The Chronicle of Higher Education

Presses Seek Fiscal Relief in Subsidies for Authors

Universities would provide money to underwrite their professors' books

By PETER MONAGHAN

Publish or perish is the timeworn mantra in the humanities and social sciences. Yet what happens to this ironclad rule of scholarly life when the publishers of academic research themselves begin to perish?

The 90 institutions of higher education that have...

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