Publishing

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Internal university communications continue migrating to all-online formats, driven, in part, by budget cuts.

The Evolving Google Library

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New deal with U. of Michigan offers more details on how the company plans to market the millions of digital copies of books it is creating. Will the skeptics be won over?

Split Over Open Access

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10 university press directors back requirements for free online versions of federally sponsored research -- even as presses' association fights to end such a requirement.

Who Profits From For-Profit Journals?

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At AAUP conference on academic freedom, speakers question why professors give their work to corporate publishers.

Change or Die?

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At meeting of scholarly presses, directors trade stories about layoffs, consider ways to better connect themselves to their universities and hear some dire warnings.

Elsevier Won't Pay for Praise

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As if the textbook industry didn't have an image problem already...

Shift for Academic Publisher

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Heldref will sell most of its journals (including Change) and become grant-making entity focused on foreign policy and the legacy of Jeane Kirkpatrick.

The Equal Opportunity Library

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Google's mammoth book digitization project means access to knowledge for minorities and the underrepresented, scholars and activists said Wednesday.

Rent, Read and Return

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A growing number of companies are renting textbooks to college students, saying they're an alternative to sky-high price tags.

Brand New, Again

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University libraries are teaming up with presses to scan and reprint rare books from their collections.

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