ALCTS names Michael Levine-Clark as 2015 winner of HARRASSOWITZ Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award - March 20, 2015
International booksellers and subscription agent HARRASSOWITZ has announced that the Acquisitions Section of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has announced the 2015 Winner of the HARRASSOWITZ Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award. The ALCTS Award Jury has selected Michael… Read More
Oxford University Press wins Publisher of the Year Award 2015 from UK Booksellers’ Association - March 19, 2015
Academic publisher Oxford University Press has been honoured with the Publisher of the Year Award 2015 by the UK Booksellers' Association. This is the sixth consecutive year that the Press has claimed the title since 2010. Voted for by members of the Booksellers' Association Academic,… Read More
Article explores disruptive potential of new research retrieval tool ‘Article Galaxy Widget’ for researchers - March 16, 2015
Reprints Desk, Inc., a Research Solutions company and document delivery supplier for scientific, technical and medical (STM) information, has announced the immediate full-text availability of the article 'The Ultimate Sophistication: Reprints Desk Launches its Article Galaxy Widget,' created by independent research and advisory firm Outsell, Inc.… Read More
Thomson Reuters unveils nominations for Allicense 2015 Breakthrough Awards - March 11, 2015
The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has unveiled the nominations for the Allicense 2015 Breakthrough Awards, honouring the leading deals of 2014 in Biopharmaceutical Licensing and Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), as identified by Thomson Reuters Recap, the leading provider of analysis and advice… Read More
United States Patent and Trademark Office awards Wolters Kluwer patent for ‘Search In Your Own Language’ technology - March 11, 2015
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer has announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the company a patent (Patent Number 8,914,395) for its 'Search In Your Own Language' technology. The proprietary local-language search capabilities in UpToDate, the company's evidence-based, clinical decision support resource,… Read More
World’s oldest continuously published journal celebrated its 350th anniversary - March 9, 2015
The world's oldest continuously published journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, celebrated its 350th anniversary on March 6, 2015. A gruesome account of an early blood transfusion in 1666, Isaac Newton's historic paper on light and colour, Dyson and Eddington's paper confirming Einstein's theory… Read More
ACRL’s 75th anniversary – dodranscentennial list showcases shifting scholarly landscape and core academic titles from past 75 years - March 2, 2015
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2015. As a publication of ACRL's Choice, together with ProQuest, Resources for College Libraries (RCL) is commemorating the occasion with a list of selected RCL monographs, one published from each year of… Read More
John Wiley & Sons receives nine PROSE Awards for 2015 - February 26, 2015
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is honoured to be the recipient of nine PROSE Awards for 2015. The PROSE Awards recognise excellence in professional and scholarly publishing by highlighting distinguished books, journals and electronic content. This year, Wiley titles won in six categories and… Read More
NFAIS selects Robert J. Massie as Honorary Fellow at 2015 Annual Conference - February 25, 2015
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), the nation's leading membership association for the information services industry, announced that Robert J. Massie, former president of Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), was designated an NFAIS Honorary Fellow at the NFAIS 2015 Annual Conference, February 22-24. NFAIS… Read More
Scientific American and Google introduce Scientific American Innovator Award as part of the 2015 Google Science Fair - February 19, 2015
Science magazine Scientific American and Google are introducing the Scientific American Innovator Award as part of the 2015 Google Science Fair. The Scientific American Innovator Award honours a project in the biology, chemistry, physics, or behavioural and social sciences. The Google… Read More
