HARRASSOWITZ announces 2011 Charleston Conference Scholarship winner - September 16, 2011
HARRASSOWITZ, a full-service subscription agent and bookseller, Germany, has awarded its 2011 Charleston Conference Scholarship to Ariel Vanderpool, Resource Acquisitions Specialist III at Stanford University Lane Medical Library, CA. The scholarship supports attendance at this year’s Charleston Conference, scheduled to be held from November 2-5, 2011,… Read More
ProQuest among US’ top 100 most innovative users of business technology - September 15, 2011
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that it has been ranked 65th in the 2011 InformationWeek 500, an annual listing of the nation's most innovative users of business technology. ProQuest is best known for its creation of information and technology tools that support… Read More
Gale and Library Media Connection announce winners of 2011 TEAMS Award - September 13, 2011
Educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, and Library Media Connection Magazine have announced the three winners of the TEAMS Award — Teachers and Media Specialists Influencing Student Achievement. The 2011 winners are Winter Park Elementary School in Wilmington, North Carolina; Patrick F. Taylor Science… Read More
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
