Books and Publishing

Books and Publishing
More Intellectual
Than You Thought
Author discusses her new book, Reimagining Popular Notions of American Intellectualism.
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Manipulated Journal Rankings?
Jerry A. Jacobs examines the allegations of cheating that have created concerns about the excessive reliance on journal impact scores for tenure decisions and other matters.
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The Plot Thickens!
Scott McLemee reviews Plots, an examination of patterns of storytelling that highlights Robert L. Belknap's excellence as a literary critic.
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Romancing the Academic
Catherine M. Roach describes the joy of falling in love with a whole new field of inquiry and style of research.
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Notable History
A fascinating new paper sheds light on how note keeping was once central to the pedagogical experience, deeply embedded in the whole social system of academe, writes Scott McLemee.
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'What Matters Most'
New book urges colleges to exercise not-so-common sense when it comes to optimizing the undergraduate experience and otherwise striving toward institutional excellence.
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'Field Notes'
Author discusses his new book on the evolution of Middle East studies in specific and area studies more broadly.
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Close Encounters of the Skeptical Kind
Scott McLemee reviews Michael Shermer's new book, Skeptic, in which the author debunks Atlantis, Bigfoot and a host of other pseudoscientific topics, as well as explaining and reflecting on real scientific developments.
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'Academic Diary'
Author discusses his new book about why higher education still matters.
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Pretty Poison
Scott McLemee reviews a new book that examines the long literary and political history of a femme fatale that embodies two aspects of Eden: the beguiling female and the deceiving reptile, merged, literally, into one.
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Feeling the Spirit
Scott McLemee ruminates on the memoir of Barbara Ehrenreich, who, while more or less an agnostic, undergoes what sounds like the sort of crisis described by saints and mystics.
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Opening Up
the Repository
U of Florida connects its institutional repository to Elsevier's ScienceDirect platform to try to increase the visibility of the university's intellectual work.
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The Future of Educational Materials

Sept. 19, 2016 -- "The Future of Educational Materials and the Role of the College Bookstore," the new print-on-demand compendium of articles from Inside Higher Ed, is available today. You may download the booklet, free, here.

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