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References and Citations for All
Scholars push for free access to online citation data, saying they need and deserve access to the reference data they helped create.
How Chinese Students Navigate the U.S. University
New book looks at “who changes, how much and into what” with influx of Chinese students into U.S. universities and at the underground learning networks students cultivate.
A Cengage Buffet
In a shift away from traditional publishing models, Cengage introduces an all-you-can-read subscription offer for digital course materials.
‘Fraud and Misconduct in Research’
Using a database of 750 cases of research fraud from around the world, professors examine fraud as a phenomenon, tracing its history and trajectory and looking at what can be done about it.
Opinion
‘Bible Nation’
Scott McLemee reviews Bible Nation by Candida R. Moss and Joel S. Baden, which chronicles the founding and development of the new Museum of the Bible in Washington.
Growing Less Equal
New book explores how colleges were not created equal -- and how pressures have driven them to be even less so in recent decades.
Opinion
Hitting the Accelerator
Scott McLemee reviews The Acceleration of Cultural Change: From Ancestors to Algorithms, in which social networks, big data, memes and the like are presented as extreme cases of the creative and disruptive potentials or our tool-oriented species.
Behind the Publication Gender Gap
Study finds male Ph.D. candidates submit and publish papers at much higher rates than women, even at the same institution. One factor is that women teach more during their Ph.D. programs and men serve more often as research assistants.