Looking back on our year in library reporting, it’s been a wild one. We’ve covered a Chinese library burning books, libraries closing all over the UK, the best little library… Read more »

You may have read recently about Liberty University students’ response to university president Jerry Falwell Jr.’s support of the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump. Falwell’s contentious discipleship has survived even the release of the… Read more »

We know the books we publish are excellent—that’s generally why we publish them—but sometimes they get an especially warm welcome into the world. This week, there’s been a huge spike of interest… Read more »

Northern Illinois University Press has received an astonishing forty-eight book prizes since the year 2000. It has published academics based at prominent institutions, including Yale, Marquette, and Mercer Universities, and also operates Switchgrass… Read more »

A new study—“a wide-ranging exploration of how faculty members feel about information usage and scholarly communication,” notes Carl Straumsheim in Inside Higher Ed—has revealed that university faculty, faced with growing concerns… Read more »

Last Saturday, January 23rd, Eva Mrozcek, an assistant professor of religious studies at UC Davis, tweeted: “Tradition of (mostly male) scholars who describe idyllic life w/wife &kids in academic bio needs… Read more »

Last week, the editorial staff of the linguistics journal Lingua announced their decision to resign en masse in an act of protest against their publisher Elsevier. Following Elsevier’s refusal to… Read more »