Royal Swets & Zeitlinger celebrates 110th anniversary - September 27, 2011
Information services company Royal Swets & Zeitlinger, Netherlands, is celebrating its 110th anniversary. Adriaan Swets and Heinrich Zeitlinger opened the doors to their business, a small bookshop in Amsterdam specialising in new and antiquarian scientific books, on September 26, 1901. Although Heinrich Zeitlinger left the… Read More
Thieme titles win BMA Medical Book Awards - September 23, 2011
STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has won first prize for three titles at the 2011 British Medical Association's Medical Book Awards ceremony recently held in London. Through this competition the BMA aims to foster and reward excellence in medical publishing. First prize in the Internal… Read More
Thomson Reuters predicts Citation Laureates - September 22, 2011
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the 2011 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates researchers likely to be in contention for Nobel honours. Thomson Reuters claims to be the only organisation to use quantitative data to make annual predictions of Nobel Prize winners. Each year,… Read More
Winners of 2011 ALPSP Awards announced - September 20, 2011
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) announced the winners of the 2011 ALPSP Awards at the recently held ALPSP International Conference Dinner. The ALPSP Award for Contribution to Scholarly Publishing was awarded to Cliff Morgan of John Wiley & Sons. Cliff has… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry’s new flagship journal wins ALPSP Award for Best New Journal - September 19, 2011
The UK's Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that its new flagship journal Chemical Science has won the ALPSP Award for Best New Journal. The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) praised Chemical Science for its relevance and quality. The award is open… Read More
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
