Books & Publishing

Author discusses new book on how the value of higher education is discussed -- and how issues of gender influence that discussion.

Drew Story outlines a simple approach academics can use to increase access to research and restore its public value.

New book tries to help readers cope with that faculty colleague who never liked a new idea or offered to help.

Elsevier’s acquisition of Bepress’s institutional repository platform is heralded as a smart move for the publisher, but not all of Bepress’s customers are impressed.

Byung-Chul Han’s In the Swarm: Digital Prospects describes how our society is well down the road toward a dramatically different, digital world. Much harder to discern, writes Scott McLemee, is where, or if, Han sees an off-ramp.

To protest the high prices charged by their publisher, Springer, the editors of the Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics will start a rival journal that will be free for all to read.

Author discusses her new book of writing advice for academics.

Scott McLemee writes of the recent passing of George A. Romero, the “godfather of zombie film,” and how his work was simultaneously horrific and satirical.