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
Really Strategies celebrates 10 years in business serving publishers - September 13, 2010
Content management consulting and solutions provider Really Strategies, Inc., US, recently celebrated its 10th anniversary in business serving the publishing and technical publishing industries. Really Strategies was founded in 2000 by former Reed Elsevier executives Barry Bealer and Lisa Bos. The shift in strategy to also… Read More
CRC Press bags Best eBook Publisher ALPSP award for CRCnetBASE platform - September 13, 2010
Scientific publisher CRC Press, US, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, is the 2010 recipient of the 'Best eBook Publisher' award from The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). The award, one of three awarded at the annual ALPSP… Read More
Hindawi’s monthly submissions grow to over 2,000 - September 8, 2010
Open access publisher Hindawi Publishing Corporation, US, has announced that its growing portfolio of open access journals have collectively received more than 2,000 monthly submissions for the first time in August. This achievement comes a year and a half after having passed 1,000 monthly submissions in… Read More
200 millionth bibliographic record added to WorldCat - September 3, 2010
Library cooperative OCLC has announced that the Bibliothèque nationale de France has added the 200 millionth bibliographic record to the WorldCat database. The 200 millionth record was added to WorldCat on August 27, 2010, one day after the 39th anniversary of the launching of the OCLC… Read More
ebrary’s Academic Complete now exceeds 50,000 titles - September 3, 2010
Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced that its flagship subscription e-book database, Academic Complete, now exceeds 50,000 titles from leading publishers. Academic Complete continues to be the largest multidisciplinary e-book database licensed to libraries throughout the world, under a simultaneous, multi-user access… Read More
Atex placed in the Gartner 2010 Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management report - August 31, 2010
Integrated content management and advertising systems provider Atex, UK, has announced that it has been positioned in the Gartner 2010 Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management report. To be considered for the Magic Quadrant, companies had to satisfy a strict list of qualification criteria, which included… Read More
