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UC Drops Elsevier
After months of negotiating over open-access fees and paywalls, the University of California System follows through on threat to cancel its journal subscription deal with Elsevier.
Opinion
The Edge of Academic Freedom
Scott McLemee reviews Joan Wallach Scott's Knowledge, Power and Academic Freedom.
‘Scientists Under Surveillance’
Co-editor discusses new book on FBI documents about spying on researchers.
‘Generous Thinking’
A leader in digital humanities outlines ideas in her new book about how higher education can engage with the public in a sometimes hostile world.
Who’s Afraid of Plan S?
Research funders, publishers and academics ponder the consequences of a European initiative that could have a major impact on scholarly publishing in the U.S.
Debate on New Mission of an Australian University Press
Shift at Melbourne University Publishing raises question of whether nonacademic books can be used to subsidize academic publishing.
2020 Visions
Scott McLemee reviews some of the books now being published by university presses, many of which seem to predict our world in the upcoming decade.
Opinion
Approaching ‘Entropy’
Scott McLemee reviews Eric Johnson's Anxiety and the Equation: Understanding Boltzmann's Entropy.