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2 November 2015

Elsevier and Maclean's work together on Maclean's 2016 University Rankings STM publisher Elsevier and Maclean's, Canada's only national weekly current affairs magazine, worked together on Maclean's 2016 University Rankings. Elsevier provided data on the research publication output in ten subject areas for a pre-determined list of 60 Canadian Universities; the subject areas include education, nursing, business, and biology. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Wiley acquires CFA® exam content provider, AnalystSuccess.com Publisher John Wiley and Sons Inc. has announced the acquisition of AnalystSuccess.com and related content from The American College of Financial Services, based in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. The acquisition positions Wiley as a market leader in the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Program. Wiley runs online CFA Exam Review Courses on its Efficient Learning platform. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme BMJ launches online publishing portal in Mandarin Chinese Healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has launched an online publishing portal in China that brings together information and resources to support doctors, researchers and clinicians. BMJ's new publishing portal, written in Mandarin Chinese, provides information on individual journals, open access, the publishing process, editorial policies, research highlights, news, activities, services and more. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IEEE announces participation at this year's Web Summit IEEE has announced its participation in this year's Web Summit. Scheduled to be held from November 3-5 in Dublin, the Summit has become one of the world's most influential and international tech events. IEEE is the exclusive sponsor and host of the Enterprise X dinner, comprising 150 of the world's leading IT executives and founders of the most innovative enterprise companies. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme 2015 HathiTrust Board election results announced The members of HathiTrust have elected three individuals to serve on its Board of Governors beginning January 1, 2016. Anne R. Kenney, Carl A. Kroch Librarian, Cornell University, and Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries, Johns Hopkins University, will serve three-year terms that end in December 2018. Beth McNeil, Dean of Library Services at Iowa State University, will serve a one-year term. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Auckland Libraries' new mobile app powered by Boopsie Auckland Libraries – the largest library group in Australasia – has announced the availability of its new customised Auckland Libraries-branded mobile app developed in partnership with Boopsie Inc. More than 12 million patrons of Auckland Libraries can now access the libraries' resources which include more than 100 databases and over 3.5 million items such as physical books, ebooks, and e-audio books, anytime, anywhere from any mobile device. 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: David Crotty (Open Access at a Crossroads); Duncan Green (An antidote to futility: Why academics (and students) should take blogging / social media seriously); Science 2.0 Blog (Negative Citations For Papers - Who Writes Them And Why Distance Makes It More Likely); Phil Davis (Survey: What Do Authors Expect From Peer Review?); and Stockholm University Press Blog (The changing nature of scientific publishing #pubnperish). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here. Brought to you by Scope e-Knowledge Center, a world-leading provider of abstraction, indexing, entity extraction and knowledge organisation models (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies).   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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