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• It’s time for journals to be author-reviewed

  
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  My friend “Jana” sent her most promising manuscript to a journal that we’ll call The Ivy League Business Review . She received immediate confirmation that it was received, although the e-mail did not indicate whether or when it would be sent out for peer review. So she waited. And waited some more. After six ...
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• It’s Not 1995 Again — Why the Threats from the New Big Players May Be Much More Significant This Time

  
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  Eighteen years ago, Mosaic ushered in the potential for a sea-change in publishing based on technological prowess and scale. Today, the "open" label covers a set of disparate incentives under a single blanket, one that funders, government, and technology companies are all under, each for its own reason. Continue ...
  2 weeks ago

• Surviving the reading marathon

  
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  Recently @indecisionpersonified asked me a question in the Thesis Whisperer feedback forum : “… I have just moved continents and been accepted into a PhD program and have six free months before I start. I was wondering whether you had any advice to give people like me on how best to use the time before starting ...
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• Don’t Miss Another Hour with the Chefs, and Other Highlights — The SSP Annual Meeting in San Francisco

  
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  The Chefs are headed to San Francisco for another lively session closing out the SSP Annual Meeting. A range of topics and opinions will serve as dessert for a terrific meeting. Continue reading »
  2 weeks ago

• University Press Roundup

  
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  Our weekly roundup of the best posts from around the world of academic publishing.
  3 weeks ago

• Study: British Celebrity Chefs Add to Britain’s Obesity Epidemic

  
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  An analysis of British based celebrity chefs published in Scientific & Academic Publishing (SAP), an Open-Access publisher of journals, revealed that most British celebrity chefs’ recipes contained excessive amounts of fat, saturated fatty acids, sugars and salt. “The majority of recipes analysed had ...
  3 weeks ago

• Academic publishers – morons.

  
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  I spotted what looks like a good book the other day, Biressi and Nunns Class and Contemporary British Culture . Excellent, I thought. Thatll be great for our modules on British Cultural Experiences, Positions (on which I teach a strand about social class) and various other courses spread across English, Cultural ...
  3 weeks ago

• Convenience versus Community — Is a Deeper Question Hiding Behind the Façade of the Access Debates?

  
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  While the access debates have dominated, another debate has been emerging, one that perhaps has greater significance in the long run. Continue reading »
  3 weeks ago

• Up for Discussion: Future of Course Materials

  
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  Not so long ago, the textbook supply chain looked something like this: An author, often a professor, would write a textbook. A publisher would edit and print it. Faculty would select the book for class. The campus bookstore would order it. Students would come to the store to buy a copy. If the store could snag used ...
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• Desperate Publishers

  
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  I’m on campus to get some work done but before that I thought I do a quick postette as I eat my lunch. A good topic for a short contribution is a story I heard last week from one of my colleagues in the Department of Physics & Astronomy here at the University of Sussex. It seems he gave a talk at a conference ...
  3 weeks ago

• University Press Roundup

  
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  Our weekly roundup of the best blog posts from the world of academic publishing.
  4 weeks ago

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