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…

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…

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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…

CHICAGO -- Serious journals of literature and ideas pride themselves on in-depth pieces that advance scholarship. The latest issue of the journal Novel features…

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…

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…

Few academics make their fortunes writing textbooks, and if current trends in academic publishing continue, it's possible that even fewer will become star…

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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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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