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,…

Sean Proctor for The Chronicle Julius Scott T he manuscript was almost published a couple of times. One editor expressed enthusiasm, then abruptly passed.…

Academic journals play an important role in knowledge dissemination. No one knows how many journals there actually are, but several estimates point to around…

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,…

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…

Mike Nayna James A. Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian, the academics who carried out a publishing hoax that targeted scholarly journals R eactions…

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…

I'm on the road early this week so in my stead, a guest post from Derek Krissoff, Director of West Virginia University Press - JW A casual observer might…

Anne Trubek started a publishing company on a lark. In 2012, Trubek, a writer, professor, and single mother, had been given a $20,000 artist fellowship by…

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If you imagined a virtual bookshelf for digital textbooks, you might picture something like VitalSource. The 22-year-old company offers ebooks for purchase or…

iStock When an e-textbook at one university was priced at $999, students expressed outrage on social media. Cost can be a significant barrier, and most…

I t’s a truth universally acknowledged that an author’s (often unstated) expectations usually go unmet. No matter how many columns I write extolling the hard…

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Those looking to submit an article to Review of Higher Education this summer probably saw this message on the journal’s website: The missive has proven jarring,…

After the death of Ursula K. Le Guin, I downloaded the audiobook version of No Time to Spare , one of the final tomes from the celebrated fantasy writer. It’s a…

This is small of me, but I can’t help myself. Someone says they’re obsessed with the TV version of Game of Thrones —or The Expanse , Altered Carbon , The…

The fact that you're even reading these words represents a victory. Wordpress-powered websites publish more than 77 million posts each week. The New York Times…

It was a book that drove me away from books. This wasn’t a trauma of distaste, or indulgence: not a literary bad mussel, not waking up on the floor of someone's…

S cholarly reading is a craft — one that academics are expected to figure out on our own. After all, it’s just reading. We all know how to do that, right? Yes…