OpenAthens celebrates 25 years enabling access to knowledge - July 31, 2020
Identity and access management specialist OpenAthens is celebrating its 25th anniversary. The Bristol-based organisation will mark the milestone with a range of celebratory activities over the next few months which will include recognition of staff, customers and partners. Activities will be organised in recognition of the… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Lippincott journals win 20 APEX awards - July 27, 2020
Wolters Kluwer, Health has announced that 13 of its Lippincott healthcare publications won 20 awards in the 32nd annual APEX Awards. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery won the Grand Award for Campaigns and Programs, Neurology Today and Oncology Times won Grand Awards for Writing, and Nursing Management… Read More
CRediT-NISO collaboration achieve key milestones - July 24, 2020
Following their April 2020 announcement, the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) Steering Committee have now achieved two more important milestones in their work to formalise and develop CRediT both as a NISO/ANSI standard and as a community. In short… Read More
Healio wins APEX awards for publication excellence - July 17, 2020
Healio and Healio LIVE were presented with seven prestigious APEX awards, with Infectious Diseases in Children winning the highest recognition of Grand Award. APEX Awards recognise excellence in graphic design, editorial content and the ability to achieve overall communications excellence. APEX Grand Awards honour the… Read More
Elsevier announces 45 finalists for the 2020 Reaxys PhD Prize - July 9, 2020
Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, has announced the 45 finalists for the 2020 Reaxys PhD Prize. Launched in 2010, the Reaxys PhD Prize celebrates innovative and rigorous research by ambitious early career chemical sciences researchers. This year’s competition maintained the… Read More
ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2020: Shortlist announced - July 6, 2020
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), recently announced the shortlist for the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2020, sponsored by Publishers’ Licensing Services. Applications for the awards were open to any new development, product,… Read More
SAGE releases collection of free resources from their 2020 TAA award-winning titles - June 12, 2020
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has opened resources from six titles that received 2020 Textbook Awards from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA). Materials from the winning texts support online teaching and learning and include videos, webinars, author interviews, and more. A new landing page… Read More
SPARC Europe part of coalition awarded COAlition S study on Diamond OA - June 11, 2020
SPARC Europe is among a consortium of organisations just awarded a COAlition S / Science Europe project to conduct a study to explore Diamond (non-APC) Open Access publishing models worldwide. Some of the issues the study will address include: What works and serves whom? How technically… Read More
Specialised Information Publishers Association recognises BioWorld for excellence in publishing - June 11, 2020
BioWorldTM, a part of Clarivate Plc and a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, has been recognised for excellence in publishing by the Specialised Information Publishers Association (SIPA). BioWorld, the daily news service for biopharmaceutical and medical technology… Read More
Emerald celebrates annual High Usage Awards 2020 - June 8, 2020
The top 20 global academic institutions with the highest number of downloads of Emerald’s eJournal content throughout 2019 have been announced as part of the 10th annual High Usage Awards; celebrating the relationship between Emerald and the winning institutions, while highlighting the global reach and impact… Read More
