Ten of Taiwan’s most innovative companies and academic institutions honoured during inaugural ‘Thomson Reuters Taiwan Innovation Awards 2012’ - November 16, 2012
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… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education’ LearnSmart surpasses one million student users - November 9, 2012
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,… Read More
ebrary’s Academic Complete awarded Best E-book Database by Library Journal - November 2, 2012
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… Read More
Gale Virtual Reference Library voted ‘Best Overall Database’ by Library Journal magazine readers - November 2, 2012
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… Read More
EBSCO announces winner of 2012 Charleston Conference Scholarship - November 1, 2012
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 –… Read More
Springer adds 100th title to SpringerOpen family of OA journals - October 26, 2012
STM publisher Springer recently celebrated the addition of its 100th title to the SpringerOpen family of open access (OA) journals, in addition to its existing BioMed Central portfolio. The launch of the Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development not only secures Springer’s position at the… Read More
Gale wins ISG Reference Award from CILIP for the second consecutive year - October 24, 2012
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has been awarded the Besterman/McColvin Award in the 'Outstanding works of electronic resources and e-books' category at the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals' (CILIP) ISG Reference Awards for the second consecutive year. The Sunday Times Digital Archive, 1822-2006… Read More
Elsevier and Capes / MEC announce winners of SciVal Award Brazil 2012 - October 22, 2012
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… Read More
Eight of the 2012 Nobel Laureates are Wiley authors - October 17, 2012
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… Read More
Thieme titles bag honours at 2012 BMA Medical Book Awards - October 16, 2012
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… Read More
