The press's new director agrees with the faculty editorial board that UCP has over-emphasized trade books lately. But how much influence do those scholars really have over the press's editorial direction? Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
Journalism
“British Library Group Develops Cost-Benefit Tool to Analyze Journal Pricing”
The Research Libraries U.K. group wants to help its members do better cost-benefit analyses of what they're paying for journal subscriptions. Read More at Wired Campus (CHE) »
“British Research Libraries Say No to ‘Big Deal’ Serials Packages”
More on the movement among libraries to negotiate smaller, cheaper deals with journals publishers. Read More at Wired Campus (CHE) »
“User Posts Thousands of JSTOR Files Online”
...as a protest against what he considers a broken and unfair academic-publishing system and the indictment of hacktivist Aaron Swartz for allegedly making millions of unauthorized downloads from JSTOR's databases. Read More at Wired Campus (CHE) »
“Humanities Discuss Their ‘Shared Mental Map’ for a New Age of Digital Communication”
A firsthand report from the 9th and last Scholarly Communication Institute, hosted by the University of Virginia. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
