The Optical Society celebrates 40th anniversary of Optics Letters, launches special website - May 23, 2017
The Optical Society (OSA) has announced that its journal Optics Letters is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Launched in 1977 as a means to quickly disseminate the latest in optics research and provide the optics and photonics community with a true Letters-style publication, Optics Letters has, over… Read More
Submissions deadline for ALPSP Awards 2017 extended to May 26 - May 22, 2017
ALPSP has extended the submissions deadline for the Awards to May 26 (6:00pm UK BST), due to popular demand. The Awards celebrate the best in the industry - new products or projects which are challenging the norm and transforming publishing. This might be a new… Read More
Springer sponsors two award lectures at EUROANALYSIS XIX conference - May 18, 2017
Scientific publisher Springer is sponsoring two key prize lectures at the upcoming EUROANALYSIS XIX conference, which will be held in Stockholm, Sweden from 28 August to 1 September, 2017. The conference is organised by the Division of Analytical Chemistry (DAC) of EuCheMS (the European Association for… Read More
EBSCO Information Services certified under Privacy Shield Framework - May 17, 2017
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has self-certified under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. The Privacy Shield Framework replaces the earlier U.S.-E.U. Safe Harbor Framework that was invalidated in October of 2015. It is intended to provide a reliable mechanism for companies to transfer personal data from the… Read More
Applications for the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2017 still open - May 16, 2017
Applications for the ALPSP Awards 2017 are still open for any new development, product, service, launch or project which is both innovative and of significant value to scholarly communication. Submissions can relate to any part of the scholarly and professional publishing industry but must demonstrate excellence… Read More
Applications for Eugene Garfield Award for Innovation in Citation Analysis now available - May 15, 2017
The application for the newly established award honouring the life and work of the late Dr. Eugene Garfield, founder of the Web of Science and pioneer in Information Science, was made available by Clarivate Analytics, the owner of the Web of Science. Clarivate Analytics announced… Read More
IOP Publishing celebrates 50 years of the Journal of Physics series - May 12, 2017
IOP Publishing is celebrating 50 years of its Journal of Physics series. The Journal of Physics (JPhys) series encompasses five core physics journals, a conference series and a new open access journal covering all of physics. In celebration of this anniversary, IOP Publishing has commissioned a… Read More
Springer celebrates 175 years since its founding - May 11, 2017
Scientific publisher Springer is celebrating its 175th company anniversary. The foundations for today's company were laid on May 10, 1842 when Julius Springer, at the age of 25, opened his bookstore and publishing house in Berlin. His aim was to bring current and accurate scientific findings… Read More
HIMSS Asia Pacific and Elsevier call for submissions for 5th HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Award in Asia Pacific - April 19, 2017
HIMSS Asia Pacific and Elsevier, the information analytics company specialising in science and health, have announced a call for submissions for the fifth Asia Pacific HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Award 2017. The HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Award recognises outstanding achievements and innovations globally in… Read More
HathiTrust Research Center seeks proposals for Advanced Collaborative Support projects - April 10, 2017
The Advanced Collaborative Support Program (ACS), a scholarly service at the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) offering collaboration between external scholars and HTRC staff to solve challenging problems related to computational analysis, is offering non-consumptive access to the entire HathiTrust collection. HTRC seeks proposals in three categories… Read More
