Elsevier announces winners of LIBER Award for Library Innovation - April 29, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries, have announced the winners of the first-annual LIBER Award for Library Innovation. Awards will be presented at the 2010 LIBER Annual Conference in Aarhus, Denmark on June 29, 2010 (http://www.liber2010.eu).… Read More
Emerald announces winners of 14th annual Citation of Excellence Awards - April 29, 2010
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has announced the winners of its 2009 Citation of Excellence Awards. Now in their fourteenth year, these annual awards recognise the 50 most outstanding articles published by the top 400 management journals in the world. Each… Read More
ChemSpider bags 2010 Bio-IT World Best Practices Award for Community Service - April 28, 2010
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that its ChemSpider platform has won a 2010 Bio-IT World Best Practices Award for Community Service. Dr Antony Williams, VP of Strategic Development and Valery Tkachenko, Chief Technology Officer for ChemSpider, received the award at the annual Bio-IT Awards… Read More
PCG marks 20 years serving the scholarly and professional publishing community - April 12, 2010
Market intelligence, sales and marketing services provider Publishers Communication Group (PCG), a division of Publishing Technology, Inc., UK, is celebrating 20 years in business. Since it was founded in 1990, PCG has been offering consultative sales, marketing and research support to some of the largest and… Read More
American Medical Association’s Physician Consortium marks decade of measure development - April 6, 2010
The American Medical Association’s Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. The AMA-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (PCPI) is committed to enhancing quality of care and patient safety by taking the lead in the development, testing, and maintenance of evidence-based clinical performance… Read More
Pearson’s CourseConnect selected as 2010 SIIA CODiE Awards finalist - April 6, 2010
Education, technology and services provider Pearson, US, has announced that its CourseConnect solution has been selected as a finalist in the 2010 Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Awards. CourseConnect is a library of customisable online courses with recommended course descriptions, syllabi, lessons containing rich… Read More
The US’ Department of Justice to support The Associated Press’ proposed digital news registry - April 5, 2010
The US’ Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced its support for a proposal by The Associated Press (AP) to develop and operate a voluntary news registry to facilitate the licencing and Internet distribution of news content created by the AP, its members, and other news originators.… Read More
Serials Solutions receives full permissions as CONSER Affiliate member - April 2, 2010
E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) provider Serials Solutions, US, a business unit of ProQuest Information and Learning, has announced that its catalogers can ‘CONSER authenticate’ non-CONSER records for distribution as new records. Now a CONSER Affiliate member of the Library of Congress’ Serial Record Division… Read More
A*STAR ranked 7th in Asia-Pacific for research publications - April 2, 2010
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) has been ranked seventh most prolific agency in the Asia-Pacific region, in terms of the total number of research papers published in Nature Publishing Group’s portfolio of Nature-branded journals in 2009, according to the Nature Asia-Pacific Publishing Index.… Read More
Nominations now open for Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science – Canada - April 1, 2010
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group has called for nominations for the 2010 Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science. The 2010 awards focus on Canada. Two prizes of C$10,000 will be awarded - one for mid-career and one for lifetime achievement. Nominations close on June 30, 2010.… Read More
