Archives for Publish or Perish

And, as the Chronicle reports today (subscription required), the students have won: The University of Iowa has backtracked on a plan to post all graduate students’ theses online and make them freely available to the public. The reversal came in response to vigorous protests last week from students in the university’s prestigious graduate program in… Continue reading »

My friend Jim Hynes, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, tipped me off yesterday that students there are up in arms about a new university policy that requires them to make their dissertations available open access–as in free–in order to graduate. We’re talking fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction here, not scholarly work. The students,… Continue reading »