PLOS reaches 200,000 research articles milestone - September 29, 2017
PLOS has announced that it has now published more than 200,000 research articles across its seven Open Access journals. PLOS was incorporated in 2001 as an Open Access advocacy organisation and became a publisher to prove the value of Open Access, beginning with PLOS Biology… Read More
Stanford, MIT and Harvard top the third annual Reuters Top 100 ranking of the most innovative universities - September 28, 2017
Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University top the third annual Reuters Top 100 ranking of the world's most innovative universities. The Reuters Top 100 aims to identify and rank the educational institutions doing the most to advance science,… Read More
Nominations sought for ALCTS 2018 HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions - September 26, 2017
Nominations are being accepted for the 2018 Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) awards for professional achievement, including the HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions. The deadline for nominations and supporting materials is December 1, 2017. Presented by the Acquisitions Section for… Read More
Clarivate Analytics uses citations to forecast Nobel Prize winners - September 21, 2017
Clarivate Analytics, the global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation, has announced its 2017 Citation Laureates. Every year since 2002, analysts at Clarivate Analytics have mined millions of citations in the Web of Science to identify top-tier researchers in… Read More
ALPSP Awards 2017 winners announced - September 18, 2017
The winners of the 2017 ALPSP Awards were announced at the ALPSP Conference Dinner on September 14. The ALPSP Council presented the 2017 ALPSP Award for Contribution to Scholarly Publishing to Sara Miller McCune, Founder and Executive Chairman, SAGE Publishing. … Read More
Clarivate Analytics announces Dr. Jian Wang as winner of Eugene Garfield Award - September 18, 2017
Clarivate Analytics, the global provider of trusted insights and analytics to enable researchers to accelerate discovery, has announced the recipient of its first competition for the Eugene Garfield Award for Innovation in Citation Analysis, at a memorial symposium for Dr. Eugene Garfield, to commemorate and celebrate… Read More
Allscripts certifies Elsevier’s Interactive Patient Education as part of Allscripts Developer Program - September 15, 2017
Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, has announced that Allscripts has certified Elsevier's Interactive Patient Education as part of the award-winning Allscripts Developer Program (ADP). Elsevier's Interactive Patient Education for Infobutton enables Allscripts ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) users to access patient-friendly,… Read More
Karger titles receive ‘Highly Commended’ prizes at the 2017 BMA Medical Book Awards - September 15, 2017
Three Karger publications were awarded the 'Highly Commended' prize 2017 of the British Medical Association's (BMA) Medical Book Awards in the categories Internal Medicine, Paediatrics, and Medicine. The award ceremony was held recently in London. The publications, SickKids – Handbook of… Read More
Publons announces winners of 2017 Publons Peer Review Awards - September 13, 2017
Publons has announced the winners of the 2017 Publons Peer Review Awards, honouring the top contributors to peer review across all the world's journals. The complete list of winners by category is available at: https://publons.com/awards/. Publons Peer Review Awards were established… Read More
OCUL’s Scholars Portal Journals reaches 50M article milestone - September 1, 2017
The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) has announced that the Scholars Portal Journals platform has loaded its 50 millionth journal article. Scholars Portal Journals provides students, faculty and researchers at Ontario's universities easy access to articles on a wide range of academic subjects through… Read More
