Bruce Gilley’s eyebrow-raising essay in favor of colonialism has been scrubbed from the scholarly record, but not for any of the reasons cited by its critics.…

News & Press: In the News Email to a Friend IBPA’s Fall 2017 Update on the Amazon Buy Button Policy Change 16 hours ago () | IBPA Advocacy Read Also: " Amazon’s…

T he adage is "publish or perish" but everyone knows the odds aren’t even. For most academics who submit a manuscript to a desirable publisher or journal, the…

Ian Buruma, the new editor of The New York Review of Books, in the magazine’s offices. Vincent Tullo for The New York Times Some shoes are harder to fill than…

Inside Higher Ed has asked its readers what comment policy would be best. Last I checked there were over 100 responses. There’s also a survey for those who want…

Historians like to say that everything has a history . Yet the natural sciences remain somewhat removed from academic debates over what to do with monuments…

Courtesy of Princeton U. Christie Henry T hat Christie Henry has left the University of Chicago Press after 24 years to take over as director of Princeton…

The news coming of this week about Google and The New America Foundation has gotten me thinking about the dangers of digital platform monopolies. Which digital…

Doctorate, publication(s), postdoctoral fellowship, teaching experience: the list of common qualifications for a tenure-track academic job gets longer all the…

Look here to find previous advice columns from The Professor Is In . I am curious: How early is too early to approach a book editor? I’m just beginning work on…

In a major concession to Chinese government censors, Cambridge University Press blocked access in China to more than 300 articles and reviews in the journal The…

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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…