IEEE Spectrum wins third Grand Neal Award - March 18, 2013
IEEE Spectrum, the flagship publication of the IEEE, has received the coveted Grand Neal Award during the recently held Association of Business Information & Media Companies' (ABM) 59th Annual Jesse H. Neal Awards ceremony at Pier Sixty in New York City. This is IEEE Spectrum's… Read More
OUP named publisher of the year at UK booksellers’ awards - March 15, 2013
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has been named Publisher of the Year at a Booksellers Association award ceremony on March 13, 2013. It was the eighth time in nine years that OUP collected the Publisher of the Year award at the Conference for Academic, Professional… Read More
DWPI anniversary marks addition of 50th data source - March 12, 2013
The Intellectual Property (IP) & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the 50th anniversary of Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI), its flagship, proprietary database that is the world's most trusted source of patent information. This announcement marks the start of a year long celebration in… Read More
Michael Krüger to receive The London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award 2013 - March 11, 2013
The London Book Fair has announced that the tenth annual Lifetime Achievement Award in International Publishing, will be awarded to Michael Krüger, CEO of Hanser Verlag. Michael, who began working at Hanser in 1968, is credited with making the publishing house one of the most important… Read More
Library Journal recognises SAGE Reference titles and Online Library Resources - March 11, 2013
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that SAGE Reference titles and online library resources continue to receive recognition for their excellence. This year, Library Journal has selected a key SAGE/CQ Press database and eight SAGE titles to be included in its annual Best Reference 2012 feature. The… Read More
Scope reaches a new milestone for TranSCIseTM - March 8, 2013
Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of content enhancement and knowledge services, has announced that it has now successfully delivered more than 2.7 million English abstracts for non-English language documents. Since 2002, Scope has offered Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) services to leading STM publishers worldwide.… Read More
Scientific American and InnoCentive, Inc. launch Scientific American Open Innovation Pavilion - March 5, 2013
Science magazine Scientific American and InnoCentive, Inc., the global leader in open innovation, crowdsourcing, and prize competitions, have announced the launch of the Scientific American Open Innovation Pavilion, jointly hosted on www.innocentive.com/pavilion/scientific-american and www.scientificamerican.com/openinnovation.… Read More
Six Elsevier titles included in 2012 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles List - March 5, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that six of its works have been included in the 2012 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles List. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, published by the American Library Association, is a source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and… Read More
Submissions for 2013 BERA/SAGE Practitioner Research Awards called for - February 25, 2013
Academic publisher SAGE and the British Educational Research Association (BERA) have announced the opening of submissions for the 2013 BERA/SAGE Practitioner Research Awards. The awards support and encourage excellence in the application of research in practice. They are open to anyone who has used research… Read More
AccessEngineering wins 2012 PROSE Award for best eProduct in Physical Sciences and Mathematics - February 22, 2013
Scientific and medical information resources provider McGraw-Hill Professional, US, has announced that its innovative reference and learning platform for engineers, AccessEngineering, was honored as the best eProduct in Physical Sciences and Mathematics at the 2012 Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (the PROSE Awards), in a… Read More