EBSCO scholarship for librarian to attend 30th annual Charleston Conference - October 7, 2010
Knowledge base provider EBSCO has announced that it is sponsoring a $1,000 scholarship for a librarian to attend the 30th Annual Charleston Conference on Nov. 3-6, 2010 in Charleston, SC, for the second year. Applicants had to submit a short essay that detailed how their library… Read More
STEM CELLS and International Stem Cell Symposium to present annual STEM CELLS Young Investigator Award - October 1, 2010
Wiley-Blackwell and AlphaMed Press, co-publishers of the peer-reviewed journal STEM CELLS, have announced that the annual STEM CELLS Young Investigator Award will be presented on October 2, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. The award is co-sponsored by the International Stem Cell Symposium. The US $10,000 award… Read More
Oxford University Press’ Oxford Open initiative reaches open access milestone - September 24, 2010
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, has announced that the 100th journal has now joined its Oxford Open initiative. The Journal of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Infectious Diseases, which are to be published by OUP on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America from… Read More
Elsevier titles win British Medical Association Award - September 24, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that two of its medical titles won first prize in their respective categories at the annual BMA Medical Book Competition ceremony in London. An additional 22 Elsevier books were highly commended. The Awards were presented by Professor Averil Mansfield, Immediate Past… Read More
Thomson Reuters predicts Nobel Laureates for 2010 - September 22, 2010
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the 2010 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, Thomson… Read More
EBSCO offers scholarships to librarians attending 2011 ALA Midwinter Meeting - September 20, 2010
The American Library Association (ALA) and information services provider EBSCO, US, have announced a partnership to offer five scholarships for librarians to attend the 2011 ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Diego. The meeting, scheduled for January 7-11, 2011, offers an opportunity for continuing education, meetings and… Read More
ChemSpider awarded ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation 2010 - September 17, 2010
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that its free online chemistry database, ChemSpider, was awarded the ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation 2010 in a shortlist of four. This is ChemSpider's third award of the year. The ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation recognises a significantly innovative… Read More
ProQuest among US’ top 20 most innovative users of business technology - September 16, 2010
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that the company has been ranked 17th in the 2010 InformationWeek 500, an annual listing of the nation's most innovative users of business technology. ProQuest, best known for its creation of information and technology tools that support… Read More
BMJ Group specialist title wins ALPSP Best New Journal 2010 award - September 16, 2010
Publisher BMJ Group, UK, has announced that BMJ Case Reports, a peer reviewed specialist online title published by BMJ Group, has won the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) Best New Journal 2010 award. Launched in 2008, BMJ Case Reports has the largest single… Read More
Serials Solutions’ Summon web-scale discovery service achieves the 100 customer mark - September 14, 2010
Serials Solutions, a US-based provider of tools and services for libraries and a business unit of ProQuest, has announced that more than 100 customers have adopted the Summon web-scale discovery service. This milestone was achieved in one year. Introduced in January 2009, the Summon service… Read More
