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
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
