SAGE Handbook bags American Psychological Association’s Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award - March 24, 2011
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that the International Handbook of Cross-Cultural Counseling: Cultural Assumptions and Practices Worldwide edited by P. Paul Heppner, Stefanía Ægisdóttir, Seung-Ming Alvin Leung, and Kathryn L. Norsworthy recently received the prestigious Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award. Presented by Division 52 (International… Read More
OUP named publisher and distributor of the year at booksellers’ awards - March 22, 2011
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) was recently named Publisher and Distributor of the Year at a Booksellers Association award ceremony. This is the sixth time in seven years that OUP collected the Publisher of the Year award, and the seventh year in a row that… Read More
BMJ Group journals, employees bag various awards - March 21, 2011
Medical publisher BMJ Group, UK, has announced that individuals and teams representing the company bagged various prizes in the fields of medicine, science, journalism and publishing over the past few months. In June, BMJ's editor in chief, Dr. Fiona Godlee, won Health Editor of the… Read More
FIZ Karlsruhe witnesses 10 percent increase in revenues, new e-science projects - March 18, 2011
Scientific information services provider FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany, has announced that it increased its revenues by approximately 10 percent to a total of Euro 30 million in 2010. Also in 2010, the Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure started its work on the German Digital Library (DDB) and… Read More
Bellwether journals win Association of American Geographers Publication Award - March 18, 2011
Publisher Bellwether Publishing has announced that its journals have received the coveted Association of American Geographer's Publication Award in recognition of 50 years of sustained support for the discipline of Geography. The Bellwether journals were noted as having been 'important in shaping the intellectual trajectory of… Read More
US National Library of Medicine celebrates 175 years of information innovation - March 15, 2011
The year 2011 marks the 175th anniversary of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health. Claimed to be the world's largest medical library and the producer of electronic information resources used by millions of people every day, NLM has changed… Read More
SPARC Europe calls for nominations for the Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications - March 14, 2011
SPARC Europe, an alliance of European research libraries, library organisations and research institutions, will be accepting nominations for the sixth SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications and Open Access. Nominations are open to individuals or teams, preferably within Europe, who have made… Read More
Farm Journal Media receives Grand Neal Award - March 14, 2011
Farm Journal Media has received the coveted Grand Neal Award during American Business Media's 57th Annual Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards ceremony, held at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City. The winning entry, 'The Farm Journal Legacy Project,' from the company's print and… Read More
Thomson Reuters names ‘Hottest’ researchers and papers of 2010 - March 11, 2011
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the results of its annual roundup of the 'hottest' researchers and research papers. In its March/April issue of Science Watch, an open Web resource for science metrics and analysis, Thomson Reuters identified the top 13 authors who fielded… Read More
Maney Publishing achieves 100th journal mark - March 11, 2011
Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has published its 100th journal with the release of the first 2011 issue of Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine. The imprint, whose first journals appeared in 1998, has become a significant publisher of British society journals and in recent years has… Read More
