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
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
