Books and Publishing

Books and Publishing
Mar 18, 2021
As COVID-19 forced professors to embrace digital texts, they were likelier to know about -- but not to use -- free, openly licensed materials. Progress was greatest at colleges that promoted OER, especially minority-serving ones.
Lindsay Waters delves into the multiple reasons he'll miss having the opportunity to attend the Modern Language Association's convention in person this year and reflects on its past impact.
Nature sets article processing charge at the equivalent of $11,250 for researchers selecting open-access publishing.
Scott McLemee highlights the considerable number of current and forthcoming books flagged as pertinent to COVID-19 and its impact, or to pandemics more broadly.
Scott McLemee reviews Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age by Jessica Pressman.
Scott McLemee reviews Political Perversion: Rhetorical Aberration in the Time of Trumpeteering by Joshua Gunn.
Scott McLemee reviews Tobias Carroll's Political Sign.
Librarians are quarantining print materials for several days between loans to stop the spread of COVID-19. For students who rely on the library to access textbooks, that’s a problem.
Scott McLemee reviews Adrian Daub's What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry Into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley.
University of Michigan Press releases first peer-reviewed rap album from an academic publisher.
Scott McLemee reviews Joan Wallach Scott's On the Judgment of History.
Scott McLemee reviews Bernard-Henri Lévy's The Virus in the Age of Madness.
Women's journal submission rates fell as their caring responsibilities jumped due to COVID-19. Without meaningful interventions, the trend is likely to continue.

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