Books & Publishing

Scott McLemee reviews Manuel Castells's Rupture: The Crisis of Liberal Democracy.

After months of negotiating over open-access fees and paywalls, the University of California System follows through on threat to cancel its journal subscription deal with Elsevier.

Scott McLemee reviews Joan Wallach Scott's Knowledge, Power and Academic Freedom.

Co-editor discusses new book on FBI documents about spying on researchers.

A leader in digital humanities outlines ideas in her new book about how higher education can engage with the public in a sometimes hostile world.

Research funders, publishers and academics ponder the consequences of a European initiative that could have a major impact on scholarly publishing in the U.S.

Shift at Melbourne University Publishing raises question of whether nonacademic books can be used to subsidize academic publishing.

Scott McLemee reviews some of the books now being published by university presses, many of which seem to predict our world in the upcoming decade.