Journalism

Responding to a strong letter of protest from scholars worldwide, Oxford University Press said it hasn't censored the work of the late Indian scholar, translator, and poet A.K. Ramanujan. But the general editor of the author's Collected Essays, published by Oxford, said the press still must answer questions about its role in a court case involving one of Ramanujan's essays and whether it intends to continue to publish the work. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »

Scientists in the lab and in the field are closest to cutting-edge research. But at top scientific journals, it's professional editors who ultimately decide what gets published. A new journal scheduled to make its debut next year aims to change that by putting scientists in the editors' chair. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »

Impact, not ideology, was the watchword at the Berlin 9 Open Access Conference. Attendees focused on the benefits of putting research--in the humanities and social sciences as well as in the sciences--quickly and freely into the hands of scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. One or two people in this room will die in the next five years because of research that didn't make its way to clinics fast enough," one presenter, Cameron Neylon, told the crowd. " Read More at Wired Campus (CHE) »

So says a new survey of academic-library directors about library-based publishing. Read More at Wired Campus (CHE) »

Will a Kingle Singles-like model work for university presses? Princeton UP tries an experiment (with previously published content, though). My sense: interesting and worthwhile experiment but not likely to transform scholarly publishing. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »