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'The Fall of the Faculty'
Faculty members feeling besieged by, well, take your pick -- increased scrutiny of their productivity and the relevance of their...
E-phemeral E-Books
In a bid to stoke interest in e-books, some university presses let students and scholars rent electronic volumes for a fraction of the full price.
'The Faculty Lounges'
It will surprise no one familiar with her work that Naomi Schaefer Riley is not a fan of tenure. In...
Could Pirates Be Your Friends?
At university press meeting, some see advantage to having their works copied without permission.
The E-Reader Effect
Some university presses are seeing surges in digital book sales since the New Year — especially in backlist titles with little marketing support.
Rejecting Double Blind
Economics association and political science journal abandon what has been dominant form of peer review in social sciences.
Full Court Press
In latest chapter of a copyright battle, academic publishers outline strict standards for how much text they think professors can put on e-reserve before paying.
Opinion
'Bachelors and Bunnies'
Over the years there has emerged a body of Playboy scholarship, which I read around in, every once in a...