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Hot Type: Elsevier Experiments With Allowing 'Text Mining' of Its Journals
Working with an open-access advocate, the publisher has hammered out a deal with the University of British Columbia.
- Hot Type: An Open Letter to Academic Publishers About Open Access
- Who Gets to See Published Research?
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A New Journal for Life Scientists by Life Scientists Hopes to Lure Prestige
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'Princeton Shorts' Tries to Lure Readers With Digital Excerpts From Full Books
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Why We Can't Farm Out the Teaching of Writing
Insecure about their own prose, too many faculty members shy away from evaluating the quality of their students'.
- Why Bother Writing Book Reviews?
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An Unusual Marriage of Engineering and Languages
The University of Rhode Island's international-engineering program enrolls students for five years, sends them overseas, and gives them two degrees.
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Is America Philosophical?
In Socratic terms? Maybe not. In any other terms? You bet.
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What Colleges Can Bring to the Table
Campuses have a role to play in both teaching students about sustainable farming and bringing local products into dining halls.
More on Publishing
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Spies, Shtarkers, and Sex Gods: Film's New Jews
Both grotesque anti-Semitic stereotypes and bland assimilationist mensches of yesteryear have been transmuted into multilayered, vivid characters, a new book argues.
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Cultural-Studies Journal Gets Revamped for a 'Different Intellectual Moment'
The new editors at "Public Culture" hope to reach beyond an academic audience.
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Portnoy's Enduring Complaint
A world dizzy with lust and disgust, irony and rage. Such were the literary epiphanies boomers found in Roth.
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Susan Gubar's Closing Chapters
In her memoir on ovarian cancer, the scholar confronts an elusive issue for women: telling the truth about experiences of the female body.
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A Byzantine Plot
A revisionist take on the First Crusade gives the emperor of Constantinople a larger role.
Nota Bene
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Spies, Shtarkers, and Sex Gods: Film's New Jews
Both grotesque anti-Semitic stereotypes and bland assimilationist mensches of yesteryear have been transmuted into multilayered, vivid characters, a new book argues.
- The Impermanence of Eden
- 'Osama bin Laden Made Me Famous'
New Scholarly Books
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Weekly Book List, May 21, 2012
Descriptions of the latest books, divided by category.
