Swets awarded new ISO 9001:2008 certificate - June 15, 2009
Swets has announced that it has recently been awarded a new ISO 9001:2008 certificate, covering all of its operating offices worldwide. The ISO 9001 certificate has been revised in order to ensure that organisations keep up with recent developments in management system practices. Swets has been… Read More
Oxford Journals attains international standard for quality management - June 11, 2009
Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, has become one of the first STM publishers to achieve ISO 9001:2008 certification for the operations side of its business. ISO 9001:2008 is the internationally recognised standard for quality management and relates to the processes that create and… Read More
Web of Science records strong renewals despite tough economy - June 11, 2009
The Healthcare and Science business of Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that, despite difficult economic times, renewals of Web of Science have remained strong, and many existing customers have even added new content to their portfolio of products. Web of Science claims to be the world's… Read More
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins secures 17 awards in multiple categories - June 10, 2009
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, received 17 different awards for writing, editing and design in the annual awards competition of the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (ASHPE). The awards include four gold, six silver, and seven bronze awards. With… Read More
Taiwan universities ranked amongst top one percent of research institutions - June 9, 2009
Universities in Taiwan are ranked amongst the top one percent of research institutions from around the world over a period of five years from January 2004 to December 2008. According to data derived from the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database of the Healthcare & Science business of Read More
Elsevier and ProSPER.Net announce winners of first annual ProSPER.Net-Scopus Young Scientist Award - June 9, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the network for the Promotion of Sustainability in Postgraduate Education and Research (ProSPER.Net) have announced the finalists of the first annual ProSPER.Net-Scopus Young Scientist Award. The award is designed to recognise outstanding young scientists and researchers in the Asia-Pacific region who… Read More
ASHPE honours Physicians Practice for innovative editorial content and design - June 5, 2009
Physicians Practice, America's leading practice management journal, has been recognised by the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (ASHPE) for its innovative editorial content and design, and for the first time, its web publication, PhysicansPractice.com. Physicians Practice has been recognised by the ASHPE for the fourth… Read More
Membership at iThenticate’s CrossCheck community crosses 50th mark - June 2, 2009
Web-based content verification technology provider iThenticate, US, has announced the addition of the 51st publisher to its CrossCheck user community. CrossCheck comprises publishers and societies across the world who use iThenticate technology in the editorial process, as well as deposit their respective published scholarly articles in… Read More
HighWire Press witnesses increase in books hosting programme - May 29, 2009
HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, has announced a marked increase in the growth of its books programme. Over 30 new titles have been launched online so far this year and hundreds more are scheduled through 2009 and early 2010. For many years,… Read More
BMC Women’s Health publishes over 100 articles - May 20, 2009
BioMed Central journal BMC Women's Health has announced that it has reached and surpassed its 100th article milestone. The journal, launched in 2001, continues to steadily attract submissions, and publications have risen by 50 percent in the last three years. BMC Women's Health is an open… Read More
