Elsevier launches two game-based learning challenges – Reaxys ChemSearch Challenge and Engineering Academic Challenge - April 5, 2017
Elsevier, the information analytics company specialising in science and health, has announced the launch of two game-based learning challenges, the Reaxys ChemSearch Challenge (CSC) and the Engineering Academic Challenge (EAC). The challenges are designed to help students tackle contemporary, real-world problems by embracing a transdisciplinary approach… Read More
BMJ reaches global healthcare via Figure 1 app - April 3, 2017
Medical knowledge provider BMJ is bringing their latest research directly to healthcare professionals via the Figure 1 app. With more than one million doctors, nurses, and medical students on the network, BMJ researchers are using Figure 1 to discuss their work with their target audience immediately… Read More
Celebrating two years of Emerald Publishing Services - March 21, 2017
Academic publisher Emerald Publishing Services (EPS) has announced that since its launch as a third party publishing program for research dissemination two years ago, 16 agreements have been signed with a range of universities and associations worldwide, comprising a combination of new journal launches and acquisitions.… Read More
Clarivate Analytics announces the ‘Eugene Garfield Information Sciences Pioneer Award’ to honour Dr. Eugene Garfield’s legacy to Information Sciences - March 20, 2017
Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, has announced the creation of the 'Eugene Garfield Information Sciences Pioneer Award' to honour the legacy of Dr. Eugene Garfield, the visionary founder of the Web of Science and a pioneer of Information Science.… Read More
IOP Publishing announces Reviewer Awards winners for 2016 - March 20, 2017
IOP Publishing, as part of its commitment to recognise and reward peer review, has announced their Reviewer Awards winners for 2016. The best reviewers from each journal have been carefully selected by their Editors based on the quality, quantity and timeliness of their reviews. Each… Read More
MyScienceWork wins NFAIS national ‘Startup Shootout’ competition - March 17, 2017
The 2017 Winner of the Year in the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) Startup Shootout was MyScienceWork, a startup organisation that serves the whole scholarly community with services and products optimized by strong semantic algorithms and one of the largest databases of research content… Read More
EBSCO eBooks reaches one million title mark - March 9, 2017
EBSCO has continued its commitment to libraries to continually grow their selection of best-selling, front list and award winning e-book titles by reaching the one million e-book mark. Libraries looking to build their e-book collection can rely on EBSCO eBooks™ from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) to… Read More
Three SAGE Publishing titles honoured by the Textbook and Academic Authors Association - March 3, 2017
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced that three titles have received awards from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA). Social Media Marketing, second edition by Tracy L. Tuten and Michael R. Solomon, and Clinical Psychology: Science, Practice and Culture, fourth edition by Andrew M. Pomerantz,… Read More
CABI’s CAB Direct platform highly recommended by CHOICE magazine - March 3, 2017
The CAB Direct platform, a single point of access to all of CABI’s databases, has been rated as ‘highly recommended’ for undergraduates, researchers, faculty members, technical programme students, professionals and practitioners in the March 2017 issue of CHOICE magazine. CABI launched CAB Direct in July… Read More
Research institutions in the US, France and Germany top second annual Reuters Top 25 Global Innovators ranking of government research institutions - March 2, 2017
The US Department of Health and Human Services, France's Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission and Germany's Fraunhofer Society top the Reuters Top 25 Global Innovators ranking of government research institutions, a list that identifies and ranks the publicly funded institutions doing the most to advance science and technology. The… Read More
