Visualising Research: using data visualisation to explore how research is funded in the UK - March 3, 2014
Around £3 billion of Government funding is apportioned annually between the seven UK Research Councils. This investment creates a huge amount of information, which is held in the 'Gateway to Research' database and available for anyone to access online. But how can people make sense of… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health’s Global Customer Support team wins Omega NorthFace ScoreBoard Award for Customer Service Excellence - February 28, 2014
Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, has announced that its Global Customer Support team for the Ovid and LWW Journals product lines has received the NorthFace ScoreBoard Award from Omega Management Group Corp for excellence in service during 2013.… Read More
Four Elsevier titles receive American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards - February 27, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that four of its titles have been recognised in the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Awards. In the critical care-emergency nursing category, which recognises publications that address patients in critical care environments and their complex acute… Read More
Eighth Annual Knovel University Challenge winners announced - February 24, 2014
The results from the Eighth Annual Knovel University Challenge are in, and they represent the growing international presence of Knovel at academic institutions. The top 10 universities with the highest participation in the 2013 Challenge hailed from the US, Canada, Mexico, Turkey and China. There… Read More
McGraw-Hill Professional’s AccessScience wins PROSE Award for Best Multidisciplinary Platform/eProduct - February 24, 2014
AccessScience, McGraw-Hill Professional's innovative next-generation online general science reference, was honored as the Best Multidisciplinary Platform/eProduct at the 2013 Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence – the PROSE Awards – in another year of record entries to the competition. Established by the Association of American… Read More
Google Science Fair and Scientific American launch third annual Scientific American Science in Action award - February 17, 2014
Internet search services provider Google and science magazine Scientific American have announced the launch of the third annual $50,000 Scientific American Science in Action award, powered by the Google Science Fair. The Scientific American Science in Action award honours a project that… Read More
APEC to recognise ‘intelligent transportation’ innovator - February 17, 2014
APEC has opened the nomination period for the APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research, and Education, also known as the ASPIRE Prize, sponsored by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and Elsevier, which in 2014 will honour a young scientist whose work has… Read More
Young scientists singled out for Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry Best Paper Award 2013 - February 14, 2014
Springer journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (ABC) has chosen Sherrie Elzey and De-Hao Tsai as the recipients of its Best Paper Award 2013. The award, accompanied by 1,500 euros, was created by Springer to honour exceptional young scientists and to stimulate their research careers. The ABC… Read More
Scope’s ConSCIseTM platform crosses 5 million abstracts delivery - February 12, 2014
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has achieved yet another milestone delivering 5 million abstracts of patents, book chapters, technical articles, standards etc. in various languages for several global information providers. Scope, started its abstraction services… Read More
Reprints Desk exceeds 2 million mark for number of research papers delivered via the Article Galaxy software service - February 12, 2014
Reprints Desk, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Research Solutions, Inc. (RSSS), recently reached the two million mark for the number of individual research papers delivered through the Article Galaxy software service. Research-driven organisations rely on single article document delivery research retrieval as a method for… Read More
