The ‘John Johnson Collection: An Archive of Printed Ephemera’ just celebrated the completion of its digitisation project. I wouldn’t have noticed, except that it's only available free of charge to UK universities, further education institutions, schools and public libraries. Now that’s open access!

HubCap is the home of The Human Capital Handbook 2011

Put together and sponsored by HubCap’s headline sponsor, Human Potential Accounting, the Human Capital Handbook series of free multi-authored ebooks contain original content drawn from those world-renowned as well as up and coming experts in investment, regulation, academia, and business at the centre of today's Human Capital Management (HCM) landscape.

Featuring such thinkers as Dave Ulrich, Eric Flamholtz, Philip Whitely, Chris Hodge, Howard Marks, Ted Cantle, and Raj Thamotheram, HPA use the HubCap platform to freely disseminate the Handbooks with a dedicated discussion group available for authors and audience to debate the major themes.

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HubCap’s digital library includes articles from:

• International bodies: European Accounting Association, Personnel Today, Center for Effective Organizations
• Journals: Journal of Finance and Accountancy, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, Critical Perspectives on Accounting
• Academics worldwide: Robin Roslender (Heriot‐Watt, UK), Suresh Cuganesan (Swinburne, Australia), Ulf Johanson (Mälardalen, Sweden) – even Nobel Prize winners like Professor Elinor Ostrom (Arizona State)
• Frontline business leaders: Alison Gill on human capital due diligence, Tim Hoad on reporting intellectual capital to augment innovation, Vineet Nayar on deconstructing the role of the CEO
• It is also home of digital scholarship publication, the Human Capital Handbook 2011

If you want to know what people are saying about people, it’s here, and free.

The goal though is not just to aggregate the latest thinking.

It’s not just to use the document viewer – one of only a handful of companies – think Google, NYT, Scribd – to develop this tech – to lens and socialise the ideas within.

It’s to use the library’s wrap-around networking functionality to connect authors to readers, accelerate the ideas exchange between academia and business, East to West, from concept into practical reality.

Especially now, we need edgeless thinking and actionable intelligence.

Why not make it your home? Two minutes to sign on, two more to begin uploading and sharing your ideas.

On HubCap, you can do three core things:

Publish: HubCap’s library includes articles from International bodies: European Accounting Association, Personnel Today; Journals: Journal of Finance & Accountancy, Critical Perspectives on Accounting; Academics: Robin Roslender, Suresh Cuganesan, Ulf Johanson; Business leaders: Alison Gill, Tim Hoad, Vineet Nayar. Not to mention the Human Capital Handbook 2011

Publish your ideas.

Discuss: The strength of the HubCap forum and groups lies in the collective perspectives derived from so many different disciplines: financial services, psychology, academia, politics, journalism, HR, corporate governance, management and consulting. And from all corners of the world.

Discuss what matters to you.

Connect: HubCap’s regular expert webinars help professionals, working to make businesses more effective, understand what’s next for people in the workplace: how they can be better measured, managed, and reported.

Ask the experts.

The goal though is not just to aggregate the latest thinking. It’s not just to use the document viewer – one of only a handful of companies to develop this technology – think Google, NYT, Scribd – to lens and socialise the ideas within. It’s to use the library’s wrap-around networking functionality to connect authors to readers, accelerate the ideas exchange between academia and business, East to West, from concept to practical reality.

Especially now, we need edgeless thinking and actionable intelligence.

If you want to know what people are saying about people, it’s here, and free.

We now have our own document viewer, like Scribd and Google, except ours means business, and unlike Scribd and Google, we're happy to develop it in any way that makes your life easier.

Whether you're a Theorist or Reflector, Activist or Pragmatist, just let us know - it may make all the difference.

Theorists and Reflectors click here. Activists and Pragmatists, register now for a test drive.