broadcasting Corporation, Fairfax County, Virginia Department of Information Technology and McGraw-Hill Construction.

The Lindblad Award is named for MarkLogic founder Christopher Lindblad and is awarded to a single person within an organisation who has gone above and beyond the call of duty to successfully innovate in his/her organisation with MarkLogic. John O'Donovan of Press Association was named the 2012 Lindblad Award winner.

The Partner of the Year Award is given to a partner that has shown exemplary expertise with MarkLogic. Flatirons Solutions, one of the most tenured MarkLogic partners, was named the winner for 2012.

The Innovator of the Year Award is bestowed upon a customer or partner that has adeptly created groundbreaking technology using MarkLogic. Avalon Consulting, LLC was declared the 2012 winner in this category.

Index on Censorship, a journal published by SAGE, has been shortlisted for an Amnesty International UK Media Award. "The Art Issue", first published in September 2011, has been shortlisted for a consumer magazine award for three articles which explore how art is challenging censorship and bringing about political change in China, Egypt and Russia.

In "China's New Deal", Simon Kirby explores the change of mood in China and the role of artists such as Ai Weiwei in criticising the regime. Yasmine El Rashidi looks at how street art became a symbol of freedom in Cairo during the Arab spring in "Art or Vandalism?". In "Russia's Robin Hoods", Nick Sturdee reports on radical performance artists Voina, a new brand of political street art that is taking the country by storm. The shortlisted articles can be read at www.indexoncensorship.org/artissue

Index on Censorship had previously won an Amnesty Media Award in 2008 for an issue on the media in Russia.

Amnesty's Media Awards, now in their 21st year, seek to recognise excellence in human rights reporting and acknowledge journalism's significant contribution to the UK public's awareness and understanding of human rights issues.

Cengage Learning, a US-based provider of teaching, learning and research solutions, was recently named a finalist in the Best Postsecondary Instructional Solution category of the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA) 2012 CODiE Awards for its Course360 online courses. The CODiE Awards, claimed to be the only peer-reviewed honour in the industry, celebrate achievement and vision in software, education technology and digital content.

The Best Postsecondary Instructional Solution category recognises the best teaching solution targeted toward students in college and trade/professional school learning environments. Category finalists include solutions that offer ability to deliver custom-crafted materials and help students navigate their digital/e-books and reference content in a format that fits the way they learn with interactive media, collaboration tools and course content.

Course360, part of Cengage Learning's Cengage Course suite of integrated digital solutions and services aimed at improving student engagement and learning outcomes, is a set of customisable online courses. The courses utilise best practices in online instructional design to create effective online or blended course experiences for students.

Cengage Learning offers more than 100 Course360 courses in a range of disciplines. Several Course360 courses have recently been reviewed against the Quality Matters Publisher Rubric and have earned the Publisher Course Certification, signifying high quality content and design. Course360 was also the recipient of the 2011 IMS Learning Impact Gold Award.

To learn more about the Course360 suite of courses visit www.cengage.com/course360.

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), US, has announced the winners of five awards for innovations in computing technology who have made significant contributions that enable computer science to solve real world challenges.

These awards are said to reflect achievements in human-computer interaction, complex data structure applications, computer science education, geographic information science, computer simulation for biological research, and open-source software development tools. The 2011 ACM award winners, from internationally known research and academic institutions, include prominent computer scientists, educators and industry leaders. ACM will present these and other awards at the ACM Awards Banquet on June 16 in San Francisco.

The Grace Murray Hopper Award is given to the outstanding young computer professional of the year, selected on the basis of a single recent major technical or service contribution. This award is accompanied by a prize of $35,000. The candidate must have been 35 years of age or less at the time the qualifying contribution was made. Financial support for this award is provided by Google, Inc.

Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award honours specific theoretical accomplishments that have had a significant and demonstrable effect on the practice of computing. This award is accompanied by a prize of $10,000 and is endowed by contributions from the Kanellakis family, with additional financial support provided by ACM's Special Interest Groups on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT), Design Automation (SIGDA), Management of Data (SIGMOD), and Programming Languages (SIGPLAN), the ACM SIG Projects Fund, and individual contributions.

The Karl V. Karlstom Outstanding Educator Award is presented annually to an outstanding educator who is appointed to a recognised educational baccalaureate institution. The recipient is recognised for advancing new teaching methodologies; effecting new curriculum development or expansion in Computer Science and Engineering; or making a significant contribution to the educational mission of ACM. Those with 10 years or less teaching experience are given special consideration. A prize of $5,000 is supplied by Pearson Education.

The ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award is presented to an individual selected for career contributions that have breadth within computer science, or that bridge computer science and other disciplines. This endowed award is accompanied by a prize of $10,000, and is supported by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and by individual contributions.

The Software System Award honours an institution or individual(s) recognised for developing a software system that has had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts, in commercial acceptance, or both. This award carries a prize of $35,000. Financial support for the award is provided by IBM.

Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that the Technical Services team for its Ovid and LWW journals business has been designated a 2012 Top 100 Center of Excellence from Benchmark Portal, in collaboration with the Center for Customer-Driven Quality, founded at Purdue University. The recognition was in the Small Center category, which is for those service centers with less than 100 staff members.

The team was recently certified as a Center of Excellence for the third time in six years (about 10 percent of companies that apply receive Centers of Excellence certification).

BenchmarkPortal, custodian of the world's largest database of contact center performance metrics, evaluates customer support and service centers across a variety of industries on their ability to meet or exceed rigorous quality standards in comparison to their peers.

The Top 100 recognition process is similar to that of awarding Center of Excellence certification. Centers submit verifiable statistical data on key cost- and quality-related metrics related to call efficiency and effectiveness. Certified Call Center Experts at Benchmark Portal then review the data and compare it to data from other centers in the same - or a similar - industry. The top 100 centers demonstrate superior performance on these metrics.

Academic publisher Brill, Netherlands, and UK-based online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd have been shortlisted for a British Media Award based on the features and functionality of the new BrillOnline Reference Works platform. With the help of Semantico’s SIPP2 technology, Brill is now able to offer a more flexible research platform to institutions and end users alike.

The companies have been nominated for an award in the B2B Innovator of the Year category. The award entry was for BrillOnline Reference Works using Semantico's SIPP2 publishing platform. The British Media Awards celebrate innovation from companies, organisations or individuals.

BrillOnline aims to offer users the best of today’s functionality and features in online publishing. In order to generate the optimal user experience, the content is clustered according to its nature and to the functionality required and presented on three platforms - booksandjournals.brillonline.com for electronic books and journals; referenceworks.brillonline.com for online reference works; and bibliographies.brillonline.com for online bibliographies.

The BrillOnline project showcases the best from Brill and Semantico. BrillOnline Reference Works is now a faster, more efficient website that provides users with enhanced discoverability of Brill's online content, and since the launch in January 2012, the site has seen a major increase in traffic.

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced ‘The Hottest Research of 2011’, a ranking of the most influential scientific researchers and research papers of the year by Science Watch, its open Web resource for science metrics and analysis. Tracking researchers whose recent published papers recorded notably higher levels of citations during 2011, along with the most highly cited individual papers of the year, the annual report spotlights emerging trends in science and the innovators behind them.

This year’s group of 15 Hottest Researchers each contributed to at least 10 Hot Papers, covering key areas such as genetics, cardiology, epidemiology and cancer research. Eric S. Lander of The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard topped the list of most influential researchers for the second year straight, recording 14 Hot Papers in 2011. This was Lander’s eighth year on the list. He was followed by Salim Yusuf of McMaster University and Michael R. Stratton of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, both of whom recorded 13 Hot Papers in 2011. The most highly cited individual paper published in 2011, ‘Seven-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Observations: Cosmological Interpretations,’ by E. Komatsu, of The University of Texas at Austin, et al. received a total of 564 citations during the year.

The year’s Hottest Researchers were identified using citations that occurred during calendar year 2011 for papers published between 2009 and 2011. The list of Hottest Papers tracks total citations to non-review papers during calendar year 2011. To compile both lists, Science Watch draws on data and commentary from Thomson Reuters bibliometric experts and Essential Science Indicators, a unique compilation of science performance statistics and science trends data based on journal article publication counts and citation data from Web of Knowledge.

Education materials publisher McGraw-Hill Education, US, has announced that its industry-leading digital learning solutions have been selected as finalists for the Software and Information Industry Association's (SIIA) 2012 CODiE Awards in educational technology.

The CODiE Awards, an annual awards programme that recognises excellence in software development in the software industry, claims to be the only peer-recognition programme of its kind. The McGraw-Hill Higher Education offerings selected as finalists are McGraw-Hill LearnSmart, McGraw-Hill Blackboard Building Block, Tegrity Campus and Practice Marketing.

In the K-12 sector, McGraw-Hill Education offerings were also selected as finalists for awards across multiple categories. The winners are scheduled to be announced on May 7th at the Ed Tech Industry Summit in San Francisco, California.

Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced that it has been named Publisher and Distributor of the Year at a Booksellers Association award ceremony.

This is the seventh time in eight years that OUP collected the Publisher of the Year award, and the eighth year in a row that it has won the Distributor of the Year prize at the Conference for Academic, Professional & Specialist Booksellers Awards Ceremony.

The awards are judged by booksellers and Bookseller Association members working in the UK who score publishers throughout the year. Categories focus specifically on the services being offered to booksellers by publishers such as engagement with bookshops, support from central or head office services, delivery turnaround times, and publishing.

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters recognised the most highly cited Mexican researchers across 25 universities in the areas of Science and Social Sciences/Arts & Humanities at a recently held award ceremony at the Castillo de Chapultepec. This event is part of the Thomson Reuters partnership with the Consortium of Mexican Universities (CUMex), a joint initiative to further education and international collaboration in research.

The award recognises excellence in research and successful international collaboration. Analysis of the research candidates across the 25 universities was done using Thomson Reuters Web of Science. The seven highly cited researchers were identified after analysing their papers that were indexed over 20 years in the categories of ‘Science’ and ‘Social Sciences/Arts & Humanities’ and who have the largest number of citations to their paper, locally and internationally.

The universities participating in the award programme can be found at http://www.cumex.org.mx/index.php/consorciocum/integrantes.

Academic publisher SAGE,, US, has announced that Library Journal has selected three SAGE Reference titles and two CQ Press databases to be included in its annual Best Reference 2011 feature.

The titles being recognised by Library Journal this year include Encyclopedia of Social Networks; Encyclopedia of Sports Management and Marketing; and International Encyclopedia of Political Science from SAGE Reference. The titles being recognised from CQ Press include CQ Press Political Reference Suite of Online Editions and First Street.

The annual Library Journal Best Reference list seeks to recognise the top reference titles that have been reviewed in the journal during the previous year. The selected titles are seen to reflect a diversity of subjects, representing the company's growing and diverse list of significant reference resources available to researchers from SAGE and CQ Press.

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has called for applications for the 2012 Awards for publishing innovation and best new journal.

The ALPSP award for publishing innovation recognises a significantly innovative approach to any aspect of publication. Applications will be judged on their originality and innovative qualities, together with their utility, benefit to their community and long term prospects. Applications should, therefore, provide information about these aspects together with any other information which one believes makes the project or publication truly innovative.

The ALPSP award for best new journal is open to any peer-reviewed journal launched in the last 1-3 years. The judges will consider four main aspects of the journal and its launch - market research, editorial strategy, marketing and commercial success.

The closing date for receipt of applications is May 30, 2012. The winners will be announced at the Awards Dinner on September 12 at the ALPSP International Conference.

Academic publisher SAGE has been named the Independent Publisher’s Guild (IPG) Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year 2012. The announcement was made as part of the IPG’s annual conference.

SAGE won this category with a professional publishing programme, wide-ranging digital activity, high production standards and sharp global strategies. Judges also noted its ability to attract and retain outstanding staff and authors, and said it had retained a strong sense of independence while growing into a big player.

Now firmly established as one of the highlights of the publishing calendar, the IPG Awards are in their sixth year. The IPG celebrates 50 years in 2012 as the industry’s membership organisation supporting independent publishers in the UK to thrive.

Healthcare and social science publisher Springer Publishing Company recently announced that the company received ten ‘AJN Book of the Year Awards’ in nursing.

AJN claims to be the oldest and one of the most honored broad-based nursing journals in the world. The awards programme is regarded by nurses and authors as the most important designation of excellence in book publishing, and is presented by the American Journal of Nursing (AJN). A distinguished panel of judges selects those considered the most valuable texts each year.

Springer Publishing Company is known as an innovative nursing, rehabilitation, psychology, social work, counseling, public health, and gerontology publisher. The company has won numerous awards, and offers more than a hundred top quality titles annually, in addition to more than twenty journals.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the winners and winning applications of its first China Science Challenge, a competition calling out software developers to create customised solutions to enhance the search and discovery experience for researchers on the SciVerse platform.

Participants of the challenge worked in teams to submit concepts for applications and were then invited to move forward with their proposed project over the course of a six-week development period. In addition to the content provided via SciVerse Application Programming Interface (API), teams used a variety of data sources of their choice including Microsoft Academic Search API, Google Map and Google Trends API.

The winning applications - Aerial Viewer, ezReading and Arnet Map - were selected by the Applications Marketplace and Developer Network at Elsevier and will be featured and available to download in the SciVerse Applications Marketplace in the coming months.

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that four nursing textbooks published by the company have been awarded the AJN Book of the Year award by the American Journal of Nursing (AJN). LWW publications were honored in the categories of nursing research, critical care emergency nursing, community public health and electronic media.

AJN claims to be the nation's oldest and largest circulating nursing journal. Its AJN Book of the Year Award competition draws hundreds of submissions by authors from various fields in the nursing profession. A distinguished panel of judges selects those considered the most valuable texts each year.

The four nursing textbooks that were awarded the AJN Book of the Year award are: Community and Public Health Nursing: Evidence for Practice, edited by Gail A. Harkness and Rosanna F. DeMarco; Quick Reference to Critical Care, by Nancy H. Diepenbrock; Lippincott's Nursing Health Assessment Video Series; and Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice, by Denise F. Polit and Cheryl Tatano Beck.

The UKSG, an international organisation that seeks to connect the knowledge community, has announced the 2012 winner of its annual John Merriman Award, set up in recognition of the founder of UKSG and NASIG (the North American Serials Interest Group).

Stephen Buck, E-Resources and Periodicals Librarian at Dublin City University, will receive funding from Award sponsor Taylor & Francis to attend the 2012 NASIG Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Meanwhile, NASIG has awarded its 2012 Merriman Award to Alice Eng, Electronic Resources Librarian, University of North Florida, who will attend UKSG's Annual Conference in Glasgow.

The Award gives members of UKSG and its sibling organisation NASIG the opportunity to broaden their knowledge of issues affecting libraries, and the chance to explore innovative ideas for the strategic development of libraries. It is open to members of UKSG and NASIG, who are in a functional position within a library or information service, with direct responsibility for managing serials or e-resources, or direct contact with library users, supporting them in the use of serials or e-resources.

Applicants were required to write a short paper on the topic 'E-resources in 2016: how will the landscape look from the point of view of librarians and library users?'

The Education Subcommittee of UKSG, which selects the winning applicant, noted the originality and humour of Stephen's application.

The Taylor & Francis Group has announced that the Association of American Geographers (AAG) has awarded the 2012 AAG Publication Award to its Routledge imprint. The AAG conferred this award to recognise and honour Routledge for its long-term commitment to geography and for its sustained support of the AAG’s innovative efforts to enhance the quality and international reach of its journals and other publications.

Routledge works closely with the AAG, publishing their journals, including their flagship journal, The Annals of the Association of American Geographers and its sister title, The Professional Geographer and more recently two book titles - GeoHumanities and Enivisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds.

Dr David Green, Publishing Director at Taylor & Francis Journals, was in New York to collect the award at the AAG Awards Luncheon.

Non-profit copyright licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has been named to KMWorld's '100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management.' The 100 Companies list was compiled by knowledge management practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors, and their customers and colleagues.

KMWorld is the leading information provider serving the Knowledge, Document and Content Management systems market. It informs more than 45,000 subscribers about the components and processes – and subsequent success stories – that together offer solutions for improving business performance. KMWorld is a publishing unit of Information Today, Inc.

Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) provides smart solutions that simplify the licensing of content that lets businesses and academic institutions quickly get permission to use copyright-protected materials, while compensating publishers and content creators for the use of their works.

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Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), part of US-based online retailer Amazon.com, recently introduced Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF), a workflow service for building scalable, resilient applications. Whether automating business processes for finance or insurance applications, building sophisticated data analytics applications, or managing cloud infrastructure services, Amazon SWF seeks to reliably coordinate all of the processing steps within an application.

Using Amazon SWF, developers can structure the various processing steps in an application as 'tasks' that drive work in distributed applications. Amazon SWF then coordinates these tasks in a reliable and scalable manner. It manages task execution dependencies, scheduling, and concurrency based on a developer's application logic. The service stores tasks, reliably dispatches them to application components, tracks their progress, and keeps their latest state.

NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) is stated to use Amazon SWF as part of several space and earth science missions including the Mars Exploration Rover. The Amazon product reportedly gives JPL the ability to leverage resources inside and outside of its environment enabling their applications to dynamically scale and run in a truly distributed manner. NASA JPL has integrated Amazon SWF into its Cloud Oriented Architecture and its reference implementation, Polyphony. Amazon SWF is now said to be an integral part of the software engineer's toolbox at JPL.

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The Springer journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (ABC) has chosen Andreas Römpp (38) and Sabine Guenther (30) as the recipients of its Best Paper Award 2011. Römpp and Guenther are the lead authors of a paper published in ABC on mass spectrometry imaging.

The award, accompanied by 1,000 euros, was created by Springer to honour exceptional young scientists and to stimulate their research careers. The ABC Best Paper Award has been given since 2005.

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, an international journal dealing with all aspects of analytical and bioanalytical sciences, celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2012. The journal covers all fields of pure and applied analytical chemistry and bioanalysis, including topics at their interfaces with life and health sciences, engineering and materials sciences, environmental sciences, earth sciences and others. ABC counts among the top 10 of 70 journals in the category ‘Chemistry, Analytical’ ranked by Impact Factor.

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Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, has announced that Gale World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean has received the 2011 PROSE Award for Best eProduct in the Social Sciences category.

The PROSE Awards are sponsored by the Professional Scholarship Publishing (PSP) division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and are given out annually at the PSP Annual Conference. The PROSE Awards recognises the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by distinguishing the finest books, journals, and electronic content in over 40 categories. Publishers and authors are awarded for their dedication to innovative works of research and for adding to the formation and creation of major academic resources. Award recipients are decided upon by peer publishers, librarians, and medical professionals.

Launched in April 2011, Gale World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean is the first in a new series of electronic regional studies-based resources. A new product category for libraries, Gale World Scholar gives undergraduate and graduate students, and university faculty new insight into different regions of the world, touching upon the culture and tradition of an area’s inhabitants while diving into a detailed account of its history.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it has garnered top honors and recognition at the 2011 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (the PROSE Awards). The annual PROSE Awards, established by the Association of American Publishers (AAP), recognises high standards in achievement and innovation in professional and scholarly publishing by giving distinction to the best books, journals, and electronic content, as judged by peer publishers, librarians, and medical professionals.

SciVerse Hub, Elsevier’s platform for search, analysis and research synthesis, and SciVerse Applications, tools that enhance the search and discovery experience, received awards for Best Multidiscipline Platform and for Best Innovation in ePublishing.

Elsevier’s book publishing, encompassing print as well as online titles on SciVerse ScienceDirect, was also honored. Four Elsevier book titles won first place prizes in the Clinical Medicine, Multivolume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences, Multivolume Reference/Science and Economics categories.

Recipients of the 2011 PROSE Awards were announced at a recent Awards Luncheon on in Washington, D.C. A full list of winners can be found at www.proseawards.com.

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The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has announced that its latest journal, Cancer Discovery, has received a 2011 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award). The journal received this award for 'Best New Journal in Science, Technology and Medicine.'

The Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers presented more than 45 PROSE awards at a special awards luncheon, which was held recently during the PSP Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.

Cancer Discovery launched at the AACR 102nd Annual Meeting 2011 and is the seventh journal published by the AACR. The journal provides readers with high-impact, peer-reviewed articles describing major advances in basic, translational, clinical and epidemiological research. It features game-changing research, review articles, perspectives and commentaries, news, and 'Research Watch' summaries of important journal articles.

The 2011 PROSE Awards received a record-breaking 512 entries - more than ever before in its 36-year history - from more than 60 professional and scholarly publishers across the country. Award recipients were determined by a distinguished panel of 14 PROSE judges. A full list of the award recipients and video highlights from this year's awards luncheon can be found at www.proseawards.com.

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Scientific publisher Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that its Ovid and LWW journals technical services team received certification as a Center of Excellence by BenchmarkPortal in collaboration with the Center for Customer-Driven Quality, founded at Purdue University. Only 10 percent of companies that submit data under BenchmarkPortal's programme are reportedly awarded the certification. This is the third time in six years that a team within the Wolters Kluwer Health Customer Support organisation received certification.

The certification process involved surveys conducted with Ovid and LWW journal customers and subscribers, a review of centre communication and operations metrics, and an assessment of how members of the Wolters Kluwer Health Technical Services team field customer calls and e-mail.

BenchmarkPortal, custodian of what is said to be the world's largest database of contact centre performance metrics, evaluates customer support and service centres across a variety of industries on their ability to meet quality standards in comparison to their peers. They are measured against a set of key performance indicators that balance efficiency and effectiveness (unlike other centre certifications, which reportedly typically focus on less results-oriented metrics such as process-handling and procedures). Centres that demonstrate superior performance on these cost- and quality-related metrics compared with their industry peers are awarded with certification.

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The Open Knowledge Foundation has announced the launch of the Panton Fellowships. Funded by Open Society Foundations, Panton Fellowships will be awarded to scientists who actively promote open data in science.

Fellowships will be held for one year, and will have a value of £8k p.a. Fellows will have the freedom to undertake a range of activities, which could include for instance exploring practical solutions for making data open, facilitating discussions about openness, and catalysing the scientific community. Fellows will continue to be employed and/or study at their current institution throughout the Fellowship, and activities undertaken for the Panton Fellowship should ideally complement and enhance their existing endeavours. Applicants are strongly encouraged to propose their own work plan.

Interested parties may visit the Panton Fellowships home page for more information, including details of how to apply.

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STM publisher Elsevier and the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) have announced the recipients of the 6th Annual NASI Scopus Young Scientist Awards.

Recognising India's increasing contribution to world science, Elsevier instituted the Scopus Young Scientist Awards in 2006 to honour the talent, knowledge and expertise of India’s early career researchers. In 2009, Elsevier partnered with NASI, institutionalising the Awards within the Indian scientific community.

Winners were selected from a pool of more than 250 applications from research institutes and universities throughout India based on both quantitative and qualitative measures. Elsevier provided quantitative analysis using data from SciVerse Scopus, which claims to be the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources. Subject experts from across India assisted in looking at qualitative aspects of the research work of the candidate. Awards were presented in eight disciplines.

The jury looked at: the quality and number of publications, fellowships of academies, awards and grants received, relevance of the scientific work and its outcome, and the overall presentation and discussion at the in person meeting. Special consideration was also given to novel ideas and innovations which have potential for future research and commercial application.

Researchers interested in submitting applications for next year’s NASI Scopus Young Scientist Awards are encouraged to register at http://southasia.elsevier.com/SYSA2012 to receive further information and updates. As part of its efforts to support the global research community, Elsevier honours dozens of early career researchers each year in various disciplines and regions around the world through Scopus award programmes.

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The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) has announced the free research productivity tool Bibliogo from Reprints Desk, Inc. as the winner of the 2012 SIIA CODiE Award for ‘Best Online Science or Technology Service.’ The announcement was recently made during a special awards reception and dinner in New York City.

Bibliogo helps users do more with journal articles. Aggregated current awareness alerts and suggestions, multi-tasking tools for accessing and organising references and full-text papers, secure collaboration, PubMed connectivity, and much more are elegantly integrated in Bibliogo to create a new paradigm for scholarly research applications. Reprints Desk created the service for professionals and workgroups in research, engineering, bioinformatics, information management, regulatory and medical affairs, medical sales, and healthcare marketing and communications.

The award was one of fourteen presented to products and services deployed specifically for the digital content market, in conjunction with the SIIA’s 11th annual Information Industry Summit, held Jan 24-25 in New York City. Nominated products and services were first reviewed by third-party judges, whose evaluations determined the finalists. SIIA members then reviewed these finalists and voted to select the 14 winners.

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The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has announced the recipients of the 2012 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award. Sponsored by ACRL and YBP Library Services, the award recognises the staff of a college, university and community college library for programmes that deliver exemplary services and resources to further the educational mission of the institution.

The Seattle Central Community College Library, winner in the community college category, was chosen for its team support for student learning through innovative information literacy offerings.

The Champlain College Library, winner of this year's award in the college category, impressed the selection committee with its nontraditional approach to instruction and positive student-driven environment.

Grand Valley State University Libraries, winner in the university category, was selected for the collaborative and effective approach taken to restructuring the library organisation and build an innovative, agile and flexible team-based organisation that is responsive to changing user needs.

Each winning library will receive $3,000 and a plaque, to be presented at an award ceremony held on each recipient's campus.

ACRL is a division of the American Library Association (ALA), representing more than 12,000 academic and research librarians and interested individuals. It claims to be the only individual membership organisation in North America that develops programmes, products and services to meet the unique needs of academic and research librarians. Its initiatives enable the higher education community to understand the role that academic libraries play in the teaching, learning and research environments.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the first recipient of the 'Elsevier Exceptional Nurse Educator' award at the annual Elsevier Mosby Faculty Development Institute, held at the Paris Hotel, Las Vegas, Nev., January 2-4, 2012.

The award acknowledges the work of a nurse educator who presents an exceptional level of skill, innovation and effectiveness to promote student learning, professionalism and self-confidence. Entries were nominated by a peer and were reviewed and judged by a panel of experienced nursing professionals.

This year, Dr. Sarah Farrell, Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, was recognised for her involvement in the integration of technology into the classroom. Dr. Farrell teaches informatics, health policy, psychiatric nursing, leadership and an intra-professional course on 'evaluating health information on the web.'

In collaboration with Contemporary Forums, leading provider of continuing education (CE) for healthcare professionals, the Elsevier Mosby Faculty Development Institute brings together healthcare professionals to learn about the latest developments affecting nurse educators, including quality with online education, how to think like a nurse and team-based learning. The three-day conference, attended by over 600 nursing educators, featured more than 90 poster abstracts, a full day continuing nursing education (CNE) course by Diane M. Billings and Linda J. Caputi and several speaker sessions. In addition, a webcast option was provided for those who preferred to attend virtually.

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The British Library, the national library of the UK, together with technology partner BiblioLabs, LLC, has been awarded the Publishing Innovation Award (PIA) for their British Library 19th Century Historical Collection iPad App. The award was announced at the opening of the Digital Book World Conference in New York City.

The App, released in August 2011 to rave reviews from both critics and consumers, offers seamless, cloud-based access to more than 45,000 historical works from the British Library, spanning 21 thematic collections.

The Publishing Innovation Awards were established to honour outstanding digital products that enrich and delight readers. The British Library 19th Century Historical Collection App was named the 2012 winner in the Reference/Academic category.

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Engineering resources provider Knovel, US, has announced the winners of the Sixth Annual Knovel University Challenge. The 2011 winners were chosen from the Challenge's largest-ever participant group, with more than 12,000 total entries from students representing over 600 universities worldwide.

The 2011 grand prize recipient was Rahul Thakkar from the University at Buffalo. The first prize recipient was Andrew Steele of Case Western Reserve University. Schools with the highest student participation include AGH University of Science and Technology, British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), Nanyang Technological University, Oklahoma State University and the University of Arkansas.

Each year The Knovel University Challenge presents a series of questions on engineering-related topics and students can use Knovel to research and find the answers. In 2011, students could choose questions from multiple difficulty levels and submit their responses through either the Knovel University Challenge website or Facebook. Eligible entries were based upon correctly answering a minimum of three questions.

The Challenge has become increasingly popular among engineering students and faculty for introducing future engineers to top-notch resources as they learn how to research, problem solve, and prepare for a competitive workforce. With a 55 percent increase in the number of participants from the previous year, 2011 marked Knovel's most successful University Challenge to date.

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Science magazine Scientific American and Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, are expanding the Google Science Fair awards honours in 2012. The $50,000 Scientific American Science in Action award powered by the Google Science Fair will recognise a project that addresses a social, environmental or health issue to make a practical difference in the lives of a group or community. The Google Science Fair is open to young scientists aged 13 to 18. Entries are due by April 1, 2012.

The finalists and winner of the Scientific American Science in Action award will be drawn from the entry pool of the Google Science Fair by a committee of judges including Dean Kamen, Thomas H. Culhane and Melanie Sanford. The winner will receive a $50,000 cash prize and one year of mentoring to help realise the goal of their project and will be recognised at the 2012 Google Science Fair Finalist event in July. More information is available at www.ScientificAmerican.com and at www.google.com/sciencefair.

The Google Science Fair is an annual international online competition launched last year. In total, 7,500 projects were submitted by 10,000 students from over 90 countries. In July 2011, three young women walked away with the top honours and were invited to meet President Barack Obama in the White House to discuss their projects and goals for the future. The grand prizewinner, Shree Bose, won $50,000 for her work in improving a cancer therapy. Other partners of the Google Science Fair include CERN, Lego and National Geographic.

Scientific American became part of Nature Publishing Group (NPG) in 2009, after many years as a sister Holtzbrinck organisation. The publication claims to be the oldest continuously published magazine in the US and the leading authoritative publication for science in the general media.

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The American Psychological Association is seeking nominations for the 2012 APA Excellence in Librarianship Award. The award will be presented at the Educational and Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS) Research Forum at the June 2012 American Library Association Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA.

The APA Excellence in Librarianship Award was created to recognise an outstanding contribution to psychology and behavioural sciences librarianship within the past 5 years. The award consists of a $2,500 cheque and an inscribed plaque. The Award is open to both librarians and allied professionals with at least 5 years of professional experience. It recognises a contribution to psychology and behavioural sciences librarianship including instructions, project development, publications, research or service.

Nominations are now being accepted, and should include a current curriculum vitae; nomination statement (describe the contribution and its significance within and outside of the institution); letters of support (no more than three; at least one letter from a direct beneficiary of the services provided by the nominee is strongly encouraged); and contact information for the nominee.

The application deadline is April 16, 2012. All materials should be submitted electronically to excellenceinlibrarianshipaward@apa.org.

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Technology research firm Gartner, Inc., US, has announced that nominations are now open for the Gartner IODC 2012 Futuristic Data Center Design Excellence Awards for the Asia Pacific region. The awards will be presented at the Gartner Infrastructure, Operations and Data Center Summit in Sydney on March 5-6, 2012.

The Gartner IODC 2012 Futuristic Data Center Design Excellence Awards recognise the most successful recent data center design implementation by organisations that demonstrate high levels of business impact and overall excellence in the integration, technology and deployment of a futuristic design.

Nominations will be accepted from any relevant end user organisation and will close on January 19, 2012. Technology vendors and service providers are not eligible for the award, but are encouraged to nominate their customers.

The top three finalists will each present their case studies during Gartner Infrastructure, Operations & Data Center Summit in Sydney on March 5-6, 2012. Summit attendees will vote to select the winner from these finalists, who will be announced during the summit.

More information about the award and the nomination form is available at http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/apac/business-intelligence/excellence-awards.jsp.

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The Optical Society of America (OSA) Foundation has announced that the fundraising campaign to endow and rename The Optical Society (OSA) Leadership Award in memory of Robert E. Hopkins exceeded its $100,000 fundraising goal in just six months. The campaign, which began earlier this year, was led by OSA Board of Directors Member Charles E. Synborski. The newly renamed award honours Hopkins' contributions to the field of optical engineering and to the optics community.

The Robert E. Hopkins Leadership Award will be given to an individual or group that has had a significant impact on the global optics and photonics community or on society as a whole stemming from non-research-oriented activities. It will be presented each fall during the OSA Annual Meeting, Frontiers in Optics.

Hopkins, who passed away in 2009, served as OSA president in 1973. Recognised as an expert in optical instrument design, aspheric optics, interferometry, lasers, and lens testing, Hopkins has been characterised as the 'father of optical engineering.' He was also a Fellow of the American Physical Society, served on the SPIE Board of Governors, and was a member of Sigma Xi, the American Society for Engineering Education and numerous advisory panels.

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The American Institute of Physics has called for entries for the 2012 American Institute of Physics (AIP) Science Communication Awards. The Awards recognise effective science communication in print, broadcast, and new media in order to improve the general public’s appreciation of physics, astronomy, and allied science fields.

Winners will receive a prize of $3,000, an engraved presentation piece, and a certificate of recognition. The publisher of the winning entries will also receive a certificate of recognition.

Candidates may nominate their own work or be nominated by someone else. This year, entrants can compete in three categories - Science writing, Children’s writing and New media.

Candidates must specify the category in which they are competing for each submitted work. No more than three entries may be submitted by a single author or group of authors per year. Authors may elect to have multiple (up to three) submissions judged as a single entry if they are part of a coherent story arc. Collaborative efforts on a single project will be considered a single entry, and prize money will be split accordingly.

Entries must be postmarked or received by February 17, 2012.

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Reaxys, a workflow solution that provides extensive information on chemical compounds, related physical and pharmacological properties, has announced the launch of the 3rd Annual Reaxys PhD Prize. The competition is for chemistry students currently studying for a PhD or having completed a PhD within the last 12 months.

The prize will be awarded to the candidates that best demonstrate excellence in methodology and approach in a peer-reviewed publication. Three prize winners will each receive a cheque for $2000 and will be invited to present their research at the Winners’ Symposium.

The 2012 Winners’ Symposium will be held at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall Meeting in Philadelphia, August 19 – 23, 2012. The Symposium is sponsored by the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry and co-sponsored by the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry. The three winners will each present papers at the symposium alongside papers given by two members of the Reaxys Advisory Board – Professor Barry M. Trost from Stanford University and Professor Dr Martin Jansen from Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart.

All entries will be reviewed by a review board of leading international chemists, chaired by the members of the Reaxys Advisory Board. Submissions will be reviewed based upon originality, innovation, importance to the field, applicability, rigor of approach and publication quality.

All submissions must include a PhD Supervisor letter of recommendation, a CV and a representative peer-reviewed piece of published research. Entries should be submitted on or before February 15, 2012 at http://prize.reaxys.com.

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STM publisher Springer has announced the Springer API (Application Programming Interface) Challenge 2.0, its second competition for original, non-commercial applications using its freely available metadata and content APIs.

The Springer API Challenge 1.0 asked participants to develop applications that offer users new ways to find, visualise, and manipulate relevant data drawn from Springer's large and growing content database. The Springer API Challenge 2.0 is a goal-directed competition to develop more specific solutions using the APIs - Springer Metadata API, SpringerImages API and SpringerOpen Access API.

Springer Metadata API provides metadata for over five million online documents (e.g. journal articles, book chapters, protocols). The Challenge 2.0 goal is to develop an application that provides a novel search solution based on an analysis of trends in the metadata.

SpringerImages API provides images and related text for over 300,000 free images available on www.SpringerImages.com. The Challenge 2.0 goal is to develop an application that uses image recognition to analyse, compare or search images.

SpringerOpen Access API provides metadata, full-text content, and images for over 80,000 open access articles from BioMed Central and SpringerOpen journals. The Challenge 2.0 goal is to develop an application that uses semantic modelling to interpret characteristics of individual full-text documents and/or to analyse relationships among full-text documents.

Mashups of Springer APIs with open sourced (and non-copyrighted) data are encouraged. Participants may be individuals or teams of up to three members. They must register for a user account with Mashery, a provider of API management services, and apply to Springer for an API key. They are bound by the provisions of the official rules and the Springer API Terms of Use (available at http://dev.springer.com). The completed application must be submitted via email, including a brief description, an indication as to which goal is being addressed, and contact information to SpringerAPIChallenge@springer.com.

All entries must be submitted by May 31, 2012 and will be evaluated by an interdisciplinary panel of judges who will rank them on relevance to the stated goal, creativity and originality, user experience and design, and value and benefit. First, second, and third place winners will be awarded cash prizes of US$ 8,000, US$ 4,000 and US$ 2,000 respectively. The winners will be announced in June 2012.

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The Royal Society of Chemistry recently celebrated 170 years of publishing with the awarding of a Chemical Landmark plaque at the learned society's office in Cambridge. The blue plaque will be placed outside the main entrance of Thomas Graham House at the Cambridge science park.

According to RSC Chief Executive Dr. Robert Parker, this landmark acknowledges the huge and growing contribution of the RSC to the development of the scientific record for the chemical sciences. In 1841, the Society had published its first 42 articles in the Memoirs of the Chemical Society of London. This year, the International Year of Chemistry, RSC journals will publish 20,419 articles. This is seen to mark the growth in output of chemistry scholarship and the importance of the RSC in disseminating it to advance the chemical sciences.

RSC journals' average impact factor (IF) is 5.4 - over twice that of the average chemistry journal (2.54). Eighty-three percent of RSC journals listed in the 2011 impact factors report have an IF above 3. Of the top 20 journals in the multidisciplinary chemistry category, 25 percent are from RSC Publishing.

Chemical Landmarks are the Royal Society of Chemistry's official recognition of historical sites around the UK where important chemical breakthroughs have been made. They are an RSC initiative to commemorate, emphasise and awaken public interest in historic developments in the chemical sciences.

Sites that are awarded Chemical Landmark status have either played a major part in the development of chemical science or have seen a development of chemical science that has made a significant contribution to the health, wealth or quality of life of the nation.

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Academic publisher SAGE features as one of ten companies leading the way in innovation in the science, technical and medical publishing sector, according to a new report - Outsell Scientific, Technical & Medical Information: 2011 Market Forecast and Trends Report. The report is available online at http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products/1040.

Outsell’s annual forecast recognises companies whose offerings are ‘shaking up their respective marketplaces’. The 2011 edition profiles SAGE alongside both established and newer entrants to STM. The company’s choice of platform provider for its more than 670 journals, HighWire, is also featured.

SAGE’s inclusion in the report reflects several key advances in its social sciences publishing programme as well as its continued growth through acquisitions and partnerships in STM. Highlighted is the launch of SAGE Open, the first broad-based open access journal for the social sciences and humanities. Over 600 submissions have been received to date for the journal. SAGE’s strengths in research methods publishing are also recognised. The publisher launched SAGE Research Methods Online in January, a new online tool for research methods. The online social networking site, Methodspace, launched in 2009 also passed 10,000 members earlier this year.

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Content management consulting and solutions provider Really Strategies, Inc., US, has been named to the EContent 100 list. Now in its 11th year, this list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry is hand selected by EContent Magazine's judges who are experts in the digital content industry.

The EContent 100 list comprises many well-known companies, including Apple, Adobe, Google, and MarkLogic. Interested parties may visit www.econtentmag.com for the complete list of 2011 winners.

Really Strategies provides content solutions and services to publishers, media companies, and other content-centric companies. From content creation to delivery, Really Strategies helps bring strategy, content, and technology together to analyse, architect, and implement appropriate tools and technologies.

Really Strategies' product line includes RSuite and RSuite Cloud. RSuite is a content management system designed specifically for publishers. RSuite empowers publishers to modernise publishing processes and monetise content. RSuite Cloud is a multilingual editorial and production system for multi-channel publishing, including print, web, and eBook production. RSuite Cloud provides editorial tools, workflow, language translation, and automated output in print ready PDF, HTML, and eBook formats.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the US-UK Fulbright Commission recently honoured eight early career researchers in a range of academic disciplines at the 2011 UK Scopus Young Researcher Award ceremony. More than 80 university executives, policy makers, library directors and senior researchers attended the award ceremony at the Royal Society in London, recognising the outstanding achievements of the best UK early career researchers.

The UK Scopus Young Researcher Award is one of the initiatives the US-UK Fulbright Commission and Elsevier have developed together to foster UK research talent. The award nominees are all researchers who have published for the first time in 2008 or more recently and have an affiliation to an institution in the UK. They were assessed by a jury of 40 consisting of former Fulbright Scholars, academic journal editors and other discipline-specific experts. Their assessment was based on publication and citation information provided by SciVerse Scopus, Elsevier's abstract and citation database.

The jury also selected three institutions to be presented with the 2011 Scopus Fostering Young Researchers Institutional Award. The Universities of Manchester, Oxford and Southampton will receive this award for having trained 11 of the shortlisted candidates.

Elsevier has hosted Scopus Young Researcher Awards around the world with various partner organisations since 1995, in a concerted effort to support the growth and development of research talent globally.

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Engineering resources provider Knovel, US, has been named to the EContent 100 – a list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry. This is the second consecutive year Knovel has been selected for this list, totalling six appearances since 2003.

Experts in the digital content industry, including Information Today and EContent Magazine editors, compile the yearly EContent 100. This year, judges focused on companies in the world of digital publishing and media that are making substantial differences within their industries.

Knovel offers an unmatched depth and breadth of validated engineering content, optimised search and data analysis tools, giving engineers convenient access to and the ability to analyse, document and incorporate data into their everyday work.

The complete 2011-2012 EContent 100 list can be viewed online at www.econtentmag.com.

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Dove Medical Press has announced that the publishing operations of the Press has achieved carboNZero certification. The announcement was made by Tim Hill, publisher at Dove Medical Press in Auckland, New Zealand. Dove Medical Press publishes more than 100 open access peer-reviewed journals across the broad spectrum of science, technology, and especially medicine.

The emissions for the 2010-2011 period were verified at 10.61 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents. This is equivalent to the emissions created from driving around 45,000 km in a medium sized petrol car. Dove Medical Press met the requirements of carboNZero certification having measured its greenhouse gas emissions in compliance with the requirements of ISO 14064-1:2006.

The carboNZero programme is an internationally recognized Greenhouse Gas certification scheme - commonly referred to as carbon footprinting - for organisations, products, services and events, offering optional mitigation strategies through the provision of credible and verified offsets. The carboNZero programme is based on over a decade of solid research on climate change, greenhouse gas measurement and carbon monitoring.

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Data analytics products firm MarkLogic Corporation, US, has been named the 'Business IT Innovation of the Year' by the judges of The BCS & Computing UK IT Industry Awards 2011. The UK IT Industry Awards is a platform for the entire IT profession to celebrate best practices, innovation, and excellence.

The Business IT Innovation of the Year is awarded to a new product or service that has delivered measurable benefit for business users or customers in areas such as e-commerce, hosting, web performance, communications, or web-based services. MarkLogic was selected as the winner for its innovative technology that helps organisations manage unstructured information and leverage Big Data.

MarkLogic enables applications that solve the challenges associated with Big Data. These applications can allow organisations to take advantage of unstructured information at a fraction of the time and cost compared to traditional technologies. With enterprise class features, MarkLogic gives customers the ability to manage complexity with confidence at scale to power mission-critical, Big Data applications.

The BCS & Computing UK IT Industry Awards provide a platform for the entire profession to celebrate best practice, innovation and excellence. In total, this year's Awards featured 23 categories which covered project, organisation, technology and individual excellence. The categories were open to organisations and individuals involved in IT across the public, not for profit and commercial sectors.

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Business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, has honoured 11 of Taiwan's leading scientists for their contribution to global research and development (R&D) in seven areas of emerging research. The 'Thomson Reuters Taiwan Research Day & Research Front Awards 2011' recognised these Taiwan scientists as being at the forefront of research fronts spanning biomedical science, psychiatry, engineering and agricultural science.

The 11 awardees were presented with the accolade after their research was analysed using Thomson Reuters Research Front Methodology to assess their level of influence on specific scientific fields. Research Front Methodology looks at patterns of intense communication between scientists and is based on the top 1 percent of the most highly cited research papers in each of 22 disciplines in Essential Science Indicators (ESI) from Thomson Reuters.

According to the latest ESI data by Thomson Reuters, Taiwan is currently ranked 18th in the latest annual listing of Top 20 countries in all fields by total number of research papers behind the US, Japan, China, India and South Korea. In terms of total number of citations worldwide, Taiwan is ranked 22nd.

In specific fields such as physics and chemistry, Taiwan is ranked 20th worldwide by total citations in physics from January 2000-June 30, 2010, and 18th worldwide in chemistry by total citations from January 2000-December 2010. This is presented by ScienceWatch.com, a bi-monthly newsletter by Thomson Reuters for the international research community.

The awards ceremony, which was held at NTUH (National Taiwan University Hospital) International Convention Center, is part of a series of Asia Pacific Research Days hosted by Thomson Reuters. These events seek to recognise research excellence in countries and regions demonstrating they are leading the world through innovation in their respective fields. The previous event in Taipei was held in 2006. Similar events have also been held in Australia, China, South Korea, Japan and India.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the winners of the Semantic Web Challenge. Participants in the Challenge applied semantic web techniques in building online end-user applications that integrate, combine and deduce information needed to assist users in performing tasks. The Challenge took place at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011) in Bonn, Germany, from October 23-27, 2011.

The 2011 Semantic Web Challenge, sponsored by Elsevier, was co-chaired by Prof. Dr. Christian Bizer of the Free University Berlin and Dr. Diana Maynard of the University of Sheffield, and consisted of two tracks: the Open Track and the Billion Triples Track. . Both Challenges were open to researchers from corporations as well as academic researchers. A jury of academic and industrial experts determined the winners. The awards consisted of cash prizes exceeding 2,500 Euros in total.

Ten participants competed in the Open Track which showcased how the use of the semantic web can process low-value real world data sources into higher value ones. Five competitors participated in the Billions Triples Track. The latter track required participants to make use of a specific, very large data set provided by the organizers.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, recently announced the winners of the Apps for Library Idea Challenge at the 2011 Charleston Conference in Charleston, SC. The international competition encouraged librarians and information professionals to conceptualise solutions to the challenges that they and their constituents face in addressing the search and discovery of information.

Following the submission period (May 13 to September 2, 2011), an international panel of judges selected 10 app concepts as finalists. The community was invited to comment on the finalists and vote for their favourite idea. Two grand-prize winners were selected – one by the panel of judges and one by community vote.

The Judge's Choice Grand Prize was awarded to Journals/Conferences @ Your Fingertips, proposed by Low, Ke Khoon, a librarian at the National University of Singapore. The app identifies the top 20 journal or conference titles relating to the user's search results, ranked by number of relevant articles, and deliver RSS feeds with table of contents for these journals.

The Community Choice Grand Prize was awarded to the JTOCs 2 Go app, proposed by Andrea Szwajcer, a librarian at the University of Manitoba, Canada. The app enables users to customise a journal table of contents notification service with full-text viewing and sharing of articles in a clean, easy-to-read format.

Elsevier will collaborate with the idea creators to develop the two winning app concepts for inclusion in SciVerse Applications. Additionally, each grand-prize winner will receive €750.

SciVerse Applications and the Developer Network provide opportunities for researchers and librarians to collaborate with developers in creating and promoting new applications that improve research workflows. The Developer Network features a growing community of application developers who may gain recognition, prestige and revenue through their contributions to SciVerse Applications.

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Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing, UK, has announced that its abstracting service, Emerald Management Reviews, is holding a double 50 celebration this month – recognising the 50th anniversary of its launch and the 50 winners of its Annual Citations of Excellence Awards.

First launched in 1961 as 'Anbar Abstracts', Emerald Management Reviews has a long and illustrious history. It was the first abstracting and indexing service in the UK, and, in 1988, became one of the first searchable electronic databases being produced on the old 5¼ -inch floppy disks. In 1997 it became available online for the first time.

Alongside the anniversary celebrations, the winners of Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence Awards are also celebrating. Now in their fifteenth year, these distinguished annual awards recognise the 50 most outstanding articles published by the top 300 management journals in the world. With 15,000 reviews added to the Emerald Management Reviews database annually, receiving a Citation of Excellence is an extraordinary achievement and represents one of the highest accolades that an author can achieve.

This year, to reflect the changing perceptions and assessment of quality in the publishing world, Emerald adopted a new approach to selecting the winners of these prestigious awards. Working with Professor Anne-Wil Harzing, a recognized authority on journal quality and citation metrics, Emerald used a two-tier system based on citations from Harzing's Publish or Perish software, and research impact.

A full list of the 2011 winners, as well as lists of previous winners, is available at: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/tk/citation_of_excellence

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that nominations are now open for the 6th Annual BioMed Central Research Awards. The awards bring together the scientific community to celebrate the finest open access research from the last 12 months. Reflecting the increasing importance of open access for scholarly communications, 2012 sees the awards programme expanded to incorporate a variety of biomedical disciplines.

Ten new award categories have been introduced, ensuring that all researchers publishing in BioMed Central’s journals have the opportunity to be recognised for their achievements, commitment and talent. Nominations are now open for the categories: Cancer and Cardiovascular Research Award, Clinical and Translational Medicine Award, General Biology Award, General Medicine Award, Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics and Evolution Award, Microbiology, Immunology, Infection and Inflammation Award, Molecular and Cellular Science Award, Neuroscience, Neurology and Psychiatry Award, Open Data Award, Plant, Animal Sciences and Veterinary Research Award and Public Health Award.

The winning author(s) of each of these categories will be automatically shortlisted for the BioMed Central Research Award.

The BioMed Central Research Awards celebrate exceptional research published over the last year in BioMed Central’s 220 open access journals. The Awards also provide researchers with high visibility for their work, highlighting their achievements to the wider scientific community.

The Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP) has named ProQuest Dialog, the search service specially designed for professional research, as the winner of its 12th annual AIIP Technology Award.

The award recognises innovative products that enhance the working environment of the independent information professional and was presented at the Internet Librarian Conference in Monterey, CA. ProQuest Dialog is a service of Dialog, a business unit of ProQuest.

ProQuest Dialog simplifies searching across the unique breadth of content in Dialog and DataStar. Its design is based on more than 24 months of research and testing - with multiple roles across organisations, from professional searchers to corporate end-users. In one intuitive interface, ProQuest Dialog will provide guided search and browsing for end users while and precision search and results manipulation for professional searchers. Among its advanced search features are automatic text translation of search results, left-hand truncation, iterative filtering and date histograms.

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The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has announced the winners of the 2011 AIP Science Communication Awards.

George Musser will receive the prize in science writing for his article ‘Could Time End?’ published in Scientific American. Vicki Oransky Wittenstein will receive the award in the children's category for her book Planet Hunter: Geoff Marcy and the Search for Other Earths. A clear and engaging style, ambitious subjects, and excellent science content were some of the traits that won these pieces top praise from the selection committee.

The winners will each receive an award of $3,000, an inscribed Windsor chair, and a certificate of recognition. The awards will be presented at the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) on January 11, 2012, in Austin, Texas.

The AIP Science Communication Awards aim to promote effective science communication in print and broadcast media in order to improve the general public's appreciation of physics, astronomy, and allied science fields. The awards are presented at venues that best highlight the science covered in the publications.

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Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and the British Academy have created a major new prize for an outstanding contribution to economics.

The new British Academy-Wiley Prize in Economics, worth £5,000, will be awarded annually in recognition of excellence in economics, including economic history, by an early career researcher. The first prize will be made in 2012, with a call for nominations in autumn 2011.

The British Academy's President, Sir Adam Roberts, announced the new initiative at the Academy's annual Medals and Prizes ceremony on October 6, 2011.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the University of Sydney, Australia’s leading higher education and research university, have announced the winners of the 24-hour Sydney Hackathon.

Participants developed software applications to improve delivery of scientific, medical and technical content using SciVerse Content and Framework APIs from September 24 to September 25. The competition was organised through the joint effort of Elsevier, Sydney University’s School of Information Technologies and the Sydney University IT Society (SUIT).

Tim Dawborn, Seb Pauka and James Alexander, of the University of Sydney, developed Presentify, an application that displays any SciVerse ScienceDirect article as an HTML5 presentation by automatically organising content including section titles, images, charts and the summary text of an article. This application was awarded the first place ($1,500).

The second place ($1,000) was awarded to Sam Thorogood, an alumnus of the University of Sydney’s School of IT, and Nicky Ringland a postgraduate at the School of IT, for developing SciPlay, an application that quizzes readers of a SciVerse ScienceDirect article with questions based off of the content of that article. SciPlay also won the People’s Choice award.

The Macademia application, which won the third place ($ 500), enhances search by displaying articles and videos relevant to a user’s query. Additionally, the application enables users to comment on an article.

The Sydney Hackathon is the most recent 24-hour hackathon hosted through the joint effort of Elsevier and a university partner. Similar collaborative challenges were conducted in Singapore at the National University of Singapore (August 12 – 14, 2011), the US at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (February 5-6, 2011) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York (June 27-28, 2011).

SciVerse Applications and the Developer Network provide opportunities for researchers and librarians to collaborate with developers in creating and promoting new applications that improve research workflows. The Developer Network features a growing community of application developers who may gain recognition, prestige and revenue through their contributions to SciVerse Applications.

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Electronic research databases provider EBSCO, US, has announced the winner of its 2011 Charleston Conference Scholarship. The winner is Matthew Harrington, collections management assistant at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. This year's event – the 31st Annual Charleston Conference, titled 'Something's Gotta Give' - will be held November 2 – 5, 2011, in Charleston, S.C.

Applicants for the EBSCO scholarship were asked to consider the topic 'Under Pressure: Libraries Evolving to Thrive' and submit a short essay about the positive changes their libraries are making in order to adapt to the ever-changing library landscape.

Matthew's winning essay outlines how the academic library continues to reinvent itself in the wake of 'changing currents within academia and the various economic and technological spheres of scholarship.' It also notes that, despite these challenges, libraries are evolving into energetic centers for scholarly activity that are now better equipped to match the exuberance of students.

This is EBSCO's third year sponsoring a scholarship for a librarian to attend the Charleston Conference. The scholarship money awarded will be used for conference registration, travel, and expenses.

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The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that Dr. Peter J. Stang, editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), and ACS members Dr. Jacqueline K. Barton and Dr. Rakesh Agrawal are among 12 eminent researchers and inventors named by President Obama to receive the nation’s highest honours in science and innovation.

The President named Stang and Barton as recipients of the National Medal of Science and Agrawal as recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. The awards will be presented at a White House ceremony later in 2011.

Stang has been editor of JACS, one of 41 peer-reviewed scientific journals published by the ACS, since 2002. He leads a team of more than 20 associate editors, all active researchers, setting the highest standards of editorial excellence and driving impressive growth in citations. The President cited Stang for his creative contributions to the development of organic supramolecular chemistry and for his outstanding and unique record of public service.

Barton, of the California Institute of Technology, was honored for discovery of a new property of the DNA helix, long-range electron transfer, and for showing that electron transfer depends upon stacking of the base pairs and DNA dynamics. Her experiments reveal a strategy for how DNA repair proteins locate DNA lesions and demonstrate a biological role for DNA-mediated charge transfer.

Agrawal was cited for an extraordinary record of innovations in improving the energy efficiency and reducing the cost of gas liquefaction and separation. These innovations have had significant positive impacts on electronic device manufacturing, liquefied gas production, and the supply of industrial gases for diverse industries.

The National Medal of Science was created by statute in 1959 and is administered for the White House by the National Science Foundation. Awarded annually, the Medal recognises individuals who have made outstanding contributions to science and engineering. Nominees are selected by a committee of Presidential appointees based on their extraordinary knowledge in and contributions to chemistry, engineering, computing, mathematics, and the biological, behavioral/social, and physical sciences.

The National Medal of Technology and Innovation was created by statute in 1980 and is administered for the White House by the US Department of Commerce’s Patent and Trademark Office. The award recognises those who have made lasting contributions to America’s competitiveness and quality of life and helped strengthen the Nation’s technological workforce. Nominees are selected by a distinguished independent committee representing the private and public sectors.

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STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has won first prize for three titles at the 2011 British Medical Association's Medical Book Awards ceremony recently held in London. Through this competition the BMA aims to foster and reward excellence in medical publishing.

First prize in the Internal Medicine category went to Medical Thoracoscopy/Pleuroscopy: Manual and Atlas by Robert Loddenkemper, Praveen N. Mathur, Marc Noppen and Pyng Lee. This text is a unique combination of instructive manual and atlas. The manual section presents clinical cases with indications, techniques, and outcomes for each procedure. In the atlas section, endoscopic photographs demonstrate the application of this minimally invasive technique in various pathologies, from pleural effusion to various manifestations of lung cancer.

First prize in the Radiology category went to Diagnosis of Breast Diseases by Volker Barth. Essential information for the differential diagnosis of breast diseases on the basis of clinical presentation, mammography, and ultrasound is provided in this text. It includes over 1500 illustrations that facilitate interpretation of the information.

First prize in the Surgical Specialties category went to Atlas of Acoustic Neurinoma Microsurgery, 2nd Edition, by Mario Sanna. Step-by-step descriptions of the most common surgical approaches are complemented by clearly labeled, full-colour intraoperative photographs.

Additionally, the Atlas of Temporal Bone Surgery by Tuncay Ulug and ENT Head and Neck Surgery: Essential Procedures by Juergen Theissing, Gerhard Rettinger and Jochen A. Werner won Highly Commended in the Surgical Specialties category. Obstetrics and Gynecology: The Essentials of Clinical Care by E. Albert Reece and Robert Barbieri, was among the Highly Commended books in the Obstetrics and Gynecology category. In the Basic and Clinical Sciences category, Cranial Nerves: Anatomy, Pathology, Imaging by Devin K. Binder, D. Christian Sonne and Nancy J. Fischbein, was Highly Commended.

Established in 1996, the BMA Medical Book Awards encourages and rewards excellence in medical publishing. All entries are judged by physicians and educators.

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Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the 2011 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates researchers likely to be in contention for Nobel honours. Thomson Reuters claims to be the only organisation to use quantitative data to make annual predictions of Nobel Prize winners.

Each year, Thomson Reuters uses data from its research solution, Web of Knowledge, to quantitatively determine the most influential researchers in the Nobel categories of Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, and Economics. Based on citations to their works, the company names these high-impact researchers as Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates and predicts them to be Nobel Prize winners, either this year or in the near future. Since 2002, 21 Citation Laureates have gone on to win Nobel Prizes.

The Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates typically rank among the top one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) of researchers in their fields, based on citations of their published papers over the last two or three decades. This year, 18 of the 24 Citation Laureates hail from American institutions; researchers from Austria, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and Japan also appear among the 2011 picks.

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The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) announced the winners of the 2011 ALPSP Awards at the recently held ALPSP International Conference Dinner.

The ALPSP Award for Contribution to Scholarly Publishing was awarded to Cliff Morgan of John Wiley & Sons. Cliff has worked in publishing for over 36 years, during which time he has been closely involved in special projects in the fields of digital preservation, funder mandates, article metrics, legal deposit and article versioning. He has used his extensive knowledge and experience to the benefit of both commercial and not-for-profit publishers through his longstanding involvement with and commitment to the work of ALPSP, the PA, the STM Association, COUNTER and JISC.

Your Better Life Index by the OECD was the winner of the ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation. This interactive tool presents statistics and raw data sets in a new and accessible way, and has quickly achieved increased awareness and usage of OECD publishing content. A Highly Commended Certificate was awarded to Berg Fashion Library from Berg Publishers. This ambitious project involved creating a complex fashion taxonomy and employing intuitive navigation and strong visual design to meet the needs of the fashion and artistic community. Also shortlisted were F1000 Posters from the Faculty of 1000 and SCM6 by Silverchair Information Systems.

The ALPSP Award for Best New Journal was bagged by Chemical Science, published by RSC Publishing. Launched to present high quality cutting edge research across the chemical sciences, the journal has achieved swift success. A Highly Commended Certificate was awarded to Bioanalysis published by FutureScience Ltd. The journal has seen rapid success, with growth both in subscription and advertising. The interactive Bioanalysis Zone website is being used to build stronger links with the community. Also shortlisted were Celebrity Studies, published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis, and Nature Communications, published by Nature Publishing Group.

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The UK's Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that its new flagship journal Chemical Science has won the ALPSP Award for Best New Journal. The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) praised Chemical Science for its relevance and quality.

The award is open to any peer-reviewed journal launched in the last 1-3 years. The judges consider the main aspects of the journal including its launch: market research, editorial strategy, marketing and commercial success.

Chemical Science publishes original research articles of exceptional significance from across the chemical sciences. The journal helps to define the important areas by publishing the most significant cutting-edge research. Submissions must appeal to the general chemical science community, or be of exceptional interest to specialist researchers.

Launched last year with a groundbreaking series of three conferences held in three continents over three sequential weeks - the 'International Symposia on Advancing the Chemical Sciences' (ISACS) - Chemical Science has already established itself as the home of truly excellent chemical science research. A further three international conferences were held earlier this year, in Boston, Manchester and Beijing, with planning for the 2012 events well underway.

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HARRASSOWITZ, a full-service subscription agent and bookseller, Germany, has awarded its 2011 Charleston Conference Scholarship to Ariel Vanderpool, Resource Acquisitions Specialist III at Stanford University Lane Medical Library, CA. The scholarship supports attendance at this year’s Charleston Conference, scheduled to be held from November 2-5, 2011, in Charleston, SC.

In line with the 2011 Charleston Conference theme of ‘Something’s Gotta Give!’, applicants were asked to submit a short essay on the topic “What Needs to ‘Give’ for Libraries and Vendors to Flourish�.

The judging panel consisted of Clint Chamberlain, Coordinator for Information Resources, University of Texas at Arlington; Gay Dannelly, Associate Director for Resources and Collection Services, University of Notre Dame; and Tina Feick, HARRASSOWITZ’s Director of Sales and Marketing for North America.

Vanderpool’s winning essay effectively outlined how interaction between libraries and vendors can be facilitated ‘through a sort of personalisation, seen in record keeping, review and analysis of those records, and creative application of that accumulated information to future interactions.’

The complete essay can be viewed at http://www.katina.info/conference/downloads/Ariel-Vanderpool-Essay.pdf.

Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that it has been ranked 65th in the 2011 InformationWeek 500, an annual listing of the nation's most innovative users of business technology. ProQuest is best known for its creation of information and technology tools that support research.

InformationWeek is a premier source of news and analysis of leading-edge products and vendors in the business IT industry. Its InformationWeek 500 list is considered unique among industry rankings for its spotlight on the power of innovation in information technology.

This is ProQuest's third consecutive appearance in the top 100 of the InfoWeek 500. The company is being recognised for its ability to navigate a highly competitive industry, where new market entrants come from non-traditional sources. ProQuest has continued to thrive through the development of services that enable researchers to discover, interact and use content. Particularly noted is the company's engagement in partnerships that accelerate discovery of information that is often below the search radar.

Earlier this year, ProQuest's business unit Serials Solutions' Summon service partnered with HathiTrust, a digital archive of more than 8 million books common to academic libraries, to enable instant searching of these works - even those in print - down to the word on a page. This is an important step since books have been searched by their metadata - author, title, keywords, et cetera. Information that was buried can now be surfaced in a simple search.

The judges also noted ProQuest's acquisition of and investment in companies with specialized technologies that benefit research communities. Earlier this year, ProQuest acquired ebook company ebrary. This union creates a uniquely comprehensive research content pool supported with data management tools. ProQuest also acquired LexisNexis' Library Research Solutions, now ProQuest Government Information Systems (GIS).

Within months, ProQuest announced a project that will digitise the vast library of primary sources from GIS, enabling users to easily access and search historical government documents - from presidential memos to congressional reports - that have been confined to archive boxes and microfilm, but will now be easily studied online.

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Educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, and Library Media Connection Magazine have announced the three winners of the TEAMS Award — Teachers and Media Specialists Influencing Student Achievement. The 2011 winners are Winter Park Elementary School in Wilmington, North Carolina; Patrick F. Taylor Science and Technology Academy in Jefferson, Louisiana; and Skyline High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The TEAMS Award was created to recognise the critical collaboration between teachers and media specialists in promoting learning and increasing student achievement.

Nominations were evaluated based on demonstrated collaboration between media specialists and teachers during the school year; effective techniques that positively impact student learning and achievement; support received from school leadership; and ability for others to replicate this best practice.

Each winning school receives $2,500 in cash, Gale products, a one-year subscription to Library Media Connection and the Educator’s Professional Bookshelf from Linworth Publishing. In addition, the winners will be featured in an article in Library Media Connection. The awards will be presented at a special reception held in conjunction with the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) annual conference in Minneapolis, MN in late October.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the winners of the Young Scientist Awards, sponsored by Elsevier as part of the National Research Foundation (NRF) President's Awards in Pretoria, South Africa on September 1, 2011.

The event was attended by Ms. Naledi Pandor, Minister of Science and Technology South Africa; Dr. Albert van Jaarsveld, CEO of the NRF; and JC Heyneke, Head of Sales Strategy and Business Development Science & Technology, Elsevier. Awards were presented to young South African researchers on the basis of exceptional potential demonstrated in their published doctoral work and/or their research outputs in their early post-doctoral careers.

This year, the Young Scientist Award was awarded to Dr. Cang Hui and Dr. John Terblanche from the University of Stellenbosch and to Dr. Trevor Vickey of the University of Witwatersrand.

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Academic publisher SAGE has announced that the winner of the SAGE International Bursary at 15th European Conference in Developmental Psychology is Anna Sevcikova of the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

The 15th European Conference in Developmental Psychology took place in Bergen, Norway from August 23 - 27 2011.

SAGE is an international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students spanning a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine.

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Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), a Wolters Kluwer Health business, has announced that seven LWW published journals have won 11 awards in this year's Apex Awards for Publication Excellence Competition, recognising publishing excellence in a variety of categories. Emergency Medicine News took home the esteemed Grand Award for Excellence in the category of 'Magapapers & Newspapers'.

APEX Awards are based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content and the ability to achieve overall communications excellence. APEX Grand Awards honour the outstanding works in each main category, while APEX Awards of Excellence recognise exceptional entries in each of the individual categories. Of the more than 3,300 entries in APEX 2011, just 100 Grand Award Winners were selected.

The Apex Annual Awards for Publication Excellence Competition is open to communicators in corporate, non-profit and independent settings. Sponsored by the Editors of Writing That Works, the bimonthly newsletter for communicators who write, edit and manage business publications, has been recognising publishing excellence since 1988.

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Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK, has announced the winners of its 2011 Citation of Excellence Awards. Now in their fifteenth year, these annual awards recognise the 50 most outstanding articles published by the top 300 management journals in the world.

Currently celebrating the 50th anniversary of its launch, Emerald Management Reviews is a vast database of over 280,000 article abstracts from the top 300 management publications worldwide, as selected by an independent accreditation board of industry experts. Publications on the Emerald Management Reviews Coverage List include, for example, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Finance, Strategic Management Journal, MIT Sloan Management Review and McKinsey Quarterly.

Fifty articles across the whole database are singled out for special praise and awarded a Citation of Excellence. With 15,000 article abstracts added to the Emerald Management Reviews database annually, receiving a Citation of Excellence is an extraordinary achievement and represents one of the highest accolades that an author can achieve. Authors of the winning articles receive an official certificate and badge to display on their work. The award brings with it peer recognition and, frequently, increases in research funding.

For 2011 Emerald has adopted a new approach to selecting the winners of these awards in order to reflect the changing perceptions and assessment of quality in the publishing world. Emerald is working with Professor Anne-Wil Harzing, using the Publish or Perish software program, to select the winners using a two-tier system based on citations and research impact.

The number of citations received by each paper abstracted for Emerald Management Reviews over the previous three years has been analysed using Anne-Wil Harzing's Publish or Perish citations analysis software, and separated into the main subject areas of management, economics and business. As papers need at least three years to accumulate citation data, the 2011 Awards have been selected from papers published in 2007.

A shortlist of the most highly cited papers for each subject area was then sent to the Editorial Judging Panel who have chosen the final top 50 best papers based on their research impact using Emerald's Impact of Research quality criteria, developed in conjunction with editors of over 250 Emerald journals.

A full list of the 2011 winners, as well as lists of previous winners, is available at http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/reviews/awards.htm

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The Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) has announced that Dr. Ross Quinlan is the recipient of the organisation's 2011 Innovation Award and Dr. Bharat Rao is the winner of its 2011 Service Award. The awards were announced at the opening ceremony of the international conference on knowledge discovery and data mining, KDD 2011.

Awarded for seminal research and service to the community, the awards represent the highest peer recognition in the knowledge discovery and data mining community. In addition, SIGKDD unveiled the winners of the annual KDD Cup competition, as well as the recipients of best paper and student travel awards, recognising excellence in data and predictive analytics research and scholarship.

The ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award claims to be the highest award for technical excellence in the field of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). The award is conferred on an individual or a group of collaborators, whose outstanding innovations have had a lasting impact in advancing the theory and practice of the field.

The ACM SIGKDD Service Award recognises an individual or group for their outstanding professional services and contributions to the knowledge discovery and data mining community.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the National University of Singapore (NUS) have announced the winners of SgCodeJam24. This 'Hackathon', a 24-hour programming competition, encourages students and faculty to develop customised applications that advance the search and discovery process of scientific information.

From August 12-13, NUS and Elsevier hosted SgCodeJam24 at NUS School of Computing (SoC). Students and faculty participated in the competition to develop applications using SciVerse ScienceDirect Content and Framework APIs.

The SgCodeJam24 is the most recent 24-hour hackathon hosted through the joint effort of Elsevier and a university partner. Similar collaborative challenges were conducted in the United States at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (February 5-6, 2011) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York (June 27-28, 2011).

SciVerse Applications and the Developer Network provide opportunities for researchers and librarians to collaborate with developers in creating and promoting new applications that improve research workflows. The Developer Network features a growing community of application developers who may gain recognition, prestige and revenue through their contributions to SciVerse Applications.

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Digital Science, a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd., unveiled its Catalyst Prize, an initiative to support innovators who wish to develop new software tools or technologies for scientific research. The programme will provide a series of awards up to £15,000 each (about $24,000) to the most promising ideas for novel uses of information technology in science.

Catalyst Prize awards are intended mainly to provide initial support for innovators who wish to take ideas from concept to prototype. Along with funding, they also provide an opportunity to work with Digital Science to refine, develop and promote the innovation.

The application process is simple, and decisions are made in a timely fashion. Interested parties may submit a short proposal detailing their breakthrough idea or innovation. Shortlisted applicants will be invited to present their ideas, preferably in person at a Digital Science office in London, New York or Tokyo.

Priority will be given to applicants who have limited access to other sources of funding, and to projects that adopt open and collaborative approaches. Digital Science will not claim intellectual property rights over the results.

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The British Academy in partnership with Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, have named American developmental psychologist, Dr. Michael Tomasello, as this year's recipient of the Wiley Prize in Psychology.

The £5,000 prize for 'lifetime achievement by an outstanding international scholar' is in recognition of Tomasello's work identifying the unique cognitive and cultural processes that distinguish humans from their nearest primate relatives, the great apes. Prof. Tomasello also works on child language and is a strong critic of generative grammar theory, expounded by British Academy Fellow Noam Chomsky, subscribing instead to the theory of cognitive linguistics.

Tomasello was a professor of psychology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, through the 1980s and 1990s. Since then, he has performed research on the social cognition of great apes at the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center in Leipzig, Germany.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will present awards to outstanding members of the wilderness medicine community at this year's upcoming Wilderness Medical Society 28th Wilderness Medicine Scientific Conference & Annual Meeting. The event will take place in Snowmass, CO, from July 29- August 3, 2011.

The aim of the Wilderness Medicine Society is to provide academic background as well as deliver specific skills to healthcare professionals that will make them effective providers of relief in austere environments and adverse conditions. This year, the WMS is introducing a certification programme, starting with 'Wilderness Medicine: Disaster and Humanitarian Response.'

The Elsevier Leadership in Wilderness Medicine Award will be presented to a member of the wilderness medicine community who has shown exceptional commitment, energy and focus to saving lives, while acting as a guide and mentor to those around them.

The Elsevier Excellence in Education Award will recognise four outstanding students in wilderness medicine.

All award recipients will be given a Barnes & Noble NOOK Color, the Reader's Tablet, pre-loaded with eBook content by Elsevier Author, Dr Paul Auerbach, a founder and past President of the Wilderness Medical Society. Each e-reader will provide access to Dr Auerbach's Medicine for the Outdoors and Wilderness Medicine, 5th Edition, along with a variety of core emergency medicine ebook titles.

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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Committee on Diversity and Leadership has selected 13 masters of library and information science (MLIS) students to participate in the 2011-2013 Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW) as ARL Diversity Scholars.

The ARL IRDW offers numerous financial benefits as well as leadership development offered through the annual ARL Leadership Symposium, a formal mentor programme, career placement assistance, and a research library visit hosted by the Purdue University Libraries. The programme is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and by voluntary contributions from 52 ARL member libraries.

Through this programme ARL members seek to create a diverse academic and research library community that will better meet the challenges of changing demographics in higher education and the emphasis on global perspectives in the academy.

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The Research4Life partners have announced two winners in the 'Access to Scientific Research Literature' global case study competition on how HINARI, AGORA, and/or OARE have impacted both work and communities. Dr. Arun Neopane, a pediatrician from Nepal and Mulugeta Bayisa, a physiotherapist from Ethiopia, were chosen as joint winners from over 60 entries to the competition held in celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the launch of HINARI and the Research4Life programme.

The competition drew entries from more than 30 countries, and represented the broad range of institutions which have access to the HINARI, AGORA and/or OARE programmes. Multimedia and print entries came from researchers, librarians and health professionals who shared their insights on how Research4Life can benefit eligible institutions in developing countries.

Joint winner Dr. Arun Neopane of Nepal offered readers the opportunity to experience not only how Research4Life has benefited his work as a paediatrician, but also how it has supported him in his role as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nepal Paediatric Society and General Secretary of Nepal Association of Medical Editors (NAME).

Joint winner Mulugeta Bayisa is a physiotherapist based at the University of Gondar, College of Medicine and Health Sciences in Ethiopia. Using HINARI, he co-developed an innovative therapeutic exercise programme for adults living with HIV and AIDS to improve the health related quality of life, which is now being implemented by the University Hospital. Additionally, Bayisa has used this access to the scientific literature to develop evidence-based physiotherapy management guidelines for children with obstetric brachial plexus palsy, and to develop a programme of effective spinal manipulative therapy for acute low back pain in adults.

Research4Life is the collective name for three public-private partnerships which seek to help achieve the UN's Millennium Development Goals by providing the developing world with access to critical scientific research. Since 2002, the three programmes - HINARI, AGORA and OARE - have given researchers at more than 5,000 institutions in 105 developing world countries free or low cost access to over 7,000 journals provided by the world's leading science publishers.

Research4Life is a public-private partnership of the WHO, FAO, UNEP, Cornell and Yale Universities and the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers. Together with technology partner Microsoft, the partnership's goal is to help attain six of the UN's eight Millennium Development Goals by 2015, reducing the scientific knowledge gap between industrialised countries and the developing world.

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Publishers John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and Elsevier have announced their sponsorship of the APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education (ASPIRE Prize). The award recognises young scientists who have demonstrated a commitment to both excellence in scientific research, as evidenced by scholarly publication, and cooperation with scientists from other Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies. APEC is the premier forum for facilitating economic growth, cooperation, trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region.

Each APEC Member Economy will be invited to submit one nominee under the age of 40 for the ASPIRE Prize. The winner will receive prize money in the amount of $25,000 and is expected to be honored at the Joint Transportation and Energy Ministerial Conference to be held September 13, 2011, in San Francisco, California.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu is expected to award the ASPIRE Prize. Dr. Chu is a distinguished scientist and co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics (1997).

APEC facilitates economic growth, cooperation, trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region through the advancement of innovative R&D and technologies, knowledge sharing, enhanced international science and technology networks, and improved linkages between research and innovation. APEC's 21 member economies account for about 41 percent of the world's population, 54 percent of world GDP, and 44 percent of world trade.

This year marks the first time since 1993 that the US is hosting APEC. As the host, the US has selected the theme of 'green growth' to guide nominations for the ASPIRE Prize, building on efforts by APEC to promote environmentally sustainable economic growth and development and help our economies successfully transition to a clean energy future.

APEC Member Economies, through the APEC Industrial Science and Technology Working Group, are actively soliciting nominations from top educational and research institutions based in their economies. APEC Member Economies are required to submit their economy's one nominee no later than August 1, 2011.

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Technical information provider UBM Electronics, a UBM company, and the Electronics Components Industry Association (ECIA) have called for entries for the inaugural Electronics Choice Industry Awards (ECIA's). The ECIA awards celebrate excellence in marketing by honoring ECIA members who have displayed exceptional branding and marketing programmes in the past year.

This year's awards programme replaces the association's former competition, the Channel Marketing Awards. The ECIA's feature an entry field of 11 award categories. All entries will be reviewed by the judging panel which will consist of David Blaza, VP, UBM Electronics; Karen Field, SVP, Content, UBM Electronics; Brian Fuller, Editorial Director, EE Times' EE Life community, UBM Electronics; Robin B. Gray, Jr., Electronic Components Industry Association; Kirby Strickland, Phase Two Consulting/Creative/Media Management; and Michael McClellan, Plexus Marketing Group, Inc.

To submit entries for the competition, interested parties may visit www.eciawards.com. The deadline for entry submission is Friday, August 26 at 5:00 p.m. PDT. Award winners will be announced at the 2011 Executive Conference Luncheon on Monday, October 24, 2011 at the InterContinental Chicago O'Hare Hotel.

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Not-for-profit organisation Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) has announced that the EIFL Open Access programme has received the 2011 SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications.

EIFL was selected for its awareness, advocacy and capacity building activities carried out over the last three years and for its success in developing a large number of both repositories and open access journals run in EIFL partner countries.

Launched in 2006, the annual SPARC-Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications recognises an individual or group within Europe that has made significant advances in the understanding of the issues surrounding scholarly communications and/or in developing practical means to address the problems with the current systems.

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The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has named the Public Library of Science's (PLoS) PLoS ONE as the SPARC Innovator for June 2011.

Launched in 2006, PLoS ONE is an interdisciplinary journal and groundbreaking new model in which editors and reviewers do not assess the potential importance of the work submitted before publication. Instead, if the research is found solid, the author pays a flat fee and the same is uploaded on the Web.

The innovative new model has led to tremendous success for PLoS ONE - from both publishing and financial perspectives - and for the Public Library of Science. In 2010, PLoS ONE published 6,800 articles - as compared to 1,200 in 2007 - and became self-sustaining. In four years, this journal claims to have become the largest peer-reviewed journal in existence; and, on its current trajectory, PLoS ONE could be publishing 3 percent of all biomedical literature in 2012.

The SPARC Innovator program recognises advances in scholarly communication propelled by an individual, institution, or group. Typically, these advances exemplify SPARC principles by challenging the status quo in scholarly communication for the benefit of researchers, libraries, universities, and the public. SPARC Innovators are featured on the SPARC Web site semi-annually and have included University of Massachusetts-Amherst professor Venture Perez, the Optical Society of America, R. Preston McAfee of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena; Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences; student leaders; and others.

Individuals can nominate their colleagues as potential SPARC Innovators at http://www.arl.org/sparc/innovator/nominate.shtml.

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Elsevier Properties SA, a center of excellence within Reed Elsevier for the management of intellectual property, has announced the winners of the Reaxys PhD Prize, a competition for candidates currently studying for a PhD or having completed a PhD within the last 12 months. The Prize recognises research and publication excellence in the fields of organic, organometallic and inorganic chemistry.

The prize attracted high quality applicants from around 300 brilliant young chemists from many of the leading chemistry schools in the world. Submissions consisted of a representative peer-reviewed piece of published research, a PhD Supervisor letter of recommendation and a CV. All entries were closely scrutinised by a review board of over 50 renowned international chemists from academia and industry chaired by Professors Anthony Barrett, Barry Trost and Henry Wong.

The review board judged the entries for originality, innovation, importance to the field, applicability, rigor of approach and publication quality.

From the initial submissions, 45 finalists were selected. A further review, carried out personally by the Chairs of the Review Board, then identified the final three. The winners of the 2011 Reaxys PhD Prize are: Vikram Bhat, University of Chicago, USA: Total Synthesis of N-Methylwelwitindolinone D Isonitrile (JACS 2011); Steven Malcolmson, Boston College, USA: Highly Efficient Molybdenum-Based Catalysts for Enantioselective Alkene Metathesis (Nature 2008); and Dixit Parmar, University of Manchester, UK: Reductive cyclisation cascades of lactones using SmI2-H2O (JACS 2011)

The three winners and 42 other finalists have each been invited to attend the Reaxys PhD Prize Symposium at the 14th Asian Chemical Congress in Bangkok, Thailand on September 7, 2011. The winners are invited to give a short oral presentation of their research, and the finalists will participate in a special poster session and reception. The symposium will also feature presentations from Professors Henry Wong and Anthony Barrett.

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Teaching, learning and research solutions provider Cengage Learning, US, has announced that its Course360 Custom Course Solutions in IMS Common Cartridge v1.0 has been named a gold medalist in the 2011 Learning Impact Awards. Course360 is a set of comprehensive and customisable online courses that utilise best practices in online instructional design to create effective online or blended course experiences for students. It is part of Cengage Learning's CengageCourse suite of integrated digital solutions and services aimed at improving student engagement and learning outcomes.

Delivered through the open standard of Common Cartridge v 1.0, Course360 offers greater availability in a variety of Learning Management Systems including those that may have been previously underserved by publishers. Through delivery using the Common Cartridge standard, Course360 course materials can be easily rearranged with other source materials to create a pedagogy that fits the needs of individual instructors or the learning programme.

The Learning Impact Awards are designed to recognise the most impactful use of technology worldwide in support of learning. Entries are judged on accountability, interoperability, innovation, affordability and quality. This unique programme is made possible by the IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS) for the purpose of recognising outstanding applications of technology that address the most significant challenges facing the education and training industries.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, in collaboration with the Thai-Journal Citation Index Centre, serving as the database of academic papers published in Thai journals, and the Thailand Research Fund, a government organisation in support of national research, announced the winners of the first-annual TCI-Scopus-TRF Journal Awards. The awards were presented during a ceremony at the Bangkok Windsor Suite Hotel, Thailand.

The TCI and TRF partnered with Elsevier to introduce the first official Thai Journal awards. The journals are nominated for awards based on their quality and editorial policy. Their quality is assessed through their performance, using the SNIP metric and looking at the journal's citations received over time. The editorial policy of a journal also plays a central role to the evaluation process as the journals need to be managed to international standards. The journal should be published timely, at a set frequency, have a well managed editorial board and a diverse pool of authors contributing to the publication. Even the presentation of the journal through its website will contribute to the evaluation of the journals presentation.

This year's inaugural awards include the 'International Journal Award', selected from the 10 Thai journals accessed globally through Scopus, Elsevier's abstract and citation database, and two 'National Journal Awards' selected from the 72 national Thai research journals.

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Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), a Wolters Kluwer Health business, has announced that it has won 19 awards in 15 categories, including Magazine of the Year from the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (ASHPE). ASHPE's 11th annual awards competition recognises member articles and publications for editorial, design, print, and online award categories.

This year, LWW took home the esteemed 2011 Magazine of the Year award for Nursing made Incredibly Easy! The distinctively illustrated Nursing made Incredibly Easy! breaks down difficult or confusing clinical concepts and presents them in an original, easily understood, and engaging format. Articles are contributed by experienced clinicians, ensuring that content is based on sound clinical principles and hands-on expertise.

Other notable category wins from LWW-published titles include OR Nurse2010 and Oncology Times for Best Feature Article Series, silver and bronze, respectively; and Neurology Now, the official patient magazine of the American Academy of Neurology, taking gold for Best Custom Publication and Best Open Page/Spread-Photo, and silver for Best Profile and Overall Use of Graphics.

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Information services provider EBSCO, US, has been accepted as the first organisational member of The North American Serials Interest Group, Inc. (NASIG). In this capacity, EBSCO will support the continuing education on serials, electronic resources and standards issues that affect libraries, publishers and vendors.

As an organisational member, EBSCO may designate three individuals as NASIG members. To serve as its organisational members to NASIG, EBSCO has selected Kittie Henderson, M.L.S., director, academic and law divisions, EBSCO; Allyson Zellner, M.L.I.S., training specialist, EBSCO; and Dave Kerin, vice president of sales, North America, EBSCO.

Membership benefits include the right to vote in NASIG elections and discounts on conferences and webinars hosted by NASIG. Members also receive reduced rates on events hosted by partner organisations, such the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the United Kingdom Serials Group (UKSG).

NASIG, established in 1985, holds an annual conference for its members and those concerned about issues affecting the scholarly information chain. This year, the conference is scheduled for June 2-5, 2011, in St. Louis.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of the SciVerse Applications Apps for Library Idea Challenge. The international competition encourages librarians and information professionals to conceptualise solutions to the challenges that they and their constituents face in addressing the search and discovery of information.

Entrants are invited to submit specific ideas for applications for the SciVerse suite that solve problems affecting the search and discovery of information within librarian and researcher workflows alike. Selected app concepts will be posted on the challenge website and open to commentary from peers and the public, enabling a dialogue within the librarian community to identify problems and discuss potential solutions. Two grand-prize winners will be selected – one by a panel of judges and one by community vote.

The winners will each receive a cash prize of € 750 (about $1,000). The winners' names and concepts will also be featured in the relevant Elsevier library and information science journals. Other prizes will be available to eligible idea entrants and commenters.

The call for entries opened May 13 and the deadline for submissions is September 2, 2011. An international panel of judges will select up to 10 finalist app idea entries. The community will then be invited to comment on the finalist ideas with suggestions to improve them and vote for app ideas they believe will deliver the most value to researchers. The winners will be announced in November 2011. Elsevier will explore development of the two winning app concepts for inclusion in SciVerse Applications.

The Apps for Library Idea Challenge is part of a series of community competitions launched by Elsevier that engage the scientific research communities, librarians and application developers in the creation and conceptualization of search and discovery applications. Most recently, the Developer Network at Elsevier introduced the “Apps for Science Challenge,� an international competition calling specifically upon developers to build applications within this vein. Through SciVerse Applications, researchers and librarians can collaborate with developers to create new applications and customise their SciVerse search and discovery workflow. The Developer Network features a community for developers and opens up opportunities for developers to gain recognition, prestige and revenue through the contribution of new applications to SciVerse.

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OCLC Research scientist Lynn Silipigni Connaway has been elected ALA Library Research Round Table Vice-chair/Chair-elect. Round Tables are membership groups within the American Library Association (ALA). The terms of office run from June 2011 through the 2013 Annual Conference.

The mission of the Library Research Round Table (LRRT) is to contribute toward the extension and improvement of library research; to provide public programme opportunities for describing and evaluating library research projects and for disseminating their findings; to inform and educate ALA members concerning research techniques and their usefulness in obtaining information with which to reach administrative decisions and solve problems; and expand the theoretical base of the field. LRRT also serves as a forum for discussion and action on issues related to the literature and information needs for the field of library and information science.

Connaway's term as Chairperson-elect begins immediately following the ALA Annual Conference in June, and runs until the 2012 conference, when she will become Chair. The Chairperson is the chief executive officer of the LRRT and Chair of its Steering Committee. Connaway's term in this office will run from 2012–2013. After that she will serve until 2014 as immediate past Chair, as such continuing to serve as a member of the Steering Committee and as the LRRT representative to the ALA Research Committee.

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Science magazine Scientific American won the General Excellence Award in the Finance, Technology and Lifestyle Magazines category at the 2011 National Magazine Awards - the "Oscars" of the magazine industry. The Awards were presented on May 9 at the 2011 National Magazine Awards Annual Gala in New York City. Editor-in-Chief Mariette DiChristina accepted the award on behalf of Scientific American.

The Award honours men's magazines as well as business, science and active-interest publications, and included such diverse publications as GQ, Bloomberg Markets and Popular Mechanics. Scientific American received the award for its September, November and December 2010 issues.

Scientific American unveiled a new look and feel in print and online with its October 2010 issue, plus a fresh cover design and new content types. The publication was also a finalist in the Single-Topic Issue category of the 2011 National Magazine Awards for its September 2010 issue, 'The End.'

The National Magazine Awards honour magazines, whether in print or online, that consistently demonstrate superior execution of editorial objectives, innovative editorial techniques, noteworthy journalistic enterprise, and imaginative design. Established in 1966, the National Magazine Awards are sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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The IFLA Section on Management and Marketing in collaboration with academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing, UK, has announced the winners of the 9th IFLA International Marketing Award for 2011.

The German National Library of Medicine, Cologne, Germany, was awarded the first place for its campaign 'Pilots take off - and land (as you like it.)' The campaign focuses on ZB MED search portals MEDPILOT and GREENPILOT, and follows the principle that online products must be marketed online for optimal impact and success. The basic premise relies upon target group specific communications to the search portals' 'digital residents'. The first-place winner receives airfare, lodging, and registration for the 2011 IFLA General Conference and Council to be held this year in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and a cash award of $1,000 to further the marketing efforts of the library.

Edmonton Public Library (EPL), Edmonton, Canada, was named second for the project 'Rebranding the Edmonton Public Library - from research to implementation to results.' In the fall of 2009 the Edmonton Public Library (EPL) started an ambitious project to dramatically change the perception and image of its library system, culminating with the launch of EPL's new brand in 2010. The new brand provides a fun, fresh and creative base from which to engage library stakeholders.

Third place was awarded to the Georgia Institute of Technology Library, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, for the project and radio broadcast 'Lost in the Stacks.' This is claimed to be the world's first and only research library rock n' roll radio show and airs on WREK 91.1 FM (and streams worldwide) on http://wrek.org every Friday at noon from Georgia Tech's campus.

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HighWire Press, a not-for-profit division of Stanford University libraries, has announced that its Founding Director, John Sack, has been awarded the 2011 CSE Award for Meritorious Achievement from the Council of Science Editors at their annual meeting in Baltimore. The award for Meritorious Achievement is the highest honour that the CSE bestows, highlighting the contributions and efforts of an individual towards improving scientific communication.

John Sack came to Stanford as a graduate student in English but quickly became involved in information technology. In 1994, while working for Stanford's then provost, Condoleezza Rice, he was recruited by Keller to work on a project to develop an electronic journal service to help scholarly publishers move their information online - a project that evolved into HighWire Press. As one of HighWire's founders, John is focused on market assessment, client relations, technology innovation, and the kind of thought leadership and industry-forward thinking that has successfully defined HighWire's mission since 1995.

John Sack serves on the International Advisory Board for COUNTER, and the STM Library Relations Committee. He has been a board member of the North American Chapter of ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Scholarly Publishers), the Stanford Federal Credit Union and the User Alliance for Open Systems, as well as a member of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), EDUCOM, CAUSE, Internet Society, ACM, Uniforum, Computer-Human Interface (CHI), AMA, and SIM.

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Global chemicals information provider ICIS, part of the Reed Business Information group, has called for entries for its eighth annual ICIS Innovation Awards. The ICIS Innovation Awards are designed to recognise outstanding technological and business innovation in the chemical industry.

Netherlands-based health, nutrition and materials global major DSM will be the sponsor of a new category for 2011 - Best Innovation for Sustainability. Dow Corning is the overall lead sponsor for the Awards, as it has been from their inception in 2004. CRA will sponsor the Best Product Innovation category, and US Chemicals will sponsor the Innovation with Best Environmental Benefit category.

The awards enable companies to celebrate their success in the vital activity of innovation and the increasingly important areas of sustainability and environmental performance.

Interested parties may submit their entries on or before July 4, 2011. The winners will be announced on October 17, 2011.

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Text analytics solutions provider TEMIS, US, has announced that it has been named a finalist by the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) for its 26th annual CODiE Awards. SIIA is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries.

In 2010, TEMIS had won the CODiE Award for ‘Best Business Intelligence or Knowledge Management Solution’. This year, TEMIS’ scalable semantic content enrichment and knowledge discovery solution, Luxid, has been selected for its excellence in the ‘Best Content Management Solution’ category. This award recognises the best software or platform that enables the creation, management and modification of information on the web. It includes content creation, categorisation, workflow, publishing and delivery tools.

The CODiE Awards, originally called the Excellence in Software Awards, were established in 1986, so that pioneers of the then‐nascent software industry could evaluate and honour each other's work. Since then, the CODiE Awards programme showcases the software and information industry's finest products and services and recognises excellence in corporate achievement.

Finalists will now be reviewed by SIIA members, who will vote on winners for 26 categories. The winners will be announced on May 25 at the CODiE Awards Luncheon, to be held as part of the SIIA All ‘About the Cloud’ Conference.

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Academic publisher SAGE has announced that the European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (EJCPR) has announced the winner of its Highly Cited Paper Award.

This year’s award winning paper is ‘Integrated electronic decision support increases cardiovascular disease risk assessment four fold in routine primary care practice’ by Sue Wells, Sue Furness, Natasha Rafter, Elaine Horn, Robyn Whittaker, Alistair Stewart, Kate Moodabe, Paul Roseman, Vanessa Selak, Dale Bramley, and Rod Jackson. In addition, three papers were recognised for this achievement as nominees.

The annual award, created by the EJCPR, recognises the winning paper based on citations during 2010 to papers published in 2008 and 2009. The European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation is published by SAGE in association with the European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation: A registered branch of the European Society of Cardiology.

The award will be presented by the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Diederick E. Grobbee, to Professor Rod Jackson, who will be speaking at the session entitled Predicting and communicating CVD risk to patients and populations on April 16 at EuroPRevent 2011.

The winning article and the nominees will be free to access online for a limited period. Interested parties may visit http://ejcpr.sagepub.com for further information and to read each article.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of the 'Apps for Science' challenge. The 'Apps for Science' challenge is an international competition challenging software developers to create customised applications that enhance information search and discovery for researchers.

Elsevier is challenging developers in Australia, Germany, India, Japan, the Netherlands, the UK and the US to create fully operational applications for the SciVerse platform. In combination with third party APIs and open data, applications can be created utilising content APIs which enable integration with Elsevier's full text article database SciVerse ScienceDirect and abstract and citation database SciVerse Scopus.

A panel of judges will evaluate eligible entries. The first prize winner will be awarded a cash prize of $15,000; second place receives $10,000 and third place receives $5,000. The winner of the Popular Choice Award, determined by a public vote, will receive $5,000. In addition, two honorable mentions will each receive an Apple iPad.

The call for entries opens April 7 and the deadline for submissions closes July 31, 2011. Panel and public judging will take place from August 15 to September 12, 2011. The winners will be announced in October. Entrants retain full ownership of the intellectual property of their solutions and may add them to SciVerse Applications as either free or user-paid apps.

Launched in November 2010, SciVerse Applications and the Developer Network allow the scientific community and developers to build and use applications that enhance the research experience. Through SciVerse Applications, researchers and librarians can collaborate with developers to create new applications and customise their SciVerse search and discovery workflow. The Developer Network features a community for developers and opens up opportunities for developers to gain recognition, prestige and revenue through the contribution of new applications to SciVerse.

Additional information on the Apps for Science Challenge is available at www.appsforscience.com.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group, UK, has called for nominations for the 2011 Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science. The 2011 awards focus on France, and two prizes of €10,000 will be awarded - one for mid-career and one for lifetime achievement. Nominations close on June 27, 2011. The Awards will be presented by Nature Editor-in-Chief Dr Philip Campbell at a ceremony in Paris in October 2011.

The panel of judges for the 2011 Awards will be chaired by Olivier Pourquié, Director of the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Illkirch, France.

Nominees may work in any discipline within the natural sciences, and should be resident in France. They may nominate themselves or be nominated by colleagues and ex-colleagues. Nominations for a candidate must include independent testimonials by at least five researchers mentored by their nominee, not all over the same period.

More details and nomination forms are available on the 2011 Award page on the Nature website www.nature.com/nature/mentoringawards/france.

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Online information services provider Dialog, part of the ProQuest family of businesses, is seeking applicants for its 2011 Roger K. Summit Scholarship. Open to applicants from around the world, the US$5,000 award is given annually to a promising graduate student in library and information sciences.

The deadline to apply for the scholarship is April 30, 2011. To qualify, candidates must be enrolled in an accredited library or information sciences programme. A panel of information professionals will select the winner after reviewing academic achievement, interest in electronic information services and faculty recommendations.

The Roger K. Summit Scholarship is named in honour of Dialog founder and Chairman Emeritus Roger K. Summit, a pioneer in developing the technology behind online information retrieval. Since 1993, Dialog has presented 26 scholarships. This year's winner will be announced at the Special Libraries Association's 2011 Annual Conference, scheduled to be held June 12-15 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the US. Applications are available at http://gep.dialog.com/scholarship/application.shtml.

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Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) was recently named Publisher and Distributor of the Year at a Booksellers Association award ceremony. This is the sixth time in seven years that OUP collected the Publisher of the Year award, and the seventh year in a row that it won the Distributor of the Year prize at the Conference for Academic, Professional & Specialist Booksellers Awards Ceremony.

OUP sales representative Stevie Thomson also took home Publisher Sales Rep of Year Award on the night, rounding off a successful ceremony for the publisher.

The awards are judged by booksellers and Bookseller Association members working in the UK who score publishers throughout the year. Categories focus specifically on the services being offered to booksellers by publishers such as engagement with bookshops, support from central or head office services, delivery turnaround times, and publishing.

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Medical publisher BMJ Group, UK, has announced that individuals and teams representing the company bagged various prizes in the fields of medicine, science, journalism and publishing over the past few months.

In June, BMJ's editor in chief, Dr. Fiona Godlee, won Health Editor of the Year at the UK Medical Journalists' Association 2010 awards, while Zosia Kmietovicz, BMJ Assistant News Editor, won Medical Journalist of the Year. Susan Mayor, a freelance journalist and regular contributor to the BMJ, also won Freelance Journalist of the Year.

In September, BMJ Case Reports, a specialist online title published by BMJ Group, won the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) Best New Journal 2010 award. The judges said the journal had created 'a successful and innovative publishing model by exploiting media traditionally avoided by mainstream journals.'

In October, Dr. Godlee was named as one of the 100 most important people in British science by The Times. Later, in November, the BMJ Learning module on ovarian cancer was 'highly commended' for the Best Professional Education Initiative at the Excellence in Oncology Awards. The free online tool aims to help GPs diagnose and treat ovarian cancer. Also in November, two BMJ Group journal editors were included in a list of Britain's top doctors by The Times. Harminder Dua is the UK Editor for British Journal of Ophthalmology and Andrew Bush is an Editor for Thorax.

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Publisher Bellwether Publishing has announced that its journals have received the coveted Association of American Geographer's Publication Award in recognition of 50 years of sustained support for the discipline of Geography. The Bellwether journals were noted as having been 'important in shaping the intellectual trajectory of the discipline over several decades.'

Bellwether's long-established five journals include: Eurasian Geography and Economics, GiScience and Remote Sensing, Physical Geography, Urban Geography and Post-Soviet Affairs.

Published since 1980, Eurasian Geography and Economics publishes original papers on timely geographic and economic issues in China, Russia, India, European union, and other regions within the Eurasian realm. GiScience and Remote Sensing has been published since 1964. The journal covers basic and applied research on cartography, geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing of the environment (including digital image processing), geocomputation, spatial data mining, spatial statistics, and geographic environmental modeling.

Published since 1980, Physical Geography covers research articles covering the environmental sciences and devoted to new research directions in geomorphology, climatology, soil-science, biogeography (plant and animal geography), and research methods in physical geography. The journal Urban Geography, published since 1980, publishes problem -oriented current research on urban policy; race, poverty, and ethnicity in the city; international differences in urban form and function; historical preservation; the urban housing market; and provision of services and urban economic activity.

Post-Soviet Affairs, published since 1984, covers current research and analysis of the state of the economy and society of the republics of the former Soviet Union, including progress toward economic reform, and linkages between political and social changes and economic developments.

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Farm Journal Media has received the coveted Grand Neal Award during American Business Media's 57th Annual Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards ceremony, held at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City. The winning entry, 'The Farm Journal Legacy Project,' from the company's print and online titles Farm Journal, Top Producer, Dairy Today, AgWeb, AgDay, and U.S. Farm Report, also took home the Neal Award for 'Best Integrated Package.'

Last year the Neal Awards competition was transformed with the addition of 11 new categories to better reflect today's multi-platform media environment. This year, for the first time ever, awards were presented in categories for best editorial use of mobile and social media, and best range of work by a single author.

American Business Media (ABM) also honored the very best of the b-to-b industry through a series of special awards recognising industry commitment.

Established in 1955, the Jesse H. Neal Awards recognise and reward editorial excellence in business media. They are named after American Business Media's first managing director, who remained active in promoting the industry throughout his life.

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SPARC Europe, an alliance of European research libraries, library organisations and research institutions, will be accepting nominations for the sixth SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications and Open Access.

Nominations are open to individuals or teams, preferably within Europe, who have made significant contributions and discoveries in the field of scholarly communications but in particular to researchers that help illuminate the scholarly communications landscape; advocates that promote the development of new models of scholarly communications; developers of new tools that aid an open scholarly communication system; and new and interesting initiatives, projects or products that guide and encourage the use of new scholarly communication models.

An international panel composed of members of the SPARC Europe Board of Directors will consider the nominations. Self-nominations will not be accepted. Preference will be given to activity within the past two years. Nominations should be submitted to Carmen Morlon not later than May 15, 2011. The award will be presented during the LIBER conference in Barcelona on June 30, 2011.

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Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the results of its annual roundup of the 'hottest' researchers and research papers. In its March/April issue of Science Watch, an open Web resource for science metrics and analysis, Thomson Reuters identified the top 13 authors who fielded the highest numbers of Hot Papers cited in 2010.

Thomson Reuters Hot Papers are derived from the Web of Science, a leading source of citation data, with multidisciplinary information from over 12,000 high impact journals and over 110,000 conference proceedings from around the world. A published work is identified as a Hot Paper if it is less than two years old and has achieved citations, in the scientific journals indexed by Thomson Reuters, at a rate markedly higher than papers of comparable type and age in the same field.

Eric S. Lander at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard was 2010's hottest researcher, contributing to 10 Hot Papers as gauged by citations during the year. This is Lander's seventh appearance on the Hottest Researchers list. His papers examine general treatments of genetic mapping and human disease, including lung cancer.

This year, seven of the hottest researchers published papers in the genetics field. Three researchers from deCODE genetics in Iceland made the list: Augustine Kong, Kári Stefánsson and Unnur Thorsteinsdottir. Their studies focus on genome-wide analyses of schizophrenia, obesity, diabetes, and other disorders.

Andre K. Geim at the University of Manchester, U.K., made his third consecutive appearance on this year-end list. However, this is his first appearance as a Nobel Laureate. Geim shared the Physics prize with his colleague Konstantin Novoselov this past October.

This year's most-cited paper, 'Prevalence and trends in obesity among US adults,' first appeared in Journal of the American Medical Association in January 2010 and was cited 106 times through December.

Hot Papers are a regular feature within the data and rankings section of ScienceWatch.com, an open Web resource for science metrics and analysis. Science Watch draws on data and commentary from Thomson Reuters bibliometric experts, and is part of the Research Analytics suite of tools, products and services that include InCites, and the recently launched Research In View.

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Mendeley, one of the world's largest crowd-sourced research databases, has announced the Mendeley API Binary Battle, challenging talented developers to build an application on top of Mendeley's open database of over 70 million research papers, usage statistics, reader demographics, social tags, and related research recommendations. The winning application will receive a grand prize of $10,001.

Modeled after Last.fm, Mendeley is leading the way with its social reference manager and collaboration platform to make research more productive and transparent. This challenge is all about creating applications that open up its academic data to others. To claim the grand prize, the winning application should increase scientific collaboration and mash up research data with social media in novel ways. Submissions will close on August 31, 2011.

The judging panel includes Juan Enriquez, the founding director of Harvard Business School's Life Sciences Project and CEO of Biotechonomy; James Powell, CTO of Thomson Reuters; and John Wilbanks, VP for Science at Creative Commons.

Mendeley is a rapidly growing technology startup that has built a platform for researchers to more effectively organise, annotate, share, and discover data. Used by more than 800,000 academic and industry researchers, Mendeley claims to be the world's largest research collaboration platform.

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CRC Press, a US-based publisher of technical and scientific works, has announced that CRCnetBASE, its e-book platform, reached a milestone in February 2011 by recording nearly 1.5 million searches in a single month.

The Atypon-powered CRCnetBASE platform was first launched in February 2010 with new features for librarians and end-users. It won the CHOICE "Outstanding Academic Resource" award in January 2011. Earlier, it had received the ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) "Best eBook Publisher-best platform" award. The platform is stated to have seen an increase in site usage in the past six months. The company plans to enhance the site with new features this year.

CRCnetBASE offers subscription and purchase access to over 7,600 scientific and technical e-books spanning 40 disciplines. Featuring 37 tightly focused Signature netBASE collections and five Premium netBASE collections (which feature multiple Signature netBASEs), the collections are said to be built to drive and complement today's research. The platform allows users to create personalised accounts where they can save queries, place favourite content onto a virtual bookshelf, purchase individual chapters or e-books, and recommend content to friends. The expanded search is an integral part of the new platform, featuring search capability over more than 35 subjects as well as by DOI and publication date.

In addition to e-books published under the imprint of CRC Press, CRCnetBASE also includes online references from Auerbach and Chapman & Hall. Annual subscriptions and perpetual subscriptions are available for institutional, corporate and academic customers. Free trials are also available.

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The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has called for applications for the 2011 Awards for publishing innovation and best new journal.

The ALPSP award for publishing innovation recognises a significantly innovative approach to any aspect of publication. The judges will consider the originality and innovative qualities of each application, together with its utility, benefit to its community and long term development prospects. Applications should, therefore, provide information about these aspects together with any other information which the one believes makes the project or publication truly innovative.

The ALPSP award for best new journal is open to any peer-reviewed journal launched in the last 1-3 years. The journal must have published its first volume or at least 3 issues (journals without volume numbers or issues should have been published for a least a year at the time of the submission). The journal may be print, online or both but must include a substantial number of peer reviewed articles. The judges will consider four main aspects of the journal and its launch - market research, editorial strategy, marketing and commercial success.

The judges will consider all the applications and then draw up a shortlist for each award. Representatives of the shortlisted applications will be invited to give a 15-minute presentation to the judges in London on July 7, 2011. The winners will be announced at the Awards Dinner on September 15, 2011, at the ALPSP International Conference.

Closing date for receipt of applications for both awards is June 13, 2011.

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Cell Press, an imprint of STM publisher Elsevier, has announced that 'Article of the Future' is the recipient of this year's PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences, presented by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP).

In January 2010, Cell Press launched a new format for the online presentation of research articles that breaks free from the restraints of hardcopy - 'Article of the Future'. This new, more integrated and linked article format, allows each reader to create a personalised path through the article's content based on his or her own interests and needs.

This year's winners were determined by a distinguished panel of 16 PROSE judges, out of a record-breaking 491 entries – more than ever before in its 35-year history – from more than 60 professional and scholarly publishers across the country.

Developed in collaboration with authors and readers, 'Article of the Future' reflects Elsevier's and Cell Press' ongoing commitment to evolve the concept of a scientific publication in conjunction with the development of new technologies and functionalities.

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Scientific publisher RSC Publishing, the publishing arm of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, has announced that the one millionth publication to appear on the RSC Publishing Platform recently went online. The seven figure milestone was reached as the RSC’s range of peer-reviewed journals, magazines, books, databases and publishing services to the chemical science community more than doubled in output in the last three years.

The new platform, providing fast access to journals, books and databases from RSC Publishing, provides access to more than one million articles, papers and database records using one simple interface where results are refined through intuitive filters.

The one millionth record ‘Controlled assembly of plasmonic colloidal nanoparticle clusters’ is a paper published in the journal Nanoscale.

The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) has announced the finalists for the CODiE Awards in the categories relating to digital content aggregation, distribution, management and publishing. The products that qualified will now be reviewed by members of SIIA, who will vote on winners in six categories. The winners will be announced at a special CODiE Awards Dinner on January 25, 2011, which will be held in conjunction with the 2011 Information Industry Summit in New York City.

Twenty-nine products from 16 companies were selected as finalists from among over 100 nominations submitted by 40 companies. LexisNexis has the most products reaching the final stage, with 6 products across 4 categories. The finalists may now be reviewed on the CODiE Awards Website.

The SIIA is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. The SIIA Content Division provides a forum for companies that publish and distribute online content, or offer technologies and services that facilitate the licensing, presentation, and distribution of digital information products. The division works with its members to develop effective approaches to emerging issues and to produce deliverables of special interest to the membership.

Scientific and technical publisher CRC Press, US, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, has announced that its CRCnetBASE eBook platform is the recipient of the 'Outstanding Academic Resource (OAR)' award from CHOICE. OAR winners are chosen for their excellence in scholarship and presentation and the significance of their contribution to the field.

CRCnetBASE offers subscription and purchase access to over 7,000 scientific and technical eBooks spanning 40 disciplines. Featuring 37 tightly focused Signature netBASE collections and 5 Premium netBASE collections (which feature multiple Signature netBASEs), the collections are built to drive and complement today's research. The platform allows users to create personalised accounts where they can save queries, place favourite content onto a virtual bookshelf, purchase individual chapters or eBooks, and recommend content to friends.

Institutional account management tools are integrated within the platform. Registered library administrators can view their IP ranges, add additional administrators, download COUNTER usage reports, and personalise their institutions site directly from their user account. In addition to e-books published under the imprint of CRC Press, CRCnetBASE also includes online references from Auerbach, Routledge, Informa Healthcare, and Chapman & Hall.

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The American Psychological Association (APA) is seeking nominations for the 2011 APA Excellence in Librarianship Award. The award will be presented at the Educational & Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS) Research Forum at the June 2011 American Library Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA.

The APA Excellence in Librarianship Award was created to recognise an outstanding contribution to psychology and behavioural sciences librarianship within the past 5 years, and consists of a $2,500 cheque and an inscribed plaque. The Award is open to both librarians and allied professionals with at least 5 years of professional experience.

Nominations are now being accepted, and should include a résumé or Curriculum Vitae; nomination statement (self-nomination; describe the contribution and its significance within and outside of your institution); examples of work (photocopies, CDs, URL links, etc.); and letters of support (no more than 3; at least one letter from a dean or organisational leader outside the immediate work area)

The application deadline is April 11, 2011. All materials should be submitted electronically to excellenceinlibrarianshipaward@apa.org.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that the nomination deadline for its 5th Annual Research Awards has been extended by two weeks to January 14, 2011. These awards, now in their fifth year, recognise excellence in research that has been made universally accessible by open access publication.

BioMed Central's Research Awards celebrate some of the most groundbreaking open access research that was published in BioMed Central's more than 200 journals last year. The awards are open for public nomination to members of the research community. Prizes will be awarded for excellence in research from areas of biology and medicine.

The Open Data Award has returned for the second year, due to its popularity at the 4th Annual Research Awards. The award is also open to public nominations. The Open Data Award recognises researchers who have published in BioMed Central's journals and have demonstrated leadership in the sharing, standardisation, publication, or re-use of biomedical research data.

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STM publisher Springer has announced the Springer API (Application Programming Interface) Challenge 1.0, a competition for original, non-commercial applications using Springer metadata and content APIs. The Challenge is a bid to offer users new ways to find, visualise, and manipulate relevant data drawn from Springer's large and growing content database. The increased call for opening up data to third parties in the interest of product development led Springer to create the Springer API Challenge.

The Challenge is open to all interested parties, with the best submitted applications to be featured on dev.springer.com. The applications will be made freely available to end users for at least one year after the Challenge concludes. Entries will be evaluated by a panel of judges and eligible first, second, and third place winners will be awarded cash prizes of US$ 5,000, US$ 2,500 and US$ 1,000 respectively.

Metadata for more than 4.8 million documents from Springer journals, books and protocols will be made available to participants. Also available are full-text content, metadata and images for approximately 80,000 open access articles from BioMed Central and SpringerOpen journals.

Participants must submit their completed application via email, including a brief description and contact information to support.api@springer.com. Entries can be submitted until May 31, 2011 and will be evaluated by an interdisciplinary panel of judges who will rank them on creativity and originality, user experience and design, and value and benefit. The winners will be announced in June 2011. Interested parties may visit http://dev.springer.com for further information, official rules and the terms of use.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it has launched a new competition that invites scientists to improve how data intensive research is represented in a scholarly journal article. The Elsevier Executable Paper Grand Challenge is designed to enhance how scientific information is used and communicated in computer- and computational sciences.

The deadline for submitting proposals is January 15, 2011. Winning ideas should have innovative answers to the question, how can data intensive research be made repeatable and workable within the context of a scholarly journal article?

A panel of international judges will select a number of finalists from all submissions. Finalists will be notified by February 1, 2011. Demo of the prototype/instantiation/application and a short paper by the finalists are due on May 20, 2011. The finalists will present their prototype on June 3, 2011 at ICCS 2011 in Tsukuba, Japan.

The winner will receive $10,000 USD. The second and third place winners will receive $5,000 USD and $2,500 USD respectively. All winners will receive the latest Apple iPad.

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Eighteen universities across the UK are celebrating their achievements after they received this year's Times Higher Education (THE) Awards in London. The awards ceremony, hosted by THE's editor Ann Mroz and Michael Portillo, with an opening address by David Willets, was attended by more than 1,000 people from universities and colleges across the UK.

The JISC sponsored Outstanding ICT Initiative Award went to Bristol University for their innovative Dynamic Laboratory Manual (DLM) developed by Bristol ChemLabS staff and Learning Science Ltd. ChemLabS is the UK's Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in practical chemistry and has transformed the way that undergraduate practical work is carried out, in part through the creation of this sophisticated e-learning tool.

Initially the DLM was envisaged to be an online, web-based laboratory manual containing all the information the students would require to carry out a particular practical investigation. But it quickly developed into a much more comprehensive student resource containing a complete video library of practical techniques, fully interactive simulations and virtual instruments, online pre-lab assessment and safety tests (both providing immediate feedback), online tutorial support, and a comprehensive marks database designed to track student progress.

Building on the success of this software, Bristol's Departments of Biochemistry, Physiology and Pharmacology have now introduced DLM-style software to support students in their teaching laboratories. The project has also had great impact on chemistry teaching and learning at Post 16. A commercial version of the e-learning tool called LabSkills will soon be available in every (4000+) secondary school in the UK.

The judges for the award were Professor David Baker, deputy chair of JISC and former principal of University College Plymouth St Mark & St John; Sean Mackney, deputy chief executive, The Higher Education Academy; and Sarah Porter, head of innovation at JISC.

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Knovel, a Web-based application integrating technical information with analytical and search tools, has announced that it has been named to the 2010-2011 EContent 100 list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry. This is the fifth time Knovel has been selected for this list since 2003.

Knovel offers an unmatched depth and breadth of validated content, optimised search and data analysis tools, giving engineers convenient access to trustworthy sources and the ability to analyze, document and incorporate data into their everyday work.

The complete 2010-2011 EContent 100 list can be viewed online at www.econtentmag.com. This year's companies were identified by 10 judges including Information Today editors, EContent magazine contributing editors and other experts in the digital content industry.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that its Vet CPD Professional Skills online courses have won a coveted Brandon Hall award for excellence as 'Best Custom Content'. The suite of five 'How To…' case-study courses build on the innovative e-learning approach established by the trailblasing 'How to Achieve Effective Compliance' course, created by Elsevier and its developers in conjunction with veterinary experts Caroline Jevring-Bäck and Mark Moran. The suite won a Bronze Medal in the 2010 awards, which are acknowledged and prized internationally.

The Saunders Solutions for Vets Professional and Clinical Skills courses are practical, easily accessible CPD courses that use real-life scenarios to help vets keep their skills up-to-date in order to give the best possible care to their clients. All the courses are completely online so offer unrivalled flexibility and convenience. Saunders Solutions for Vets provides the entire practice team with a powerful set of tools for reprising key information and connecting with current thinking, while enabling them to meet their CPD needs along the way.

The Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Awards are presented annually by Brandon Hall Research, an organisation dedicated to objectively advising industry on optimal learning tools. The awards recognise the best in innovative content, technology, and initiatives in workplace e-learning. Over 200 entries were evaluated by a panel of independent senior judges.

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Wiley-Blackwell and AlphaMed Press, co-publishers of the peer-reviewed journal STEM CELLS, have announced that the annual STEM CELLS Young Investigator Award will be presented on October 2, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. The award is co-sponsored by the International Stem Cell Symposium.

The US $10,000 award will be presented to a young scientist who, as principal author, published a paper in STEM CELLS during the past year that was judged to be most important by the Journal's editorial board jury.

The awardee will be invited to present a paper at the 8th International Stem Cell Symposium with support provided by the conference organisers. The programme will also feature Martin J. Murphy, Jr., Executive Editor, STEM CELLS, who will present a special keynote lecture, as well as lectures by many of the world's foremost stem cell scientists.

STEM CELLS publishes original articles at the leading edge of stem cell research and regenerative medicine. The journal also provides a forum for young investigators to present provocative proposals for new research directions.

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STM publisher Elsevier has announced that two of its medical titles won first prize in their respective categories at the annual BMA Medical Book Competition ceremony in London. An additional 22 Elsevier books were highly commended. The Awards were presented by Professor Averil Mansfield, Immediate Past President BMA and Chairman of the BMA Board of Science.

The winning medical titles from Elsevier are: Color Atlas of Clinical Hematology, 4th edition by A. Victor Hoffbrand, John E. Pettit, and Paresh Vyas; and Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine, 7th edition by Parveen Kumar and Michael Clark.

The Color Atlas of Clinical Hematology, 4th edition, won the first prize in the BMA Internal Medicine category. The title is regarded as one of the best hematology atlases on the market. Purchasers of the text are also given access to the online content, which includes a vast image bank of 2,700 images, with 2,100 in full colour.

Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine, 7th edition, won first prize in the BMA Medicine category. This text is a thoroughly updated, reworked and revised new edition of the first-prize winner in the Medicine category of 2006.

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Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the 2010 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates researchers likely to be in contention for Nobel honours. Thomson Reuters claims to be the only organisation to use quantitative data to make annual predictions of Nobel Prize winners.

Each year, Thomson Reuters uses data from its research solution, Web of Knowledge, to quantitatively determine the most influential researchers in the Nobel categories of Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, and Economics. Based on citations to their works, the company names these high-impact researchers as Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates and predicts them to be Nobel Prize winners, either this year or in the near future. Since 2002, 19 Citation Laureates have gone on to win Nobel Prizes.

The Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates typically rank among the top one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) of researchers in their fields, based on citations of their published papers over the last two decades. This year, 15 of the 21 Citation Laureates hail from American universities. Researchers from France, Japan, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom also appear among the 2010 picks.

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Scientific publisher CRC Press, US, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, is the 2010 recipient of the 'Best eBook Publisher' award from The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). The award, one of three awarded at the annual ALPSP Annual Conference in Wyboston, UK, on September 9, follows the launch of the new Atypon powered CRCnetBASE in February. The platform also received a 'Highly Recommended' review from CHOICE Magazine.

The ALPSP award, one of the most reputable in the industry, for Best eBook Publisher recognises exceptional expertise, innovation, and enterprise in the publishing of academic or scholarly book content in electronic form.

CRCnetBASE offers subscription and purchase access to over 7,000 scientific and technical eBooks spanning 40 disciplines. The platform allows users to create personalised accounts where they can save queries, place favorite content onto a virtual bookshelf, purchase individual chapters or eBooks, and recommend content to friends.

Institutional account management tools are integrated within the platform. Registered library administrators can view their IP ranges, add additional administrators, download COUNTER usage reports, and personalise their institutions site directly from their user account. In addition to e-books published under the imprint of CRC Press, CRCnetBASE also includes online references from Auerbach and Chapman & Hall.

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Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has been presented with the Green Heroes 2010 Wall Shield in recognition of its award winning environmental project - Implementation of a New Environmental Management System. The Shields are awarded annually in recognition of companies, councils and communities carrying out projects that enhance environments, that wish to share their experience and knowledge with the world.

The award-winning project will be featured in the next Green Book, which claims to be the world's only work of reference on environmental practice. The company also won a Green Apple Award presented in November during a special prize-giving ceremony at the House of Commons.

The Green Apple Awards campaign is run by The Green Organisation, an independent, non-political, non-profit organisation that recognises, rewards and promotes environmental best practice around the world. Their supporters include the Environment Agency, the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management, the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health and various other professional bodies.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced the recipients of its 2010 Facts & Comparisons Award of Excellence in Clinical Communications. The awards were given to more than 80 graduating students of leading pharmacy schools that include the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Minnesota and Ohio State University - all ranked among the top five pharmacy schools and colleges by US News and World Report.

The annual Award of Excellence in Clinical Communications was established by Wolters Kluwer Health to recognise Pharm.D. students who have demonstrated first-rate practice and have excelled in quality clinical communication. This year's recipients, who were selected by each participating US-based school of pharmacy, are 2010 Pharm.D. graduates and rank in the top 25 percent of their graduating classes.

Facts & Comparisons eAnswers provides retail pharmacies and academia with online access to the most up-to-date drug information tailored to their unique needs, enabling better therapeutic decisions in less time. For the academic community, it provides students, residents and faculty with instant access to reliable, current drug information and medication management tools. Helpful links and other information are also available to help meet course and drug reference needs.

For pharmacies, Facts & Comparisons eAnswers addresses the key pain points of workflow efficiency and patient safety by providing the tools and information needed to support drug dispensing activities. These include patient safety screenings for Drug Utilization Review and drug reference information, which result in a decrease in drug dispensing errors.

Award submissions are accepted from U.S.-based schools of pharmacy on a yearly basis, starting in late February and continue through June. Winners receive a three-year subscription to Facts & Comparisons eAnswers and three Facts & Comparisons bound reference titles: Drug Facts and Comparisons Pocket, ImmunoFacts, and Drug Interaction Facts.

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The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that it has won the 2010 Mayor's Environmental Excellence Award from Washington D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty. The annual award recognises businesses and nonprofit organisations for their environmental stewardship, innovative best practices, pollution prevention, and resource conservation. Chosen from among 44 applicants, ACS was one of only nine recipients, and one of only two in the large facilities category.

In the last seven years, ACS has prioritised sustainability in facilities management and achieved the prestigious U.S. Green Building Council gold certificate for LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Existing Buildings. ACS facilities were the second in the District of Columbia to achieve this certification and were one of only 40 sites nationwide to meet this level of sustainability for operations and maintenance.

ACS has implemented more than 20 separate initiatives to greatly enhance sustainability. The Society purchases energy certificates to invest in 100 percent renewable energy resources. The net effect of this single effort has been to offset 4.6 million pounds of carbondioxide annually.

In addition to the facilities management initiatives, the ACS Green Chemistry Institute promotes the implementation of green chemistry and engineering principles into all aspects of the chemistry enterprise. ACS has also engaged its staff to support the green mission by forming an ACS Greening Committee, which consists of staff members from across the organisation who develop innovative ideas in sustainability that can be implemented among the Society's local sections across the nation and abroad.

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Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has announced that it will offer free access to Emerald Literati Network Awards winning articles until August 31, 2010. In total, over 700 papers representing the cream of the crop in global research are accessible online. The editorial team of each journal, composed of eminent academics and professional experts in their fields, selects a winning 'Outstanding Paper' and up to three 'Highly Commended' awards from the previous year's volume of papers.

Emerald publishes such leading international titles as Management Decision, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Documentation, Internet Research and Strategy & Leadership. The winning articles cover all subject areas and recognise authors worldwide. The full list of papers is available for free at http://info.emeraldinsight.com/authors/literati/awards.htm?year=2010.

The Literati Network is Emerald's community of authors, editors, and reviewers, committed to high quality scholarship. It facilitates the development of journals and books by ensuring internationality, diversity, support of scholarly research, and by encouraging applied research.

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Elsevier Properties SA, a centre of excellence within Reed Elsevier for the management of intellectual property, has announced that Dr. Scott Stewart of the University of Western Australia has won the Royal Australian Chemical Institute's (RACI) 2010/11 Athel Beckwith Lectureship, sponsored by Reaxys.

The award is open to all RACI members who have been appointed to their first academic or industrial position within the past five years. As the award winner, Dr. Stewart will be given the opportunity to present a lecture in at least six Australian state capitals and/or major regional centers during the year of the lectureship. The Organic Division of RACI established the annual lectureship to provide funding for outstanding early career organic chemists to travel around Australia and present the results of their research work.

Reaxys is a web-based chemistry database combining reaction and substance data in organic, organometallic, inorganic and physical chemistry with synthesis planning. It allows researchers to get the information they need in a single overview, from source publications carefully selected for their importance and relevance to research chemists.

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The British Library has been awarded the 'opening the world of knowledge' award for Timelines: Sources from History by the Nominet Internet Awards. The Nominet Internet Awards aim to recognise and celebrate individuals and organisations that are helping to make the Internet a secure, open, accessible and diverse experience for everyone who uses it.

Timelines: Sources from History (www.bl.uk/timeline) is a rich-media interactive that allows users to explore British Library collection items chronologically for the first time. Bringing together material from the Library's vast collections and using cutting-edge Flash technology, users are able to discover historical connections in an exciting multimedia experience. The timeline allows students to get a sense both of change and continuity when studying historical events.

The judges praised the British Library's interactive timeline for the way it brings global quality content to life for a worldwide audience and for its impressive use of multimedia and historical context setting. Timelines will be promoted in the UK and internationally as examples of best practice, including at the next international Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania on September 14, 2010.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Informationswissenschaft und Informationspraxis e.V. (DGI) will honour Young Information Professionals (YIPs) with the 'Semantic Web & Linked Data - Elements of Future Information infrastructures' Best Paper Award. The award will be presented at the first annual DGI conference, scheduled for October 7-9, 2010, in Frankfurt.

The DGI will honour contributions from next-generation information professionals with the Best Paper Award. The award, funded with a grant from Elsevier, will be presented during the 1st annual DGI-conference. First, second and third Best Paper Awards will be given, along with cash prizes. The call for papers for the Best Paper Award focuses on all Young Information Professionals - trainees, students, post-graduates, and those newly appointed in the information sector.

At the Conference, organised in cooperation with the Frankfurter Book Fair, YIPs will be offered the opportunity to present their contributions to an audience of information professionals. The selection of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Prize will be made by a jury of information professionals and conference attendees.

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Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Europe, an alliance of European research libraries, has announced CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, as the winner of the 2010 SPARC-Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications. The Award was presented at the Aarhus State and University Library during the LIBER 39th Annual Conference.

CERN was selected for its comprehensive approach to Open Access, especially in respect of the SCOAP3 project. SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing) is an innovative Open Access initiative for publishing in high-energy physics.

Launched in 2006, the annual SPARC-Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications recognises an individual or group within Europe that has made significant advances in the understanding of the issues surrounding scholarly communications and/or in developing practical means to address the problems with the current systems. The First Award was presented to the Wellcome Trust, with the second in 2007 going to the SHERPA group.

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Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, and The Authors' Licensing and Collection Society (ALCS), in association with the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) and the International Academy of African Business and Development (IAABD) have announced the winner of the 2009 Emerald/ALCS African Management Research Fund Award.

'Business response to climate change: exploring the emerging strategies in Africa' by Farai Kapfudzaruma and Raph Hamman, both from University of Cape Town, South Africa, will receive a prize fund of £2,500 towards their research project. In addition, the Winner will also be given the opportunity to receive the assistance of an experienced Emerald editor or former editor in helping write a high-quality article, offering the best chance of getting accepted for publication.

Applications were to address the dissemination of knowledge for the social good with a specific focus towards the benefit of Africa. A record 38 submissions were received from all over Africa, with notably high numbers from Kenya and Nigeria. An esteemed judging panel was assembled to review all submissions, including Professor Sonny Nwankwo, IAABD co-founder and Dr Umon Tom Umoh, IAABD Vice President for Communications/Publicity.

Four scientists who have authored the Panton Principles have been named SPARC innovators. These include Peter Murray-Rust, chemist at the University of Cambridge; Cameron Neylon, biochemist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot, England; Rufus Pollock, co-founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation and Mead Fellow in Economics, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge; and John Wilbanks, vice president for Science, Creative Commons, San Francisco.

The Panton Principles put forth a set of recommendations for scientists to more easily share their data. The scientists believe that science is based on building on, reusing and openly criticising the published body of scientific knowledge. For science to effectively function, and for society to reap the full benefits from scientific endeavors, it is crucial that science data be made open.

The authors advocate making data freely available on the Internet for anyone to download, copy, analyse, reprocess, pass to software or use for any purpose without financial, legal or technical barriers. Through the Principles, the group aimed to develop clear language that explicitly defines how a scientist's rights to his or her own data could be structured so others can freely reuse or build on it. The goal was to craft language simple enough that a scientist could easily follow it, and then focus on doing science rather than law.

The Panton Principles were publicly launched in February of 2010, with a website at www.pantonprinciples.org to spread the word and an invitation to endorse. About 100 individuals and organisations have endorsed the Principles so far.

The SPARC Innovator programme seeks to recognise advances in scholarly communication propelled by an individual, institution, or group. Typically, these advances exemplify SPARC principles by challenging the status quo in scholarly communication for the benefit of researchers, libraries, universities and the public. SPARC Innovators are featured on the SPARC website semi-annually and have included the Optical Society of America, R. Preston McAfee; Harvard University FAS; student leaders; and others. SPARC Innovators are selected by the SPARC staff in consultation with the SPARC Steering Committee.

Individuals can nominate their colleagues as potential SPARC Innovators at http://www.arl.org/sparc/innovator.

Online information services provider Dialog, part of the ProQuest family of brands, has announced that Thomas Girke, Manager, Information Support, Library Services, at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), as the winner of the 2010 Information Professional of the Year by the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Australia and New Zealand Chapter. The announcement was made during the SLA 2010 conference in New Orleans. A cash prize of AUD$2,000 was awarded to Girke.

Girke was selected by unanimous decision of the judging panel for his extraordinary initiative in updating the CSIRO Library technology systems and in enhancing the research facilities for CSIRO staff. He launched the initiative to support CSIRO's new brand of 'Big science for challenging times.' The judging panel also noted Girke's commitment to the profession overall, as exemplified by his promotion of the use of information technologies within the library community and his professional association committee work.

Dialog has sponsored the SLA Australia and New Zealand Chapter Information Professional of the Year Award since 2004. It is part of the company's larger, time-honored programme of awards and honors for information professionals. The award is open to information professionals, such as public, corporate and government librarians, independent information consultants, knowledge managers and others, working and living in Australia or New Zealand. A panel of SLA Australia and New Zealand board members and Dialog representatives determine the winner.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the winners of its 4th Annual Research Awards. The event was attended by short listed authors, eminent researchers, publishers, open access advocates and science journalists from around the world.

The awards, now in their fourth year, acknowledge excellence in research that has been made universally accessible by open access publication. The two main awards, the Biology and Medicine Prizes, recognise biological or medical research published in any of BioMed Central's journals during 2009.

This year saw the introduction of a new prize, the BioMed Central Open Data Award, in association with Microsoft Research. This was presented to Yoosook Lee from the School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis, for her article 'Ecological and genetic relationships of the Forest-M form among chromosomal and molecular forms of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto'.

Genome Biology, published by BioMed Central, also gave a special award recognising the best article published in the journal during 2009, to mark its 10th anniversary. This was awarded to Ben Langmead, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, for his research 'Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome'.

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Educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, and Library Journal have announced that Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML), in Columbus, Ohio, has been named 2010 Library of the Year.

Each year this recognition goes to a public library in the US that most profoundly demonstrates service to community, creativity and innovation in developing specific community programmes, and leadership in creating programmes that can be emulated by others. In addition to a cash award of $10,000, Columbus Metropolitan Library will be featured as the cover story for the June 15, 2010, issue of Library Journal.

Special mentions for Library of the Year were also given to Anythink-Rangeview Library District, Northglenn, CO; Jefferson County Public Library, Lakewood, CO; and King County Library System, Issaquah, WA in recognition of their service philosophy and dedication to community.

The 2010 Library of the Year Award will be presented formally at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. on June 27, 2010.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has won the first JISC TechDis Publisher Lookup Award. The award recognises publishers who excel in changing and adapting their business processes to meet their customers’ accessibility needs.

The JISC TechDis Publisher Lookup Awards are the brainchild of Alistair McNaught, senior advisor at JISC TechDis. Elsevier was selected from a strong field of candidates. Judges were impressed by Elsevier’s response rates to customer enquiries and their embedded accessibility strategy. Accessibility is a cross-management responsibility at Elsevier and evidently part of the organisational culture.

The JISC TechDis Publisher Lookup Awards were presented by Mark Bide, Executive Director at EDItEUR, leaders in global standards for the exchange of bibliographic information in the book and journal supply chains, and sponsored by Dolphin and Iansyst Ltd, organisations that promote independence amongst disabled people, and who have been keen supporters from the beginning. A second award ceremony for e-text services will be held in London at the CILIP Digital Information Conference in October and is aimed at publishers who have been nominated by library staff for their excellent service in supplying books in alternative formats.

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Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has announced the winners of its 2009 Citation of Excellence Awards. Now in their fourteenth year, these annual awards recognise the 50 most outstanding articles published by the top 400 management journals in the world.

Each year the Emerald Management Reviews Accreditation Board, comprised of management experts from industry and academia including Cary Cooper, Philip Kotler, Darrell K. Rigby, and B. Joseph Pine II, select the world's top 400 management titles. Independent subject experts then make a thorough and rigorous assessment of every article in each of these journals and 50 outstanding articles are singled out for a Citation of Excellence Award. Authors of the winning articles receive an official certificate and badge to display on their work. The award brings with it peer recognition and, frequently, increases in research funding.

A full list of the 2009 winners, as well as lists of previous winners, is available at: http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/reviews/awards.htm.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries, have announced the winners of the first-annual LIBER Award for Library Innovation. Awards will be presented at the 2010 LIBER Annual Conference in Aarhus, Denmark on June 29, 2010 (http://www.liber2010.eu).

Sponsored by Elsevier, the award is designed to recognise innovative work with the potential to impact the wider library community. The winners will present their papers during the conference. This year’s inaugural award is related to the overall theme of the LIBER Annual conference ‘Re-inventing the Library: Challenges in the New Information Environment.’

The Stichting LIBER Foundation aims to assist research libraries in Europe to support a functional network across national boundaries in order to ensure the preservation of the European cultural heritage, to improve the access to collections in European research libraries, and to provide more efficient information services in Europe. It actively promotes co-operation with all library-related organisations and has strong links with the Council of Europe, the Commission of the European Communities (CEC), SPARC Europe and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), as well as with national library associations.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group has called for nominations for the 2010 Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science. The 2010 awards focus on Canada. Two prizes of C$10,000 will be awarded - one for mid-career and one for lifetime achievement. Nominations close on June 30, 2010.

Nominees may work in any discipline within the natural sciences, and should be resident in Canada. They may nominate themselves or be nominated by colleagues and ex-colleagues. Nominations for a candidate must include independent testimonials by at least five researchers mentored by their nominee, not all over the same period.

Launched in 2005, the annual Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science recognises outstanding scientific mentorship, and focuses on a specific country or countries each year. In previous years the Nature Awards have highlighted top-notch mentors in Australia, Germany, Japan, South Africa, and the UK.

The 2010 Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science will be announced at the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies annual meeting in Toronto on November 5, 2010. More details and nomination forms are available on the Nature website at www.nature.com/nature/mentoringawards/canada.

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The American Library Association (ALA) and EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) have announced the winners of the 2010 EBSCO/ALA Conference Sponsorship awards. The seven awards, each in the amount of $1,000, are presented annually to professional librarians who are members of the ALA, enabling them to attend the ALA Annual Conference. The 2010 ALA Annual Conference is scheduled for June 24-30, 2010, in Washington, D.C.

In order to be considered for the award, each candidate had to complete an application form, which included an essay on how conference attendance would promote their professional development. The essays were then evaluated by a jury of library professionals for clarity of content, goals, benefits of attendance, commitment to ALA and the library profession, enthusiasm, financial need and potential for growth. The seven librarians receiving the 2010 EBSCO Conference Sponsorship were selected based on the quality of their essays, which addressed the question of ‘How will attending this ALA Conference contribute to my professional development?’.

The winners hail from Canada and six different states - from California to North Carolina - representing various types of library organisations, including academic and public libraries, as well as multiple librarian classifications.

EBSCO and ALA have partnered for more than 15 years in this special programme, enabling numerous librarians to attend the annual conference and to benefit from interaction with their colleagues.

The deadline for applications for the 2011 EBSCO/ALA Conference Sponsorship Award is December 1, 2010. Guidelines and application forms are available on the ALA Web site at http://www.ala.org, in the Awards & Grants section under Grants and Fellowships.

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The Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) of the American Library Association (ALA) has recognised three libraries for best use of cutting-edge technologies in library services. The libraries are: Contra Costa County Library in Pleasant Hill, California; North Carolina State University Libraries in Raleigh, North Carolina.; and Jones Library in Amherst, Massachusetts.

In June 2009, OITP and the subcommittee for its Program on America’s Libraries for the 21st Century issued a call for nominations to identify library programmes that are serving their communities with novel and innovative methods. After selecting the winners, OITP produced descriptions of the programmes to provide the library community with successful models for delivering quality library service in new ways.

The Library-a-Go-Go service from Contra Costa County Library uses fully automated touchscreen materials-lending machines to provide stand-alone library services in non-library environments. The NCSU Libraries implemented a cutting-edge service in response to the difficulty of creating and maintaining enough ‘course pages’ – recommended resources for specific courses and assignments – to meet students’ needs. The Course Views system provides pages for all 6,000 courses offered by over 150 departments at NCSU. Digital Amherst, a project of the Jones Library, Amherst, provides digital historical and cultural materials - photographs and other images, articles, lectures and multimedia presentations - to Amherst locals, scholars and tourists.

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The Healthcare Consortium of the Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC), an Elsevier company, is the 2010 recipient of the National Academies Practice (NAP) Interdisciplinary Group Recognition Award. The NAP award is presented annually to groups that make ‘enduring contributions to interdisciplinary education and practice’. The award recognises CPMRC’s 25-year-old Healthcare Consortium of nearly 300 healthcare organisations for implementing an innovative interdisciplinary professional practice framework across multiple care settings through interdisciplinary teams.

Over the past 25 years, the Consortium has reportedly generated a vast repository of practical and theoretical knowledge on how to address the complexities of healthcare. Members of the Consortium share lessons learned through Partnership Councils, which encourage partnerships across settings and teamwork across disciplines. Consortium Gatherings seek to improve models of care that address interdisciplinary scope of practice, evidence-based practice application and integrated clinical documentation within health information technology. The CPMRC International Conference highlights outcomes produced in the clinical settings of Consortium members.

Members of the nearly 300-member Consortium include large multi-state healthcare systems, university, community and rural settings as well as academic clinical schools.

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The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) has announced that Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President, Research and Chief Strategist, OCLC, was presented with the Miles Conrad Award at the NFAIS 52nd Annual Conference in Philadelphia. The objective of the Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture, established in 1965 in commemoration of NFAIS founder, G. Miles Conrad, is to recognise and honour those members of the Information Community who have made significant contributions to the field of information science and to NFAIS itself.

Lorcan Dempsey is well-known and respected within the Information Community, especially in academia and among librarians worldwide. His writings have often served as the catalyst for new thinking with regards to digital libraries, networked information, cloud computing, and other critical issues. His vision with regard to information policy and knowledge management has had an impact on educational institutions and libraries around the globe.

Dempsey writes and speaks internationally and his extensive public presentations and formal published writings have a huge audience. His commentary on the current information environment can be followed on his weblog at http://orweblog.oclc.org. He recently stepped down as a member of the NISO Board and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is on advisory committees for Cambridge University Library, CISTI, Europeana, and Ithaka among a range of engagements. He also is a co-founder of the Web-based Ariadne Magazine.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the start of the second annual ProSPER.Net-Scopus Young Researcher Award in sustainable development, a partnership between its flagship product SCOPUS and ProSPER.Net. ProSPER.Net is a network of nineteen leading universities in Asia-Pacific.

The top three finalists in each category will be sponsored to present their work in a public symposium to be held in the first week of July 2010 at Tongji University in Shanghai. Winners will be announced at the symposium and receive a cash award. In addition, this year, the International Bureau of the German Ministry of Education will offer a fellowship to the winners.

The award is open to those involved in graduate education and research activities that emphasise sustainable development in the areas of Energy, Water, Agriculture & Food Security, and Economics, Business, & Management. In order to qualify, candidates for the award are expected to be employed at institutions of higher education in the Asia-Pacific region and should be younger than 40 years of age as of 1 July 2010.

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Elsevier Properties SA, a centre of excellence within Reed Elsevier for the management of intellectual property, has announced the launch of the Reaxys PhD Prize for young chemists. The competition is for candidates currently studying for a PhD or having completed a PhD within the past 12 months.

The prize will be awarded to the candidates that demonstrate excellence in methodology and approach in a peer-reviewed publication. Three prize winners will each receive a cheque for $2,000 and be invited to present their research at the Winners’ Symposium, held at the EuCheMS meeting in Nuremberg, Germany, on August 30, 2010.

All entries will be reviewed by a review board of international chemists, chaired by members of the Reaxys Advisory Board. This includes Dr. P. Kocis - former Global Head Exploratory Chemistry, AstraZeneca; Professor H. Kunz - University of Mainz, Germany; and Professor H. N. C. Wong - Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Submissions will be reviewed based upon originality, innovation, importance to the field, applicability, rigor of approach and publication quality.

All submissions must include a PhD Supervisor letter of recommendation, a CV and a representative peer-reviewed piece of published research. Entries should be submitted by February 28, 2010, at http://prize.reaxys.com.

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The Wiley Foundation, US, has announced that the ninth annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences will be awarded to Dr. Peter Hegemann, Professor of Molecular Biophysics, Humboldt University, Berlin; Dr. Georg Nagel, Professor of Molecular Plant Physiology, Department of Botany, University of Wuerzburg; and Dr. Ernst Bamberg, Professor and Director of the Dept of Biophysical Chemistry, Max-Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt, Germany. This was announced by Deborah E. Wiley, Chairman of The Wiley Foundation, and Senior Vice President, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Dr. Hegemann, Dr. Nagel, and Dr. Bamberg were selected for their discovery of channelrhodopsins, a family of light-activated ion channels.

The Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences recognises contributions that have opened new fields of research or have advanced novel concepts or their applications in a particular biomedical discipline. It honours a specific contribution or a series of contributions that demonstrate significant leadership and innovation. The award will be presented to Dr. Hegemann, Dr. Nagel, and Dr. Bamberg on April 9, 2010, at The Rockefeller University, New York City.

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Academic publisher SAGE and Index on Censorship, Britain’s leading organisation promoting freedom of expression, have announced a new award that will recognise the significant contribution made by the publishing industry to promoting freedom of expression. The SAGE International Publishing Award will be presented at the 10th annual Index of Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards, scheduled for March 25, 2010.

The award will recognise the role of the publisher in facilitating diverse and extreme points of view through both print and online publications. The Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards are featured by the BBC, major national newspapers, and national radio, as well as internationally, giving publishers a major opportunity to profile their work.

Nominations for the SAGE International Publishing Award are invited now. The deadline for entries is 4 p.m. January 29, 2010.

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Optical Society of America (OSA) has announced that its open-access journal Optics Express has been named the first SPARC Innovator of 2010.

Optics Express publishes original, peer-reviewed articles in all fields of optical science and technology twice a month – within an average of 47 days after article acceptance. The quick turnaround, along with creative ways to highlight content – such as electronic cover images for every issue and Focus issues – have made Optics Express a sought-after publishing destination for authors and a top journal in the field. The journal, now entering its second decade of publication, is consistently ranked among the top titles in its field. Following the success of Optics Express, this year the Society is rolling out three more publications that follow the same open-access business model.

The SPARC Innovator programme recognises advances in scholarly communication propelled by an individual, institution, or group. Typically, these advances exemplify SPARC principles by challenging the status quo in scholarly communication for the benefit of researchers, libraries, universities, and the public. SPARC Innovators are selected by the SPARC staff in consultation with the SPARC Steering Committee.

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SURFshare, an experimental sandbox to help explore microcredit models for independent publishers, has announced that it is accepting nominations for its Open Access Award for outstanding efforts to promote Open Access. Nominations can be submitted on or before January 15, 2010.

The award will honour two people who have made outstanding strategic and practical contributions to OA in the Netherlands. Each winner will receive the SURFshare Open Access Award and a personal gift. The winner in the practical category will also receive € 2000 to devote to an Open Access activity at his/her own organisation. The SURFshare programme office will select the winner in each category. The winners will be announced and will receive their awards at the Open Access seminar on February 2, 2010.

The nomination – no more than a single sheet of standard A4 paper – must comprise the name of the nominee (or nominees) and the organisation where he/she works; an indication of whether the nomination is for the ‘strategic’ or ‘practical’ category; and a description of the nominee’s efforts and results, with reasons why he/she deserves to win the Open Access Award. All nominations should be e mailed to vanderkuil at surf.nl.

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The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) recently presented the 2009 ACM Gordon Bell Prizes to four teams of scientists who created innovations in a range of applications related to high performance computing. The Gordon Bell Prizes recognises outstanding achievements in high-performance computing.

Using supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems, each of the teams demonstrated exceptional performance in the areas of space science, biological research, cognitive computing, and storage technologies. In the category of Lower Price performance, a team led by Tsuyoshi Hamada of Nagasaki University conducted simulations used to study the evolution of star clusters with unprecedented efficiency. Two awards were presented in the Special category. In the first award, David E. Shaw of D.E. Shaw Research headed a 22-person effort using Anton, a special-purpose supercomputer designed for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of bimolecular systems. The second award in this category went to a team from IBM Almaden Research Center and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LLNL).

In the Peak Performance category, Markus Eisenbach of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and his team presented a highly scalable method for calculating the thermodynamics of nanoscale systems. These systems were targeted to the nanomagnetic systems used in magnetic storage technologies such as disk drive storage, magnetic random access memory, and magnetic cellular logic.

The ACM Gordon Bell Prizes are awarded each year to recognise outstanding achievement in high-performance computing. The purpose of this recognition is to track the progress over time of parallel computing, with particular emphasis on rewarding innovation in applying high-performance computing to applications in science. Prizes are awarded for peak performance as well as special achievements in scalability and time-to-solution on important science and engineering problems and low price/performance.

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Science News Bi-Weekly, a news magazine targeting science community in China, and Elsevier’s Science and Technology division in China have identified a group of promising young scientists in the fields of Nanosciences, Information sciences, Environmental Sciences and Biological Sciences for the Scopus’ Future Star of Researcher Award, the local version of Elsevier’s ‘Scopus Young Researcher Award’.

The Scopus’ Future Star of Science award honours researchers under the age of 40. Twelve outstanding scientists were selected as winners, based on the evaluation of their high-citation papers. The winners are from the institutes of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Nanjing University and Sichuan University.

With nearly 400 applicants, the Scopus Future Star of Science award attracted wide attention across Chinese academics. The final winners were selected by first evaluating their papers for innovative research, as indexed in Scopus, the world’s largest abstract and index database. The short-listed candidates were then submitted to a selection committee consisting of leading scientists like Shi Yigong of Tsinghua University, Gao Fu, Wan Lijun and Chen Tongbin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Qian Depei of Beihang University. Finally, an advisory board consisting of several leading academics from within these fields helped to evaluate the final candidates.

Qi Hai, professor of immunology at Tsinghua University, won the gold medal in the field of Biological Sciences. In addition to honoring the individual outstanding scientists, the institutions themselves were also evaluated on how to develop their younger scientists. The evaluation was based on three factors - the per capita citations of high impact papers by younger scientists, their average age (with a bias towards younger scientists), and the number of leading early career researchers among the top 5 percent in their field.

This is the second collaboration between the Science News Bi-Weekly and Elsevier S&T China. The two parties successfully held an ‘Evaluating Academic Talent Flow Summit’ in June 2009, which generated much interest.

The Scopus Young Researcher awards are part of an Elsevier global initiative to support early career researchers.

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The American Psychological Association has announced that it is accepting nominations for the 2010 APA Excellence in Librarianship Award. The award will be presented at the Educational & Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS) Research Forum at the June 2010 American Library Association Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.

The APA Excellence in Librarianship Award recognises contribution to psychology and behavioral sciences librarianship including instructions, project development, publications, research, or service. It is open to both librarians and allied professionals with at least five years of professional experience. The award comprises a certificate and a $2,500 cash prize.

Nominations should include a résumé or curriculum vitae; nomination statement (self-nomination, a description of the contribution and its significance within and outside of your institution); examples of work (photocopies, CDs, URL links, etc.); and letters of support (no more than 3; at least one letter from a dean or organisational leader outside the immediate work area). The deadline for receiving applications is April 9, 2010.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced the winners of the 2009 Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science. The 2009 awards invited nominations from Japan, with two prizes of 1.5 million JPY - one for mid-career achievement (up to 59 years of age), and one for lifetime achievement (60 years of age and over).

Prof. Fumio Oosawa received the lifetime achievement award, while the mid-career award was bagged by Dr. Hiroaki Kitano. The Awards were presented by Dr. Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief of leading weekly science journal, Nature.

Professor Fumio Oosawa, who has been active in research for more than sixty years, was recognised for the large number of students he has mentored over many years. Many of his former students have gone on to prestigious appointments at leading universities in Japan and have themselves mentored a large number of students.

Dr. Hiroaki Kitano received the mid-career award for his encouragement of students towards continual personal and scientific development and to broadening the scope of their scientific knowledge. Dr. Kitano has mentored many Japanese and non-Japanese students.

Launched in 2005, the annual Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science recognise outstanding scientific mentorship and focus on a specific country or countries each year. 2009 sees the first Awards in Asia, with nominations invited from Japan. The panel of judges for the 2009 Awards included 2001 Chemistry Nobel Laureate, Prof. Ryoji Noyori.

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