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The Shrinking Mega-Journal
The world's largest scholarly journal, PLOS ONE, is seeing fewer and fewer researchers publish their work in it as the open-access publishing market evolves.
Guiding Those Who Guide Students
New book dives deep into the profession of academic advising, offering direction on how advisers can best counsel students.
'The Other One Percent'
Authors discuss their new book on the success -- in educational attainment and business -- of Indians in the United States.
Opinion
Consuming Catastrophe
In a new book, Timothy Recuber explores how the media cover disasters like the Virginia Tech shootings -- but sometimes in problematic ways, writes Scott McLemee.
Reaching ‘New Majority’ Students
New book explores different classroom strategies for teaching first-generation, underrepresented students.
Opinion
Exile Off Main Street
In Exiled in America: Life on the Margins in a Residential Hotel, author Christopher P. Dum portrays not only inescapable squalor but also efforts to create order in seriously damaged lives, writes Scott McLemee.
‘A New Moral Vision’
Author discusses new book about how arrival of women in American higher education changed colleges’ sense of moral mission.
Intellectual Property Problems
New book highlights intellectual property practices that the author says are dangerous for the public's interest in higher ed.