HIMSS Asia Pacific and Elsevier launch new award category – CMO of the Year Award - July 17, 2017
HIMSS Asia Pacific, a cause-based, not-for-profit organisation focused on better health through information technology (IT), and Elsevier, the information analytics company specialising in science and health, have launched the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of the Year Award as part of the Asia… Read More
CAS announces 2017 SciFinder Future Leaders - July 11, 2017
CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, has announced the 2017 SciFinder Future Leaders. Twenty-five international Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers will visit CAS headquarters in Columbus, OH, this August to collaborate on exciting new initiatives to support the scientific community, including the latest CAS… Read More
Joint Consortia Framework ranks ProQuest as key supplier for print and ebooks - July 7, 2017
ProQuest has been ranked highly in every print and ebook category for the Joint Consortia Framework Agreement in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. These rankings come on the heels of major innovations in the ProQuest® OASIS® and Ebook Central® platforms, and recognises ProQuest's ongoing commitment… Read More
Ex Libris Alma certified for shared cataloguing with Italian National Library Service network - June 29, 2017
Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has announced that the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche (Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and for Bibliographic Information), or ICCU, has certified the Ex Libris Alma® library services… Read More
Call for entries for the second Global Illustration Award at Frankfurter Buchmesse - June 28, 2017
The Frankfurter Buchmesse has announced the second Global Illustration Award (GIA), organised in conjunction with the International Information Content Industry Association (ICIA). Designed to attract entries from around the world, the competition will be operated exclusively by IlluSalon, a global illustration resource platform based in Asia.… Read More
Society for Scholarly Publishing recognises seven members for outstanding contributions at 2017 Annual Meeting - June 27, 2017
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) recognized the efforts of seven deserving individuals at its recent Annual Meeting held in Boston, MA, May 31- June 2. Ann Michael, Chair of the Nominating and Awards Committee and 2016-2017 SSP Past President presented Mary Beth Barilla, Publisher… Read More
OCLC celebrates 50 years of innovation and collaboration with libraries worldwide - June 26, 2017
OCLC, the library technology and research organisation that changed the way libraries work, is celebrating 50 years of innovation and collaboration with libraries around the world. On July 6, 1967, the non-profit Ohio College Library Center was established to create a shared electronic library for… Read More
Four Thomson Reuters solutions named finalists for SIIA CODiE Awards - June 23, 2017
Thomson Reuters has announced that four of its products are finalists for the 2017 SIIA CODiE Awards. The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Awards are the premier awards for the software and information industries, and have been recognising product excellence for over 30… Read More
Nominations now open for 2018 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards for early-career women scientists in the developing world - June 21, 2017
Nominations are now open for the OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early-Career Women Scientists in the Developing World, a high-profile award which honours the scientific and career achievements of women from developing countries in five regions - Latin America and the Caribbean, the Arab region, Sub-Saharan Africa,… Read More
The Optical Society celebrates 20 Years of OA journal, Optics Express - June 13, 2017
The Optical Society (OSA) is celebrating 20 years of its open access journal, Optics Express. Optics Express was developed in 1997 as a test-bed to explore the capabilities of all-electronic publishing, and simultaneously launched what is now known as Gold open access publishing. With Optics… Read More
