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MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MANUSCRIPTS Twelve Journeys Into the Medieval World By Christopher de Hamel Illustrated. 632 pp. Penguin Press. $45. “Meetings With…

A s the rain pounded Houston this fall, I camped out in a conference room on the third floor of the library of an excellent liberal-arts college. I’d been…

D ear Pretenure Faculty Member: You were an excellent student, a deep thinker, curious, maybe a little quirky. You loved learning and got interested — so…

“Open citations now!” So concludes a new open letter to publishers from researchers who support making scholarly citations freely available, in the interest of…

A friend of mine is about to publish his first book. That is, if he can get past his discouragement. He has just received the report from his editors, and it's…

I haven’t seen anybody else write on this, exactly, but I’ve seen it repeatedly on my own campus. This is a quick attempt to see if my campus is somehow fluky,…

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If academia wants to matter - and continue to be funded - in a world where our societal narratives are shaped on media and social media platforms, new…

Numerous studies have found that men in the sciences publish at higher rates than women. But the designs of some of those studies make it difficult to isolate…

Major education publishers -- including Pearson, Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education -- report that the number of colleges offering "inclusive-access" programs…

Writing Insights Part One: Becoming a Writer By Hugh Howey A successful writer is one who finishes what they start while striving to improve their craft. I…

Writing for audio made me a better writer, period By John Scalzi Tips from the Hugo Award-winning narrator of Audible Studios’ “The Dispatcher” So far, so good.…

Writing for audio made me a better writer, period By John Scalzi Tips from the Hugo Award-winning narrator of Audible Studios’ “The Dispatcher” So far, so good.…

You’ve decided you want to be a writer. You’ve banged out a rough draft. After a dozen passes, you’re starting to think any more edits will mar its perfection.…

If you see it in the dictionary, it’s so : This deferential trust seems to be the general attitude toward dictionaries, whether it’s the Oxford or the…

A couple of years ago, I wrote up a few ways you can make your work open access without breaking the bank, breaking the law, or risking your reputation. In…