Nominations sought for ALCTS 2016 HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions - September 28, 2015
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2016 Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) awards for professional achievement, including the HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions. The deadline for nominations and supporting materials is December 1, 2015. Presented… Read More
Thomson Reuters predicts Nobel Laureates for 2015 - September 25, 2015
The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced its 2015 Citation Laureates. Having accurately forecast 37 Nobel Prize winners since 2002, the annual study mines scientific research citations within the Web of Science —the premier global search and discovery platform for the sciences,… Read More
Elsevier and National Academy of Sciences, India, announce winners of the 2015 NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Awards - September 24, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier and the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), has announced the winners of the 2015 NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Awards. More than 100 guests representing the best from India's scientific community attended the awards ceremony - now in its… Read More
Thieme’s Neurointerventional Techniques a winner at 2015 BMA Medical Book Awards - September 24, 2015
Medical and scientific publisher Thieme has announced that Neurointerventional Techniques: Tricks of the Trade, by L. Fernando Gonzalez, Felipe C. Albuquerque, and Cameron McDougall, has won Highly Commended in the Neurology category at the 2015 British Medical Association's Medical Book Awards ceremony recently held in London.… Read More
ACRL calls for nominations for 2016 awards recognising outstanding achievements in academic librarianship - September 24, 2015
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) celebrated its 75th anniversary of advancing learning and transforming scholarship in the higher education community in 2014. A major part of this celebration included honouring the outstanding achievements of academic and research librarians. Made possible by generous corporate… Read More
Boopsie Inc. continues rapid growth with four new product upgrades, twelve new clients and two new content partners - September 17, 2015
Boopsie, Inc., the mobile platform-as-a-service provider for libraries worldwide, reported on its major milestones in the second quarter of 2015. The company has signed twelve (12) new libraries as clients in multiple library markets and two new content partners while adding two product enhancements, and multiple… Read More
ScienceOpen adds article records from over 10 million scientific publications - September 16, 2015
ScienceOpen, the research and open access publishing network, has added article records from more than 10 million scientific publications. Researchers can now filter published content by the number of citations and monitor the relevance and impact of recent scientific results by tracking social media mentions. … Read More
Elsevier’s ChemSearch Challenge allows chemists to demonstrate how fast they can find relevant information - September 14, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that the Reaxys ChemSearch Challenge is now live. In the series of 12 weekly online quizzes, chemists can use their preferred chemistry database or search engine to find the information they need to correctly answer research questions. The contest will record… Read More
Kudos wins ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing - September 14, 2015
Kudos, which helps maximize the reach and impact of research publications, has been awarded the 2015 ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing. The award was presented at the ALPSP International Conference at London Heathrow; the judges 'were particularly impressed with the fact that Kudos is not… Read More
Frankfurt Book Fair renews sponsorship for the FutureBook Awards 2015 - September 11, 2015
The Frankfurt Book Fair has announced that, for the third year in a row, it will be sponsoring one of the key categories at this year's FutureBook Innovation Awards. Launched by the UK's Bookseller Magazine five years ago, the awards celebrate those companies and individuals who… Read More
