Springer signs on as principal sponsor of ‘Trans-Tasman 3MT’ competition - October 31, 2014
STM publisher Springer has announced that it is the principal sponsor of the 2014 Trans-Tasman Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, which challenges students pursuing higher education degrees to turn their theses into three minute presentations. The contest provides Springer a way of encouraging early career researchers… Read More
Elsevier announces winners of 2014 Tetrahedron Prize - October 31, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier and the Executive Board of Editors of the Tetrahedron journal series have announced that the 2014 Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic & Biomedicinal Chemistry has been awarded to Professor Barry Trost, Stanford University, USA and Jiro Tsuji, Honorary professor at Tokyo Institute… Read More
EBSCO introduces Flipster, a new way to access digital magazines - October 31, 2014
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is introducing Flipster™, which allows library patrons to browse the latest issues of high quality digital versions of popular magazines, courtesy of their library. Flipster provides users easy access to digital magazines for online browsing via their desktops or any mobile… Read More
IET President-elect announced - October 31, 2014
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced that Naomi Climer will become IET President on October 1, 2015. Naomi, currently IET Deputy President, has spent her career immersed in the rapidly changing world of media and entertainment technology from the analogue, pre-internet days of… Read More
NTIS expands free access to federal technical reports - October 31, 2014
The National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) is now offering the American public free public access to a searchable online database of approximately three million federal science and technology reports. The library is a service of the U.S. Commerce Department's National Technical Information… Read More
University of Kentucky’s UK HealthCare selects Elsevier’s InOrder for its order sets solution - October 30, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that University of Kentucky's UK HealthCare (UKHC), a health system with more than 80 specialised clinics throughout the state, has selected Elsevier's InOrder for its order sets solution. The cloud-based InOrder enables clinicians, physicians and informaticists to… Read More