CCC announces winners of Conference Scholarship Program for Academic Librarians - July 26, 2013
Licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has announced the winners of its Conference Scholarship Program for Academic Librarians. Each of the winners received a travel stipend of $1,500 to attend the American Library Association Annual Conference recently held in Chicago. CCC is… Read More
Thomson Reuters announces new content milestones for its Cortellis platform - July 25, 2013
The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a series of industry-first milestones in its Cortellis platform. Cortellis, the premier source of life sciences competitive intelligence information and analytics, has reached new content milestones with more than 50,000 investigational drugs, 400,000 bioactive compounds, and… Read More
King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology honours best papers in applied technology from Springer journals - July 22, 2013
King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), a scientific organisation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has provided awards for the best paper from five technical journals it publishes in collaboration with Springer. The articles chosen reflect not only excellent science,… Read More
GigaScience journal unveils new features and functionality at ISMB meeting - July 22, 2013
Open access publisher BioMed Central and the Beijing Genome Institute (BGI) have announced that the journal GigaScience will unveil new features and functionality at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) meeting. The move comes one year on from the launch of the journal. As… Read More
CAS announces 2013 SciFinder Future Leaders in Chemistry programme participants - July 17, 2013
Chemical information provider Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, has announced the 2013 SciFinder Future Leaders in Chemistry programme participants. Since 2010, the program has been dedicated to providing Ph.D. students – and for the first time this year, postdoctoral researchers… Read More
Scientific American announces science fiction competition, Quantum Shorts - July 17, 2013
Science magazine Scientific American has announced the Quantum Shorts 2013 competition, in partnership with Tor Books, a science fiction and fantasy publisher, and the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore. The Quantum Shorts contest encourages readers to submit a short story that… Read More
ICIS Chemical Business magazine unveils annual ICIS Top 100 Chemical Distributors listing - July 16, 2013
ICIS Chemical Business magazine has unveiled its annual ICIS Top 100 Chemical Distributors listing ranked by 2012 sales. Topping the charts once again is Germany-based Brenntag, with $12.8 billion in sales, followed by US-based Univar with $10.3 billion in revenues. Germany-based Helm takes the third… Read More
Emerald announces winners of 17th Annual Citation of Excellence Awards - July 15, 2013
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK, has announced the winners of its 2013 Citation of Excellence Awards. Now in their seventeenth year, these distinguished annual awards recognise the 50 most outstanding articles published by the top 300 management journals in the world. These include Harvard… Read More
Springer publishes 1,000th volume of Methods in Molecular Biology - July 12, 2013
STM publisher Springer has published Vascular Proteomics, the 1,000th volume of Methods in Molecular Biology (MIMB), both part of the SpringerProtocols database. Making this accomplishment even more noteworthy is the fact that the series has had the same editorial direction for its entire 30 years through… Read More
APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education awarded to Dr. Carissa Klein of Australia - July 3, 2013
Dr. Carissa Klein of Australia was awarded the APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education (ASPIRE), sponsored by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and Elsevier. The award was presented by Minister Gusti M. Hatta, Indonesian Ministry of Research and Technology. Dr. Klein's selection is… Read More
