Japan and South Korea dominate the inaugural Reuters Top 75: Asia’s Most Innovative Universities - August 31, 2016
Japan and South Korea dominate the inaugural Reuters Top 75: Asia's Most Innovative Universities, a list that identifies the educational institutions that are doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies, and help drive the global economy. Out of the top 20 universities, 17 are based in Japan and… Read More
Winners of 2016 ACS Nano Lectureship Award announced - August 30, 2016
The American Chemical Society's (ACS') Publications Division has announced three scientists as winners of the 2016 ACS Nano Lectureship Award for outstanding contributions to the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. This year's award winners are Dr. Lifeng Chi, Dr. Christopher Murray, and Dr. Andrea Ferrari; each… Read More
Brill celebrates 333rd anniversary at 23rd Beijing International Book Fair - August 29, 2016
Academic publisher Brill celebrated its 333rd year anniversary at the 23rd Beijing International Book Fair (August 24 – 28). Several key events took place that are of strategic importance to Brill's presence and growth in China. The festive Brill reception held on August 24 was opened… Read More
Celebrating 45 years of WorldCat - August 29, 2016
WorldCat, the world's most comprehensive database of information about library collections, recently celebrated the 45th anniversary of its launch. On August 26, 1971, the OCLC Online Union Catalog (now known as WorldCat) began operation. From a single terminal, cataloguers at Ohio… Read More
SLACK Incorporated announces winner of The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing’s Innovation Award - August 23, 2016
STM publishing company SLACK Incorporated, US, has announced the winner of The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing's 5th annual Innovation Award. The winning article, 'Qualitative Analysis of the Lived Experience of First-Time Nurse Responders in Disaster,' appeared in the February 2016 issue of The… Read More
IEEE Xplore digital library reaches 4 million documents as pace of technical contributions accelerates - August 22, 2016
The IEEE Xplore digital library, one of the world's largest collections of technical literature in engineering, computer science, and related technologies, recently reached a milestone with a total of over 4 million documents now available in its vast repository. Since its launch in 2000 with… Read More
HIMSS Middle East and Elsevier announce call for submissions for the HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Award 2016 - August 16, 2016
HIMSS Middle East and STM publisher Elsevier have announced the call for submissions for the second Middle East HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Award 2016. The HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Award is a global platform to recognise outstanding achievements and innovations in the usage… Read More
Salk Institute among top 25 North American scientific ‘stars’ in Nature Index - August 1, 2016
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, one of the world's preeminent basic research institutions, ranks as one of the leading scientific 'stars' in North America with high-quality output that has grown particularly fast, according to a new report by Nature Research. The data, publishing July… Read More
HathiTrust Research Center awards second round of Advanced Collaborative Support projects - August 1, 2016
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) has announced that it has awarded its second round of Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) projects. For the first time, HTRC accepted proposals requesting non-consumptive, computational access to in-copyright materials for research purposes, marking a significant milestone for the HathiTrust. Scholars working… Read More
Chinese Academy of Sciences ranks first for the fourth consecutive year in Nature Index 2016 Rising Star List - July 29, 2016
The Nature Publishing Group recently released The Rising Stars 2016 List as a supplement, ordering the world's top 100 leading institutions by the increase of their high-quality science papers. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) boasts the fastest growing output in world's… Read More
