Is Higher Education the Next Bubble to Burst?
With escalating costs and questions about results, higher education is attracting skepticism from an Internet mogul who knows a bubble when he sees one.
With escalating costs and questions about results, higher education is attracting skepticism from an Internet mogul who knows a bubble when he sees one.
Education reform requires educators acting as media players and change agents. Can it happen?
In many Chinese universities, authors are paid to publish. And the more prestigious the journal, the higher the reward.
As we continue to see highly concentrated wealth, corrupt political systems, and a citizenry without civic recourse here in America, the deleterious effects on scholarship, research, and education are mounting.
A new app for textbooks on the iPad has a lot of backers, and there’s a lot at stake.
Rather than relying on journal prestige and bibliometric indicators, universities should consider paying experts to conduct institutional peer review, report recommends.
Transcribe Bentham loses its grant after six months, and has to wind down.
A 400-year-old monarch comes out of retirement to celebrate his portrait’s restoration. And museum-goers want his autograph.
How did “scholarly communication” become equated with open access advocacy? Is its misuse ultimately self-defeating?
A report by the AAUP outlines the business models available to university presses and makes a case for ongoing subsidies by parent institutions.
How can you make a movie about why some writing is good, some bad? This trailer makes it seem not only possible, but interesting.
[Phone rings.] Librarian: Hello? Sales Rep: Hello! Robert from Acme Scholarly Journals here. As you know, for the past year we’ve been working on a new pricing model for our journal package, and now that it’s ready my boss and […]
A new report from OCLC underscores how much water is already over, and how fragile the foundation has become.
For scholars to excel in the information age, technology needs to learn to learn. Perhaps highly specialized humans can help.
Why do smart people continue to seek simple rank-order listings of inherently complex phenomena?