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13 April 2015

IMA announces partnership agreement with John Wiley and Sons and Miles Professional Education The Institute of Management Accountants has announced a partnership agreement with John Wiley and Sons, Inc., publisher of the CMA Learning System, and Miles Professional Education (Miles), a major professional certification course provider in India to provide training and certification tools for a growing group of accounting and finance professionals in India. Under the agreement, Miles commits significant resources to support live training for management accountants preparing to take IMA's Certified Management Accountant exam using Wiley's CMALS. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Thieme Publishers Rio to publish official journal of the Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery Medical and scientific publisher Thieme Publishers Rio (TPR) has signed on as the publisher for Brazilian Neurosurgery, the official journal of the Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery. TPR will publish four issues of the journal per year, beginning with Volume 34, issue 1, 2015. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme EDP Sciences in deal with Portico to preserve e-journals Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that EDP Sciences, a learned-society owned publisher, will preserve its e-journals with Portico, ensuring that their content will be secure and available into the future. EDP Sciences (Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences), a subsidiary of several learned societies, works closely with the scientific world. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme The US ISSN Center and ProQuest Metadata Integration & Cataloging Section receive ALCTS Collaboration Award The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of the American Library Association, has chosen The US ISSN Center and ProQuest Metadata Integration & Cataloging Section as the recipients of the ALCTS Outstanding Collaboration Citation for 2015. The Outstanding Collaboration Citation recognises and encourages collaborative problem-solving efforts in the areas of acquisition, access, management, preservation or archiving of library materials. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Duke University Press makes more than 140 titles available in HathiTrust Duke University Press, in partnership with Google and HathiTrust, has opened an initial set of 145 of its backlist titles in HathiTrust. These titles are available under a CC-BY-NC-ND license, and are available for reading and download worldwide. Duke joins other scholarly publishers, including a number of other university presses, in opening titles through HathiTrust. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration releases plan for public access to NOAA-funded research In early April 2015, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released the 'NOAA Plan for Increasing Public Access to Research Results'. The plan details the extensive, long-term investments that NOAA has made in the preservation of and access to digital data and how the plan will build upon the existing data and publication policies, infrastructure, and ongoing work of the NOAA Library. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Kudos announces completion of its first funding round Kudos, which helps researchers maximise the reach and impact of their publications, has announced the completion of its first funding round. The company's services intersect with several topical issues including research impact, evaluation and metrics, citizen science, open access, social media and the globalisation of research. It has therefore attracted a wide range of investors ranging from industry specialists to more general business angels. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Latest edition of Blogspeak now online The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Roger C. Schonfeld (Dismantling the Stumbling Blocks that Impede Researchers' Access to E-Resources); Sarah Hayes (Peer review: do we throw early career researchers in at the deep end?); Asit Biswas and Julian Kirchherr (Citations are not enough: Academic promotion panels must take into account a scholar's presence in popular media); Rick Anderson (5 Million Public Domain Ebooks in HathiTrust: What Does This Mean?); and ScienceBlog (Science and medicine have a 'publication pollution' problem). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here. You are receiving this email newsletter as part of your Knowledgespeak membership. You can unsubscribe instantly from any of our email newsletters by clicking here.

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