IARS’ OpenAnesthesia website achieves 10,000 unique visitors mark in first month after launch - July 30, 2009
The International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) has announced that its new moderated wiki site for anesthesia residents, OpenAnesthesia (www.openanesthesia.org), attained over 10,000 unique visitors in the first month of operation. Dr. Edward Nemergut, Associate Professor at the University of Virginia's Department of… Read More
Thieme Publishers’ Cerefy Atlas of Cerebral Vasculature bags Magna Cum Laude Scientific Exhibition Award - July 24, 2009
Thieme Publishers, part of STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced that the Cerefy Atlas of Cerebral Vasculature has received the Magna Cum Laude Scientific Exhibition Award from the American Society of Neuroradiology. The award was presented during the ASNR's 47th Annual Meeting in Vancouver,… Read More
Journal ‘CERN Courier’ celebrates 50th anniversary with special issue - July 24, 2009
CERN Courier, an international magazine on high energy physics published for CERN by IOP Publishing, is commemorating its 50th anniversary with the publication of a special issue. The special issue is currently available to view online at http://cerncourier.com/cws/latest/cern. Highlights in the issue… Read More
AquaBrowser search tool for libraries expands customer base - July 23, 2009
Medialab Solutions, a US-based provider of library software, has announced that in a single year, more than 400 libraries have chosen the AquaBrowser Library, its search and discovery system for libraries. AquaBrowser, which provides libraries with visual and faceted search solutions, has over 700 customers worldwide,… Read More
Mike Rossner honored as latest SPARC innovator - July 6, 2009
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), UK, a leading organisation of European research libraries, has named Mike Rossner, executive director of the Rockefeller University Press (RUP) in New York, as the latest SPARC innovator. Rossner was chosen for creating forward-thinking publishing policies to expand access… Read More
Biomedical journals available via OvidSP included in SLA’s top 100 journals - July 2, 2009
Information research solutions provider Ovid, US, has announced that 27 journals available electronically on its platform OvidSP have been selected as among the 100 most influential biology and medical journals of the past 100 years. The journals were selected by the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Biomedical… Read More
Special Libraries Association honours Elsevier as ‘The Most Influential Publisher of the Last 100 Years in BioMedicine and the Life Sciences’ - June 22, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has been awarded the 'The Most Influential Publisher of the Last 100 Years in BioMedicine and the Life Sciences' at the Special Library Association's (SLA) Centennial conference. Established in 1909 to serve librarians specialised in business, government, social agencies, and academia, the… Read More
Nature honored as ‘journal of the century’ - June 19, 2009
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group, UK, has announced that its leading weekly scientific journal, Nature, has been named 'journal of the century' by the BioMedical & Life Sciences Division (DBIO) of the Special Libraries Association (SLA). The award was presented at the annual DBIO Business Luncheon… Read More
Springer honours developers of software package rbMIT with CSE Prize 2009 - June 17, 2009
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has awarded the Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Prize 2009 to Phuong Huynh, Ngoc-Cuong Nguyen and Gianluigi Rozza for developing the software package rbMIT, used in solving parametrised partial differential equations by the reduced basis method. The rbMIT software package is being… Read More
Thieme Publishers’ Atlas of Anatomy wins two Benjamin Franklin Awards - June 16, 2009
Thieme Publishers, part of STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced that the Atlas of Anatomy has won two Benjamin Franklin Awards, presented by the Independent Book Publishers Association. The Benjamin Franklin Awards recognises excellence in independent publishing. Publications are grouped according to genre and… Read More
