Elsevier announces winners of National Research Foundation Young Scientist Awards in South Africa - September 12, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the winners of the Young Scientist Awards, sponsored by Elsevier as part of the National Research Foundation (NRF) President's Awards in Pretoria, South Africa on September 1, 2011. The event was attended by Ms. Naledi Pandor, Minister of Science… Read More
IEEE Xplore Digital Library reaches three million documents milestone - September 2, 2011
Technical professional association IEEE, US, has announced that the IEEE Xplore digital library recently added its three millionth document to its vast digital library. IEEE Xplore digital library claims to be one of the world's largest collections of high quality technical literature in engineering and technology.… Read More
SAGE announces winner of SAGE International Bursary at 15th European Conference in Developmental Psychology - September 2, 2011
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that the winner of the SAGE International Bursary at 15th European Conference in Developmental Psychology is Anna Sevcikova of the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. The 15th European Conference in Developmental Psychology took place in Bergen, Norway… Read More
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins wins 11 Apex Awards for Excellence in Publishing - August 29, 2011
Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), a Wolters Kluwer Health business, has announced that seven LWW published journals have won 11 awards in this year's Apex Awards for Publication Excellence Competition, recognising publishing excellence in a variety of categories. Emergency Medicine News took home the… Read More
Emerald Group Publishing announces winners of 2011 Citation of Excellence Awards - August 23, 2011
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK, has announced the winners of its 2011 Citation of Excellence Awards. Now in their fifteenth year, these annual awards recognise the 50 most outstanding articles published by the top 300 management journals in the world. Currently celebrating the… Read More
ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining announce recipients of 2011 Innovation and Service Awards - August 22, 2011
The Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) has announced that Dr. Ross Quinlan is the recipient of the organisation's 2011 Innovation Award and Dr. Bharat Rao is the winner of its 2011 Service Award. The awards were… Read More
Elsevier and the National University of Singapore announce winners of 24-Hour Hackathon - August 17, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the National University of Singapore (NUS) have announced the winners of SgCodeJam24. This 'Hackathon', a 24-hour programming competition, encourages students and faculty to develop customised applications that advance the search and discovery process of scientific information. From August 12-13, NUS… Read More
Internationally recognised experts rate FIZ Karlsruhe as a reliable and valuable partner for science and industry worldwide - August 5, 2011
Scientific information services provider FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany, has announced that it was recently evaluated by internationally recognised experts. The result of the evaluation shows that FIZ Karlsruhe, a member of the Leibniz-Association, is a reliable and valuable partner for science and industry worldwide. The Leibniz… Read More
CAB Thesaurus grows 40 percent in one year to include 137,000 terms - August 4, 2011
Not-for-profit life sciences publisher CABI, UK, has announced that the CAB Thesaurus has had its biggest update in 30 years. The Thesaurus, projected as a comprehensive controlled vocabulary covering applied life sciences and related subject areas, has reportedly grown 40 percent in just one year. It… Read More
American developmental psychologist named 2011 recipient of Wiley Prize in Psychology - July 28, 2011
The British Academy in partnership with Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, have named American developmental psychologist, Dr. Michael Tomasello, as this year's recipient of the Wiley Prize in Psychology. The £5,000 prize for… Read More
