PeerJ celebrates two-year anniversary of publishing, opens up peer-reviewed article submissions to new journal PeerJ Computer Science - February 13, 2015
Open access journal PeerJ, which began publishing on February 12, 2013, has published 760 articles, and over 1,000 PrePrints across all of the life sciences and medicine, culminating in the work of over 4,000 authors. PeerJ is not only celebrating its two-year anniversary of PeerJ publishing… Read More
ProQuest invites applications for 2015 Roger K. Summit Scholarship - February 10, 2015
ProQuest is now accepting applications for its 2015 Roger K. Summit Scholarship, which will award US$5,000 to a promising graduate student in library and information sciences. Global in scope, the popular scholarship has been awarded annually for more than 20 years to students who envision new,… Read More
Two Thieme Clinical Reference Books honored at 2015 PROSE Awards - February 10, 2015
Medical publisher Thieme has announced that Neurosurgery Tricks of the Trade: Cranial, by Remi Nader, et al., received First Prize and Seven AVMs: Tenets and Techniques for Resection, by Michael T. Lawton, received Honorable Mention in the Clinical Medicine category at the 2015 PROSE Awards. The… Read More
HathiTrust Research Center announces recipients of Advanced Collaborative Support projects - February 10, 2015
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) has announced the recipients of its inaugural Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) projects. For the inaugural round, HTRC received a total of nine proposals from scholars from a broad set of institutions and research fields. Each proposal was carefully reviewed for… Read More
Elsevier wins 10 PROSE Awards, Virtual Microscope bags Best eProduct Application award - February 9, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier announced winning 10 PROSE Awards including the Best eProduct Application award for the Virtual Microscope, an integrated browser-based slide viewer that provides access to high resolution whole slide images. Seven books and two journals published by Elsevier received a total of 10 awards… Read More
Gale receives several honours from the MarCom Awards - February 5, 2015
Creative campaigns that blend the benefits of products and services with true advocacy on behalf of libraries have propelled Gale, a provider of library resources, to be recognised by the MarCom Awards, a competitive award competition that spans industry types and companies of all sizes. Competing… Read More
Ninth Annual Knovel Academic Challenge begins - February 4, 2015
The Ninth Annual Knovel Academic Challenge launched on February 2nd providing an opportunity for thousands of students at hundreds of academic institutions worldwide to compete to win prizes. The Knovel Academic Challenge, hosted by Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and… Read More
Submissions for 2015 Brill/IFLA Open Access award called for - February 3, 2015
International scholarly publisher Brill and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) have announced the 2015 IFLA/Brill Open Access award. The IFLA/Brill Open Access award is created to reward initiatives that facilitate and/or promote Open Access Scholarly Monographs in the humanities or social… Read More
ProVation Order Sets receive 2014 KLAS Category Leader Award for Clinical Decision Support-Order Sets Software - February 2, 2015
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer has announced that ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support, received the KLAS Category Leader award in the Clinical Decision Support-Order Sets segment of the 2014 Best in KLAS: Software & Services report. This recognition comes on the heels of… Read More
Credo’s Literati Academic selected as a 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title - January 29, 2015
Information skills solutions provider Credo has announced Literati Academic's selection as a 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Choice's 2014 review emphasised the 'huge potential' for students and faculty and concluded that Literati Academic is 'highly recommended.' Literati Academic is an online research platform and library… Read More
