Protests at OSU over the culling of printed materials from the library's collections, as space and budgets get tighter and more researchers look online for information. Read More at Wired Campus, The Chronicle of Higher Education »
Journalism
“Scholars Are Wary of Deal on Google’s Book Search”
A group of scholars, led by a Berkeley law prof, challenge academic authors to take a harder look at the proposed deal between Google and the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers over Google's book-scanning program. I write about their warning in my latest Hot Type column. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
“In Thrilling Find, Scholar Unearths Long-Lost Letters of Benjamin Franklin”
A UC-San Diego political scientist makes what he calls the find of a lifetime in the British Library. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
“Quick Critics: Speeding Up the Publication of Reviews From Years to Months”
It might take two years (or more) to write a scholarly monograph, but it shouldn't take two years for it to get reviewed. One literary scholar has a plan to rev up the metabolism of academic reviewing. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
“Meat the Dilemma”
My review of Jeffrey Moussaief Masson's The Face on Your Plate and Mark Caro's The Foie Gras Wars, both of which make a strong case, in very different ways, that we need to think harder about what (or who) we eat. Read More at The Washington Post »
