Thomson Reuters announces winners of Allicense 2014 Breakthrough Award for top pharma deals of 2013 - May 8, 2014
The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has honoured Amplimmune, Inc. and MedImmune for their work in pharmaceutical Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), and Isis Pharmaceuticals and Biogen Idec for biopharmaceutical licensing with the Allicense 2014 Breakthrough Award for Deal of the Year. The… Read More
ProQuest acquires Pi2 Solutions - May 2, 2014
ProQuest has acquired UK-based Pi2 Solutions, an industry leader in product literature databases, workflow tools and related outsourcing services for global pharmaceutical companies. The company plans to align Pi2 with its ProQuest Dialog corporate information service to create an integrated solution for pharmacovigilance and expand ProQuest's… Read More
Jisc in deal with scientific journal publishers to provide free trial access to medical and scientific journals - May 2, 2014
Jisc has announced an agreement with scientific journal publishers. A year-long pilot will allow staff working across the NHS in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland free trial access to some of the most respected medical and scientific journals so they can read for themselves the… Read More
UK Research Council funding data comes to life in two new visualisations - May 1, 2014
A competition run by British Library, BBRSC and AHRC challenged the public to create a visualisation showing how £3 billion of funding is apportioned across the UK. The winners of the Visualising Research competition were announced by a panel of judges from BBRSC, AHRC, Indiana… Read More
Ex Libris Group launches Ex Libris Developer Network - April 30, 2014
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced the global launch of the Ex Libris Developer Network - an open environment in which developers and IT professionals can collaborate across libraries and with Ex Libris to experiment with applications and extensions to the company's solutions.… Read More
2014 Emerald Literati Network Award winners announced - April 29, 2014
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has announced the winners of its prestigious Literati Network Awards for Excellence, 2014. Now in their 21st year, and one of the largest independent academic award programs worldwide, the awards recognise high levels of research excellence across the breadth of Emerald's… Read More
