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Is it proof of shoddy scholarly standards, antipathy against academe, or something else entirely? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents survival strategies for academic writing. Problems being faced by college-textbook publishers in the U.S. and Great Britain; Reasons behind the decline of monograph sales; Changes in structures and dynamics of college-textbook publishing; Need for university presses to look for other sources of revenue to support themselves.

Talks about the dilemma faced by university presses in the U.S., about bringing in profit while steering clear of anything too commercial or nonacademic. Benefits from publishing activities which are enjoyed by university presses; Working relationship of university presses with libraries; Mechanics of publishing.

Presents a list of books on agriculture, classical studies, biology and other topics. `Phantasmic Radio,' by Allen S. Weiss, `Reading Blake's Designs,' by Christopher Heppner, `The State in Early Modern France,' by James B. Collins, and others.

Presents a list of scholarly books on various subjects for higher education in the United States. Includes `Ordinary Life, Festival Days: Aesthetics in the Midwestern Country Fair,' by Leslie Prosterman; `Kuna Crafts, Gender and the Global Economy,' by Karen E. Tice; `The Human Factor in Developing Africa,' Senyo B-S. K. Adjibolosoo.

Provides information on scholarly publishings in the United States for the period ending June 16, 1995. Includes `American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender,' by Robyn Wiegman; `God and Caesar at the Rio Grande: Sanctuary and the Politics of Religion,' by Hilary Cunningham; `Social Reproduction and History in Melanesia: Mortuary Ritual, Gift Exchange, and Custom in the Tanga Islands,' by Robert J. Foster.

Lists new scholarly books available from publishers in the United States. `Wondrous Events: Foundations of Religious Belief,' by James McClenon; `De Officiis,' by Cicero and edited by M. Winterbottom; `Regional Economics,' by Marion Temple; `The Catalan Contexts of Columbus,' edited by Josep M. Sola-Sole; `The Irony of Southern Religion,' by John B. Boles. INSET: Nota bene..

The article discusses a decision by the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity to censor the publication of research regarding the methods used by scientists in the development of variations of the H5N1 avian-influenza virus. According to the article, the panel's decision to regulate the results of the separate research projects, completed by virologists Ron Fouchier and Yoshihiro Kawaoka, stems from their concern over the possibility that the science may be used by terrorists to develop deadly strains of the virus. Issues related to government oversight of scientific research and the process used by scientists in the publication of their data are discussed and comments from scientist D. A. Henderson are provided.

Presents information on scholarly books published in the U.S. in 2005. "Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of the U.S. Empire," by Gretchen Murphy; "Greuze and the Painting of Sentiment," by Emma Barker; "Prairie Dog Empire: A Saga of the Shortgrass Prairie," by Paul A. Johnsgard.

Presents a list of scholarly books published in the United States. Includes American studies; Art and architecture; Film studies; Economics; Cultural studies; Communications.

Presents information on various types of scholarly books. `Ceramic Production in the American Southwest'; `Brassai: Images of Culture and the Surrealist Observer'; `Samba: Resistance in Motion.' INSET: Addresses of publishers..

Reports on the effort of research universities' to change scholarly publishing. Rising library costs and increase in the reach of computer networks as the reason for the changes; Development of ways for universities to share foreign materials; Finding ways to make scientific and technical material affordable and accessible; Investigating ways for the treatment of intellectual property in the electronic environment.

Lists and briefly synopsizes scholarly books published by United States higher education faculty as of June 1998. `Mexican Brick Culture in the Building of Texas, 1800s-1980s,' by Scott Cook; `Real Love: In Pursuit of Cultural Justice,' by Andrew Ross; `Between Serb and Albanian: A History of Kosovo,' by Miranda Vickers; Other titles. INSET: Addresses of publishers.

Discusses three United States higher education faculty-related items. Details of the plan of a group of US academics to change peer review and publication of scholarly articles; Motives, allies, and opponents; The American Association of University Professors' (AAUP) qualified agreement on a policy for post-tenure review of instructors; Proponents and objections; Reasons for AAUP censure of Brigham Young University, Lawrence Technological University, and the University of the District of Columbia.

The article reports on the growth of the university publishing business in the U.S., which is the focus of the annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses in June 1990 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The group has emerged as a bigger and more diverse operation. The results of a survey of the members of the university-press association on the number of titles they were publishing in various subject areas are presented.

The article presents a list of scholarly books scheduled for release in the United States in June 1990. These include: "Aegean Painting in the Bronze Age," by Sara A. Immerwahr; "The Biology of Scorpions," edited by Gary A. Polis; and "The Natural History of Moles," by Martyn Lee Gorman and R. David Stone.

The article presents a list of scholarly books published in the U.S. including "The Roman Mother," by Suzanne Dixon, "Model-Based Control of a Robot Manipulator," by Chae H. An, Christopher G. Atkeson and John M. Hollerbach, and "Marriage and Inequality in Classless Societies," by Jane Fishburne Collier.

The article presents a list of new scholarly books to be published in the U.S. in December 1987, including "Changing Auditors and the Effect on Earnings, Auditors' Opinions, and Stock Prices," by Nancy R. Mangold, "Arthur Symons: Critic of the Seven Arts," by Lawrence W. Markert, and "Australian Movies and the American Dream," by Glen Lewis.

The article provides information on several books that will be published by university publications in the U.S. The University of Oklahoma Press is set to publish the book "Knights of the Green Cloth," by Robert K. DeArment. The book "One South: An Ethnic Approach to Regional Culture," by John Shelton Reed will be published by the Louisiana State University Press. The University of Pennsylvania press is beginning a new series of books in ethnohistory.

There are many good reasons to teach in the two-year sector, but you need to be aware of the drawbacks, too. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Campus officials have asked professors to consider declining to review articles for the publishing giant's journals, and to consider open-access journals instead. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author argues that graduate students should not focus too closely on perfecting dissertations. Topics include the role of research in the career of an academic, the role of dissertation committees in the lives of Ph. D. students, and the publication of dissertations as either monographs or journal articles.

The article discusses the need for graduate students and nontenured professors to publish academic research. Topics include the length of time that Ph. D. students spend writing dissertations, the author's writing habits and publications, and the role of motivation in academic research and writing by graduate students.

Academics can recapture the trust of the public -- but only if they are willing to write for it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author presents her thoughts on the importance of universities having scholarly-communications experts on staff in order to mitigate negative trends in scholarly publishing, particularly university libraries paying significant amounts of money to proprietary publishers for journals in which faculty work appears. According to the article, scholarly-communications specialists review publishing contracts, provide advice concerning open-access opportunities, and communicate with faculty members.

The article discusses the closure of the University of Missouri press due to financial concerns about the press' viability. It comments on the press' fiscal situation over the years and its reliance on a subsidy from the University of Missouri. The author notes the popular protest of the press' closure relating to the dismissal of 10 press employees and their replacement with student interns, as well as speculation about the future quality and prestige of the press. Other topics addressed include the shift in publishing toward digital content, system president Timothy M. Wolfe, and reductions in the press' deficit.

The article discusses a lack of faculty movement between universities and colleges as a result of an insecure academic job market in the U.S. The author explains a decrease in the offering of tenured academic positions at institutions of higher education in the country. The proliferation of academic job openings and the concurrent increase in faculty mobility during the post-World War II era are described. The financial value of publishing to professors during the U.S. economic downturn is examined.

The article presents comments from several academic librarians and university press administrators in the U.S. regarding the topic of graduate students publishing their work in scholarly journals prior to attempting to have their academic dissertations published as books. The article focuses on ways in which electronic access to scholarly research through online journals at university libraries may play a role in the library's decision to acquire, or not acquire, one's published research due to concerns over the cost of purchasing books. Comments from Rutgers University Press editor in chief Leslie Mitchner, University of Oregon social-sciences librarian Miriam Rigby, and Columbia University Press editorial director Jennifer Crewe are presented.

In this article the author discusses the relationship between academic libraries and academic publishing in the U.S. She argues that academic libraries should follow the lead of the University of Michigan, which has merged its library and publishing groups to provide free online books, and use limited financial resources to acquire publishing rights for scholarly work done at the school in an effort to prevent poor research from being be published by non-reputable publishers.

The article discusses support for and opposition to public access to scholarly research. The U.S. National Institutes of Health mandated that research funded by the agency be made available to the public, leading U.S. representative John Conyers Jr. to propose a bill protecting the copyrights of scholarly research. The author notes that several universities are taking steps to promote open-access publishing, such as the creation of a support fund by the University of Texas. Several college and library associations released a joint statement urging universities to embrace open-access publishing policies. Faculty at Boston University supported the creation of an open-access repository for university research.

The article discusses the implications of a November 2015 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit regarding the mass digitization of books by the firm Google Inc. for its Google Books Search product. Topics include the fair-use claim made by Google for making books searchable, the relation of the ruling to the rights of authors of scholarly books, and problems with copyright-infringement lawsuits.

Provides information on the services that university presses and scientists to offer each other. Issues on commercially produced science publications on library budgets highlighted at the 2003 annual meeting of the American Association of University Presses; Problems being encountered by academic publishers; Qualifications of university presses to produce books that scientists would like.

Presents information on new scholarly books published in the U.S., as of June 2002. 'Spiritual, Blues and Jazz People in African American Fiction: Living in Paradox,' by A. Yemisi Jimoh; 'Drawing Back Culture: The Makah Struggle for Repatriation,' by Ann M. Tweedie; 'Lines in the Water: Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca,' by Ben Orlove.

Presents a tribute for Ivan Van Sertima, physician, writer, and teacher at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. Comments on the writings of Van Sertima from the scholars; Career background of Van Sertima; Concerns over the role of Africans in the American community.

The article discusses an appeals court ruling in Cambridge University Press, et al. v. Carl V. Patton, et al., a copyright-infringement lawsuit by academic publishers against the Georgia State University library regarding the library's electronic reserves. Topics addressed include the court's overturning of Judge Orinda D. Evans' ruling in favor of Georgia State, as well as reactions to the ruling from the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Oxford University Press.

Discusses University of Maryland at College Park's ownership of the World-Wide Web site, Romantic Circles. The site's devotion to discussion of the Romantic Period and publication of scholarly articles; Uncertainty of the site's editors over who is legally responsible for the material on Romantic Circles; Comments from the site editors; Possibility of lawsuits; Efforts of the editors to preserve academic freedom on the site.

Focuses on the decreasing market for books of traditional literary criticism in the United States. Threat to the vitality of scholarship; Problems in the system of scholarly communication; Basis for buying books.

Reports on presentations about the homeless made at the 1990 meetings of the American Sociological Association (ASA) in Washington and the American Psychological Association (APA) in Boston, Massachusetts. Concerted attention being given by social scientists to the roots and nature of homelessness; Increase in scholarly publishing about homelessness; Ways in which the increase in scholarly interest in homelessness has matched the attention being paid to the issue in the popular press.

Lists by discipline academic books published in the United States as of September 11, 1998. Anthropology titles, including `Cultures of Secrecy: Reinventing Race in Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults,' by Andrew Lattas, and `The Domestication of Desire: Women, Wealth, and Modernity in Java,' by Suzanne April Brenner; Cultural studies titles including `Too Soon Too Late: History in Popular Culture,' by Meaghan Morris; Economics, folklore, history and other disciplines.

Reports that university presses have began selling scholarly books at much lower prices. Prices of several books; Includes `The Meaning of Nolan Ryan'; `A World of Difference,' by Barbara Johnson; `If I Had Wheels or Love: Collected Poems of Vassar Miller.'

The article lists scholarly books that will be published in the United States in 1990, including "Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan," by Janice Boddy, "A History of Archaeological Thought," by Bruce G. Trigger and "Worlds of Art: Painters in Victorian Society," by Paula Gillett.

The article presents a list of new scholarly books to be published in the U.S. including "The Making of the Basque Nation," by Marianne Heiberg, "Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics," by Nancy L. Stokey, Robert E. Lucas Jr. and Edward C. Prescott and "Marc Bloch: A Life in History," by Carole Fink.

The article lists several scholarly books available in the United States as of May 17, 1989. They include "Three Swahili Women: Life Histories From Mombasa, Kenya," edited and translated by Sarah Mirza and Margaret Strobel, "Public Sculpture and the Civic Ideal in New York City, 1890-1930," by Michele H. Bogart, and "The Age of Regulatory Reform," edited by Kenneth Button and Dennis Swann.

The article reports on the reaffirmation of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on the right of scholarly journals in maintaining their anonymity of the reviewers who evaluate manuscripts for publication. In ruling the Arco Solar Inc. versus the American Physical Society, the appeals court agreed with the society in keeping the identities of the journal referees confidential to preserve the integrity of the process of reviewing the manuscript for publication.

The article reports on the meeting between scholarly publishers from the U.S. and Soviet Union for increased cooperation in academic publishing. Nikolai S. Timofeyev, director of the Moscow University Press and chairman of the Soviet University Presses Council, led the Soviet delegation. Representatives of the university-press groups signed an agreement outlining future cooperative projects that might initiate a significant leap forward in the numbers and kinds of publishing agreements between the two countries.

The article presents information on several scholarly books published in the United States in 1988. The books are grouped into categories, including anthropology, classical studies, economics and geography. Some of the books are "Stock Market Anomalies," edited by Elroy Dimson, "Hong Kong Under Imperial Rule, 1912-1941," by N.J. Miners and "Plant Strategies and the Dynamics and Structure of Plant Communities," by David Tilman.

The article introduces scholarly books published in the United States in 1988. The books are classified into categories, including anthropology, economics, education, history and literature. Some of the books are "Works and Lives: The Anthropologist As Author," by Clifford Geertz, "Foundations of Representative Government in Maryland 1632-1715," by David W. Jordan and "Games Against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa," by Robert Harms.

The article presents information on scholarly books published in the United States in 1987. The books are grouped into categories, such as anthropology, communications, computer science and history. Some of the books are "Manet's Contemplation at the Gare Saint-Lazare," by Harry Rand, "Reflections on the History of Art: Views and Reviews," by E.H. Gombrich and "The Letters of Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve," edited by Ward W. Briggs Jr.

The article reports that several of the scholarly books to be published in the U.S. are about technology, art and literature. Some of the books are "Flight in America 1900-1983: From the Wrights to the Astronauts," by Roger E. Bilstein, "The Re-Creation of Landscape: A Study of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Constable and Turner," by James A. W. Heffernan and "The Colossus of Roads: Myth and Symbol Along the American Highway," by Karal Ann Marling.

Lists several scholarly books to be released in the U.S. in July 1983. "Malay Kinship," by David J. Banks; "David Boyle: From Artisan to Archaeologist," by Gerald Killan; "Critical Essays on Postimpressionism," by Carol Donnell-Kotronzo.