ITI Bloggers June 18th, 2009

Nature (www.nature.com), the flagship journal of the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) was named ‘journal of the century’ by the SLA BioMedical & Life Sciences Division (DBIO). The award was presented at the annual DBIO business luncheon. The award was voted for by DBIO’s 686 members. Runners-up included the New England Journal of Medicine, Science, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and The Lancet.

I stopped by the booth to offer my congratulations and happened to catch Jean Crampon of the USC Libraries who had presented the award (on right in photo) and Becky Fishman, senior marketing manager with NPG. Exciting news!

In conjunction with SLA’s Centennial, DBIO conducted a poll of its members to identify the 100 most influential journals of Biology & Medicine over the last 100 years.  The top 100 journals were announced in March 2009 and are available on the SLA website: http://units.sla.org/division/dbio/publications/resources/dbio100.html.

Paula J. Hane

News Bureau Chief, ITI

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