There's some interesting news in the worlds of libraries and publishing!
SAGE busts the kingpin of a peer-review and citation ring and retracts 60 papers. (Yes, this is real.)
Nature retracts major stem-cell finding, amid calls to change the review process (since this is a fraud that reviewers wouldn’t have been expected to catch).
PEW’s surprising facts about libraries and their patrons. (For example, they want to keep the print books, and young people are just as likely to come in.)
Are universities without presses mooching off those with them?
The Five Laws of Library Science infographic.
Are books in prison a right or a privilege?
Bavaria’s copyright ends on Mein Kampf, allowing it to be reprinted. But should it be?
Regional restrictions and DRM: relics of the print publishing age, we may not want to dump them yet.
Hachette trapped by DRM.
Can you sell used ebooks? A site in the Netherlands is trying just that.
And why it’s so hard for libraries to lend ebooks. (Librarians already know all this, but regular folks might like to know!)
Google not so keen on net neutrality anymore.
Ed Tech companies want to keep net neutrality.
When a MOOC just disappears.
What colleges pick as their peer institutions.
Find the most expensive and least expensive colleges.
Corinthian college’s closings and the gainful employment rule.
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