American Institute of Physics announces winners of 2011 AIP Science Communication Awards - October 17, 2011
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has announced the winners of the 2011 AIP Science Communication Awards. George Musser will receive the prize in science writing for his article ‘Could Time End?’ published in Scientific American. Vicki Oransky Wittenstein will receive the award in the… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell and British Academy announce new prize in Economics - October 10, 2011
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and the British Academy have created a major new prize for an outstanding contribution to economics. The new British Academy-Wiley Prize in Economics, worth £5,000, will be awarded annually in recognition… Read More
Elsevier and the University of Sydney announce winners of 24-hour Hackathon - October 6, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the University of Sydney, Australia’s leading higher education and research university, have announced the winners of the 24-hour Sydney Hackathon. Participants developed software applications to improve delivery of scientific, medical and technical content using SciVerse Content and Framework APIs from… Read More
EBSCO announces winner of its 2011 Charleston Conference Scholarship award - October 5, 2011
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO, US, has announced the winner of its 2011 Charleston Conference Scholarship. The winner is Matthew Harrington, collections management assistant at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. This year's event – the 31st Annual Charleston Conference, titled 'Something's Gotta Give' - will be held… Read More
New study of top five point-of-care tools finds DynaMed is the most current - October 4, 2011
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that its evidence-based point-of-care clinical reference tool DynaMed has been shown to be the most current point-of-care reference tool. A study published recently in the British Medical Journal looked at how quickly… Read More
JACS editor and two ACS members among 12 eminent researchers and inventors to receive US’s highest honours in science and innovation - September 30, 2011
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that Dr. Peter J. Stang, editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), and ACS members Dr. Jacqueline K. Barton and Dr. Rakesh Agrawal are among 12 eminent researchers and inventors named by President Obama to receive… Read More
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
