T he Bucknell and Rutgers University Presses don’t fit the profile of obvious partners. One serves a small, private institution in Pennsylvania; the other is…

Amid other woes as their core business shrinks, textbook publishers say they lose tens of millions of dollars a year when students buy pirated versions of their…

Turnitin has received its share of complaints regarding its accuracy , although it still remains the standard bearer for plagiarism detection for high schools…

The idea of a product that, at a glance, can point scholars to the exact point in a book that is relevant to their research may sound like science fiction, but…

Textbooks from Cengage Learning and McGraw-Hill Education will this fall begin to feature a certification seal that, when scanned with a smartphone app, will…

Months after an academic librarian deleted lists of “predatory” journals and publishers from his blog, a website with derogatory comments about his academic…

A good peer reviewer is hard to find. Does it make sense to expand the search to graduate students? At some journals, editors say, that idea is an absolute…

I t’s commonly assumed that scholars want to avoid submitting their work to so-called predatory academic journals, which typically charge authors a fee while…

I was part of the first wave of web communications professionals hired in higher education in the late 90s. Web communications wasn’t exactly a thing yet, but…

An Amazon employee explains to a customer how to check out with his mobile device at Amazon Books’ first New York City bookstore at Columbus Circle. Alex…

How could a journal publish that? That's the question many asked when they learned that Cogent Social Sciences , a peer-reviewed journal, had published “The…

W hen you are writing a book analyzing images from Kurosawa’s Rashomon, you should include images from the classic 1950 film. The logic behind that seems…

Image: by Franz Bonn. Munich: Braun & Schneider, 1888. I wrote a book before I earned tenure — a feat, given the heavy teaching and service load at my…

Look here to find previous advice columns from The Professor Is In . Do I need a book for a first job? The answer is — well, there’s more than one, actually.…

Two recent events have highlighted advances in the adoption of Open Education Resources: the announcement from New York State about a new state-wide Open…

The Coaching Habit was published on February 29, 2016. (Leap Day! Why wouldn’t you take advantage of that?) In the year since, it’s sold nearly 200,000 copies,…

A t a friendly yet spirited debate last month over the pros and cons of open educational resources, publishers and OER advocates agreed on at least one thing:…

D uquesne University announced plans to close its press in February, explaining that it could no longer justify the annual subsidy of more than $200,000. After…

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