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
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
