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Supporting Sci-Hub vs. Explaining Sci-Hub
Aug 08, 2016
Association of American Publishers complains about Cal State librarian who studies popularity of pirated scientific papers. Cal State defends its librarian.
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Pressing Challenges
When a University Press Is Deemed 'Nonessential'
Textbook Destroyed
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Supporting Sci-Hub vs. Explaining Sci-Hub
Association of American Publishers complains about Cal State librarian who studies popularity of pirated scientific papers. Cal State defends its librarian.
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Pressing Challenges
Amid declining book sales, university presses search for new ways to measure success.
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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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When a University Press
Is Deemed 'Nonessential'
Supporters of academic publishing worry about what Northern Illinois U may decide about a small press that punches above its weight in scholarship.
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Textbook Destroyed
McGraw-Hill Education, after being told maps in a political science textbook were anti-Israel, withdraws the volume and eliminates all copies.
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Open Access
and Academic Freedom
The movement to make scholarly work more accessible has created major benefits, but mandating open access -- and Creative Commons licensing -- restricts authors’ ability to say how, where and by whom their work will be reused, writes Rick Anderson.
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More Humanities Books
Study finds increase in number of new titles -- and their share of all new scholarly books.
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'The Right Thing to Do'
The disability studies scholars behind guidelines on accessibility in publishing gain their first endorsement from a university press.
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'I've Got a Hunch'
Members of the Association of Research Libraries pitch ideas about the future of the field during the "first inaugural 'hunchery.'" Holograms ensue.
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'Predatory' Publishing Up
Study suggests open-access journals with questionable peer-review and marketing processes now publish hundreds of thousands of articles a year, a huge jump in only a few years.
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Chegg on Campus
Fewer and fewer students are buying their textbooks at the Bowdoin College bookstore, so the college is outsourcing its textbook center to Chegg.
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Piecing Together Publishing
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is aggressively funding efforts to support new digital models -- in writing, editing, financing and more.
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Letter from publishers' group adds to debate over Sci-Hub and librarians who study it
August 8, 2016

Association of American Publishers complains about Cal State librarian who studies popularity of pirated scientific papers. Cal State defends its librarian.

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Amid declining book sales, university presses search for new ways to measure success
August 1, 2016

Amid declining book sales, university presses search for new ways to measure success.

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University of Florida, Elsevier explore interoperability in the publishing space
May 25, 2016

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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Northern Illinois U Press fights to survive after being deemed 'nonessential'
May 23, 2016

Supporters of academic publishing worry about what Northern Illinois U may decide about a small press that punches above its weight in scholarship.

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McGraw-Hill Education withdraws textbook with maps viewed as anti-Israel
March 8, 2016

McGraw-Hill Education, after being told maps in a political science textbook were anti-Israel, withdraws the volume and eliminates all copies.

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Mandatory open-access publishing can impair academic freedom (essay)
December 15, 2015

The movement to make scholarly work more accessible has created major benefits, but mandating open access -- and Creative Commons licensing -- restricts authors’ ability to say how, where and by whom their work will be reused, writes Rick Anderson.

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Survey finds growth in number of humanities books being published
December 7, 2015

Study finds increase in number of new titles -- and their share of all new scholarly books.

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U of Michigan Press endorses accessible book publishing guidelines
November 3, 2015

The disability studies scholars behind guidelines on accessibility in publishing gain their first endorsement from a university press.

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What do research librarians have a 'hunch' about?
October 8, 2015

Members of the Association of Research Libraries pitch ideas about the future of the field during the "first inaugural 'hunchery.'" Holograms ensue.

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Study finds huge increase in articles published by 'predatory' journals
October 1, 2015

Study suggests open-access journals with questionable peer-review and marketing processes now publish hundreds of thousands of articles a year, a huge jump in only a few years.

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