Books & Publishing

Scott McLemee shares tributes to the late Mark Saunders, director of the University of Virginia Press.

State University of New York system strikes deal with Lumen Learning to expand and fill gaps in systemwide platform to deliver open educational resources free to students.

Authors discuss new book on inequities facing students and institutions.

Many common reading assignments this year focus on issues of diversity, free speech and immigration.

Scott McLemee reviews Tracy Daugherty's Dante and the Early Astronomer: Science, Adventure and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens.

Author discusses new book in which he questions whether most colleges are living up to their claims about promoting social mobility -- and whether college degrees do enough for low-income students.

Blaming unsustainable price increases, librarians at the university reach out to faculty members and graduate students to draw up a list of 820 journal subscriptions to cancel.

Scott McLemee offers a roundup of books from this coming autumn's university press catalogs and more.