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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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Solving One of Higher Education's Biggest Problems
You don't need millions of dollars to improve graduation rates. Georgia State did it with tiny grants for the right students.
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Austerity Has Been Tested, and It Failed
Public-health experts have joined economists and historians in critiquing rigid belt-tightening regimes.
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We're Not Responsible for How MOOCs Are Used
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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The Talented Mrs. Shipley
A State Department bureaucrat of the early 20th century drew up a forerunner of the No Fly List, raising the same constitutional issues then as we face now.
- Jazz Journeys of Mind and Soul
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Our Handwriting, Ourselves
New Scholarly Books
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Weekly Book List, May 24, 2013
Descriptions of the latest books, divided by category
