Publishing

University press book sets off debate involving Alan Dershowitz, Arnold Schwarzenegger and charges of plagiarism and anti-Semitism.

Rice U.'s Connexions, which lets professors from any campus share materials, tries to challenge traditional peer review and publishing.

8 college stores plan to offer electronic texts this fall, but will they sell?

Google has made relatively few missteps during its phenomenally successful corporate life so far -- and its officials probably wouldn't characterize its announcement Friday that way.

Students' costs have risen sharply, but mostly because publishers have sought to improve teaching and learning, GAO report finds. 

Men are more likely than women to be authors of journal articles and influential textbooks in political science. Why?

Criticism of chapter on pederasty leads scholarly press to drop book on same-sex love in Greco-Roman times.

Dispute over alleged plagiarism between 2 Penn scholars, settled quietly over the summer, is aired anew.

Permissions center partners with Blackboard to help professors gain approval as they build their online courses.

At Educause meeting, James Hilton catalogs the threats and opportunities that technology presents for higher education.