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April 17, 2009

Jeffrey Perry — A DIY Scholar

The Princeton Alumni Weekly recently ran a great article on Do-it-yourself scholars. Among the scholars portrayed in the article is Jeffrey Perry author of the acclaimed and recently published biography Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. Perry’s new...

April 6, 2009

The Art of the Peer Review

In What Just Ain’t So, published today on Inside Higher Ed., Patrick H. Alexander, associate director and editor-in-chief of the Pennsylvania State University Press, offers a great discussion of the peer review process. Alexander identifies four types of reviews that...

March 27, 2009

The Week in Review: University Press News

The last couple of weeks have seen some interesting developments both troubling and interesting. Troubling: The University Missouri of Press recently cut half its staff while the number of poetry readers continues to dwindle. The interesting news includes the continuing...

February 13, 2009

University Press Round-Up

With much of the publishing world’s attention, excitement, and anxiety focused on this week’s “Tools of Change” conference, we also wanted to once again showcase all the interesting posts and books coming from our fellow university presses: Jacqueline Olds argues...

January 30, 2009

University Press Blog Round-Up

Below is our regular update of interesting posts from fellow university press blogs. Susan Campbell author of Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism on the Beacon Broadside. Post-Racial America?, an essay by John Iceland on the University of California Weblog....

January 28, 2009

How University Presses Are Surviving the Economic Downturn

In the latest issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jennifer Howard examines how university presses are faring in the grim economic atmosphere—things are not so good but they’re not so bad either. While some presses have had layoffs and...

January 21, 2009

UPfront at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore

Lately, the Seminary Co-op Bookstores, located in Chicago, has been receiving a lot of attention as the Obama’s bookstore of choice. Of course for those interested in scholarly books or books in general, the Seminary Co-op is well-known for being...

January 8, 2009

Post-Convention Wrap-Ups — AHA

We continue our recap (or really recap of recaps) of recent conventions with the American Historical Association’s meeting which was recently held in New York City. Given historians penchant for documenting, it is not surprising that there are a lot...

January 7, 2009

Post-Convention Wrap-Ups — The MLA

The two weeks after Christmas are kind of the equivalent of “March Madness” for academia and scholarly publishing with conferences for a variety of fields. Not surprisingly, these events are now blogged about and twittered. Over the next few days,...

September 24, 2008

Exam Copy Offers and Discounts on Books Via the AAUP

The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has made their new Spring 2009 Course Adoption catalogs available to view and print out online. The site allows users to selectively view exam copy offers and discounts on 700+ books. These include...

September 17, 2008

The Seminary Co-op Bookstore Relaunches The Front Table

Chicago’s Seminary Co-op, one of the best bookstores in the country, is now offering an online version of The Front Table, a book magazine edited by Jeff Waxman. This is very good news, for anyone interested in not only university...

August 29, 2008

Interview with Steven Cahn, Author of From Student to Scholar

The following is an interview with Steven Cahn, author of the just-published From Student to Scholar: A Candid Guide to Becoming a Professor: Q: What do you believe is the most important ingredient for success in graduate school? Steven Cahn:...

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