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College Bookstores Oppose Cengage-McGraw Merger

Dec 04, 2019

Planned pricing changes by academic publisher Cengage have not gone down well with the National Association of College Stores.

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The concept of self-plagiarism is peculiar and in some ways more interesting than ordinary plagiarism, observes Scott McLemee.

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Plagiarize This!

Why is brazenly putting one's name on a text that someone else wrote repugnant? Should it be? Scott McLemee explores the issue.

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2020 Vision

Scott McLemee surveys upcoming university press books that, in anticipation of the coming year's presidential campaigns, focus on the White House or the road to it.

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A New Kind of ‘Big Deal’ for Elsevier

Carnegie Mellon University has signed an open-access deal with Elsevier -- the first of its kind for the publisher in the U.S.

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Thinking Nonbinary

Scott McLemee reviews George Estreich's Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves.

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Willful and for Itself, as Such

Scott McLemee reviews Willful: How We Choose What We Do by Richard Robb.

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What’s the Best Publisher for Your Book?

Abel Polese suggests four variables to consider when choosing where to send your manuscript.

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Think Positive

Scott McLemee reviews Why We're Wrong about Nearly Everything: A Theory of Human Misunderstanding by Bobby Duffy.

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Topic: Trending

Scott McLemee reviews Devon Powers's On Trend: The Business of Forecasting the Future.

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Rules for Making Big Deals

Dozens of institutions have endorsed a set of guiding principles for negotiating contracts that support open-access practices with scholarly publishers.

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Subscribing to Open Monographs

Could subscriptions create a pathway to sustainable open-access monograph publishing? MIT Press plans to find out.

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Deletable You

Scott McLemee reviews Susan Schneider's Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind.

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The OER Moment

"The OER Moment" is Inside Higher Ed's new print-on-demand compilation of articles.

This collection of news and opinion articles may be downloaded here, free.

On Tuesday, July 18, Inside Higher Ed's editors presented a free webcast to discuss the themes of the compilation. You may view a recording of the webcast here.

This compendium was made possible in part by the financial support of Cengage.

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