Elsevier journal announced winner of 2008 ALPSP Award for Best New Journal - September 24, 2008
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the Journal of Informetrics (JOI) is the winner of the 2008 Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) award for Best New Journal. The ALPSP award is open to journals launched within the past three years and considers… Read More
Physics and chemistry reference work Landolt-Börnstein celebrates 125th birthday - September 24, 2008
Landolt-Börnstein (La-Bo), which is claimed to be the largest compilation of data in physics and chemistry, will celebrate its 125th anniversary on September 29, 2008. On this occasion, Rainer Poerschke, who has been in charge of La-Bo since 1990, will hand over his post to Karin… Read More
Bioscience Horizons is highly commended for publishing innovation - September 23, 2008
Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, is delighted to announce that the journal Bioscience Horizons has been awarded a Highly Commended certificate by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) for publishing innovation. The winners of the 2008 awards were… Read More
Karger Books honoured at the 2008 BMA Medical Book Awards - September 23, 2008
Medical and scientific publisher S. Karger, Switzerland, has announced that it has received one 'Highly Commended' and two 'Commended' awards for publications in Respiratory Medicine, Basic and Clinical Sciences as well as Basis of Medicine 2008 BMA Medical Book Competition awards ceremony. Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease,… Read More
More BioMed Central journals on track to receive Impact Factors - September 22, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that three BioMed Central journals have been accepted for tracking by Thomson Reuters and will receive Impact Factors in due course. The journals are: Cardiovascular Diabetology (Impact Factor due in June 2010); Radiation Oncology (Impact Factor due in… Read More
McGraw-Hill titles honoured at the 2008 BMA Medical Book Awards - September 16, 2008
Print and digital resources provider McGraw-Hill Medical, part of McGraw-Hill Professional, US, has announced that it has received high honours from the British Medical Association at the 2008 BMA Medical Book Competition awards ceremony. Six McGraw-Hill Medical titles and three medical books from McGraw-Hill Australia were… Read More
BioMed Central journal selected as featured journal on ScienceWatch - September 9, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology has been selected as this month's featured journal on the Thomson Reuters ScienceWatch website. According to the analysis published by ScienceWatch.com, BMC Evolutionary Biology is having a growing impact among journals in… Read More
Australian universities among the top 50 most cited research institutions in the world - September 5, 2008
Universities in Australia are ranked amongst the world's top 50 most frequently cited research institutions over a period of five years from January 2003 to December 2007. This is according to data derived from the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database of the Scientific business of Thomson Reuters. Australian universities ranked… Read More
NLM accepts Journal of Visualized Experiments for indexing in MEDLINE and PubMed - September 2, 2008
National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has accepted the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) for indexing in the official repositories of the scientific literature MEDLINE and PubMed. Less than 2 years old, JoVE is a scientific journal that publishes online… Read More
‘BioSpectrum Asia’ bags Asian Publishing Award for 2008 - September 2, 2008
BioSpectrum Asia, a life sciences magazine from the CyberMedia Group, India, has reportedly won the Asian Publishing Award 2008 under the 'innovative business model' category. The award was announced during the Asian Publishing Convention (APC) held in Singapore recently. APC, now on its second year, seeks… Read More
