SAGE announces sponsorship winners for annual UKSG Conference - April 1, 2015
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the winners of a joint sponsorship award with Springer for the Annual 2015 UKSG Conference. The sponsorship award, given to 6 students and early career professionals, enables the winners to attend the 2015 UKSG Annual Conference and be an active part… Read More
Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers celebrate 125 years of service to medical science - March 31, 2015
On the occasion of its 125th anniversary, Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers in Basel, Switzerland, has published the complete book titles since its foundation in 1890 online and is presenting Highlights and Special Publications spanning 125 years on the Karger Website. An anniversary Festschrift documenting the… Read More
CAB Direct reaches 11 million record milestones - March 27, 2015
Global academic publisher CABI has announced that its bibliographic platform CAB Direct has reached the milestone of 11 million records. CABI's in-house platform, CAB Direct, hosts CAB Abstracts the leading English language bibliographic database covering the applied life sciences. Updated weekly, CAB Direct now offers… Read More
United for Libraries now accepting applications for Baker & Taylor Awards - March 23, 2015
United for Libraries is accepting applications for the Baker & Taylor Awards, given to friends of the library groups and library foundations. Applications are due May 1, 2015. Given annually since 2000, the Baker & Taylor Awards have recognised more than 40 groups for outstanding… Read More
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
