ProSPER.Net, Scopus announce new award for young scientists in Asia/Pacific region - August 1, 2008
Abstracting and indexing database Scopus, part of STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has launched an award with the Promotion of Sustainability in Postgraduate Education and Research Network (ProSPER.Net), Japan, to encourage young researchers and academics in the Asia/Pacific region. The ProSPER.Net/Scopus Young Scientist Award will be given… Read More
Nominations for BioMed Central’s 3rd Annual Research Awards now open - August 1, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that nominations for the 3rd Annual Research Awards are now open. The awards celebrate the best published research across medical and biological science within any of BioMed Central's open access journals. Now in its third year, the awards… Read More
Attention Subscribers – Benefit now from the Content atomisation initiative from Knowledgespeak - August 1, 2008
Knowledgespeak is planning to atomise its content. A preliminary but significant initiative has already been taken in this direction. For an internationally esteemed association, we have repackaged and categorised our news under various topics to suit the information needs of its members. We are exploring other possibilities of bringing a… Read More
Call for society publishers to participate in semantic web pilot project - July 31, 2008
Library management systems and services provider Talis Information Ltd., UK, and TBI Communications, UK, have announced a joint initiative that offers society publishers the opportunity to participate in a free pilot project designed to test the application of Web 2.0 and semantic… Read More
Publisher Informa receives a second takeover proposal - July 31, 2008
Media Company Informa Plc, UK, has said that the company has received another preliminary buy-out approach. It is being targeted for takeover by a private equity consortium. While Informa did not reveal who made the latest approach, talks are continuing with Providence Equity Partners, Carlyle Group… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell partners with AlphaMed Press to co-publish Stem Cells journal - July 31, 2008
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and publisher AlphaMed Press, US, has announced that Wiley-Blackwell has been selected to serve as co-publisher of Stem Cells, effective January 1, 2009. An international journal of cell differentiation and proliferation, Stem… Read More
