The founders of PeerJ, a new, open-access publishing platform, want to make it faster and cheaper to publish academic papers. Can they do it? Read More at The Digital Campus (CHE) »
Journalism
“A Trove of Darwin’s Correspondence Is Published Online”
The botanist J.D. Hooker was one of Charles Darwin's closest friends and confidantes. Now their 40-year correspondence is freely available online. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
“Lasting Imprint” (review of “Paper: An Elegy” by Ian Sansom and “The Missing Ink” by Philip Hensher
“As she is spoke” (review of “Vernacular Eloquence” by Peter Elbow)
Why is writing so hard for so many of us? Dangle a modifier or double a negative, and the grammar police descend. Vernacular Eloquence is Peter Elbow's "passionate if discursive call to put power back in the hands of the people." Read More at TLS (subscription) »
“At Librarians’ Meeting, Information Is Championed–But Not Always Books
My report from the Association of College and Research Libraries biennial conference, where Henry Rollins gave a punk-inflected paean to information and librarians talked about how to weed low-use print collections, among other pressing subjects. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
