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.
Owen D. V. Sholes shares the insights he gained through the many vicissitudes of trying to get his book published.
Scott McLemee discusses Matthew Rose’s A World After Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Right with the author.
Scott McLemee reports on Matthew Rose’s A World After Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Right.
This spring’s offerings from university presses include a bumper crop of books on freedom of expression and its discontents.
Anecdotal and other empirical evidence says women are publishing less than men over all during the pandemic. This study found otherwise.
Scott McLemee reviews Isaac Butler’s The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act.
The COVID-19 pandemic forced many alumni magazines to cancel print issues and build up their websites instead. Print is coming back, but the enhanced digital offerings are here to stay.
Spurred by cost savings and the increasing migration to digital books, many universities are closing brick-and-mortar bookstores.
Scott McLemee reviews Rebecca R. Falkoff’s Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding.
Scott McLemee reviews Carl Erik Fisher’s The Urge: Our History of Addiction.
Scott McLemee highlights more books upcoming in the new year, with a focus on the pandemic.
Scott McLemee reviews Subconsciousness: Automatic Behavior and the Brain by Yves Agid.

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