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
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
