American Chemical Society wins 2010 Mayor’s Environmental Excellence Award - August 16, 2010
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that it has won the 2010 Mayor's Environmental Excellence Award from Washington D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty. The annual award recognises businesses and nonprofit organisations for their environmental stewardship, innovative best practices, pollution prevention, and resource conservation. Chosen from… Read More
AAP journal PEDIATRICS named one of the best in association media and publishing - August 9, 2010
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has announced that PEDIATRICS, the official journal of the Academy, has been honored as one of the best in association media and publishing. The publication won two distinguished awards in the 30th Annual EXCEL Awards - Gold Medal - Journals:… Read More
University of Western Australia’s Dr. Scott Stewart wins Reaxys sponsored RACI 2010/11 Athel Beckwith Lectureship award - August 6, 2010
Elsevier Properties SA, a centre of excellence within Reed Elsevier for the management of intellectual property, has announced that Dr. Scott Stewart of the University of Western Australia has won the Royal Australian Chemical Institute's (RACI) 2010/11 Athel Beckwith Lectureship, sponsored by Reaxys. The award is… Read More
TRANSFUSION journal celebrates 50th anniversary - August 5, 2010
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that TRANSFUSION, a publication for new information regarding transfusion medicine and the official peer-reviewed journal of AABB, is marking its 50th anniversary with a number of special activities. The journal is… Read More
AAAS recognises MIT OpenCourseWare with Science Prize for Online Resources in Education - August 2, 2010
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced that MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) has been named as a recipient of the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE). MIT OpenCourseWare is Massachusetts Institute of Technology's innovative effort to share… Read More
NPG and InnoCentive award Solver in the DNDi Challenge to fight infectious diseases - July 26, 2010
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and InnoCentive, which built the first global web community for open innovation, have announced that Solver Sandip Bharate has been awarded $10,000 for his solution to a Challenge posted on the nature.com Open Innovation Pavilion (Read More
McGraw-Hill’s knowledge sharing network wins Sloan Consortium’s effective practice award - July 14, 2010
McGraw-Hill Higher Education, part of McGraw-Hill Education, has announced that its student knowledge sharing and collaboration network, GradeGuru.com will be presented with the 2010 Effective Practice Award at the 3rd Annual Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C). Sloan-C is an association of institutions and organisations of higher education engaged… Read More
Harvard named one of the world’s top three open-access institutions - July 12, 2010
The Harvard University has announced that it has been recognised as one of the world's top three open-access institutions of the year by open access publisher BioMed Central. Harvard Law School was given special recognition for being one of four schools at Harvard to introduce its… Read More
British Library wins Nominent Internet Award - July 12, 2010
The British Library has been awarded the 'opening the world of knowledge' award for Timelines: Sources from History by the Nominet Internet Awards. The Nominet Internet Awards aim to recognise and celebrate individuals and organisations that are helping to make the Internet a secure, open, accessible… Read More
DGI and Elsevier announce Best Paper Award - July 6, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Informationswissenschaft und Informationspraxis e.V. (DGI) will honour Young Information Professionals (YIPs) with the 'Semantic Web & Linked Data - Elements of Future Information infrastructures' Best Paper Award. The award will be presented at… Read More
