2010 EBSCO/ALA Conference Sponsorship award winners announced - March 30, 2010
The American Library Association (ALA) and EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) have announced the winners of the 2010 EBSCO/ALA Conference Sponsorship awards. The seven awards, each in the amount of $1,000, are presented annually to professional librarians who are members of the ALA, enabling them to attend… Read More
CPMRC Healthcare Consortium receives NAP Interdisciplinary Group Recognition Award - March 25, 2010
The Healthcare Consortium of the Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC), an Elsevier company, is the 2010 recipient of the National Academies Practice (NAP) Interdisciplinary Group Recognition Award. The NAP award is presented annually to groups that make ‘enduring contributions to interdisciplinary education and practice’. The… Read More
OITP recognises three library programmes for best use of cutting-edge technologies - March 25, 2010
The Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) of the American Library Association (ALA) has recognised three libraries for best use of cutting-edge technologies in library services. The libraries are: Contra Costa County Library in Pleasant Hill, California; North Carolina State University Libraries in Raleigh, North Carolina.;… Read More
Ex Libris announces expansion of Primo community with new members - March 17, 2010
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that additional libraries from around the world have selected the Primo discovery and delivery solution as a unified gateway to their library collections. These libraries will join the international Primo community and will benefit from the Primo… Read More
Thomson Reuters names the world’s ‘Hottest’ Researchers - March 16, 2010
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the results of its annual roundup of the ‘hottest’ researchers and research papers. In its March/April issue of Science Watch, Thomson Reuters identified the dozen authors whose recent papers were cited most often by other researchers during 2009.… Read More
SpringerImages exceeds 2 million images mark - March 15, 2010
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, has announced that its online image database SpringerImages (www.SpringerImages.com), which launched in July 2009 with 1.5 million images, now includes over 2 million images. SpringerImages is a growing collection of scientific images, tables, charts and graphs… Read More
Thieme’ Pocket Atlas of Chinese Medicine bags first prize at the PROSE Awards - March 9, 2010
STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced that The Pocket Atlas of Chinese Medicine has won first prize in the Nursing and Allied Health category of the 2009 PROSE Award. The annual award presented by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) recognises the best in… Read More
NFAIS names OCLC’ Lorcan Dempsey as 2010 Miles Conrad Awardee - March 8, 2010
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) has announced that Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President, Research and Chief Strategist, OCLC, was presented with the Miles Conrad Award at the NFAIS 52nd Annual Conference in Philadelphia. The objective of the Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture, established in 1965… Read More
Scope eKnowledge Center wraps up mega author database project comprising 15 million author records - March 4, 2010
Database, content and IP research services provider Scope eKnowledge Center, a Quatrro Group Company, has announced that it has successfully completed a mega project of developing a database of 15 million author records. Scope, with its proven expertise and experience in executing high volume abstracting and… Read More
Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience marks 20 years of publishing - February 24, 2010
STM publisher IOS Press, Netherlands, has announced the 20th anniversary of the peer-reviewed journal Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience (RNN). Founded in 1989 by neuroscientist Donald G. Stein, RNN focuses on the emerging field of brain plasticity, repair and rehabilitation. The journal has published not only numerous… Read More
