Yerevan named World Book Capital 2012 - July 6, 2010
Yerevan was named as the 'World Book Capital 2012' at the conclusion of the selection committee meeting, which was held on July 2, 2010 at UNESCO's Paris headquarters. The city of Yerevan was selected for the quality and the variety of its detailed, realistic, grass-roots programme, focusing on universal issues,… Read More
CERN bags 2010 SPARC-Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications - July 5, 2010
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Europe, an alliance of European research libraries, has announced CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, as the winner of the 2010 SPARC-Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications. The Award was presented at the Aarhus State and… Read More
Serials Solutions celebrates tenth anniversary - July 1, 2010
E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) provider Serials Solutions, US, has announced that the company is celebrating its tenth year of operations. The company was launched in 2000 by Peter McCracken, a reference librarian at the University of Washington's Odegaard Undergraduate Library, along with his brothers… Read More
ScienceDirect celebrates a decade of serving global scientific research community - June 29, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its online scientific research platform, ScienceDirect. The tenth anniversary also marks the addition of the ten millionth article to the database, which contains full-text articles and book chapters. The ten millionth full-text… Read More
2009 Emerald/ALCS African Management Research Fund award winner announced - June 24, 2010
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, and The Authors' Licensing and Collection Society (ALCS), in association with the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) and the International Academy of African Business and Development (IAABD) have announced the winner of… Read More
Authors of Panton Principles named SPARC Innovators - June 23, 2010
Four scientists who have authored the Panton Principles have been named SPARC innovators. These include Peter Murray-Rust, chemist at the University of Cambridge; Cameron Neylon, biochemist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot, England; Rufus Pollock, co-founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation and Mead Fellow in… Read More
ChemSpider wins ‘Most Innovative Software’ award - June 22, 2010
The Royal Society of Chemistry recently announced that its ChemSpider platform has scooped the Innovative Software Award at the iExpo/KM Forum 2010. The award is organised by GFII (the Association for Professionals of the Information Industry) and recognises leading software providers in the information industry for… Read More
CSIRO’s Thomas Girke named winner of the 2010 Information Professional of the Year - June 18, 2010
Online information services provider Dialog, part of the ProQuest family of brands, has announced that Thomas Girke, Manager, Information Support, Library Services, at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), as the winner of the 2010 Information Professional of the Year by the Special Libraries… Read More
BioMed Central announces 4th Annual Research Award winners - June 14, 2010
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the winners of its 4th Annual Research Awards. The event was attended by short listed authors, eminent researchers, publishers, open access advocates and science journalists from around the world. The awards, now in their fourth year, acknowledge excellence… Read More
IOP Publishing awarded 2nd place in the ‘South West Top 100 Creative Companies’ - June 9, 2010
Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP Publishing), US, has announced that it has been awarded 2nd place in the 'South West Top 100 Creative Companies' organised by Bristol Media. Bristol Media received 357 applications from companies in the South West region. Through creative work, which has included… Read More
