By John Kroger. If you go to the website of the University Press of New England, you will see this bleak notice:
UPNE and UPNE Book Partners
are ceasing operations at the end of 2018
Is the closing of UPNE a harbinger of the future or an isolated event? I’m not sure. What I do know is that university presses play an incredibly vital role in our intellectual and political lives, and they need to be sustained. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Scholar's article said his colleagues were publishing in "predatory journals." Now he's banned from campus. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. The Review of Higher Education, an official publication of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, temporarily suspended submissions this summer due to a significant backlog. More...
Clarity Newsletter
Issue number three of the Clarity Newsletter arrived in my inbox this morning. The newsletter, sadly, fails the credibility test, asserting repeatedly its faith in "evidence-based science" (sometimes stretched to the absurd, as when having two test groups "act as control groups for each other") while making a slew of unsubstantiated (and unreferenced) assertions about learning and literacy in Canada. More...
Intrallect Newsletter
Martin Morrey of Intrallect just sent me the first issue of their newsletter, and while I'm not thrilled by the format (PDF, so I can hardly read it; no RSS, so I can't syndicate it) the content is good and it is overall a good example of how companies should be communicating with customers and news aggregators such as myself. In this issue, after the obligatory 'wins big contract' PR piece I read a basic-level article on learning object repositories and a more interesting piece on repository networks (the diagram is quite useful). More...
By Scott Jaschik. The journal IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility took the unusual step Tuesday of announcing that it was retracting 29 articles that had been published in the last two years. More...
Emploi et formations agricoles et agroalimentaires. Plus...
Vient de paraitre le N°23 septembre octobre 2018 de la lettre d’information électronique de la Direction Générale de la Concurrence, de la Consommation et de la Répression des Fraudes (DGCCRF). Plus...
The final edition of NTEU Advocate for 2018 (vol. 25, no. 3) is now available. Members will begin receiving copies in the mail this week (or will receive notification by email if signed up for 'soft delivery'). More...
À l’occasion des trois ans du site, lancé le 21 septembre 2015, la rédaction de The Conversation France a édité un e-book reprenant 50 articles emblématiques de cette riche actualité. Au total, plus de 6 000 articles ont été publiés en français sur notre plate-forme pendant cette période. La sélection a été difficile. Plus.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
