More than 1 million eBooks now available via SwetsWise! - June 8, 2011
Journal subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced that its information resource management and procurement platform, SwetsWise, has recently expanded its eBook catalogue to more than one million publications. Swets has signed agreements with a number of eBooks publishers and aggregators, bringing together a wealth of… Read More
AIP Publishing announces publication of 100,000th paper in AIP Conference Proceedings series - June 6, 2011
AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), has announced the publication of the 100,000th paper in its AIP Conference Proceedings series. The proceedings volume that contains the 100,000th article is The IX International Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum -… Read More
Nature Communications celebrates first anniversary, publishes 300th research paper in the natural sciences - June 1, 2011
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that its journal Nature Communications recently celebrated its first successful year, publishing its 300th research paper in the natural sciences. Launched in April 2010, nearly half of the papers published in Nature Communications to date are open… Read More
Summon discovery service wins top honours at the 2011 CODiE Award ceremony - May 27, 2011
Serials Solutions, a US-based provider of tools and services for libraries and a business unit of ProQuest LLC, has announced that the Summon discovery service took top honours at the 2011 CODiE Award ceremony. It was named the Best Enterprise Search Solution. Claimed to be… Read More
Cengage Learning’s Course360 Custom Course Solutions win gold in 2011 Learning Impact Awards - May 26, 2011
Teaching, learning and research solutions provider Cengage Learning, US, has announced that its Course360 Custom Course Solutions in IMS Common Cartridge v1.0 has been named a gold medalist in the 2011 Learning Impact Awards. Course360 is a set of comprehensive and customisable online courses that utilise… Read More
CAS Registry registers 60 millionth substance - May 25, 2011
Chemical information provider Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has announced that a patent application claiming compounds with potential therapeutic activity, submitted to China's State Intellectual Property Office, included the 60 millionth substance recorded in the CAS Registry. CAS is a division of US-based American Chemical Society (ACS).… Read More
Winners of first-annual TCI-Scopus-TRF Journal Awards announced - May 23, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, in collaboration with the Thai-Journal Citation Index Centre, serving as the database of academic papers published in Thai journals, and the Thailand Research Fund, a government organisation in support of national research, announced the winners of the first-annual TCI-Scopus-TRF Journal Awards. The… Read More
EBSCO Information Services becomes NASIG’s first organisational member - May 20, 2011
Information services provider EBSCO, US, has been accepted as the first organisational member of The North American Serials Interest Group, Inc. (NASIG). In this capacity, EBSCO will support the continuing education on serials, electronic resources and standards issues that affect libraries, publishers and vendors. As… Read More
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins takes home 19 ASHPE Awards - May 20, 2011
Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), a Wolters Kluwer Health business, has announced that it has won 19 awards in 15 categories, including Magazine of the Year from the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (ASHPE). ASHPE's 11th annual awards competition recognises member articles and… Read More
ACP publications bag awards for publishing excellence - May 16, 2011
The American College of Physicians (ACP) has announced that its publications ACP Internist, ACP Hospitalist and ACP InternistWeekly have won awards for excellence in publishing. ACP Internist won a Gold Excel award from the Association Media & Publishing in the Newspapers: Feature Article: More than… Read More
