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A few weeks ago, we moved into a new house—one much smaller than the home we lived in for 14 years before moving out of state. As part of our family’s move to…

One of the reasons so many librarians felt angry about Elsevier’s acquisition of Bepress is that Elsevier has become an enemy of libraries and what they stand…

Look here to find previous advice columns from The Professor Is In . I have an essay that would not land in an established, top-tier refereed journal. However,…

The publishing giant Elsevier became a major player in the institutional repository landscape Wednesday with the acquisition of the private company Bepress .…

kot63, iStock A scholarly monograph that’s been in the works for three decades? Trust us, old university press hands say: We’ve seen worse. D avid W. Congdon…

According to a new study uploaded in preprint form to PeerJ and profiled in Science , subscription-based publishing is a doomed business. Scientists have…

Copy editors AWOL? The Washington Post was embarrassed this year when it placed the wrong gender symbol on Page One of its Express. I n a recent Lingua Franca…

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…