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In Win for Libraries Over Publishers, Supreme Court Upholds Reselling of Foreign Books
The case stemmed from a graduate student's importing of less-expensive textbooks to the United States from abroad, and then reselling them at a profit.
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Hot Off the (Library) Press
Scholarly publishing by college libraries takes wildly different forms at different institutions. A new coalition is trying to make connections and share expertise.
- 'Social Reading' Projects Bring Commentary Into the Text
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Hot Type: Art Publishers Look to Yale Press for Glimpse of Digital Future
- Push for Open Access Goes Global
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Hot Type: Elsevier Experiments With Allowing 'Text Mining' of Its Journals
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I'd Like to Thank the Academy
The place where a writer's personality is revealed clearly, if unintentionally, is in the acknowledgments.
- Learning Not to Give Too Much Advice
- The Reality of Writing a Good Book Proposal
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My Academic Metamorphosis
Four years of anguish intense enough to induce a fugue state was enough for this would-be professor.
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Before Jefferson's Campus, There Was Ramée's
The classic arrangement of buildings around a green may have its roots in an architect's plans for a New York college.
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To Improve Completion, Remember the Countryside
Rural America stands as an untapped source of potential college success stories, write two officials at the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission.
More on Publishing
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Ditch the Monograph
Short-form e-books can be a respectable way to deliver serious scholarship.
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Let's Spread the Word About Fair Use
There's no need for you to ask permission to use my book chapter in your course pack, let alone pay me for it.
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Want to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say No
Companies shouldn't make millions from the free labor of professors.
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The Future of Peer Review in the Humanities? It's Open
Nobody likes the current system, and most everybody agrees it should move online. But from there, opinions diverge.
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Marilyn Still Bewitches Biographers
But new theoretical readings, including third-wave feminists' embrace, may shed more light on our era than they do on the actress herself.
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Jazz Journeys of Mind and Soul
In imaginative new works, Jaimeo Brown and Chuck Owen explore spiritual and natural revelations through hybrid musical forms.
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Our Handwriting, Ourselves
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Up in Arms
New Scholarly Books
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Weekly Book List, May 17, 2013
Descriptions of the latest books, divided by category
