EIFL bags 2011 SPARC-Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications - July 4, 2011
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… Read More
Final call for 2011 Emerald/CLADEA Latin American Management Research Fund Award - July 4, 2011
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, in collaboration with Consejo Latinoamericano de Escuelas de Administracion (CLADEA), has announced the final deadline for submissions to the 2011 Emerald/CLADEA Latin American Management Research Fund Award. The closing date for receipt of applications is August… Read More
Three Scandinavian journals join Versita Open - July 1, 2011
E-publishing technology solutions provider Versita, Poland, has announced that three Scandinavian serials - Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, Nordic Journal of Migration Research and Sommerfeltia - are now included in the portfolio of more than 200 Open Access journals published by Versita Open. The newly contracted Scandinavian journals,… Read More
Access Knowledgespeak using your smartphones and mobile devices via Myscoope.com - July 1, 2011
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak is now available in a mobile browser version and a Java application version. Smartphones and Tablets – We publish a mobile browser version for smartphones and tablet PCs. This is accessible at www.myscoope.com, a site designed specifically for all types of… Read More
OCLC Research and RLUK to gather data on special collections in research libraries in the UK and Ireland - July 1, 2011
Library information provider OCLC Research, US, and Research Libraries UK are working together on a project to gather data on special collections in research libraries in the UK and Ireland. The project is similar to a project conducted by OCLC Research in 2009 that gathered data… Read More
Nature most highly cited journal in the JCR - July 1, 2011
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that it achieved outstanding results, with Nature's Impact Factor for 2010 reaching a new high of 36.101. Nature articles received over 500,000 citations in 2010, making it the most highly cited journal in the 2010 Journal Citation… Read More
