HARRASSOWITZ accepting applications for 2015 Charleston Conference Scholarship - July 8, 2015
HARRASSOWITZ, international booksellers and subscription agents, is offering a $1,000 scholarship to attend the Annual Charleston Conference, scheduled for November 4-7, 2015 in Charleston, SC. The scholarship will be awarded to a librarian or paraprofessional who is currently working in a library and who has not… Read More
Overleaf and Bookmetrix announced as finalists in the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2015 - July 6, 2015
Overleaf and Bookmetrix, the joint project between Altmetric and Springer, have both been announced as finalists in the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2015. The ALPSP awards are open to any new development, product, service, launch or project which is… Read More
Chemical Abstracts Service registers 100 millionth chemical substance in CAS REGISTRY - June 30, 2015
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the world's authority for chemical information, has registered the 100 millionth chemical substance in the CAS REGISTRY, in the 50th anniversary year of the world's largest database of unique chemical substances. With a steady increase in patenting activity around the globe, it… Read More
50,000 researchers sign up to use Kudos - June 24, 2015
Kudos, which helps maximize the reach and impact of research publications, has announced that 50,000 researchers have now signed up to use its service. They represent a broad range of subject areas; an early bias towards STEM subjects (reflecting the strengths of Kudos' original publisher partners)… Read More
International Association for Continuing Education and Training awards accreditation status to Elsevier’s DirectCourse - June 23, 2015
The International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) has awarded accreditation status to Elsevier's DirectCourse, which provides online learning designed to train the direct service workforce that supports persons with disabilities by helping them remain in home and community settings and… Read More
Elsevier’s Reference Module and Pathway Studio named winners of 2015 SIIA CODiE Awards in three separate categories - June 18, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that two of its content products were named winners of 2015 SIIA CODiE Awards in three separate categories. Elsevier's Reference Module in Chemistry, Molecular Sciences and Chemical Engineering won in the Best Scholarly Publishing Information Solution and Best General Reference Service… Read More
DOAB wins IFLA/Brill Open Access Award 2015 - June 18, 2015
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and academic publisher Brill has announced that the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), from the Netherlands, has been selected as this year's winner of the IFLA/Brill Open Access Award. The IFLA/Brill… Read More
Future Cardiology journal marks 10 years of publication with special issue highlighting advances and challenges in cardiology - June 15, 2015
In recognition of 10 years of publication Future Cardiology has launched a special issue focused on recent advances and emerging challenges in specific areas of cardiology. The journal features articles written by members of its editorial board focused on developing treatments and issues in cardiac care for women, blood pressure… Read More
1000th article published in SAGE Open - June 10, 2015
New research on AD/HD marks the 1000th article published in SAGE Open, an open-access journal launched in 2011 covering the full spectrum of the social and behavioural sciences and the humanities. Since the launch of SAGE Open in 2011, the journal has received over 5,500… Read More
Library Journal and Gale name Ferguson Municipal Public Library 2015 Library of the Year - June 9, 2015
Ferguson Municipal Public Library of Ferguson has been named the 2015 Library of the Year by Library Journal magazine and Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. The small suburban library rose above the chaos and stepped up to provide sanctuary and resources for all in a… Read More
