Publishers and Georgia State See Broad Implications in Copyright Ruling
The university called the decision significant "for all educational fair use." A plaintiff said the ruling, though flawed, was a step toward setting practical guidelines.
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Hot Type: Elsevier Experiments With Allowing 'Text Mining' of Its Journals
Working with an open-access advocate, the publisher has hammered out a deal with the University of British Columbia.
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A New Journal for Life Scientists by Life Scientists Hopes to Lure Prestige
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'Princeton Shorts' Tries to Lure Readers With Digital Excerpts From Full Books
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Why We Can't Farm Out the Teaching of Writing
Insecure about their own prose, too many faculty members shy away from evaluating the quality of their students'.
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Top Business Schools Look to Social Scientists to Enhance Research
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This Can't Be Happening
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Russia's University Mergers Pit the Old School Against the New
Bringing together Soviet-style instructors and Western-influenced researchers has led to impasse, not improvement.
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Portnoy's Enduring Complaint
A world dizzy with lust and disgust, irony and rage. Such were the literary epiphanies boomers found in Roth.
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Cultural-Studies Journal Gets Revamped for a 'Different Intellectual Moment'
The new editors at "Public Culture" hope to reach beyond an academic audience.
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Susan Gubar's Closing Chapters
In her memoir on ovarian cancer, the scholar confronts an elusive issue for women: telling the truth about experiences of the female body.
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A Byzantine Plot
A revisionist take on the First Crusade gives the emperor of Constantinople a larger role.
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'Ameritopia': How Dumb Can Political Philosophy Get?
Conservatives complain, perhaps fairly, that nobody reviews their books. Be careful what you wish for.
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The Impermanence of Eden
A new memoir harvests bittersweet memories of a forward-thinking farm family.
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Weekly Book List, May 14, 2012
Descriptions of the latest books, divided by category.
