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Elsevier Expands Footprint in Scholarly Workflow
Elsevier’s acquisition of Bepress’s institutional repository platform is heralded as a smart move for the publisher, but not all of Bepress’s customers are impressed.
‘Dealing With Dysfunction’
New book tries to help readers cope with that faculty colleague who never liked a new idea or offered to help.
Opinion
‘Digital Prospects’
Byung-Chul Han’s In the Swarm: Digital Prospects describes how our society is well down the road toward a dramatically different, digital world. Much harder to discern, writes Scott McLemee, is where, or if, Han sees an off-ramp.
Math Journal Editors Quit for Open Access
To protest the high prices charged by their publisher, Springer, the editors of the Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics will start a rival journal that will be free for all to read.
'Write No Matter What'
Author discusses her new book of writing advice for academics.
‘Breakaway Learners’
Author discusses her new book about promoting success of at-risk students.
Opinion
Our Zombies, Our Selves
Scott McLemee writes of the recent passing of George A. Romero, the “godfather of zombie film,” and how his work was simultaneously horrific and satirical.
Trigger Warnings Ahead
New book seeks to round out the trigger warning debate with competing histories of the trend and case studies from the classroom.