Wiley announces fifth annual ‘Young Chemist Award’ recipients - July 15, 2008
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc, US, has announced that three researchers have been selected as the recipients of the fifth annual 'Young Chemist Award', which Wiley organises in conjunction with the Chinese Chemical Society (CCS). The Chinese Chemical Society is one of the founding partners… Read More
Emerald designated KnowledgeWorks certified - July 14, 2008
Management research publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK, has announced that it has become Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks Certified. KnowledgeWorks Certified is a new publisher certification programme that helps Serials Solutions to maintain the highest quality bibliographic metadata for e-resources. As a KnowledgeWorks Certified partner, Emerald will… Read More
Thomson Reuters named 2008 top technology supplier by MeetingTechOnline - July 11, 2008
The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters has announced that they have been named one of the top technology suppliers of 2008 by MeetingTechOnline (MTO) for the Abstract Central product. MTO, an online publication and community, provides technology information and education for the meetings industry. This year,… Read More
Multi-Science Publishing joins Knowledge Exchange international journal licensing project - July 2, 2008
Publisher Multi-Science Publishing, UK, recently announced that it is one of the five publishers to have been selected for the Knowledge Exchange international journal licensing project. Knowledge Exchange is a consortium formed from the national libraries of the UK, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands. Knowledge Exchange… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell’s Asia-Pacific Journals attain substantial boost - July 2, 2008
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that a significant number of new journals from its Asia-Pacific list have been included in the Web of Science - representing a substantial increase in coverage of Wiley-Blackwell's Asia-Pacific journals.… Read More
Harvard Arts and Sciences faculty recognized as newest SPARC Innovators - June 30, 2008
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has named the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University as the latest SPARC Innovators. This follows the faculty's unanimous vote in support of a policy that ensures open access (OA) to the university's published research results.… Read More
OncologySTAT celebrates over 12,000 registered users - June 26, 2008
OncologySTAT, a subscription-free professional oncology portal from STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, commemorated its 12,000th registered user. Backed by the support of major healthcare and pharmaceutical companies, OncologySTAT has emerged as one of the most trusted and trafficked professional websites in the growing field of cancer care.… Read More
Inspec Database attains new landmark - June 25, 2008
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced that its bibliographic database, Inspec, has reached a landmark of over 10 million records. It was a journal article from IOP Publishing's Nanotechnology that pushed the database over the 10 million mark. Inspec… Read More
BioMed Central journals receive higher impact factor ratings - June 23, 2008
Open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central, US has announced that 40 of its journals have received official impact factors. Thomson Reuters recently released the 2007 Journal Citation Report. Highlights of this year's Impact Factors include an impressive showing by BMC Biology, the biological flagship journal of… Read More
SAGE announces 500th journal site on SAGE Journals Online platform - June 23, 2008
Academic publisher SAGE recently announced the launch of its 500th journal site on the SAGE Journals Online platform. The 500th journal site was for the Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (JPEN), now published by SAGE on behalf of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral… Read More
