Nominations for 2017 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence open through October 31 - September 14, 2016
The 2017 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence Awards (PROSE) is accepting entries for outstanding scholarly material through October 31. Presented by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division, the awards recognise works of great… Read More
Ex Libris Leganto celebrates first anniversary - September 13, 2016
Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, is celebrating the first anniversary of the launch of the Ex Libris Leganto course resource list solution. Tens of thousands of instructors, students, and librarians are currently using the collaborative, cloud‑based solution, and other customers are joining the Leganto community at… Read More
Karger receives three Highly Commended award at 2016 BMA Medical Book Awards - September 9, 2016
Medical and scientific publisher Karger Publishers has announced that three of its titles received a 'Highly Commended' award at the 2016 British Medical Association's Medical Book Awards ceremony held in London. The BMA Medical Book Competition takes place annually to encourage and reward excellence in medical… Read More
OASPA reaches 100 members - September 8, 2016
OASPA has announced that the number of members has now reached the 100 mark. OASPA continues to receive much interest and support from organisations wanting to join as members, and is growing steadily as a result. OASPA's membership includes a wide range of individual academic-led… Read More
Ex Libris Alma goes into production at Switzerland’s Renouvaud network, number of live Alma institutions passes 500 - September 2, 2016
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has passed the mark of 500 live Alma institutions with the implementation of Alma® in the Renouvaud network in Switzerland. The dynamic Renouvaud library network serves the entire canton of Vaud, which includes over 100 libraries. Its strategic and financial management… Read More
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
