Norwegian Universities Ditch Elsevier | Inside Higher Ed
Norway is the latest European country to cancel its subscription deal with Elsevier, following Germany and Sweden. In a press release , the Norwegian…
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Similarities in 2 Novels Raise Questions About the Limits of Literary Influence
Books News Dan Mallory — who writes under the pen name A.J. Finn — signs copies of his best-seller, “The Woman in the Window,” which shares similar plot lines…
Shift in mission of Melbourne University press raises many issues
Contentious changes at Australia’s oldest university press have raised questions about the degree to which in-house publishers should produce general interest…
Printer closures, paper shortages lead to delays for university publishers
When one of the largest independent book and journal printers in the U.S. closed its doors last summer, many university presses braced themselves for printing…
Professors Worry About the Cost of Textbooks, but Free Alternatives Pose Their Own Problems
noipornpan When it comes to textbooks, faculty members have a lot of feelings. Many of them negative. But their thoughts on digital coursework and openly…
Where the Thirst for Literature Meets the Thirst for Beer
Book Territory Book bindings serve as tap handles for the many craft-beer selections at Books & Brews. Credit Leah Klafczynski for The New York Times…
How Academics Measure the Value of Their Books
O n our third and penultimate date, hiking up a steep trail, a tall and fit man who had earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering and made a living telling mining…
Leaders of literary journals discuss strategies to face economic challenges
CHICAGO -- Serious journals of literature and ideas pride themselves on in-depth pieces that advance scholarship. The latest issue of the journal Novel features…
New Life for Old Classics, as Their Copyrights Run Out
Clockwise from top left: Kahlil Gibran; F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda; Agatha Christie; Jean Toomer; and Thomas Mann. Nearly a century ago, the…
Elsevier Is Becoming a Data Company. Should Universities Be Wary?
U. of Florida Students work on a project in a U. of Florida engineering lab. The university recently turned to Elsevier, already the biggest publisher of…
In switch to digital-first products, publishers are signing fewer textbook authors
Few academics make their fortunes writing textbooks, and if current trends in academic publishing continue, it's possible that even fewer will become star…
Financial Support of University Presses | Inside Higher Ed
If you go to the website of the University Press of New England, you will see this bleak notice: UPNE and UPNE Book Partners are ceasing operations at the end…
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Will Blockchain Revolutionize Scholarly Journal Publishing?
iStock Peer review will no longer be anonymous under the blockchain-based publishing model that the European start-up Orvium intends to use. Since the 1990s,…
An Underground Sensation Arrives
Sean Proctor for The Chronicle Julius Scott T he manuscript was almost published a couple of times. One editor expressed enthusiasm, then abruptly passed.…
Addressing the Crisis in Academic Publishing | Inside Higher Ed
Academic journals play an important role in knowledge dissemination. No one knows how many journals there actually are, but several estimates point to around…
Middlebury professors call for books to be returned to campus bookstore
The Middlebury College bookstore doesn't look much like a bookstore anymore. The textbooks that once lined its shelves were cleared out earlier this year,…
All Those Books You’ve Bought but Haven’t Read? There’s a Word for That
Essay Credit Linda Huang I own far more books than I could possibly read over the course of my remaining life, yet every month I add a few dozen more to my…
‘Sokal Squared’: Is Huge Publishing Hoax ‘Hilarious and Delightful’ or an Ugly Example of Dishonesty and Bad Faith?
Mike Nayna James A. Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian, the academics who carried out a publishing hoax that targeted scholarly journals R eactions…
What the ‘Grievance Studies’ Hoax Means
Illustration by Jonathan Barkat for The Chronicle O ver the summer, the Wall Street Journal ’s Jillian Kay Melchior became suspicious of a bizarre-sounding…
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