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American Council of Learned Societies Names Finalists for 2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards

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Wednesday, January 10, 2024
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NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce 10 finalists for the 2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards. The finalists, five history titles and five multimodal works, were selected by a distinguished panel of scholars, librarians, digital humanities experts, and accessibility specialists. Supported by Arcadia, these prizes recognize and reward the authors and publishers of exceptional, innovative, and open humanities books published from 2017 to 2022.

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  • Amplifying humanistic scholarship through initiatives such as the ACLS Open Books Prizes helps cultivate a twenty-first-century ecosystem in which humanistic publications can thrive.
  • Sign up to receive additional information about the ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award.
  • Formed a century ago, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 80 scholarly organizations.
  • Arcadia is a charitable foundation that works to protect nature, preserve cultural heritage and promote open access to knowledge.

REPORT on European historical consciousness - A9-0402/2023

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Wednesday, January 3, 2024
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REPORT on European historical consciousnessCommittee on Culture and EducationSabine Verheyen Source : © European Union, 2023 - EP

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REPORT on European historical consciousnessCommittee on Culture and EducationSabine Verheyen Source : © European Union, 2023 - EP

The United States-Japan Foundation announces Jacob M. Schlesinger as new president/CEO

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Tuesday, March 28, 2023
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WASHINGTON, March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States-Japan Foundation (USJF) is delighted to announce the appointment of Jacob M. Schlesinger, a distinguished journalist, author, and leader, as its new president and chief executive officer.

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  • WASHINGTON, March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States-Japan Foundation (USJF) is delighted to announce the appointment of Jacob M. Schlesinger, a distinguished journalist, author, and leader, as its new president and chief executive officer.
  • USJF is the largest independent American foundation dedicated to fostering closer ties between the two countries, with assets of around $100 million.
  • Schlesinger has deep professional and personal ties to Japan.
  • He most recently lived in Japan from 2010-2015, where he served as the Journal's Japan editor and Tokyo bureau chief.

Science News Media Group Names New Publisher

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Thursday, October 27, 2022
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Society for Science has named Michael Gordon Voss as the new Publisher of Science News Media Group, which includes Science News and Science News Explores.

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  • WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Society for Science has named Michael Gordon Voss as the new Publisher of Science News Media Group, which includes Science News and Science News Explores.
  • At Science News Media Group, Voss will be charged with increasing print circulation and growing both magazines' digital audiences.
  • Science News has been covering the latest discoveries in science, technology and medicine since 1921, and is published by Society for Science.
  • Science News Media Group also includesScience News Explores, which makes science accessible for people ages 9 and up as well as Science News Learning, which bringsScience Newsas well as lesson plans to classrooms across the country.

getAbstract International Book Award 2022 Business Impact Shortlist Announced

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Friday, September 23, 2022
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LUZERN, Switzerland, Sept. 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- getAbstract is pleased to announce the finalists of the getAbstract International Book Award 2022 in the main category, "Business Impact."

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  • LUZERN, Switzerland, Sept. 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- getAbstract is pleased to announce the finalists of the getAbstract International Book Award 2022 in the main category, "Business Impact."
  • The four-member book award jury includes experts from getAbstract and the editorial team of brand eins, a German business magazine.
  • The finalists for the getAbstract International Book Award 2022 in the category "Business Impact" are:
    The Business of Building A Better World by David Cooperrider and Audrey Selian, Berrett-Koehler, 2021
    A Decent Meal by Michael Carolan, Redwood Press/Stanford University Press, 2021
    The award ceremony will take place on Oct. 20, 2022, at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt/Main and will include the 20th-anniversary celebration of the book award.
  • Please refer to our International Book Award website for summaries of the shortlisted works in the Business Impact and Learning Impact categories.

getAbstract 2022 International Book Award Announces Business Impact Longlist

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Tuesday, August 30, 2022
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LUZERN, Switzerland, Aug. 30, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- getAbstract is delighted to announce the longlist for the Business Impact category of the 2022 International Book Award.

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  • LUZERN, Switzerland, Aug. 30, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- getAbstract is delighted to announce the longlist for the Business Impact category of the 2022 International Book Award.
  • The selected titles offer actionable, business-relevant knowledge and significantly contribute to contemporary social, political and economic understanding.The longlist is now available on the getAbstract 2022 International Book Award website .
  • "After two virtual award ceremonies, we can finally give the getAbstract International Book Award the stage it deserves," says Patrick Brigger, co-founder and COO of getAbstract.
  • Please refer to our International Book Award website for summaries of all the works longlisted in the Business Impact category and select author interviews.

'Pandemic Medicine: Why the Global Innovation System is Broken, and How We Can Fix It' Wins Global Health Best Book Award

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Tuesday, April 5, 2022
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Ibata-Arens was presented the award at the ISA's annual meeting on March 31 in Nashville, Tennessee.

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  • Ibata-Arens was presented the award at the ISA's annual meeting on March 31 in Nashville, Tennessee.
  • The book explains why the wildly profitable, modern, Big Pharma industry and the restrictive global intellectual property rights regime it has created, backed by the World Trade Organization, pose a problem for human health today.
  • The author shows how drug discoveries led by international networks of experimenters and social entrepreneurs are producing new and accessible healing medicines through "open innovation sandboxes."
  • Such public-private partnerships are leading a transformation in bringing curative drug discoveries to humanity.