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Confidence In Research
Elsevier has launched a global collaboration to understand the impact of the pandemic on confidence in research and to learn how researchers may better maneuver in a rapidly changing scientific landscape.
Publishing Antitrust Case in Final Stages
Efforts to label the case as the “trial of the century in publishing” are misplaced, Andrew Albanese asserts.
Making Libraries Welcoming Spaces
The university library holds first a central role as a study space. With enrollment increasingly diverse, librarians and administrators see responsibility for making that study space into a welcoming place, too.
Defense Witnesses Testify in Publishing Antitrust Case
Testimony about “the lifespan of a book” and “headcount synergies.”
Yambo Ouologuem Reconsidered
How a 2021 French literary accolade has helped revive interest in an African novelist of the 1960s.
Big 5 CEOs Testify in Antitrust Case
Government witness HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray expressed amazement at the $2.18 billion offer by Penguin Random House for Simon & Schuster.
Copyright & Technology 2022 Preview
The conference keynote speaker is Kris Ahrend, CEO, the Mechanical Licensing Collective.
Publishing “Trial of the Century” Opens
The court heard on Tuesday from “a freelance writer” – bestselling horror novelist Stephen King. As a witness for the government, King, in effect, was taking the stand against his own publisher.
The Content Authenticity Initiative
More and more, people trust information less and less.
